Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 8/7/2013
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I’ve been taking at liberty from the amazing Dave Tackett and his QuasarDragon. You should, too.
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Apex Magazine #51 – August 2013
- Lightspeed has a science fiction story from Yoon Ha Lee
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch presents one of her stories, a time travel mystery
Written
- Apex Magazine #51 – August 2013: [Speculative Fiction Magazine]
- “Victimless Crimes” by Charlie Jane Anders [Science Fiction]
- “A Matter of Shapespace” by Brian Trent [Science Fiction]
- “Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster” by Christopher Barzak [Fantasy]
- Audio: “The Face of Heaven So Fine” by Kat Howard [Speculative Fiction]
- @The Colored Lens: “The Land of Dreams” by Kate O’Connor [Science Fiction]
- @Lightspeed:
- “The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars” by Yoon Ha Lee [Science Fiction]
- “Catamounts” by Marc Laidlaw [Fantasy]
- @Phantasmacore: “Procedural Generation” by Tom Graham [Science Fiction]
- @Short-Stories.me: “A Helping Hand” by Rachel Anne Sloan [Horror]
- @Author’s Site: “Blood Trail” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Time Travel Mystery]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “Djedi’s Device” by Jae Miles [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Super-Parents Last All Childhood Long” by Erica L. Satifka [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction: “A Song Not Fully Sung” by Beth Cato [Science Fiction Flash]
Written – Micro
- @MicroSFF:
“So annoying!”
“Yeah! Every time! Damn sailors!”
I look at the wrecked ship and flick my tail.
“Let’s find some other rocks to sing from.”
(via twitter)
Written – Serialized
- @HiLobrow: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Part 4 [Science Fiction – from 1915]
- @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 10 – The Secrets of Magic: [Epic Fantasy]
Audio
- @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Atomic Julie’s Glactic Bedtime Stories #10 – “Accidental Death” by Peter Baily [Science Fiction – from 1959]
- Apex Magazine Podcast #2 – “The Face of Heaven So Fine” by Kat Howard [Speculative Fiction]
- Escape Pod #407 – “Mono No Aware” by Ken Liu [Science Fiction]
- @Lightspeed: “The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars” by Yoon Ha Lee [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Ghost in the Machine (Corwint Central Agent Files) by C.E. Kilgore [Science Fiction Romance Novel – First of Series]
- Give Me – A Tale of Wyrd and Fae (Tethers #1) by LK Rigel [Paranormal Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Twin-Bred by Karen A. Wyle [Science Fiction Novel]
And For Writers: The Latest Speculative Fiction Writing Wroundup
Amazing??? It has to be the only time anyone has said/written “the amazing Dave Tackett” Now I have an excuse to be so insufferably vain 🙂
Maybe it was a pity “amazing”… I’m not saying it was, but consider that the next time you preen in front of the mirror (in about five minutes from now, from what I’ve heard)