Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 8/29/2013
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What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Tor has a Little Brother story from Cory Doctorow
- Omni has flash fiction from Ken Baumann
- Dave Tackett and his QuasarDragon celebrate the births of Vonda N. McIntyre, Jack Vance, and J. Sheridan LeFanu
Written
- @Nightmare: “Lost Souls” by Clive Barker [Horror]
- @SciFi Ideas: “Second Victim” by Harry de Vries [Science Fiction]
- @Tor: “Lawful Interception” by Cory Doctorow [Science Fiction]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “Nature’s Gavel” by David Kavanaugh [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “An Impossible Matter” by Sylvia Anna Hiven [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction: “Dee” by D. A. D’Amico [Fantasy Flash]
- @Omni: “Our Knuckles Drenched Dionysian” by Ken Baumann [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Yesteryear: “The Hungry Dog” by Laura Beasley [Fantasy Flash]
Written – Micro
- @MicroSFF:
“I’ll kill you, and sing of how you died like a dog,” he says.
“I’ll kill you, and never mention you at all,” I reply.
First point to me.
(via twitter)
Written – Serialized
- @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 12: The Magical Planet Earth – “The King and the Butterfly” [Epic Fantasy]
Audio
- Every Photo Tells #128 – “Gayle’s Gift” by Richard D. Asplund Jr. [Science Fiction]
Audio – Serialized
- StarShipSofa #302 – “Adrift on the Sea of Rains” by Ian Sales – Part 1 [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Deadland: Untold Stories of Alice in Deadland (Alice, No. 5) by Mainak Dhar [Post-Apocalyptic Collection – Prequel to Alice in Deadland Series]
- Demon Dance (A Sundancer Novel) by Brian Freyermuth [Paranormal Fantasy Novel]
- Jake West – The Keeper of the Stones (The Jake West Trilogy) by M J Webb [Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- The Sity by Curran Geist [Post Apocalyptic Novel]
- Starving Blades (Otherworldly Prophecies) by Natasha Wetzel [Paranormal Fantasy Novel]
- The Touch by Allison Rios [Fantasy Romance Novel]
- @Book View Café: “Hell By Any Other Name” by Leah Cutter, from Baker’s Dozen [Fantasy Short Story – EPUB, MOBI]
QuasarDragon Birthdays – Free Fiction from authors on the anniversary of their birth
Excerpts
- @The Geek Curmudgeon:
- Excerpts from Ray Guns Over Texas: [Science Fiction]
- Preview from “An Afternoon’s Nap, or; Five Hundred Years Ahead” by Aurelia Hadley Mohl [from 1865]
- Preview from “The Art of Absence” by Don Webb
- Preview from “The Atmosphere Man” by Nicky Draden
- Preview from “Babylon Moon” by Matthew Bey
- Preview from “The Chambered Eye” by Jessica Reisman
- Preview from “La Bamba Boulevard” by Bradley Denton
- Preview from “The Nostalgia Differential” by Michael Moorcock
- Preview from “Novel Properties of Certain Complex Alkaloids” by Lawrence Person
- Preview from “Operators are Standing By” by Rhonda Eudaly
- Preview from “Rex” by Joe R. Lansdale
- Preview from “Texas Died for Somebody’s Sins But Not Mine” by Stina Leicht
- Excerpts from Ray Guns Over Texas: [Science Fiction]
- @Tor:
- Excerpt from How the World Became Quiet by Rachel Swirsky [Speculative Fiction Collection]
- Excerpt from Mage’s Blood by David Hair [Fantasy]
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