Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 10/22/2013
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What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Thanks to Free Speculative Fiction Online, we have a treasure trove of vampire stories from Baen’s By Blood We Live Anthology (2009), Edited by John Joseph Adams
- Even more thanks to Free Speculative Fiction Online: horror short stories (and a serialized novel) from author Robert R. McCammon
- Daily Science Fiction has science fiction flash from Gary Kloster
Written
- @Baen: Selected Short Stories from By Blood We Live: [Vampire Anthology – from 2009]
- “Under St. Peter’s” by Harry Turtledove
- “Lifeblood” by Michael A. Burstein
- “Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu” by Norman Partridge
- “This Is Now” by Michael Marshall Smith
- “After the Stone Age” by Brian Stableford
- “House of the Rising Sun” by Elizabeth Bear
- “Peking Man” by Robert J. Sawyer
- “Exsanguinations: A Handbook for the Educated Vampire” by Anna S. Oppenhagen-Petrescu, Translated by Catherynne M. Valente
- “Lucy, In Her Splendor” by Charles Coleman Finlay
- @Interfictions Online:
- “The Philip Sidney Game” by Alan DeNiro [Speculative Fiction]
- “The Presley Brothers” by Molly Gloss [Speculative Fiction]
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “The Beginning Botanist’s Guide to Lair Defense” by John A. McColley [Cryptobotany]
- @Author’s Site: Horror Stories by Robert R. McCammon: [Horror]
- “A Life in the Day of”
- “Beauty” by Robert R. McCammon
- “Best Friends”
- “Black Boots”
- “The Deep End”
- “Eat Me”
- “Haunted World”
- “Lizardman”
- “The Miracle Mile”
- Serialization: Night Calls the Green Falcon – In Ten Chapters
- “On a Beautiful Summer’s Day, He Was”
- “Something Passed By”
- “Strange Candy” (also available as eBook – EPUB, MOBI)
- “The Thang”
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “Reconquista” by Bob Newbell [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Conjugation” by Gary Kloster [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Quantum Muse: “The Hunger of the Dead” by Michele Dutcher [Dark Science Fiction Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @Author’s Site: Night Calls the Green Falcon by Robert R. McCammon: [Horror Serialization]
Audio
- @Relic Radio: Suspense – “A Vision Of Death” [Horror / Suspense Radio Drama – from 1951]
Audio – Serialized
- Beam Me Up! Podcast #382 – What Makes a Thirsty God on Fallon’s Planet by Van Hall – Part 1 and “Traitor Sol” by Doug Hilton [Science Fiction]
- @The Hole Behind Midnight: Episode 4: “The Ex” [Dark Fantasy Serialization]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- Science Fiction:
- Legacy of the Aldenata Series by John Ringo: [Military Science Fiction]
- A Hymn Before Battle
[First of Series – Amazon] - Gust Front
[Second of Series – Amazon]
- A Hymn Before Battle
- Burden of Sisyphus (Brink of Distinction) by Jon Messenger
[Science Fiction Adventure Novel – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords] - Delirium (Debt Collector 1) by Susan Kaye Quinn
[Cyberpunk Novelette – First of Series – Amazon | Kobo | Smashwords] - The Reborn (The Day Eight Series Part 1) by Ray Mazza
[Technothriller Novel – First of Series – Amazon] - The Smallest Giant (Children of Time 1) by G.J. Winters
[YA Time Travel Novelette – First of Series – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords] - The Spider and the Fly (Spiderverse Saga #1) by C.E. Stalbaum
[Science Fiction Adventure Novel – First of Series – Amazon] - Star Soldiers by Andre Norton
[Space Opera – Collection of Two Novels – Amazon] - “Unnatural Time” (Infinity, Ltd.) by Julio Angel Ortiz
[Time Travel Short Story – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords]
- Legacy of the Aldenata Series by John Ringo: [Military Science Fiction]
- Fantasy:
- Amaranth (The Resistance Trilogy, #1) by Rachael Wade
[Paranormal Fantasy Novel – First of Series – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords] - Angel Fire: The First Book of Fallen Angels by Valmore Daniels
[Paranormal Fantasy Novel – First of Series – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords] - Children of Sun (Oracle’s Legacy) by R. B. Holbrook
[Contemporary Fantasy Novel – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords] - Dark Cotillion (The Brenna Strachan Series) by Hadena James
[Dark Fantasy Novel – First of Series – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords] - The Darkness of Shadows by Chris Little
[YA Urban Fantasy – Amazon] - Draw One in the Dark (Shifter) by Sarah A. Hoyt
[Contemporary Fantasy Novel – Amazon] - Draykon: Book 1 (The Draykon Series) by Charlotte E. English
[Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series – Amazon] - @Interfictions Online: The Jaguar’s Wife by Anil Menon
[Dark Fantasy – PDF – Interfictions Online] - Renhala by Amy Joy Lutchen
[Urban Fantasy Novel – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords] - “Some Summonings Are Suspect” by Jeffrey Somogyi
[Fantasy Short Story – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords] - The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers Series) by G. P. Ching
[YA Fantasy Novel – First of Series – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords]
- Amaranth (The Resistance Trilogy, #1) by Rachael Wade
- Horror:
- Blood Fugue, Moonsongs Book 1 by E.J. Wesley
[Horror / Suspence Novelette – First of Series – Amazon] - Cages (Book One) by Chris Pasley
[YA Zombie Novel – First of Series – Amazon] - Hive by Griffin Hayes
[Zombie Novella – First of Series – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords] - @Author’s Site: “Hokan” by David J Rodger
[Lovecraftian Horror Short Story – PDF – Author’s Site] - @Mark Wheatley: Lez Vamps by Edited by Gary Henry
[Horror Anthology – EPUB, MOBI, PDF – Mark Wheatley] - @Author’s Site: “Strange Candy” by Robert R. McCammon
[Halloween Short Story – EPUB | MOBI | Webpage: on Author’s Site]
- Blood Fugue, Moonsongs Book 1 by E.J. Wesley
- Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian:
- Day Soldiers by Brandon Hale
[Post-Apocalyptic Novel – First of Series – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords] - Breakers Series by Edward W. Robertson: [Post-Apocalyptic Series]
- Outcome
[Novella – Prequel to Series – Amazon | Kobo | Smashwords] - Breakers
[First of Series – Amazon | Smashwords]
- Outcome
- The Peeling: Book 1 (Jeremy’s Choice) by Iain Rob Wright
[Post-Apocalyptic Novelette – First of Series – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords] - The Sixth Extinction: An Apocalyptic Tale of Survival. (Part One: Outbreak.) by Glen Johnson
[Post-Apocalyptic Novella – First of Series – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords] - Wanted by Jason Halstead
[Post-Apocalyptic Novel – Amazon | Smashwords]
- Day Soldiers by Brandon Hale
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I can highly recommend Robert McCammon’s “Night Calls The Green Falcon”. It’s a rip-snortin’, barnstorming, high speed action story. When I was trying to sell movie scripts back in the 1990’s, NCTGF (along with a few others, like Zelazny’s “The Furies”) were on my wishlist of stories I’d have loved to try and adapt for the screen. (Which would have brought the story full-circle, since it was inspired by the old Saturday-morning matinee movie-serial cliffhangers.)