Showing posts with label e-books. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

If Free Fiction be the Food of Love, Read On.

e-books, comic books, and a story too good to wait.  [Art from  "The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland — For a Little While" linked below]






Fiction
• At Tor.com: "The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland — For a Little While" by Catherynne M. Valente. Fantasy.   
     "In which a young girl named Mallow leaves the country for the city, meets a number of Winds, Cats, and handsome folk, sees something dreadful, and engages, much against her will, in Politicks of the most muddled kind."

Comics


E-Books
• At Amazon: Soldier Of The Brell by David Scholes. Science Fiction.
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]
At Free eBooks Daily:
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Monday, September 16, 2013

The E-Books are Coming. The E-Books are Coming.

And  now they're here. Some good e-books and classic OTR this time. [Art from "Tom Corbett - Adventure in Deep Space" linked below]










Old Time Radio
  • At Boxcars711:  Tom Corbett Space Cadet - "Danger In Deep Space." Part 1 of 2 and  Part 2 of 2.
  • At OTR Plot Spot!: "War Game" - Exploring Tomorrow. Science Fiction. 1958. "It Happened on Sunday" - The Hermit's Cave. Horror. 193x. and "Hunter's Moon" - Piccadilly Radio. Science Fiction.
  • At Relic Radio: "The Paxton’s House" Beyond Midnight. Horror. 1968.
E-Books
• At Amazon: Evolution (Evolution Series Book 1) by Kelly Carrero.YA Paranormal. [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]
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Sunday, September 8, 2013

E-Books and Escape

Another free fantasy story and several free e-books this time.  Among the e-books is Ephemera (art to the left), a short story collection by Paul S. Kemp, a Forgotten Realms and Star Wars novelist.











Fiction
• At Silver Blade: "Escape of the Fire Demon" by Mike Phillips. Fantasy.
     "Fire burned in stabs of light, quickly spreading over the wizard’s hands, growing in heat and radiance until he understood the demon had escaped. Capistron withdrew his mind from the enchantment, breaking the summoning spell he had placed on the fires of the blacksmith’s forge, severing all ties with the thing he sought to release."

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]
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Saturday, September 7, 2013

You Might Think I'm Crazy, to Bring Free Fiction to You.

Some more great free fiction in a variety of formats and more.  Fore more free fiction pointers check out
 [art from Sacred Knights in E-Books below]





Fiction
• At Author's Site: "What Fluffy Knew" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. YA Science Fiction.
     "Fluffy has the perfect life.  Her cat bed, her kibble, a human to wait on her.  Until they came."

• At Short-Story.me: "Consumed" by Laura Ellison. Fantasy.
     "She recited the words from the tome; an ancient, difficult language that provoked a response from the natural elements of the world. Her outstretched arms grew heavy with empowered blood. Her fingertips tingled. Then her palms grew hot." 

Flash Fiction
  • At SFFaudio: "The Canal" by H.P. Lovecraft. Poem. Audio.
  • At 365 Tomorrows: "Welcome Home" by Nils Holst. Science Fiction.
E-Books
At Amazon: [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Smashwords:
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]
Comics

Other Genres
  • Fiction at Short-Story.me: "Ebb Tide" by April Winters. Romance.
  • Fiction at Short-Story.me: "Super Soul Sister" by Tim Weldon. Crime.
  • Fiction at Short-Story.me: "Two Blanks" by George Sparling.
Other Weirdness


From the cover of Black Cat Mystic #58 (1956) it's the ghost of George R. R. Martin reading to a pair of children.  I can only imagine that it's the start of A Game of Thrones and the little boy is saying "Bran and Rob Stark are my favorite characters. I hope nothing bad happens to them"
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Saturday, August 31, 2013

I Think That I Shall Never See. A Poem as Lovely As An E-Book



A few E-books found for you this time, with more to come tomorrow or earlier.  Hope you all are having a great weekend.





E-Books
At Amazon [via Freebook Sifter]

At Smashwords:
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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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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Finally Here Free Fiction

What a day. The fiction just didn't want to come today. In order to get it we had to wrestle a troll, fly a broom, play chess, solve a logic puzzle, look into a dangerous mirror, and . . . or was that Harry Potter? I always forget whose life is whose.  But the fiction is here, finally!  [Art from The Ark Plallas in E-books]

 








Fiction
• At Project Gutenberg: The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood. 1922. Dark Fantasy.
       "Edward Fillery is the child of a brief but passionate liaison between an engineer and a strangely beautiful peasant girl. Blessed with special insight and with a 'primal quality' in his blood, Edward becomes a doctor, helping and healing those with distressing psychological illnesses. When he hears of an unusual case in Switzerland he is intrigued and moved. The young male patient, apparently born of a 'magical experiment', is a man of mystical tendencies, a worshipper of natural forces. And when he sees a portrait of the patient, there is a brief, indefinable spark of recognition.." -Amazon.

• At SciFi Ideas: "Second Victim" by Harry de Vries. Science Fiction. [via SF Signal]
     "Amelia sighed. The infernal rain drizzled on, and her breath flew from her mouth like smoke from the distant CentraCont Industry factories. Despite the late Mr. Debenhall, their industry powered on. A white-winged street skimmer dived over her head, the water falling from beneath it’s chromium chassis giving her in a redundant not to mention unwanted shower. Cursing under her breath, she turned at River street and powered on."

Flash Fiction
• At Daily Science Fiction: "Tomorrow Is Winter" by Callie Snow. Science Fiction.
• At Nature: "The Speed of Dark Energy" by Jeff Hecht. Science Fiction.
• At Omni Reboot : "Our Knuckles Drenched Dionysian" by Ken Baumann. Science Fiction. [via SF Signal]
• At 365 Tomorrows: "FilmScape" by Lindsey McLeod. Science Fiction.
At Silver Blade: Poems,

Updated
E-Books
At Amazon: [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]
At Smashwords:
Comics
Other Genres
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Cool Free Fiction on a Long Hot Day

And the big names keep coming. This morning it was Clive Barker and Ian Sales, now it's Cory Doctorow (in Fiction) and Piers Anthony (in E-books).  As always, there are some good sounding e-books and others that don't sound very good but sense taste is mostly subject, I won't say which is which.  And though you probably have them both bookmarked, I've linked to ten recent posts (each) at two great sites that review free (often) fiction and link to the story.  And never miss the free fiction links at SF Signal or I'll tell John and Regan on you (Please don't make the angry. You wouldn't like them when they're angry.)

[Art from "Lawful Interception"]



Fiction
At Tor.com: "Lawful Interception" by Cory Doctorow. Science Fiction.
     "An all-new tale of Marcus Yallow, the hero of the bestselling novels Little Brother and Homeland—as he deals with the aftermath of a devastating Oakland earthquake, with the help of friends, hacker allies, and some very clever crowdsourced drones."

Reviewed Free Fiction
At BestScienceFictionStories:

At Variety SF:

E-Books
At Amazon: [Via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Amazon: [Via Freebook Sifter]
At Smashwords:
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

E-books and More Free Fiction

The second wave of free fiction arrives with numerous free e-books, a story at Mad Scientist Journal, and audio fiction from Every Photo Tells.  I rarely say much about e-books, but 9 Tales of Henghis Hapthorn by Matthew Hughes [illustrated to the left] contains six stories that were published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction so obviously the book is very good.  Also be sure to check out Regan Wolfrom' roundups at SF Signal.  Two people doing this makes it easier on both and means more good fiction is promoted.






Fiction
• At Mad Scientist Journal: “Effects of Subcranial Electrode Implantation on Neurological Function: Insights from a Case Study” by Carl Grafe. Science Fiction. [via SF Signal]
     "After struggling for several months to find another position commensurate with my superior ability, my house foreclosed and I moved into my mother’s basement, where I now reside. Dark were the months that followed, filled with daytime television and frozen pizzas."

Audio Fiction
• At Every Photo Tells: "Gayle’s Gift" by Richard D. Asplund Jr.  Science Fiction. 
       "Renard tries everything to bring back the love of his life."

E-Books
At Amazon: [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]
At Smashwords:
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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Saturday Free Fiction - From the Moon to Mars

There's a slew of good e-books today, many via the excellent Freebook Sifter, be sure to check them out. There are also a few other gems, including an unusually early trip to the Moon story, there's a LibriVox reading of Thuvia, Maid of Mars, and more.









Fiction
• At Project Gutenberg: Adventures in the Moon, and Other Worlds by John Russell Russell. 1836. Proto-Science fiction.
         "I had often wished that we could procure admission into the moon, in order to regain what had once belonged to us, and had amused myself with imagining the eager search that would take place; but without having the least suspicion that this could ever be really effected, since the want of air, and other conveniences, is sufficient to discourage most travelers; besides which, the having no ground to tread upon must increase the difficulty of the journey. It cannot, therefore, be wondered, that in former times only one journey to the moon was known to have been accomplished, which is that related by Ariosto. But nothing seems too difficult for modern science; and it is well known that, by a most ingenious invention, we have lately been enabled to walk up into our satellite with safety. As I, amongst others, have accomplished this journey, I shall give a short narrative of my adventures, for the amusement of those who have been deterred by the distance from traveling in person."

Flash Fiction

E-Books
At Amazon: [Via Freebook Sifter]
• At Smashwords: "Mikanical - New Age Man" by Mikey Robert Simpson. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Internet Archive [LibriVox]: Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Science Fiction.
     "John Carter's son, Carthoris, falls in love with his father's true friend, Thuvia of Ptarth, but she has been promised to another and is kidnapped by a third! Carthoris, suspected of the crime, spends the entire novel in efforts to rescue her and restore her to her fiancé. The adventures introduce to us a philosophical system or fringe science that challenges our conception of the nature of reality itself."

• At Radio Drama Revival: "Episode #345" Science Fiction.
     "two episodes from the 2008 serial 'The Moon Wraith', as well as an episode of the more recent (futuristic, you might say!) 'Frank Gadsen, Personal Injury Lawyer of the Future.'"

Other Genres
• Fiction at Online Pulps! "Bad Medicine" by Russell Hays. 1935. "Murder on Wheels" by Leo Hoban. 1941. "Sleuth of the Air Waves" by Emile C. Tepperman. Pulp Fiction. Noir.
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Go On Take The E-books and Run

And the good day for free fiction continues with another huge haul of free e-books, a continuing serial,  a science fiction story at Tor.com and more. And of course be sure to visit Regan Wolfrom and John DeNardo at SF Signal for more free fiction pointers [tell them Boris sent you  - Then you can mash].











Fiction
• At HiLobrow: "Herland - Part 6" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Science Fiction. 1915.
      "But just as a clear-eyed, intelligent, perfectly honest, and well-meaning child will frequently jar one’s self-esteem by innocent questions, so did these women, without the slightest appearance of malice or satire, continually bring up points of discussion which we spent our best efforts in evading."

• At Tor.com: "Warm Up" by V.E. Schwab. Science Fiction.
     "It’s been 297 days since David died—and came back. He may have survived the avalanche, but the aftermath has been far worse. His wife moved out, taking his son with her, and a devastated David hasn’t left his house since, terrified of the mysterious new power that followed him home from the ill-fated expedition. After months in seclusion, David’s ready for a fresh start, and ventures out, determined to keep his power in check. But David’s power isn’t the one he needs to worry about."

• Flash Fiction at Mad Scientist Journal: "A Bright Future" by Jamie Lackey. Science Fiction.

E-Books
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]

At Free eBooks Daily:
Audio Fiction
• At Internet Archive [LibriVox]: Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 3) by Hugh Lofting. Children's Fantasy.
     "After his parrot Polynesia teaches him to speak animal languages, Doctor Dolittle decides to abando his human practice, and become an animal doctor."
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Sunday Morning, Praise the Dawning / It's Just Free Fiction By My Side

There's some good free fiction this morning and several good free e-books.  There are also a few good old time radio episodes (fantastic for long drives).  More posts to come today.













Fiction
• At Cast of Wonders: "Open 28 Hours" by Darin Ramsey. YA Science Fiction.
     "The seven-pointed star was pink and gold, and hung in the night over the dome like it heralded more than just a refueling stop and convenience store. The dome sat alone on a rocky, airless orb at the outer reaches of the system, so small and distant it didn’t have a name. From a ship on approach, the dome resembled a fallen globe on a tripod, with the three docking rings at the end of the airlock."

• At The WiFiles: "Low Tide on the Bryn" By Craig Kyzar.
     "She awoke with reluctance to the cruel charade of another day. In the fleeting moment before complete consciousness, she lay with her eyes closed as her body processed the surroundings and suppressed the screaming of her dreams. The room was chilled, as always, and the tickle of salt air on her nose confirmed her usual position facing a slightly cracked window"

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]
Audio Fiction
• At The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs:  "Episode 3 - Out Of Time's Abyss"
      "Bradley’s expedition has suffered casualties. Both Tippet and James have succumbed to the dangers of Caspak. Relentlessly, the weird flying creatures have dogged their campsites. Now, one day’s march from Fort Dinosaur, Bradley is on guard duty during the night. His relief, Brady awakens the following morning to discover that Bradley has disappeared – leaving only his hat as a trace that he had been"

• At Cast of Wonders: "Open 28 Hours" by Darin Ramsey. YA Science Fiction.
     "The seven-pointed star was pink and gold, and hung in the night over the dome like it heralded more than just a refueling stop and convenience store. The dome sat alone on a rocky, airless orb at the outer reaches of the system, so small and distant it didn’t have a name. From a ship on approach, the dome resembled a fallen globe on a tripod, with the three docking rings at the end of the airlock."

Old Time Radio
• At Boxcars711: Tom Corbett Space Cadet - "Space Station Of Danger" (1952) Pt. 2 of 2. Sci-fi.
• At OTR Plotspot:
  • "The Great Plague" - The Weird Circle (1943) Horror,
  • "The Beast Must Die" - Suspense (1944)
  • "Hunter's Moon" - Part 03 of 08. Science Fiction.
At Relic Radio:
Other Genres
  • Fiction at Online Pulps!: "Red Over Yellow" by William L. Rohde. "Murder Magic" by Robert Wallace. "The Crimson Clue" by Fred Walsh. Pulp. Noir. Western. 1949. 1944. 1941.
  • Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Sunday Drive" by Dennis Milam Bensie.
  • OTR at Boxcars711:  "You Are There: The Battle of Hastings". Medieval History.
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

The Free Fiction Days of August

A ton of free e-books and a couple of very good audio stories round out today's free fiction.  And I'll be back long before you can read all these.













Audio Fiction
• At PodCastle: "Excision" by Scott H. Andrews. Fantasy.
     "We started immediately.  Scolast Giazla had a series of rabbits she’d infected by treating their grafts with offal.  I selected the most advanced sample, a brown spotted one with a cat’s striped forepaw, to perform the control."

• At SFFaudio: "The Dreams In The Witch House" by H. P. Lovecraft. Horror.
      "Whether the dreams brought on the fever or the fever brought on the dreams Walter Gilman did not know. Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the mouldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with figures and formulae when he was not tossing on the meagre iron bed."

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:

At [via Freebook Sifter]
At Amazon Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn. Telepathy. [via Pixel-of-Ink]
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