Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 11/19/2014
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What’s Special About Today’s Free Fiction?
- Vice/Motherboard has kicked off a new near future science fiction venue: Terraform
- Beware the Hairy Mango #247 – “God-Emperor of Dog”
- Some Alternate History: “The Girl Who Couldn’t Fly “ by Lou Antonelli
Written
- @AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review: “A Girl Who Grew Something in Her Armpit” by Cathy Adams [Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “Jebediah Stone & the Pale King” by Vincent Asaro [Horror]
- @Author’s Site: “The Girl Who Couldn’t Fly “ by Lou Antonelli [Alternate History]
- @Lightspeed Magazine:
- “Enter Saunterance” by Matthew Hughes [Fantasy – also available in audio]
- “Instructions” by Roz Kaveney [Science Fiction]
- @Terraform:
- “Huxleyed Into the Full Orwell” by Cory Doctorow [Cyberpunk]
- “Targeted Strike 2: Judgement Database” by Adam Rothstein [Dystopian Science Fiction]
- “The Brain Dump” by Bruce Sterling [Cyberpunk]
- “The Overview Effect” by Claire L. Evans [Science Fiction]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows:
- “A Sneeze” by Aiza Mohd [Science Fiction Flash]
- “The Replacement Husband” by Ken Poyner [Science Fiction Flash]
- “You Wouldn’t Download a Car” by Logan Smith [Science Fiction Flash]
- “Zxandra’s Summer” by Michael Rafferty [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction:
- “Always” by Emily Craven [Fantasy Flash]
- “Little More than Shadows” by Stewart C Baker [Fantasy Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction:
- “Ogling Jeremy Anderson” by J. W. Shumate [Surreal Humor Flash]
- “The Shadow of Her Touch” by Samantha Kymmel-Harvey [Surreal Flash]
- @MicroHorror:
- “Dead Girl’s Doll” by Erin Charvet [Horror Flash]
- “Ma Binns” by Amanda Baker [Horror Flash]
Audio
- Beware the Hairy Mango #247 – “God-Emperor of Dog” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [Mango Meditations]
- @Clarkesworld Magazine: “Pernicious Romance” by Robert Reed [Post-Apocalyptic]
- @Cthulhu Podcast: #182 – Herbert West: Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft: [Horror]
- @Lightspeed Magazine: “Enter Saunterance” by Matthew Hughes [Fantasy]
- Radio Drama Revival #394 – “Sifting Through the Ashes of Dead London“ [Alien Invasion]
- Welcome to Night Vale Bonus Episode #2 – “What of the Sea?” by [Fantasy Serial]
Audio – Radio Dramas
- @Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod:
- Lights Out –“Poltergeist” [Horror Radio Drama – from 1942]
- Murder At Midnight –“The Kabbala” [Horror Radio Drama – from 1946]
- @Relic Radio:
- CBS Radio Mystery Theater –“The Horror Of Dead Lake” [Horror Radio Drama – from 1976]
- The Mysterious Traveler –“The Man Who Vanished” [Weird Radio Drama – from 1948]
Free eBooks – Science Fiction
Cemetery Planet I by J. Joseph Wright
It’s eight hundred years in the future, a time when the Earth had become so populated, all graveyards had to be relocated to another planet. It’s an entire world of graves in a lonely, desolate part of the galaxy, and Harvey Crane, the sole caretaker, finds he’s not alone on Cemetery Planet.
[Space Opera Novelette – First of Series – Amazon]
Glitch by N.M. Lombardi
Responsible for reconditioning used androids for resale, Marguerite unexpectedly finds herself shepherd over Gabriel, a synthetic who’s suffered a lifetime of experimental abuse at the hands of a sadistic owner.Now she must address his psychological damage as well, a task made no easier by the looming threat that his abuser may want him back.
[Science Fiction Novelette – Amazon]
Legend of the Chosen (Destiny’s Kingdom #1) by Jennifer Selzer
The planet Bethel seems perfectly peaceful, so why is Quade Decairus having nightmares about its destruction? In the first spellbinding book in the Destiny’s Kingdom series, Quade wrestles with his destiny to combat evil and save his galaxy.
[Science Fantasy Novel – First of Series – Amazon]
A Prophecy Revealed (Destiny’s Kingdom #2) by Jennifer Selzer
Having seemingly committed the most heinous act of attacking the Keystone and leaving him for dead, Quade Dacairus seeks sanctuary with the galaxy’s most powerful magic user, the Avè. Hunted by the SanFear, an ancient entity as old and as powerful as the gods, Quade’s limited time to save his world ticks away as he searches for the chosen spoken of in legends to join him in this quest. Uniting the chosen is Quade’s only hope to defeat this evil and save his world from certain destruction.
[Science Fantasy Novel – Second of Series – Amazon]
The Monster Men (Illustrated) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Monster Men is a 1913 science fiction novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs under the working title “Number Thirteen.”
[Science Fiction Novel – from 1913 – Amazon]
@Nature via Concatenation: Quis Custodiet? by Brian Clegg
[Science Fiction – PDF – Nature via Concatenation]
Free eBooks – Fantasy
Kill School (HemoGoblins) by Gregory Lynn
What do you do when the only way to save your life is to take the lives of others?
When Hobbes the goblin—nasty, brutish, and short, but totally not a hobgoblin—is involved in a tragic workplace accident, he gets sentenced to either take lives, or lose his own. Shuttled off to a school for assassins he is forced to learn to kill. Can he survive long enough to take his life back from his hobgoblin masters?
[Fantasy / Comedy Novella – Amazon]
Free eBooks – Superhero
Elite by Joseph C. Anthony
Daniel Hart stood, staring at himself in the mirror. He had experienced a complete physical transformation in a remarkably short period of time. Just three weeks ago no one would have looked twice at someone like Daniel, but a revolutionary procedure had helped to transform him into something spectacular. He was now beyond human, he was better.
[Superhero Novel – First of Series – Amazon]
Free eBooks – Zombies
Zombie Fallout by Mark Tufo
It started in a lab at the CDC (Center for Disease Control), virologists were so relieved to finally have an effective vaccination against the virulent swine flu. Pressure to come up with something had come from the highest office in the land. In an attempt at speed the virologists had made two mistakes, first they used a live virus and second they didn’t properly test for side effects. Within days hundreds of thousands of vaccinations shipped across the US and the world. People lined up for the shots, like they were waiting in line for concert tickets. Fights broke out in drugstores as fearful throngs tried their best to get one of the limited shots. Within days the CDC knew something was wrong. Between 4 and 7 hours of receiving the shot roughly 95% succumbed to the active H1N1 virus in the vaccination. More unfortunate than the death of the infected was the added side effect of reanimation, it would be a decade before scientists were able to ascertain how that happened.The panic that followed couldn’t be measured. Loved ones did what loved ones always do, they tried to comfort, their kids or their spouses or their siblings, but what came back was not human not even remotely. Those people that survived their first encounter with these monstrosities usually did not come through unscathed, if bitten they had fewer than 6 hours of humanity left, the clock was ticking. During the first few hysteria ridden days of The Coming as it has become known, many thought the virus was airborne, luckily that was not the case or nobody would have survived. It was a dark time in human history. One from which we may never be able to pull ourselves out of the ashes from.
[Zombie Novel – Amazon]
