Showing posts with label Mur Lafferty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mur Lafferty. Show all posts

Friday, August 30, 2013

I Got a Feeling... That This Week's Gonna Be a Good Week for Free Fiction

More great freebies.  Steven Baxter (One of the best living SF writers) has an audio story at Clarkesworld. There's a new reading of Ray Bradbury's unforgettable "The Veldt" at Selected Shorts (Hosted by Neil Gaiman, with the second story read by Leonard Nimoy).  There's more greatness by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mur Lafferty, etc.  Be sure to check back here regularly and to visit SF Signal for more free fiction.  [Art from "The Thrill of the Hunt" in audio fiction.








Fiction
• At Buzzy Mag: "Unremembered, Unforgotten" by Ken Altabef. Urban Fantasy.
      "Flakes of red crumbled away from her fingertips as Dolorza brushed absently at the mark. None found in the home, she thought, but three victims all the same. Her father, who had succumbed to lymphoma seven years after the exposure, her mother, who had died of a broken heart soon thereafter, and the silent price she herself had paid over the years."

• At The Silver Blade: "The Greatest Shade – Part 2" by Bryan Wein. Fantasy.
      "The next morning Dressen smacked his hand against the water sensor three times before the shower finally gurgled to life. A few seconds later the fluorescent tube overhead came on as well, thanks to some problem with the circuitry. Dressen cursed and dimmed the light with blind, groping fingers." - part one here.

Audio Fiction
• At Author's Site: "The Shambling Guide to New York City - Chapters 1-18" by Mur Lafferty. Urban Fantasy. [via SF Signal]
      "A travel writer takes a job with a shady publishing company in New York, only to find that she must write a guide to the city - for the undead!"

• At Clarkesworld: "Cilia-of-Gold" by Stephen Baxter. Science Fiction.
     "She climbed up through the water, her flukes pulsing, and prepared to lead the group further along the Ice-tunnel to the new Chimney cavern"

•  At Decoder Ring Theater: "Red Panda Adventures (97) - The Phantom" Noir. Superhero. Humor.
       "As the tides of war begin to shift in favor of the Allies, all is far from quiet on the Home Front. A new boss of bosses has taken control of the city and declared war upon the Red Panda and his allies!"

• At Selected Shorts: "Dreams and Schemes" Science Fiction.
     "Guest host Neil Gaiman introduces two American classics. In Ray Bradbury’s futuristic “The Veldt,” a virtual reality nursery turns on its owners. The reader is Stephen Colbert. In James Thurber’s “The Catbird Seat,” a mild-mannered employee plots revenge. read by Leonard Nimoy"

• At WMG Publishing: "The Thrill of the Hunt" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Paranormal.
      "Her family called her Hilda, before the war, before the Great Wulf murdered them all with his mind. Now the war is over, Europe is in ruin, and the remaining Nazis have scattered. Hilda hunts them, but really, she hunts him. And thanks to an old friend, she has tracked him to Argentina. She’s supposed to kill him, but she’s not sure if she can. She won’t know until they’re face to face, until it’s time for one of them to die."

E-Books
At Amazon: [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]
Other Genres
• At WMG Publishing: "Name Calling" by Kristine Grayson (Kristine Kathryn Rusch). Romance.
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

I, For One, Welcome Our New Free Fiction Overlords

It's a great day for free fiction! There's new fiction at Tor, Phantasmacore, and Mad Scientist Journal.  There are continuing serials at HiLobrow, new flash fiction, and classic comics. New audio fiction (including five Harry Turtledove stories). And there are half a googleplex e-books!. (A couple links were borrowed from Regan Wolfrom at SF Signal.


[Art from "Cat" in comics below.]



Fiction
• At HiLobrow: "The Clockwork Man - Part 20 conclusion." by E.V. Odle. Science Fiction. 1923.
     "“Let’s go back,” whispered Lilian, and they turned and retraced their steps. The sight of the lovers sealed their lips. Doctor Allingham struggled for a few moments with a strange sense of bigness wanting to escape. Almost it was a physical sensation; as though the nervous energy in his brain had begun to flow independently of the controls that usually guided it through the channels graven by knowledge and experience. It was Lilian who spoke next, and there was a note of pain in her voice."

• At HiLobrow: "Herland - Part 3" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Science Fiction. 1915.
     "The most prominent sensation was of absolute physical comfort. I was lying in a perfect bed: long, broad, smooth; firmly soft and level; with the finest linen, some warm light quilt of blanket, and a counterpane that was a joy to the eye. The sheet turned down some fifteen inches, yet I could stretch my feet at the foot of the bed free but warmly covered."

• At Mad scientist Journal: "Missing Apocalypse" by D. M. Allan. Science Fiction.
     "The room was exactly what you would expect if you told an unimaginative set designer to produce a professor’s study. Bookcases covered two of the walls. The third had a fireplace with a portrait of Rupert Johnstone-Jenkins in full academic regalia gazing into the middle distance hanging over it. In front of the window there was a big desk with a swivel chair upholstered in green leather and there were two matching upright chairs facing it."

• At Mad scientist Journal: "The Trash Construct" by Juan Angel. Science Fiction.
     "It smelled like wet cardboard the day Mr. Lorenzo took up in flight. The pitter-patter of rain on the aluminum roofs had ceased and, in its place, steam rose from the muddy slopes, the smear of smog vanishing from the sky as the wisps of heat rose towards it. Old Man Lorenzo swooped between our kites, his guttural laugh resonating out over the gleaming roofs and dirt paths below."

• At Phantasmacore: "Letters from Utopia" by RJ Astruc and Andy Astruc. Science Fiction.
     "Greetings humanoid William, this is a communication from humanoid Dale Sandgood. He wishes to express his positive emotions towards his current situation. Dale is comfortable and has appropriate rations. He has no desire to leave the collective."

• At Tor.com: "All the Snake Handlers I Know Are Dead" by Dennis Danvers. Dark, Magical Realism.
      "What did I expect him to say? I had a snake problem. He was Jerry the local extension agent. “Are they endangered?” I asked, referring to the dozens of timber rattlers who lolled about my construction site."

Flash Fiction
E-Books
• At Amazon: Dark Wings (Never Dark Book 1) by Skyla Madi. Paranormal [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Amazon: Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction. [Via Freebook Sifter]
At Barnes and Noble [Nook]
At Free eBooks Daily:

Comics
Audio Fiction
• At Author's Site: "The Shambling Guide to New York City – Chapter 13" by Mur Lafferty.
     "A travel writer takes a job with a shady publishing company in New York, only to find that she must write a guide to the city - for the undead!"

• At DrabbleCast: "The Screaming Door" by Hampus Flink. Strange.
     "It has been two hundred days since the door to my study began screaming. I was nodding over a volume of Edwin Corang’s collected prose when I first felt it; a curious ripple that moved through the room, standing my hair on edge, followed by the sensation of coffee spilling into my lap as the screaming began."

• At StarShipSofa: Episode #300 Harry Turtledove. Science Fiction.
"Lure"/  "Gladly Wolde He Learne" / "Clash of Arms" / "Not All Wolves"
"The Barbecue, The Movie, and Other Unfortunately Not So Relevant Material"
     "'Yes, thanks to my old man, I am Temujin Genghis Kahn,' Khan said, wishing for the nine millionth time that his father had dug ditches for a living instead of being a professor of Mongol history. It had made him the only first-grader at Oakdale ever to be called exclusively by his initials."
Other Genres
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "The Only Gifts We Give" by Ian Florida.
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