Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 8/30/2013

So I’m trying to add more B&N eBooks, but the experiment has been spotty, at best.

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What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Subterranean Fall 2013
2. Chilling Tales For Dark Nights has an audio story from Naomi Li
3. A new science fiction radio drama: Transmissions from Colony One – the complete first season

Written

• Subterranean Fall 2013: [Speculative Fiction Magazine]
  • “Doctor Helios” by Lewis Shiner
  • “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang
  • “Hook Agonistes” by Jay Lake and Seanan McGuire
  • “What Doctor Ivanovich Saw” by Ian Tregillis

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows: “FilmScape” by Lindsey McLeod [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “Tomorrow Is Winter” by Callie Snow [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Nature: “The speed of dark energy” by Jeff Hecht [Science Fiction Flash]

Written – Serialized

• @HiLobrow: The Moon Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs – Part 10 of 11 [Science Fantasy Novella – from 1925]
• @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 12: The Magical Planet Earth – “The Museum of History” [Epic Fantasy]

Audio

• @Chilling Tales For Dark Nights: “Paranoia” by Naomi Li [Horror]

Audio – Serialized

• Our Fair City – Season Four: Episode 12 – “The Switcher” [Campy Post-Apocalyptic Epic]
• Transmissions from Colony One – Season One (complete): [Science Fiction]
  • Episode One – “Landing”
  • Episode Two – “Home”
  • Episode Three – “EVA”
  • Episode Four – “Sam”
  • Episode Five – “Coordinates”
  • Episode Six – “Questions”
  • Episode Seven – “Anomaly”
  • Episode Eight – “Rover”
  • Episode Nine – “Coincidence”
  • Episode Ten – “Earth”
• @Author’s Site: The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty – Chapter 18 [Contemporary Fantasy]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • 2012 Lunar Contact (Contact Series) by JD Clarke & Gary Hocker [Military Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
  • Blood Faerie – Urban Fantasy (Caledonia Fae, Book 1) by India Drummond [Contemporary Fantasy Novel – First of Series] (also available at Barnes & Noble)
  • The Brothers Crunk by William Pauley III [Science Fiction Novella]
  • Captain James Hook and the Curse of Peter Pan by Jeremiah Kleckner and Jeremy Marshall [Historical Fantasy Novella]
  • The Catalyst (Targon Tales) by Chris Reher [Science Fiction Adventure Novel – Prequel for Series]
  • Death’s Servant (The V V Inn, First Prequel Book) by C.J. Ellisson [Paranormal Fantasy Novelette – Prequel of Series]
  • Dissolution of Peace by Richard Flores IV [Military Science Fiction Novel]
  • Four Corners Dark by William McNally [Horror Collection]
  • The Lost Ark by J.R. Rain [Fantasy Adventure Novel]
  • Necropolis by Xina Marie Uhl [Historical Fantasy Novel]
  • No Shelter (No Shelter Trilogy #1) by T.S. Welti [Post-Apocalyptic Novella – First of Series] (also available at Barnes & Noble)
  • Red by EJ Koh [Dark Fantasy Novel]
  • The Sea Inside (Cerulean Songs) by Vickie Johnstone [YA Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
  • Serpentine Enigma by Charles Domina [Military Science Fiction Novella]
  • Shooting Stars (A Surah Stormsong Novel) by H. D. Gordon [Paranormal Fantasy Novel]
  • The Sky Between Two Worlds–Book 1: Nightfall by Glen Books [Military Science Fiction Novella – First of Series]
  • Survival by Daniel Powell [Dystopian Novelette]
  • “Survivalist by Circumstance” – Volume Three by Cheryl L. Cholley [Post Apocalyptic Short Story – Third of Series]
  • >> More Free Post-Apocalyptic eBooks via The Post-Apocalyptic Link Roundup Post
  • There’s Only One Quantum by William Bryan Smith [Cyberpunk Novella]
  • The Vampire in the Iron Mask (Spinoza Trilogy #3) by J.R. Rain with Elizabeth Basque [Paranormal Fantasy Novel – Third Book of Series]
• Barnes & Noble:
  • A Circle of Iron (Eldernost: Book 1) by Greg Benage [Epic Fantasy Novelette – First of Series]
  • “Above The Clouds” by Richard Roberts [Steampunk Short Story]
  • Blood Faerie – Urban Fantasy (Caledonia Fae, Book 1) by India Drummond [Contemporary Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • No Shelter (No Shelter Trilogy #1) by T.S. Welti [Post-Apocalyptic Novella – First of Series]

QuasarDragon Birthdays – Free Fiction from authors on the anniversary of their birth

• August 28th: Jane Fletcher and Brett J. Talley

Excerpts

• @Amberkatze’s Book Blog: Excerpt from Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep [Dark Urban Fantasy]
• @Solaris Editor’s Blog: Excerpt from Saxon’s Bane by Geoffrey Gudgion – Chapters One and Two [Horror]
• @Tor:
  • Excerpt from Crux by Ramez Naam [Near Future Science Fiction]
  • Excerpt from Vicious by V E Schwab [Urban Fantasy]

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