Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 9/11/2013
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What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Omni Reboot has a science fiction story from David Hopper
If there were more room in the cockpit of the Low October, Dr. Jonas Hengist would be pacing. Instead, he must settle for shifting his weight in glitchy artificial gravity, watching, for the second time in his life, the pale curve of Europa rise in the main viewer, the clouds of Jupiter looming large beyond. He feels the crew’s eyes on him. Jonas runs his tongue over chapped lips; it has been months since his feet have touched soil.
– “They All Looked Like Nails”
- Weird Fiction Review has a dark and weird story from V.H. Leslie
Paper, scissors, rock.
That’s the way we’ve always made decisions. And settled arguments for that matter. Marriage is all about compromise after all; I put something forward, he puts something forward, and our hands do the rest. My husband jokes if only diplomacy were so easy. When we play we are back in the playground of St. Gabriel’s again, with the Catholic sisters hurrying us in opposite directions towards the boys and girls dormitories and my husband is my darling childhood Teddy.
– “Senbazuru”
- New York Review of Science Fiction #300 is free! Free! Free! (but not fiction)
Written
- @Lightspeed:
- “Angelus” by Nina Allan [Science Fiction]
- “Homecoming” by Seanan McGuire [Fantasy] (also available in audio)
- @Omni Reboot: “They All Looked Like Nails” by David Hopper [Science Fiction]
- @Strange Horizons: “A Difference of Opinion” by Meda Kahn [Science Fiction] (also available in audio)
- @Weird Fiction Review: “Senbazuru” by V.H. Leslie [Dark Speculative Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “Safety Tests” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “Breaking the Wedge” by Scott Summers [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “The Velveteen Rabbit Says Goodbye” by Melissa Mead [Fantasy Flash]
Written – Micro
- @MicroSFF:
“Maybe,” I wrote, “internet’s been self-aware for years, but doesn’t dare tell us because we’d freak out?”
Post.
– Fail
Paste to FB.
– Fail
(via twitter)
Written – Serialized
- @The Colored Lens: The Flower Garden by Michael Shone – Part 2 [Science Fiction]
- @HiLobrow: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Part 9 [Science Fiction – from 1915]
- @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 12: The Magical Planet Earth – “The Legend of Mamma Miller” [Epic Fantasy]
Audio
- Drabblecast #295 – “Twenty Ways the Desert Could Kill You” by Sarah Pinkster [Fantasy]
- @The Drama Pod: The Quantum Door Series: Twelve [Science Fiction]
- @Lightspeed: “Homecoming” by Seanan McGuire [Fantasy]
- Protecting Project Pulp #59 – “The Opener of the Way” by Robert Bloch [Horror – from 1936]
- @Strange Horizons: “A Difference of Opinion” by Meda Kahn [Science Fiction]
- Toasted Cake #87 – Dalton’s Law by Helena Bell and Seven Standpoints From Which to Defend Your Sandwich From a Hungry Alien by D. T. Friedman [Speculative Poetry]
Audio – Serialized
- @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Atomic Julie’s Glactic Bedtime Stories #13 – The Deadly City by Ivar Jorgenson (Paul W. Fairman) – Part 3 of 3 [Science Fiction – from 1953]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Cat’s Wolf (A Shifter Romance Novella) by Leanne Crabtree [Paranormal Fantasy Novella]
- The Child Thief by Melissa Snark [Urban Fantasy Novelette] (also available at Barnes & Noble)
- Dead Roots by Brian Wood [Psychological Horror Novel]
- The First Bird: Episode 1 by Greig Beck [Science Fiction Thriller Novella – First of Series]
- “The Girl from the Blood Coven” by Brian Moreland [Horror Short Story] (also available at Barnes & Noble)
- Metal Deep: Episode 1 – Damsels in Distress by GX Knight [Science Fiction Adventure Novelette – First of Series]
- Night of the Chupacabra (Chupacabra Series 1) by Michael Hebler [Horror Novel – First of Series]
- The Priest (The Ginecean Chronicles 1) by Monica La Porta [Dystopian Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
- Sapience by Bret Wellman [YA Contemporary Fantasy Novel]
- The Scrolls of Xavier (Xavier Series) by John Ashley [Post-Apocalyptic Military Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
- The Secrets of Moonshine (The Moonshine Series 1) by Denise Daisy [Paranormal Fantasy Novel – First of Serie]
- Slow Burn: Zero Day, Book 1 by Bobby Adair [Zombie Novella – First of Series] (also available at Barnes & Noble)
- “Stone and the Flower Dragon” by JG Parker [Contemporary Fantasy Short Story] (also available at Barnes & Noble)
- @Barnes & Noble:
- “The Boutique” by Clair Louise Coult [Ghost Short Story]
- The Child Thief by Melissa Snark [Urban Fantasy Novelette]
- “The Girl from the Blood Coven” by Brian Moreland [Horror Short Story]
- Slow Burn: Zero Day, Book 1 by Bobby Adair [Zombie Novella – First of Series]
- “Stone and the Flower Dragon” by JG Parker [Contemporary Fantasy Short Story]
- Smashwords:
- The Darkwood Mysteries Series by Steve Merrifield: [Victorian Supernatural Mystery Series – Short Novelettes]
QuasarDragon Birthdays – Free Fiction from authors on the anniversary of their birth
- September 10th: Celebrating the Births . . . Pat Cadigan and Emily C. A. Snyder
Excerpts
- @Boing Boing: Excerpt from Acadia by James Erwin [Science Fiction]
- @Tor: Excerpt from One Crow Alone by SD Crockett [YA Apocalyptic]
Other
- New York Review of Science Fiction #300 [Genre Essay and Review Magazine – EPUB, MOBI, PDF]
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