Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 10/29/2014

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Written

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #158 – October 16, 2014 [Fantasy Magazine]
  • Audio Vault:“Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood” by Aliette de Bodard
  • Audio:“Butterfly House” by Gwendolyn Clare
  • “The Leaves Upon Her Falling Light” by Gregory Norman Bossert
  • “The Rugmaker’s Lovers” by Brynn MacNab
• @The Colored Lens: “Beta Child” by Imogen Cassidy [Science Fiction]
• @Interfictions Online: “Vulturism” by Genevieve Valentine [Speculative/Interstitial Fiction]
• @Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire: “Sub Rosa” by Abner Senires [Cyberpunk]
• @Lightspeed Magazine:
  • “The Puzzle” by Zoran Živković, Translated by Alice Copple-Tošić [Science Fiction]
  • “The Quality of Descent” by Megan Kurashige [Fantasy – also available in audio]
• @The New Yorker: “Alan Bean Plus Four” by Tom Hanks [Science Fiction – also available in audio]
• @Omni Reboot:
  • “Animus” by Stuart Hodes [Science Fiction]
  • “Meat, Bone, Bösehoven” by E.S. Wynn [Science Fiction]
• @Short-Story.me:
  • “Difficult to Explain” by Anthony Deane [Horror]
  • “Section Guards” by Liam Campbell [Fantasy]
• @Tor: “The Girl in the High Tower” by Gennifer Albin [YA Fantasy]

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows:
  • “Perchance” by Leslie Bohem [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Perimeter” by Jae Miles [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Plant Life” by Duncan Shields [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Refugees From The Singularity” by Bob Newbell [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Returns Policy” by Rosalie Kempthorne [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Sleeper” by Jae Miles [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Take Me Dancing” by Brent Benton [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “The Archivist” by Roger Dale Trexler [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “The Planet” by Richard D. Deverell [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “The Year Rounders” by Clint Wilson [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “True Love” by Lesley Carhart [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Wired Heart” by James Langley [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Every Day Fiction:
  • “Farmer Leon’s Pumpkin Patch” by Paul A. Freeman [Horror Flash]
  • “Reason Abandoned” by Moriah Geer-Hardwick [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Recipes” by Julianne DiNenna [Surreal Flash]
  • “Take the Risk” by K.B. Sluss [Fantasy Flash]
  • “The Amazing Jimmy” by Jason Thomas [Surreal Flash]
  • “The Best of Pies” by Derek McMillan [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “There is a Season” by Peter Wood [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “With Polish” by H. L. Cassel [Fantasy Flash]
• @Farther Stars Than These:
  • “Continuum” by Katherine Rockwell [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Star Eater” by Barbara Christina Witmer [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Flashes in the Dark:
  • “Scare Tactics” by Thomas Edmund [Horror Flash]
  • “Settling in Settler” by Shah Wharton [Horror Flash]
  • “They Are Just Dreams” by Boyd Miles [Horror Flash]
• @MicroHorror:
  • “Poor Souls” by Jane Fell [Horror Flash]
  • “The Island” by Mike Oliphant [Horror Flash]
  • “The Legacy” by Nick Allen [Horror Flash]
  • “Voices of the Dead” by Jonathan P. Copen [Horror Flash]
  • “We Should Be Moving Shortly” by Brendan Wilhelm [Horror Flash]
• @Omni Reboot: “They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson [Science Fiction Flash – from 1990]
• @Weirdyear:
  • “Creative Ways to Eat an Avocado “ by Phoenix Ember [Weird Flash]
  • “Pet Repair” by Iulian Ionescu [Weird Flash]
  • “Terminus” by R.L. Black [Weird Flash]
  • “The Ancient King” by Michael R. Colangelo [Weird Flash]
• @Yesteryear Fiction: “The Last Laugh” by Linda M. Crate [Fantasy Flash]

Written – Serialized

• @Author’s Site: New Dawn by Andrew James Morgan – Chapter 9 [Science Fiction Novel Serialization]
• @Author’s Site: New Dawn by Andrew James Morgan – Chapter 10 [Science Fiction Novel Serialization]

Audio

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Vault #007 – “Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood” by Aliette de Bodard [Fantasy]
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies Podcast #137 – “Butterfly House” by Gwendolyn Clare [Fantasy]
• Desert Gems Audio #13 – “Tale of Nur al Din and his Son” by [Fantasy – 1001 Arabian Nights]
• @Lightspeed Magazine: “The Quality of Descent” by Megan Kurashige [Fantasy]
• @The New Yorker (via SoundCloud): “Alan Bean Plus Four” by Tom Hanks [Science Fiction]

Free eBooks – Science Fiction

Acid Sky by Mark Anson
Venus – second planet from the Sun. In the crushing depths of its atmosphere lies a hellish, dimly-lit world of baked rock and furnace-like temperatures, forever hidden beneath thick clouds of sulphuric acid.
But high above the clouds, the sky is blue and clear, and a fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers circle endlessly on the high-altitude winds, providing a welcome staging post for crews on long space voyages.
For Clare Foster, a lieutenant in the US Astronautics Corps on her first tour of duty on board the USSV Langley, flying on Venus brings new challenges to be mastered. But soon Clare finds herself enmeshed in the darker side of life on board the carrier, and a sequence of events in which the terrifying fury of the planet will be unleashed…
[Science Fiction Adventure Novel – Amazon]

Enormity (Complete Edition) by Nick Milligan
Before joining NASA’s space programme, Jack had dreams of a career as a professional musician. When a deep space mission goes awry, he crashes on an alien planet. Jack discovers that his new world is inhabited by a race of humans that have evolved in parallel to those on Earth. He picks up a guitar and performs the most wondrous rock songs of his home planet. Neil Young. Leonard Cohen. Bob Dylan. Superstardom beckons as audiences around the globe revere Jack and his apparent songwriting abilities. He basks in the boundless glow of a hedonistic dream world. But Jack soon learns that his lie will have sinister consequences.
[Science Fiction / Horror Novel – Amazon]

Free eBooks – Science Fiction – Young Adult

ACE (Space Cadets) by Adam Moon
Two hundred years ago, aliens came to earth. They abducted millions of people and then told the rest that they were going to evaluate humanity over the course of the next several hundred years. If the earthlings didn’t measure up to their standards, they’d be back to eliminate them.
So guess what humanity has done since then: They geared up for war.
[YA Military Science Fiction Short Story – First of Series – Amazon | Smashwords]

Free eBooks – Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian

Primal Shift: Episode 1 by Griffin Hayes
It’s July the Fourth, and Americans have slowed down long enough to celebrate their independence – and the day off. But a thousand motorists suddenly abandon their cars on the Golden Gate Bridge and leap to their deaths in a roiling bay. Jets packed with families rain down from the skies above Salt Lake City International Airport, dotting the landscape with orange fireballs. Worse yet, New York City police launch a murderous rampage against those they swore to protect and serve.
[Post-Apocalyptic Serial – First Episode – Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Smashwords]

Free eBooks – Zombies

Grandma? Part 1 by J.A. Konrath
Randall just wanted to have a fun summer vacation with his family, visiting Grandma at her cabin on a lake in the Wisconsin Northwoods.
Then everything went horribly wrong.
[Young Adult Zombie Serial – First Episode – Amazon]