Showing posts with label Michael Moorcock. Show all posts
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Friday, June 17, 2011

Judith Tarr Fiction, Michael Moorcock Audio, and More

It's starting to look like another great day of genre freebies. There's an SF story by Judith Tarr, another great issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies (They are all great), and more cool stories from other sources. Added audio fiction including the conclusion of the Michael Moorcock story and two of the big "pods." And some flash fiction for you. More categories to come.



Today's illustration (so far at least) is from "The Ironroot Deception" in the serial fiction section.







@Daily Science Fiction: "Made of Cats" by Judith Tarr.
"It all started the day the aliens landed. (Doesn't it always?) We'd been getting the odd invasion--sometimes really odd--for about a hundred years by then. The ones that came up out of the ground and down from the sky and blasted people to powder and tried to marsiform the planet?"

@Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
"From the Spices of Sanandira, Pt. II" by Bradley P. Beaulieu.
"It was Jalaad, screaming into his ear. The call of the fyndrenna was so strong that a vision of Queen Rossanal’s beautiful face was all he could think of, but then a long, mournful wail filled the cool desert air, and the closeness of it allowed him to fend off the call of the spice."
"The Godslayer's Wife" by Therese Arkenberg.
"His sobs echo through the corridors of Datheiren Keep. The old stone absorbs its husky tone, the barely-voiced beginnings of words, apologies, curses; they reflect in only a sourceless, pitiable sound of misery."

@Port Iris: Issue #5 is now posted.
"The Breaking" by Loren Eaton.
"When Mistress Manyara shook me from sleep, dawn’s rays already slanted through the chinks in the orphanage’s block walls."
"Different Every Day" by Kyle McManus.
"He stood tall and proud in that dumb tomato-red suit, his golden, gleaming boots adding an extra three inches to his already impressive height."
"Intelligent Design" by Sharon K. Reamer and Rob Rowntree.
"Pierre Bragion shoved it into a higher dimensional pocket and drew a Schwarzschild-Bekenstein horizon around it. He thought he could divorce himself from his creations."

The June issue of The Edge of Propinquity is now posted with:
"Credencium - Buried" by Kaolin Fire
"Joshua, Spike, and John Doe try to do right by Phoenix, but the family's been broken. Time may heal them, but Joshua displaces his self into the city, running from it all. Still, gears are turning; his power has grown overnight, and stranger things are coming."
"Flotsam - Crusade" by Peter M. Ball.
"Keith Murphy isn't having a good time. His safe house is wrecked, his closest ally is pissed at him, and his home town is under a dark cloud of decidedly unnatural origin. Every day he wastes brings Ragnarok ever closer, and making the decisions that could stop the end of the world will end up costing Keith even more than he's already lost."
"Idolwood - Breathless" by Ivan Ewert.
"Following the failed attempt on Alex Pajari's life, the Hanged Man and Gamine regroup in their suburban hideaway, bringing comfort and reassurance to one another even as they bring desperation and pain. Alex, after a brief encounter with the police, finds Isaac Jordan in the Morgan Glen parking lot with his 'friend' Brandon. Explaining the situation as best he can, he brings Isaac away - even as Brandon encourages the younger boy to meet him in the preserve again come midnight, under the watchful eyes of the final fetch."
"The Ones Who Call - The Kohkum Knows Best" by Alina Pete
Kohkum Agnes has disappeared and the entire Sîpisis family has gathered to search for her. Meanwhile, the other residents of the valley have noticed strange lights above the lake. Is it Kohkum's doing, or is something more sinister going on?
"Seren Draig" by T. D. Edge
Arwen Jones has a secret, one that has been discovered by the government. Her power stolen by them, she has the choice to save humanity from its folly or to burn up with it. Either way, she dies—a rock and a hard place if there ever was one.

@The Absent Willow Review: The June issue is now posted.







Serial Fiction
@Paizo.com: "The Ironroot Deception Chapter Three: The Dog" by Robin D. Laws.
"The burly prisoner sees the flash of metal and releases Gad in a twitch of panic. Knuckles white on the hilt of Ethundel's dagger—stolen when he prompted Stokh to push him into the elf on the way into the excavation that morning—Gad neatly plunges it between the startled man's well-demarcated ribs. He jams it in deep. He twists, forcing Stokh to cry out in pain."

@Phillipine Genre Fiction: "The Confessional (Part 1)" by Cyan Abad-Jugo. Science Fiction.
"The President of the Republic walked in on him then, still musing over the fading traces of eye or ear or mouth, and possibly a vine just below one of the dome’s two huge cupola windows, both of which now rendered a holograph of an almost-midnight sky."

Classic SF
@Gutenberg: On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Carey Rockwell (1953).
A metallic voice rasped over the loud-speakers and echoed through the lofty marble and aluminum concourse of the New Chicago Monorail Terminal. "Atom City express on Track Seven! Space Academy first stop! Passengers for Space Academy will please take seats in the first six cars!"

@Book View Cafe: "Holiday Station" by Judith Tarr (1993), from Christmas Ghosts, ed. Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg (DAW).
"If the Stationmaster hadn't got pregnant when he did... "
@Book View Cafe: "Willie" by Madeleine E. Robins, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1992).

"Even a mad scientist has to take responsibility for the life he brings into the world..."





@Escape Pod: "Amaryllis" by Carrie Vaughn. Science Fiction.
"I never knew my mother, and I never understood why she did what she did. I ought to be grateful that she was crazy enough to cut out her implant so she could get pregnant. But it also meant she was crazy enough to hide the pregnancy until termination wasn’t an option, knowing the whole time that she’d never get to keep the baby. That she’d lose everything. That her household would lose everything because of her."

@Pseudopod: "I.C.U." by Tim Burke, read by Cayenne Chris Conroy.
"Sometimes Keith would wander into the visitors’ waiting room, just so he could see time passing. The window faced south and the room was filled with autumn dusk the color of dried egg yolk. The monitors beeped and the machine fixed to his father’s throat rasped."
@Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "The Nine-Tailed Cat" by Michael J. DeLuca. Fantasy.
from Issue #70 "The cat departs from the moonbeam, flicking its tails."
LinkSerial Audio
@StarShipSofa: "The Black Petals Pt 3" by Michael Moorcock.






Fan Audio
@Pendant Productions: Issue 34 of "Catwoman: Queen of Thieves"
@Pendant Productions: Issue 65 of "Batman: The Ace of Detectives"






@DailyScienceFiction: "W is for When" by Tim Pratt, Jenn Reese, Heather Shaw, and Greg van Eekhout.
@Daily Science Fiction: "Building a Future" by Rhonda Jordan.
@Strange Horizons: [poem] "Maelbrigte's Woman" by Anne Sheldon.
@Mindflights: [poems] "Visitors"and "Astral Dream" by Marge Simon.
@Absent Willow Review:[poetry] "Pandemic" by Pam Jessen. Horror.
@Absent Willow Review:[poetry] "Nightfall" by D L Myers. Horror.
@Flash Pulp: "The Haunted House on Willoughby Road" by J.R.D. Skinner, and read by Opopanax.
@ChiZine: [poetry]
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@Every Day Fction:
"The Dark" by Phil Oddy. Horror.
"Far Past the Moon" by David Rees-Thomas. Science Fiction.
"A Gift From Over the Sea" by Jeff Chapman. Fantasy.

@Flashes in the Dark: [Horror]
"Trading Places" by Neil Leckman.
"Ghost Writer" by Lou Antonelli.
"David Brennan" by Lori Titus.
@365 tomorrows: [Science Fiction]
Hide and Seek by Steve Smith.
Abaddon by Michael Iverson.
Nose Plugs by Natalie J E Potts.
@Weirdyear:
"If Epictetus Wrote Dear Abby" by Adam Graupe.
"A Portrait in Flesh" by Michael C. Thompson.
"Missed Connections" by Patrick D. Hume.
Via Flash Fiction Friday: [Sci-Fi]
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Elric "The Black Petals" Pt 2 of 3, Tons of Flash Fiction, and More

A ton of flash fiction today, part two of the three-part Elric story at StarShipSofa. I don't have too many details about that but Moorcock + Elric + StarShipSofa = awesome! And three longer tales for your enjoyment. I have been having trouble with my internet all morning so I might have missed something - in which case it will be added either tonight or tomorrow.








@Ray Gun Revival: "On A Crooked Planet" by Dan Larnerd. Science Fiction.
"Hanging in orbit was the UES Pierre Cruzatte; a long range survey ship that resembled a submarine more than the starships from twentieth century television. It had no windows and no graceful curves; just thick titanium bulkheads, blinking sensor arrays and a monstrous interstellar drive."
@Yesteryear Fiction: "The Dragon King" By Robert William Shmigelsky. Fantasy.
"The high wind, tossing and turning over top of a vast kingdom of castles, mansions, towers, halls and arks, flew towards a tall, distant blue tower, which spiraled up into the night sky to the top of the veiled heavens beyond like a whirlwind pulled up from the ocean and frozen into place."
Classic Fiction
@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Feet Of Clay by Phillip Hoskins. Science Fiction.
"Life is pretty strange when a god who is good and benevolent must prove that he has"






@StarShipSofa: Episode #192 featuring The Black Petals Pt 2 of 3 by Michael Moorcock, read by Peter Cavell.













@Daily Science Fiction: "Remember" by Will Arthur.
@Daily Science Fiction: "V is for Vámonos" by Tim Pratt, Jenn Reese, Heather Shaw, Greg van Eekhout
@Every Day Fiction: "Sunstance Q" by Michael Madden. Horror.
@Every Day Fiction: "Lessons Never Learned" by Christopher Owen. Fantasy.
@Aoife's Kiss: [Poem] "Spell" Fantasy. Until July 2011?
@Quantum Muse: "The Crimson Wind" by James Gardner.
@Eschatology: "Time, and Tide" by Stephen Ramey. Horror.
@Eschatology: "For All of Humanity" by Brian M. Sammons. Horror.
@365 tomorrows: Science Fiction.
@Flashes in the Dark: Horror.
@The Fifth Dimension: [Poetry] Fantasy and SF.
@Weirdyear: Weird Fiction.
@Yesteryear Fiction: Fantasy.
@The New Flesh: Horror.
@Apex Magazine: [poetry]
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Free Moorcock Audio, E-Zines and Other Fantasy, SF, and Horror Fiction

A e-ton of free fiction today with three complete magazines, as well as several new individual stories and flash fiction stories. And there are several classic genre stories as well. Indeed, there is so much free text fiction that the audio fiction has necessarily been delayed until later today. Happy reading - there is definitely some good stuff.

Today's illustration is from Michael Moorcock's Black Petals in the Audio section.







Free Magazines
Electric Spec Volume 6, Issue 2 is posted with fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Macabre).
"Invasive Species" by Ryan Kinkor
"Norse didn't know what he was closer to these days: a soldier or a garbage man. All he ever did was clean-up duty, picking up the refuse of one cocked-up incident after another. "
"Frazee" by Patricia Russo
"Frazee's sister had been abducted on her way home from school when she was ten years old. He barely remembered her, the way she had been in life; he'd been only two, a late baby, an afterthought."
"Remodel with Swan Parts" by Michael Griffin
"The thing Tod feared about his wife returning home was the unveiling. Always that ritual, like a game show host whipping away the drop cloth to reveal a prize."
The Turtle Wore Mascara by E. Bundy
"Greg was basking in her giddy adoration when pain electrified his arm. His left hand jerked reflexively upwards with an eighteen-pound snapping turtle clamped onto his little finger"
"Inside the Walls of East Lombard Street" by Anthony J. Rapino
"The shiny cashier saw me. She looked right at me. The store's fluorescent lights reflected off her skin like tiny searchlights. Her green eyes, the security cameras."
and "Race to Redemption" by Betsy Dornbusch
"Lord Oman sat at his desk, hands resting flat on it. For all Kaelin knew, the lord had a pistol in his lap. His back prickled. He kept his MK 23 within easy reach."

And nonfiction an Interview with Robert J. Sawyer, and more.
Nightblade: Horror and Fantasy Magazine issue #16 Propaganda is posted. This issue's fiction
"Ghost Story" by Deedra Cooper
"'Would you like me to tell you a story?' Something besides sadness now. Hope? Gratitude?"
"The Elder Gods of Richmond Street" by Dan Davis.
"We walked towards the front steps of the porch. I didn’t like the way they moved — as if they were expecting us."
"Striped Pajamas" by Marge Simon.
"The clothes you wear are perm-press, the only other item in your bag is the pair of striped pajamas that belonged to your father."
"Jackalope Season" by M.B. Ryther
"The jackalope is one of the most ferocious creatures out there. My ancestors in the Scottish Highlands had to fend them off with swords and burn them out of their dens with fire."
Mirror Dance Summer 2011 Issue is posted with fiction by Sara Cleto, Nicole Votta, David Brookes, Melinda Giordano, and Dora Badger and poetry by Sylvia Adams, A. J. Huffman, Aubrey Nesbitt, and Robert Shmigelsky

Mirror Dance is a quarterly magazine of fantasy stories, art, and poetry.




Single Stories
@Ray Gun Revival: "The Wheat from the Chaff" by Kurt Heinrich Hyatt. Science Fiction.
"The scout shuttle broke through the smog to reveal a drab world of grays and browns set in flat and oily seas. Just below was the monthly supply freighter sent by the Interplanetary Relief Fund surrounded by a protective swarm of other scout shuttles."
@Anotherealm: "Death Row" by Milan Smith. Speculative Fiction.
"Graduation was close, and The Future was an exciting time for them, unlike me, for who Tomorrow was still not that much different from Today"
@Linger Fiction: "Ma-Ma" by RJ Astruc. Speculative Fiction.
"Katya looks away quick before she giggles or screams or faints and stares out the window at the city of Namyanka. A thousand hi-houses–huge white mushrooms like 1960s UFOs–speckle the sky, all connected by a web of ropes, chains and makeshift metal gangplanks."
@Philippine Genre Stories: "The Jar Collector" by Charles Tan. Horror.
"On most days, a lot of people pass by, either to smoke or to lounge around as they wait for friends. But today feels different and I am all alone save for the stranger sitting beside me"
Classic SF/Horror/Fantasy
@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Cold Ghost" by Chester S. Geier, from Amazing Stories (Nov. 1948). Horror.
"All Hager had to do was slow the dogsled to a walk, and his partner died. A perfect crime—no chance to get caught!"
@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "The Invader" by Alfred Coppel, from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy (Feb. 1953). Science Fiction.
"Invading Earth was going to be a cinch, the Triomed scout decided. But to make certain he must study its inhabitants—as one of them!"
@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "The Next Time We Die" by Robert Moore Williams, from Amazing Stories (Feb. 1957). Science Fiction.
"We journey to far places, driven on by ideals. We fight for lost causes, sacrificing our lives because the things we fight for seem worthwhile. But are we right? Are they worth being killed over? Perhaps. Then again, maybe we'll know better—The Next Time We Die"
@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Day of the Druid" by Knut Enferd, from Amazing Stories (Nov. 1948). Fantasy.
"Be'al, all-powerful god, drank the blood of his victims. Would Gaar be able to save Marna, whom Be'al kept in eternal sleep, and avenge her people?"
@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "The Colonists" by Raymond F. Jones, from IF Worlds of Science Fiction (June 1954). Science Fiction.
"If historical precedent be wrong—what qualities, then, must man possess to successfully colonize new worlds? Doctor Ashby said: "There is no piece of data you cannot find, provided you can devise the proper experimental procedure for turning it up." Now—about the man and the procedure."
@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "The Ordeal of Colonel Johns" by George H. Smith, from IF Worlds of Science Fiction (June 1954). Science Fiction.
"Colonel Johns, that famous Revolutionary War hero, had the unique—and painful—experience of meeting his great-great-great-great granddaughter. Now maybe you can't change history, but what's there to prevent a soldier from changing his mind about the gal he is going to marry?"
@Project Gutenberg: The Slayer of Souls by Robert Chambers (1920). Horror. [via Triplanetary]
"Nobody ever before had seen that sort of magic in America. People scarcely knew whether or not they quite liked it. The lightning of innovation stupefies the dull; ignorance is always suspicious of innovation—always afraid to put itself on record until its mind is made up by somebody else."
Reviewed Free Fiction
@BestScienceFictionStories.com "A Pocketful of Dharma" by Paolo Bacigalupi (1999). Reviewed with a link to the free story. Science Fiction.
"It rose into the evening darkness, a massive city core, dwarfing even Chengdu's skyscrapers. Construction workers dangled from its rising skeleton, swinging from one section of growth to the next on long rappelling belts. Others clambered unsecured, digging their fingers into the honeycomb structure, climbing the struts with careless dangerous ease."
Serial Fiction
@Legend of the Five Rings: "The Destroyer War" Part 12 by Shawn Carman. Fantasy.
"The air was thick with smoke. It burned the eyes and choked life from the lungs. Somewhere nearby, Hida Harou knew that the Palace of Crimson Shadows was burning. He wondered what manner of horrible things the Scorpion might have been hiding within it to make the smoke so acrid and stinging."
@The Author's Site: "Deluge" (Part 74) by Brian Keene. Horror.
"The fungoid man-thing lurched forward, arms outstretched. Supporting Sarah’s dead weight, Henry barely dodged Earl’s attack. Seven more of the creatures lumbered up the stairs."








@Every Day Fiction: "To Turn Back Time" by Leigh Kimmel. Fantasy.
@Every Day Fiction: "The Thing About A Haunting" by Aaron Polson. Weird.
@Flashes in the Dark: "The Most Beautiful Tree" by Jennifer Jackson. Horror.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Well Laid Schemes" by Lori Titus. Horror.
@Strange Horizons: [Poem] "Waking the Red Guardian" by WC Roberts.
@Daily Science Fiction: "U is for Ubiquitous" by Tim Pratt, Jenn Reese, Heather Shaw, Greg van Eekhout.
@Dark Valentine: "The Sound of Silence" by Alvin G. Burstein.
@365 tomorrows: "Fundamental Forces" by Patricia Stewart. Science Fiction.
@365 tomorrows: "Remedies" by Ian Rennie. Science Fiction.@Weirdyear: "How to Punch a Seven Foot Tall Dog-Headed Alien Warrior in the Head" by David Macpherson.
@Weirdyear: "Visions of Lincoln" by Justin Short.
@Yesteryear Fiction: "A Brief History" by Caitlin Jackson. Fantasy.
@Linger Fiction: "A Lady of My Own" by Robyn Ritchie.
@Linger Fiction: "Circus Freaks" by Courtney Cullinan Robb.
@Nightblade: [poetry]
@Antipodean SF: [via Beam Me Up]






@StarShipSofa: Episode #190 featuring "Black Petals Pt 1" by Michael Moorcock, read by Peter Cavell. Full size version of the awesome cover here.
Really! Free Moorcock fantasy fiction! Elric! Read by StarShipSofa! Huzzahs to infinity and beyond!






@LibriVox: A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay, read by Mark Nelson.
"It combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. It has been described by critic and philosopher Colin Wilson as the "greatest novel of the twentieth century" and was a central influence on C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy."
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