Showing posts with label e-books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label e-books. Show all posts

Thursday, March 21, 2013

E-Books and More

Some great freebies today! And for more freebies don't miss the "Free SF, Fantasy and Horror" listing at SF Signal.  Regan Wolfrom is finally back from being committed to an asylum his "family vacation."




[art from David Drake's Northwood Trilogy in the e-book section]








Fiction
• At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Armistice Day" by Marissa Lingen. Fantasy.
     "I came into this world fully grown, ready to use my fists and my knife and my magic, intended for nothing else. When the war was over, I was one of the lucky ones. I was left standing on the cold hillside, mud and blood up to my elbows and knees, tingling with the last of my battle spells, and I was led away with my cohort, those who survived."

• At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Blood Remembers" by Alec Austin. Fantasy. 
     "The wall at the edge of camp was waist-height and broken in several places where stones had been taken for other construction. As Tariq, Ksara, and I leaned on it and watched the sky turn orange, I could feel the tug of Downlander blood coming from its stones, offering me memories of an atrocity long past."

• At Nightmare Magazine: "Jetsam" by Livia Llewellyn. Horror.
      "I’m writing this down because I’m starting to forget. I may need to remember some day. The chemical air is already kissing my mind, biting my memory away. Something terrible happened at work today. Beyond imagining . . ."

• At Paizo: "Bastard, Sword -  Chapter Three: Rich Man's Crusade" by Tim Pratt. Fantasy.
    "Rodrick lifted the sword defensively. As he swung the blade, an arc of whiteness flew from its tip and struck the dwarf just below the knees. The miner's forward movement instantly halted, and he swayed like a young sapling, his boots and calves frozen to the tunnel floor—which didn't stop him from swinging his axe wildly, to the limit of his reach."

 Flash Fiction
E-Books
At Amazon:: "Soldier of the Brell" by David Scholes. Science Fiction.

At Free eBooks Daily:
At Smashwords:
Audio
• At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Boat in Shadows, Crossing" by Tori Truslow. Fantasy.
     "Just as we got set to cast off, I spied something in the water, and the boat sensed it too: flick of a palm-leaf tail. And we were off, so fast that the pots of tea leapt from the table and were on me like freezing rain and I was on the floor. The merchant yelled louder, shouting at me to stop it, but what could I do?"

• At Drabblecast: "Hullabaloo" by Diane Turnshek. Science Fiction.
     "The Town Council meeting was split down the middle — Hullabaloo colonists on the one side and Fenella Elane Tyne on the other. Jerram stood in the back and admired the way Fenella strove to convince the tired farmers."

• At Escape Pod: "Trixie and the Pandas of Dread" by Eugie Foster. Science Fiction.
     "Drifting a hairsbreadth above the pavement, Trixie pulled out her holy tablet and launched the Karmic Retribution app. The first thumbnail belonged to a Mr. Tom Ehler, the owner of the walkway and the two-story colonial house it led to. She unpinched two fingers across the screen to zoom up Mr. Ehler’s details."

• At PodCastle: "The Colors of the World" by Paul Willems, translated by Edward Gauvin. Fantasy.
     "Many years ago there was a small fisherman’s house on the dunes of La Panne. Rik-the-Fisherman’s wife Marie sat at the window all day long, spinning thread as she watched the sea."

• At StarShipSofa:: "Jackie’s Boy Part 2" by Steven Popkes.
     No Description

Other Genres
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Ken Liu and Other Great Free Fiction

 Another great daily (erm almost daily) batch of free fiction from many great sites. Today's listing includes online fiction, flash fiction, audio fiction, e-books, and comics.



[Art from Prince of Bryanae linked below in e-books]








Fiction
• At The Colored Lens: "Eight of Swords – Part 2 Feeding the Dragon" by Timothy Mudie. Speculative Fiction.
     " I have to say, it was easier than I expected to exhume Keith. We were able to drive my parents’ station wagon right into the cemetery, parking just a few feet from the grave. The soil was still loose and we managed to frantically shovel our way through the six feet to the coffin in under an hour. I had insisted on both Eric and I wearing all black, including ski masks over our faces, but no one came by."

• At Cosmos: "Henry Fairfield" by Barton Paul Levenson. Science Fiction.
     "Bradley turned around again and smiled. 'Would you think I was around the bend if I told you I was looking for a way to travel in time?'"

• At Lightspeed: "Let’s Take This Viral" by Rich Larson. Science Fiction.
      "Default hadn’t been down in the nocturns for some time, probably half an orbit, but he had just dissolved the geneshare contract with his now-ex-lover and needed to get completely [. . .] perforated to take his mind off things. His lift was full of revelers all laughing and widecasting the same synthesized whalesong from Old Old Earth."

• At Lightspeed: "Ash Minette" by Felicity Savage. Fantasy.
      "The candlelight in our attic erased the imperfections from Libby’s round, heavy features: She seemed time-smoothened, a madonna of golden stone. But when she posed for me in the dress, her over-ripeness—the way she thrust out her chest, the coy glances—spoilt the illusion, corrupted it with indecent knowledge."

• At World SF Blog: "Case Notes of a Witchdoctor" by Nick Wood.
     "He’d reached the age where he’d seen it all—liars, psychopaths, the neurotic… and the completely insane. Psychosis it was, though, that still just about held his interest."

Flash Fiction
  • At Daily Science Fiction: "Linger" by Ken Liu. 
  • At 365 Tomorrows: "Forgiveness Day" by Clint Wilson. Science Fiction.

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Smashwords:

Audio Fiction
• At Lightspeed: "Let’s Take This Viral" by Rich Larson. Science Fiction.
     Described above

• At Protecting Project Pulp: “The Crawling Creature” by Donald Bayne Hobart.
    "Every step meant danger in the trail of Dan Buckly’s mysterious, sinister killer!" - first published in Thrilling Adventures, July 1932.

• At Pseudopod: "Forgiveness Day" by Clint Wilson. Horror.
     "“It is very seldom that one encounters what would appear to be sheer unadulterated evil in a human face; an evil, I mean, active, deliberate, deadly, dangerous. Folly, heedlessness, vanity, pride, craft, meanness, stupidity - yes. But even Iagos in this world are few, and devilry is as rare as witchcraft."

Comics
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Better Late Than Never

More great freebies- enjoy the weekend! May or may not post tomorrow.






Fiction
• At Baen: "To Spec" by Charles E. Gannon. Science Fiction.
       "Mendez, the newest guy in the squad, had been jumpy ever since the worsening solar weather updates started coming in. The most recent message—that Priestley’s replacement wouldn’t show up for at least another three hours—just made him more anxious. As Eureka command post signed off, Grim saw Mendez hold his new rifle—a flimsy piece of experimental junk called the Cochrane XM 1—a bit too tightly."

• At Buzzy Mag: "The Clean War" by Shelly Li and Ken Liu.
     "I’m not a soldier. I’m just a woman who programs computers. I don’t know what I’m doing. This was a mistake!"

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Spirit Gum" by Mike Resnick & Jordan Ellinger. 
      "Before he was The Great Bellini he was just plain old Malcolm Bell. He had a knack for magic tricks--illusions, he called them--and what had been a hobby became a profession."

• At Silver Blade: "The Guild of Swordsmen: Part 8" by Kristin Janz. Fantasy.
     "Lida suspected that her fourth match was not going to be won as easily as her first three.  She had the bad luck to have been paired against the big man she had hidden behind out on the plaza, the tallest and heaviest swordsman in the entire competition."

Flash Fiction
E-Books
At Amazon: Essential Reading in Science Fiction by  David Scholes.

At Free eBooks Daily.
At Smashwords:
Audio Fiction
• At Beware the Hairy Mango:  "The Piñata Club" by Matthew Sanborn Smith. Weird.
     No Description

• At Desert Gems Audio: "Porter of Baghdad Part I" from Sir Richard Burton's 1001 Arabian Nights.Adventure. Fantasy.
     "a handsome young  porter who is accosted by a beautiful young lady who needs his services at the market while shopping. As he is invited into her home, he haplessly stumbles into an drunken bacchanal at the house of her two sisters, on the condition he asks no questions of any goings on in the house."

• At Clarkesworld: "The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution" by A.C. Wise.
     "She’s not what you expected, Alma May Anderson, the last survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution. For one thing, her eyes are bluer. She must be a hundred if she’s a day, but her eyes are the blue of puddle-broken neon, and a postcard ocean, and the sky at noon."

• At Journey Into: "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis. Science Fiction. 
     "Young Bartholomew is a graduate student in history from a future Oxford who is assigned to travel back in time to join and study the famous Fire Watch Brigade-the volunteer corps whose brave members kept St. Paulâs Cathedral from being burned to the ground by Nazi incendiaries."

• At LibriVox: The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany. Science Fiction.
      " Set several centuries after the Great Fire -- a nuclear holocaust -- a young woman seeks her destiny with the help of a four-armed youth."

• At PodCastle: "Throwing Stones" by Mishell Baker. Fantasy.
     "In the city of Jiun-Shi the third shift was known as the goblin watch, but some of us were not very watchful. I, for one, was so absorbed in the daily details of living a lie that it took me three months to learn that one of the regulars at the Silver Fish Teahouse was a goblin. By the time our paths collided three years later, I had been promoted to third-shift manager, and my lie had been promoted to widely established fact."

• At Pseudopod: "Entrance And Exit / The Terror Of The Twins" by Algernon Blackwood. Horror.
      "“Entrance And Exit” was originally published February 13, 1909 in The Westminster Gazette and republished in TEN MINUTE STORIES in 1914. “The Terror Of The Twins” was originally published November 6, 1909 in the same newspaper and republished in 1910 in THE LOST VALLEY AND OTHER STORIES."

• At Tales to Terrify: "Episode #62" Horror.
     “Cemetery Water” by Frances Snowder and “Ghost in the Graveyard” by Tim Waggoner.

Other Genres

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Wednesday Freebies

A little bit of everything today!






Fiction
• At Nightmare Magazine: "The Sign in the Moonlight" by David Tallerman. Horror.
     "You will have heard, no doubt, of the Bergenssen expedition—if only from the manner of its loss. For a short while, that tragedy was deemed significant and remarkable enough to adorn the covers of every major newspaper in the civilized world."

• At Tor.com: "The Hanging Game" by Helen Marshall. 
     "Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Skye learns just how far she is willing to go to play the game properly in order carry on the traditions that came before her and will most likely continue long after she is gone."

Flash Fiction
E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Smashwords
Audio Fiction
• At LibriVox: "Jetta of the Lowlands" by Ray Cummings. Science Fiction.
     "And the depths between? Unreal landscape! Mysterious realm which now we call the bottom of the sea! Worn and rounded crags; bloated mud-plains; noisome reaches of ooze which once were the cold and dark and silent ocean floor, caked and drying in the sun. And off to the south the little fairy mountain tops of the West Indies rearing their verdured crowns aloft."

• At The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: "All That Glitters" by Dan Rabarts. Steampunk.
       "Agents Lachlan King and Barry Ferguson are called to an isolated mining town to investigate the disappearance of a young Chinese girl. They found the town all but abandoned, and as they descend into the realm of Ruaumoko, the Maori god of earthquakes they find an explosive situation that will test both agents and their equipment sorely."

• At Nightmare Magazine: "The Sign in the Moonlight" by David Tallerman. Horror.
     Described Above

• At StarShipSofa: "Jackie’s Boy" Part 1 by Steven Popkes. Science Fiction.
      "Michael fell in love with her the moment he saw her.The Long Bottom Boys had taken over the gate of the Saint Louis Zoo from Nature Phil’s gang. London Bob had killed in single combat, and eaten, Nature Phil. That, pretty much, constituted possession. The Keepers didn’t mind as long as it stayed off the grounds. So the Boys waited outside to harvest anyone who came out or went in."

Comics
Gaming
• At Dragonsfoot: "F3: Adventure in Skull Pass"
     "While trading had been robust, the caravans have recently come under attack in Skull Pass by humanoids and their ogre leader Roark. The word has been put out for adventurers and for a bounty on the humanoids! This adventure is suitable for a party of 2-4 level adventurers and is a continuation of the Filbar series."

• At DriveThruRPG: Pathways #24.
      "a FREE collection of Pathfinder templates, encounters, variant monster rules, alternative racial traits, and favored class bonuses? If you say no designer Steven D. Russell and artist Ian Greenlee will send a Lustful Rakshasa after you (though you might like that)!Rite Publishing brings you Pathways, a free 'zine packed with plenty of Open Game Content for you to take to the table."
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Great Free Genre Fiction

More great freebies including, Comics, Audio Fiction and good old-fashioned text fiction.  And in case you missed it, be sure to check out yesterday's Wizard of Id for a droll pop culture fantasy reference.




[Art for "The Crystal Ray" by Raymond Gallum in audio fiction below]




Fiction
• At Author's Site: "Sing" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Science Fiction. 1987.
     "Well, I’d never heard the word 'sing' before and I told him so. He kinda frowned and said it was the only word he couldn’t find a translation for. That word and a couple others he called 'related,' as if words could share blood like people do."

• At The Black Gate "The Sealord’s Successor” Part I and Part II by Aaron Bradford Starr. Fantasy.
     "This minor discomfort (which grew steadily less minor as the journey continued) served admirably to distract me from the terrifying drops and bottomless chasms to which we traveled so close. A single slip by one of our runners could send us plummeting, but Gloren and Yr Neh seemed quite unconcerned. How brave they were! But perhaps they knew what to expect of the Otrock Line."

• At The Colored Lens: "Eight of Swords – Part 2" by Darja Malcolm-Clarke. Speculative Fiction.
     "After class, she gave Chris an excuse about studying for the next day’s chemistry test so she wouldn’t meet him in town. He peered at her as if trying to detect animosity in her. But she had sealed herself off from him, as she always did when they got this way; she wouldn’t let him know anything, despite his claim that he was able to read her."

• At Cosmos: "Soul Song" by Frankie Seymour. Science Fiction.
     "Antarctica itself is still pretty spectacular, even with so much of the snow and permafrost gone. Valleys and vast plains of newly seeded green – not planted by humans; nature has done it all by herself."

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Gullible Georgina Agravaine" by Michael J Greenhut.
     "The sheriff asked me to believe that a telephone call turned Georgina Agravaine into a werewolf. Evidently, the caller suggested that she might be one, and that's when the trouble started."

• At Lightspeed: "Three Days of Rain" by Holly Phillips.Science Fiction.
     "They came down out of the buildings’ shade into the glare of the lakeside afternoon. Seen through the sting of sun-tears, the bridge between Asuada and Maldino Islands wavered in the heat, white cement floating over white dust, its shadow a black sword-cut against the ground."

• At Lightspeed: "The Bolt Tightener" by Sarena Ulibarri. Fantasy.
    “There are one thousand eight hundred bolts total,” the old man said. “You’ll work every night until sunrise. Always go in order. Never skip a bolt.”

• At Strange Horizons: "Town's End" by Yukimi Ogawa. Speculative Fiction.
       "For five years in the city I worked as a receptionist at an English language school, where I had to deal with countless, groundless complaints and had developed a Noh-mask on my face devoid of any real expression. But even that was nothing to fight against this."

E-Book Shorts
At Smashwords:
Flash Fiction
  • At Quantum Muse: "Ambition" by Harris Tobias.
  • At Strange Horizons: "Bang" by Stefon Mears. Speculative Poem.
  • At 365 Tomorrows: "Almost Human" by George R. Shirer. Science Fiction.
Audio Fiction
• At Lightspeed: "The Bolt Tightener" by Sarena Ulibarri. Fantasy.
     Described Above.

• At Protecting Project Pulp: "The Crystal Ray" by Raymond Gallum. Science Fiction.
      "From the bow of one of America’s ships a beam of bluish light stabbed out and struck an enemy craft. It passed thru the vessel as tho it had been made of glass instead of thousands of tons of steel." - first published in Air Wonder Stories, November, 1929.

• At Strange Horizons: "Town's End" by Yukimi Ogawa. Speculative Fiction.
     Described Above.

Comics
Other Genres
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Rambo, Sigler, and other Great Free Fiction

An especially good, varied collection of freebies this time! More tomorrow. 

[Art from “Waking the Taniwha” linked in fiction and audio fiction below]




Fiction
• At Cast of Wonders: "A Song for the Season" by Eliza Hirsch. YA.
      "The sun came out today, and for the first time in five months our song returned. It changes once every three years. This time, the melody sounds slower, a little bit sad. Long, low notes shake my chest when I stand too close to the forest's edge."

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Fidelity" by Ben Heldt.
     "The flickering light of the television cast Henry's shadow across the darkened room, and across me. Through the speakers a steady voice called time to t minus zero. The rockets fired. Henry gasped, though he didn't move."

• At L5R: "Collaborations" by Shawn Carman. Fantasy.
      "Under different circumstances, the Scorpion warrior mused, the location might be quite beautiful. He could easily imagine spending an afternoon meditating by the quietly babbling waters of the nearby stream. But of course he could never trust the place, despite its innocuous appearance."

• At Weird Fiction Review: "The Black Pool" by Frederick Stuart Greene.
      "But it is not the dead trees, towering bark-stripped and bleached, that halt the trespasser; in the glen to the right, hidden from the road, lies the dread spot of the neighbourhood. Here, shut in by crowded locust trees, their scraggy tops thrust high above a thicket of underbrush and cat-briar, gleams the somber surface of the Black Pool."

• At Wily Writers:“Waking the Taniwha” by Dan Rabarts.
     "When the search for a missing ship becomes a desperate race with an unknown creature across New Zealand’s untamed wilderness, how far will one man go to rein in both the monsters roaming the wild, and those lurking within himself?"

Flash Fiction
E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Smashwords:
Audio Fiction
• At Author's Site: "The MVP Episode #22" by Scott Sigler. Science Fiction. Football.
     "The Krakens squre off against arch-rivals the OS1 Orbiting Death. A loss here, and the season is all but over. John Tweedy tries to bridge the inter-species cultural barrier by giving the Prawatt with a rousing halftime speech."

• At Beam Me Up: "Know How Can Do pt2" by Michael Blumlein and "In Plain Sight #18" by Jason Kahn.

• At Cast of Wonders:"A Song for the Season" by Eliza Hirsch. YA.
     Described Above.

• At Drabblecast: "Amid the Words of War" by  Cat Rambo.
     "Every few day-cycles, it receives hate-scented lace in anonymous packages. It opens the bland plastic envelope to pull one out, holding the delicate fragment between two forelimbs. Contemplating it before folding it again to put away in a drawer. Four drawers filled so far; the fifth is halfway there." 

• At Dunesteef: "Linger" by Sam Schreiber. Fantasy. Horror.
     "The phone rings in the middle of the night . . . and it’s time for Levi Keller to do his work once again. You see, sometimes he has to visit with someone after an “accident,” and let them know where they stand."

• At Journey Into: "The Age-Old Question" by Christopher Munroe.
      "Never ask a woman her age, yet a young husband feels compelled to do just that."

• At Toasted Cake: "The Cold Beyond the Pools" by Steven R. Stewart.
      "The shining ones came and took us from the boiling acid pools."

• At Wily Writers:“Waking the Taniwha” by Dan Rabarts.
      Described Above

Other Genres:
  • Audio at CraftLit: Jane Eyre - Chapter 24 by Charlotte Brontë.
  • Audio at Crime City Central: "Death Mouth" by Amy Sayre-Roberts.
  • Fiction at Online Pulps: "Write This Way for Murder!" by Joe Archibald (1948) and "Fate Fires No Blanks" by George Bruce Marquis. 1948.
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Sunday Night

Some of the great the great freebies from this weekend. The rest and more Monday night.




[Art from Test of a Prince, linked in e-books below]






Fiction
• At The WiFiles: "Planet 239" by Jeremiah Sater.
     "Planet 239, in Sector 12, was the target of a unique comet. It traveled faster than any other object that had been studied by the National Galaxy Alert Program or NGAP. The NGAP, though identified as the alert program, specialized in defensive measures also. Each sector held a minimum of one defensive space station in each of the 140 galaxy sectors, within the Galactic Counsel’s planetary systems."

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
Flash Fiction
  • At 365 Tomorrows: "Steampunk" by David Stevenson. Science Fiction.
  • At 365 Tomorrows:"Flip Man" by James Zahardis.

Audio Fiction
• At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 04 - The Beasts of Tarzan"
     "John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, has reverted entirely to his Tarzan of the Apes persona in his new jungle surroundings.  He has encountered a tribe of apes and killed their king.  Not wishing to take up the burden of kingship, he relinquishes the position to Akut, who challenges Tarzan unsuccessfully."

Other Genres
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Friday, January 4, 2013

More Good Online Freebies

Another batch of free fiction as we brave the distant, uncharted waters of the internet to bring you the best free, legal fiction that can be found.




[art from "Food for Greece" in comics below]




Fiction
• At Buzzy Mag: "Corentin the Divine" by Eric M. Bosarge.
      "Q: So, how did you first discover magic?
A: That’s an interesting way to put it. I suppose the first time was on television, one of Criss Angel’s made-for-television extravaganzas with fireworks and beautiful women."

Magazine Collections
     These are scans of the entire issue of these classic pulps, but are very low resolution and are therefore somewhat difficult to read. [The text versions have too many errors to be of any use] Still they are of some interest to SF history fans.
• At The Internet Archive: Astounding Stories - 1930
• At The Internet Archive: Astounding Stories - 1931

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Smashwords:
Comics
Other Genres
  • E-Book Free eBooks Daily: Nemesis by L.J. Martin. Western
  • Fiction at Ploughshares: "The Culling" by Jasmine Sawers. Literary.
  • Fiction at Ploughshares: "Come the Revolution" by Emma Torzs. Literary.
  • Fiction at Ploughshares: "Grace" a story by Joshua Howes. Literary.
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Sunday, December 30, 2012

E-Books and More

Another day of braving the internet to find great, free genre fiction for you.  Today there are many e-books, as well as some good fiction and audio fiction.

Today's QD Radio is "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe adapted on The Hall of Fantasy (1953).

[art from The Seed of Life at Smahwords, linked blow]

More tonight or tomorrow at latest.
Your Host,
Dave T.




Fiction
• At L5R: "Small Choices" by Yoon Ha Lee. Fantasy.
     "Today the matter wasn’t supernatural. Kanako, a geisha who sometimes stopped by to gossip about Scorpion musicians (fashionable, apparently) and sandalwood fans (less so), was here to see her."

Flash Fiction
  • At Beware the Hairy Mango: "Barstool Softener"  by Matthew Sanborn Smith. Audio. Weird.
  • At Enchanted Conversations: "Bratty Tessa" by Candace L. Barr. Fantasy. Holiday.
  • At 365 Tomorrows: "Red Jizo" by James McGrath. Science Fiction.
E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Smashwords:
Audio Fiction • At Every Story Tells: "The Gauntlet" by Hugh J O’Donnell. Fantasy.
     "Magician or thief? Glory faces ‘The Gauntlet’ – a test of her magical abilities against the wiles of a disgruntled thief."

• At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 14 - The Return of Tarzan" Adventure.
      "Tarzan, traveling as an official of the French War office, has run afoul of Nicholas Rokoff and Paulvich. At night on a deserted steamer deck at sea, the two villains creep up on Tarzan and throw him overboard into the Atlantic!"

Other Genres
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Saturday

.A free goodies for you today.  Today's QD Radio is The Avenger - " Death Meets the Ghost" (1945.11.02). A clone of the better known character, The Shadow.


[art from "Titans of Camp Four" linked below]





Fiction
• At Author's Site: Thieves' Honor, ep 22: "The Rescuers, part 3" by Keanan Brand.
     "Finney refused the pain shot, but let the medic change the dressing. Sitting up, a couple of thin pillows between her back and the wall, she stretched out the injured leg. 'What's your name again?'"

• At Cosmos: "Titans Of Camp Four" by Brian Trent. Science Fiction.
      "Randall remembered the secret images he had seen of Moon-buggy routes. Lunar dust left tracks, though someone up here was trying very hard to conceal them."

Flash Fiction:
  • At Enchanted Conversations: "Song of Krampus" by Jennifer A. McGowan.  Fantasy. Poem.
  • At 365 Tomorrows: "Broken Things" by Adrian Berg. Science Fiction.
E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
Old Time Radio
Other Genres
  • Audio at Radio Drama Revival: "The Mumbai Chuzzlewits" part 1 of 3.
  • Fiction at Online Pulps: "Till Death Do Us Part" by Robert Sidney Bowen. Noir.  [1946]  "High-Voltage Homicide" by Frankie Lewis Noir. [1937] and "Strays" by Hapsburg Liebe. Western.  [1943]
  • Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "My Moth" by Charlie Britten
  • Non-Fiction at Project Gutenberg: Danes, Saxons and Normans by John G. Edgar. 1884. Medieval History.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

More Freebies - Life Is Good

 A few goodies for you this morning.  There's free fiction (text and/or audio) by notable authors Ramsey Campbell and Paul Di Filippo. There's flash fiction (including a reading of a Lovecraft poem), e-books, and comics.

 And be sure to check out SF Signal and  Free SF Reader for more free fiction links and Best Science Fiction Stories and Variety SF for free fiction reviews with links.

  [Art from "Men and Fire" in Comics below]

Fiction
At Nightmare Magazine: "At Lorn Hall" by Ramsey Campbell. Horror.
       "Randolph hadn’t expected the map to misrepresent the route to the motorway quite so much. The roads were considerably straighter on the page. The high beams roused swarms of shadows in the hedges and glinted on elongated warnings of bends ahead, and then the light found a signpost. It pointed down a lane to somewhere called Lorn Hall."

At Yesteryear Fiction: "A Tale of Bugs" by Joel Zartman. Fantasy.
     "After he left, Christine cut a piece from the plant and put it on the desk. She had noticed several black spots on it and when she put the plant on the desk, the spots began to scurry away."

Flash Fiction
  • At Daily Science Fiction: "The Safe Road" by Caroline M. Yoachim. 
  • At Every Day Fiction: "The Dream Depot" by by Erin Cole. Science Fiction.
  • At SFFAudio: "The City" by H.P. Lovecraft. Horror. Audio. Poem.
  • At 365 Tomorrows: "Ground Up" by Steve Smith. Science Fiction.
E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily.
At Smashwords:
 Audio Fiction
At Nightmare Magazine: "At Lorn Hall" by Ramsey Campbell. Horror.
       Described above.

At StarShipSofa: "Shadowboxer" by Paul Di Filippo. Speculative Fiction.
      "It's a political story about an assassin who can kill by looking at someone, who is kidnapped by the US and pressed into service as part of the War on Terror." -BoingBoing

Comics
At Atomic Kommie Comics:  Lost Worlds "Men and Fire" Sci-fi. 1953.
At Digital Comics Museum: This Magazine Is Haunted 013 (diff ver) Horror. 1953.


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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Comics, E-Books, and Audio Fiction

A few more cool freebies to end the weekend. Good Stuff!



 [Art from The Jack Frost Challenge in E-Books below]







Audio Fiction
At Author's Site: "The MVP Episode #6" by Scott Sigler.  Science Fiction. Football.
      "The Krakens again face the unknown: what new threat is going to come through the landing bay doors? Virak the Mean puts his military experience to work as Quentin and his teammates prepare to fight for their lives."

At Cthulhu: "The House on the Borderland, part 7" by William Hope Hodgson. Horror.

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Smashwords:
Comics
Other Genres
Audio at PRI: Selected Shorts - "Paris Lives" including Hemingway's “Hunger Was Good Discipline” and  “The Messy Joy of the Final Throes of the Dinner Party” by Helen Phillips.

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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Drabblecast, Buzzy Mag, and More

Some good freebies to start the weekend.  There are new items from Drabblecast and Buzzy Mag (Both sites highly recommended). There's a new issue of the long-running Aphelion posted and tons of e-books. There's also some good items in the "Other Genres" category that are worthy of attention. 








Fiction
At Buzzy Mag: "The Fair Beneath The Ice" by A. P. Maynar. 
     "When he called her name, the rocky slope and the pine-scented trees distorted the sound of his voice, scattering it into a thousand shards, so it sounded like it came from everywhere at once."

Now Posted Aphelion #168. Science Fiction.
Flash Fiction at 365 Tomorrows: "Security" by Christina Richard.

Audio Fiction
At Drabblecast: "Betty Flesh and the Meat Man" by Damon Shaw. Fantasy. Romance. Strange.
      “Your suitor’s here!” Ma Flesh hurried into the back room of the butcher’s shop. “Are you presentable?”

E-Books
Via Pixel of Ink: 
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Smashwords: 
Other Genres
  • Audio at The Classic Tales Podcast: "Head and Shoulders" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • Audio at Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast: "Strawberries" by J. Robert Lennon.
  • Audio at SFFAudio: "Duel" by Richard Matheson.
  • E-Book at Free eBooks Daily: The Highlander by Zoe Saadia. Historical Fiction.  Aztec.
  • E-Book at Free eBooks Daily: There is No Otherwise by Ardin Lalui. Western.
  • Fiction at Online Pulps Site: "Mystery of the Mexicali Murders" by J. Lane Linklater. Noir 1941. And "Alibi-With Sound" by Robert Wallace. Noir 1948.
  • Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "The Picture Book" by Ev Bishop. Surreal.
  • Flash Fiction at Spinetingler: "Arranger" by Christopher E. Long. Crime.


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