Showing posts with label Cory Doctorow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cory Doctorow. Show all posts

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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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Celebrating the Birth ... Cory Doctorow and J. Michael Straczynski

Today marks the birth of two writers who have relatively recently made significant contributions to the speculative fiction field.

Cory Efram Doctorow (born July 17, 1971)
A critically acclaimed science fiction author and copyright reform advocate, Doctorow's works are freely available in many places. Some of his freely available works are linked below. (PS - read "Craphound," it's good)









Fiction
E-books at Project Gutenberg:
Audio Ficton
At Escape Pod:
At Beam Me Up: "Authorized Domain"
At StarShipSofa: "The Martian Chronicles - Parts One, Two, and Three"
At StarShipSofa: "To Go Boldly" 

Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954)
     Creator of television shows Babylon 5 and Jeremiah, comic book writer, and author of three horror novels, and more. Straczynski has done everything but make a fan of Sheldon Cooper.  Unfortunately no free fiction by Straczynski was found, but 26 episodes of Babylon 5 are currently available for free streaming at TheWB.com. (Hopefully worldwide, but probably just in the U.S.)
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Friday, June 14, 2013

I Have No Mouth and Must Scream For Free Fiction!

     Tons of good free audio today, including horror at Pseudopod, Dunesteef, and Tales to Terrify, as well as two more Lewis Carroll related stories.  There's text fiction by Cory Doctorow, a new issue of Silver Blade, flash fiction, E-books, comics, and more. As always, be sure to check out these other sources of free fiction links SF Signal, Free SF Reader, Free Speculative Fiction Online, BestScienceFictionStories.com, Variety SF, and SFFaudio.

[Art from "Monster, Monster in the Grave!" in comics below]

Fiction
• At Boing Boing: "By His Things Will You Know Him” by Cory Doctorow. Science Fiction [via SF Signal]
     "I thought that Mr. Purnell was a little young to be a funeral director, but he had the look down cold. In the instant between his warm, dry handshake and my taking my hand back to remove my winter hat and stuff it into my pocket, he assumed the look, a kind of concerned, knowing sympathy that suggested he’d weathered plenty of grief in his day and he was there to help you get through your own"

• At Daily Science Fiction: "The Ships That Stir Upon The Shore" by Rahul Kanakia.
     "The refugees drove west in a creaking convoy. Most of the cars were almost out of fuel. Many were on the verge of breaking down. The shoulders of the highway were littered with stopped and wrecked cars."

• Now Posted Silver Blade #18:
• "Kuiper Court" by S.E. Sever.
     “Welcome to the United Worlds Judicature. Kuiper Courts of Health are administered and regulated by the Solarian laws of the Ministry of Health and Longevity. Please note that all our sessions are recorded and may be accessed by the allocated attorneys in your trial.”
• "In Excelsis" by Christopher Burt.
     "It has become clear that there is a significant problem with communication equipment; however I have been unsuccessful thus far in identifying the source of the problem.  I am unable to verify the reception of any signal from anywhere on the surface, although I am able to confirm the successful reception and decoding of extra-solar signals when the array is reoriented."
• "Deep in the Woods" by Joseph Sale.
     "The fire hardly glimmered. It cast only the faintest illumination now. The evening was late, very late, but Roland and Jethro would stay up into the deepest hours. Neither would be able to sleep if they both lay down, and neither would be able to stay awake if they took it in turns to watch, and so they both remained up: glazy eyed, half conscious, but ready."
• "Customer Support" by Adam Gaylord.
      "By society’s standards, the couple sitting across from me is perfect. Gracefully crossing her long legs, Mrs. Garner is a picture of generous curves and blond hair, her exactly symmetrical brow implants accentuating her sparkling purple eyes. Mr. Garner’s just as impressive, all muscle and jaw, subdermals accentuating his broad shoulders"
Flash Fiction
• At 365 Tomorrows: "The Bar" by Bob Newbell. Science Fiction.
•At Silver Blade: (Poems and Flash Fiction)
E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Smashwords:
Audio Fiction
• At The Classic Tales Podcast: "Through the Looking Glass, Part 1 of 5" by Lewis Carroll
      "Alice sees the other side of the Looking Glass, and enters another world of enchantment. It is filled with argumentative chessmen, Jabberwocky monsters, and insolent flowers."

• At Decoder Ring Theater: "The Island Lost To Time" 
      "Circus performer Daniel Crogan and Captain Yatri of the tramp steamer Marietta find themselves on an island rumored to be home of giant, man-eating reptiles. Can they escape from The Island Lost To Time?"

• At Dunesteef: "Unholy Womb" by Steven E. Wedel. Horror.
     "A boy picks up a couple of pumpkins in preparation for Halloween, only to find out they are part of a bizarre and deadly Halloween trick."

• At LibriVox: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Children's Fantasy.
     "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing." 

• At LibriVox: The Purple Cloud by Matthew Phipps Shiel. Apocalyptic.
     "Well, the memory seems to be getting rather impaired now, rather weak. What, for instance, was the name of that parson who preached, just before the Boreal set out, about the wickedness of any further attempt to reach the North Pole? I have forgotten! Yet four years ago it was familiar to me as my own name."

• At Pseudopod: "Beware The Jabberwock, My Son" by Dixon Chance. Horror.
     "The sound (whiffle) came again, and this time it definitely came from the mirror. Definitely. He could imagine its long, snaky neck pouring out of the mirror frame, those two pale unblinking eyes peering around his bedroom as it flew"

• At Tales to Terrify: "The Lucky Ones" by Anne Michaud. Horror.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Fiction Fiction Every Where, Nor Any Cent To Pay.

Another cherry-picked collection of free speculative fiction, old and new, for your enjoyment. (Including one swiped from Regan Wolfrom, Huzzah!)  And in the other genres section) there's a very interesting, complete series of interviews at Slate "in which Tim Wu talks to a contemporary science fiction writer about whether we’re living in the future." 

  And as you may have noticed, there have been a few changes to QD as improvements and de-uglification are slowly getting underway. Currently there is a cool video of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield covering Bowie's classic "Space Oddity" on the ISS (be sure to make it full screen and up the resolution of you have a decent connection). Videos will change fairly frequently, often without warning. And be sure to visit BestScienceFictionStories (An awesome site with an awesome webmaster) and chime in on what you'd like to see from that great resource.   More to come.

[Art from "The Horses Under Her Skin" linked below]

Fiction
• At HighLobrow: "The Clockwork Man - Part 13" by E.V. Odle. Science Fiction. (1923).
     “There was a man,” continued the Curate, in ancient-mariner-like tones, “at the Templars’ Hall. I thought he was the conjurer, but he wasn’t — at least, I don’t think so. He did things — impossible things —”

• At Nightmare Magazine: "Shiva, Open Your Eye" by Laird Barron. Horror.
      "The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it."

• At Weird Fiction Review: "Caterpillars" by E.F. Benson. (1912).
      "There is therefore no longer any reason for refraining from writing of those things which I myself saw (or imagined I saw) in a certain room and on a certain landing of the villa in question, nor from mentioning the circumstances which followed, which may or may not (according to the opinion of the reader) throw some light on or be somehow connected with this experience."

• Now Posted: Waylines Speculative Fiction and Film #3 [via SF Signal]
• "The Horses Under Her Skin" by Leena Likitalo.
     "I could sense the resentment that emanated from the hill tombs of the past kings and queens. They abhorred Slavik for using the curse he’d cast on his deathbed, for causing storms, draught, and famine upon a whim. I’d frequented the sauna to seek counsel from them too many times to count, but before a curse of this magnitude, the ancestors were powerless."
• "Word For Word" by Kate Heartfield,
     "Sam knew Madeline’s flushed cheeks and wide, starry eyes had nothing to do with him. As he walked her home, she stared past him and prattled about how funny her boss had been at dinner. About how nice he looked in that suit. About how he was so great."
Flash Fiction
  • At Daily Science Fiction: "Three Wishes" by Melissa Mead 
  • At 365 Tomorrows: "Patsy" by Jae Miles. Science Fiction.
E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Smashwords:
Audio Fiction
• At The New Yorker: "The Daughters of the Moon" by Italo Calvino.
      Streaming Only. "The story takes place in a mythological New York City where Calvino’s shape-shifting narrator, Qfwfq, witnesses the decay and subsequent rejuvenation of the moon."  

• At Nightmare Magazine: "Shiva, Open Your Eye" by Laird Barron. Horror.
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• At PodCastle: "Mermaid’s Hook" by Liz Argall. Fantasy.
     "She caught treasures from the ship with her sisters; dangerous, exotic objects that plummeted through the water. Metal not yet rusted; fractured glass and timbers not yet smoothed by the sea; woven filaments as delicate as jellyfish, and as treacherous. Curiosities from the world above to be dared, caught, examined and discarded."

• At StarShipSofa: Episode No 293.
"Paint by Numbers" by Dan Rabarts.
     "Another work complete. Still no reason why. Subroutines whir in the background, compiling the data, searching for meaning, for light in the darkness. What my hands do with the brush, the sponge, the paint, is a distant thing, something I merely observe. SYSTEM: STABLE"
“Better Phones” by Grant Stone.
      "The pack ran past a second later, not slowing, although Carl gave him a wave. No time to warm up. Kerry plugged his earphones in and started running, fumbling with his phone to patch in. The runners all had the same app, logging their time, relaying statistics and music over an ad-hoc network."
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Monday, October 22, 2012

Freebies - Leinster, Lovecraft, Doctorow, Stoss, and More

 More good free fiction today, including the start of a three part serial at Black Gate and much more..  There may be a second post today, time permitting. And be sure to check out the latest updates at  Free Speculative Fiction Online (many stories were added on the 17th).



 Fiction
At Author's Site: "Rapture of the Nerds" by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. [Via SF Signal]
     "This is by no means unusual, but for once Huw’s head hurts more than his bladder. He’s lying head down, on his back, in a bathtub. He scrabbles for a handhold and pulls himself upright. A tub is a terrible place to spend a night."
At Black Gate:  "A Phoenix in Darkness - Part 1" by Donald S. Crankshaw. Fantasy.
     "Quian’s serf village spilled out of the city’s grim walls like rotten apples from an overturned basket. The city gate, an iron-bound door barely wide enough to accommodate a cart, opened up to a snarl of muddy pathways through the weather-worn hovels."
At Short-Story.Me: "Breath of Lisetta" by Jordan E. Miere. Fantasy.
     "Lisetta breathed against her fingers as they clutched the bone handle of her knife.  Her breath enfolded her purplish digits where the threadbare gloves no longer covered them."
At Short-Story.Me:  "The Quarry" by Jack Coey. Horror.
     "They walked single file, the sun was beating down, and the men sweated. One of the hobos stopped and wiped his face with his shirt tail. He’d been in Vietnam and his life hadn’t gone that well since."
At Short-Story.Me: "Colors" by Catina Noble. Fantasy.
      "I feel odd, not like my usual self. Something is different; I cannot put my finger on it. I think for a few minutes. I look inside myself. I do not like what I see. I am an empty shell, I just sit here. I occupy space for others."
At The WiFiles:  "Human/Nature" by Mireille Wells. Speculative Fiction.
      "The formerly white structure is now veined with greenish brown mold. The windows are all black squares, decorated with shards of broken glass. I stand and watch, but nothing moves inside the building. This is all that remains of the laboratory where I labored to end the world."

 Audio Fiction
At LibriVox: "The Ambulance Made Two Trips" by Murray Leinster. Science Fiction.
     "Murray Leinster gives us another wonderful product of 'what if' from his limitless imagination to enjoy in this gem of a story" First published in Astounding Science Fiction April 1960.
 At Radio Drama Revival: "The Statement of Randolph Carter" by HP Lovecraft. Horror.
    "Again I say, I do not know what has become of Harley Warren, though I think--almost hope--that he is in peaceful oblivion, if there be anywhere so blessed a thing. It is true that I have for five years been his closest friend, and a partial sharer of his terrible researches into the unknown."
At SFFaudio: "Out Of The Storm" by William Hope Hodgson. Horror.
     "It is a little after midday: but the sky is the color of mud--do you understand?--gray mud! Down from it there hang vast lappets of clouds. Not such clouds as I have ever before seen; but monstrous, mildewed-looking hulls. They show solid, save where the frightful wind tears their lower edges into great feelers that swirl savagely above us, like the tentacles of some enormous Horror."
At Toasted Cake: "The Foreigner" by M. Darusha Wehm.
     "I have about an hour before the shareholders' meeting, but I have to stop by the day care first, so I want to make this snappy."

Flash Fiction
At Daily Science Fiction: "Trophy Wife" by Samantha Murray.

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Friday, October 21, 2011

T.G. It's Friday Free Fiction

Some very good stuff, including a strong audio fiction section.














@Daily Science Fiction: "Free Lunch" by Will McIntosh.
"It took a moment to place the sound, because no one should have been making it in their house. It was the soft, rhythmic squeal of a mattress and the wheeming of a woman approaching a stifled climax. The sound sent an icy blast through Phoebe's stomach. She had begun to suspect, but only in the abstract. The shift to concrete was jarring."
Serial Fiction
@Author's Site: "Deluge (Part 87)" by Brian Keene.
"The ship rolled violently as Sarah raced out onto the slippery deck. Losing her balance, she slid, shrieking, toward the rail, but managed to steady herself before falling overboard. The falling rain and ocean spray stung her eyes, blurring her vision. Blinking water from her eyes, she turned, trying to make sense of the chaotic battle unfolding around her. The paper towels stuffed in her ears made everything seem muffled. "

@Author's Site: "The Journals of Doctor Mormeck (Mountain)–Entry #23" by Jeff VanderMeer.
"I no longer send an avatar to write in the journal on the jungle floor. I write it here, at the heart of me. If Gabriel finds it, he finds me. Thousands or millions of years from now some other Risen species on this planet will find my journal, incomplete, and need to make up the rest of the story themselves. The rest stays with me."
Audio Fiction
@Cast of Wonders: "Bad Kitty" by Jason Dextradeur, read by Marguerite Kenner and Alasdair Stuart. YA fantasy.
"Please, call me Fluffy, all my friends do." She said with a thick southern drawl. It might charm most people, but Walt and I weren't buying it.
@Classic Tales Podcast: "The Judge's House" by Bram Stoker, read by B. J. Harrison.
"Malcolm Malcolmson seeks absolute desolation. What better way to study for final exams? He takes a train to an unknown town, and rents a house that takes his fancy. It is here that his education is completed. For rats can be specters, and specters can be rats."
@Drabblecast: "The Big Splash" by George R. Galuschak.
"passed the sign that read Warning: Shark Zone. The sun was setting, lighting up the tops of the condos sticking out of the water. They had been swallowed by the swollen ocean, when it spilled over, like everything else: the skyscrapers, the cars, the fast food joints, the schools and supermarkets and liquor stores…"
@Escape Pod: "Clockwork Fagin" by Cory Doctorow, read by Grant Baciocco.
"Monty Goldfarb walked into St Agatha’s like he owned the place, a superior look on the half of his face that was still intact, a spring in his step despite his steel left leg. And it wasn’t long before he *did* own the place, taken it over by simple murder and cunning artifice. It wasn’t long before he was my best friend and my master, too, and the master of all St Agatha’s, and didn’t he preside over a *golden* era in the history of that miserable place?"
@Pseudopod: "The Cord" by Chris Lewis Carter, read by David Michel.
"Nearly half-way up the light pole she’s standing beside is her husband, Carl, his arms and legs locked tightly around the wood. He’s naked, except for a bright red bathrobe, which is untied and flapping in the breeze like a terrycloth flag."

Serial Audio
@Drama Pod" "The Dueling Machine - Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3" by Ben Bova and Myron R. Lewis.
"The trouble with great ideas is that someone is sure to expend enormous effort and ingenuity figuring out how to louse them up."
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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Sunday Movie, Fantasy eZines, Audio Fiction, and Gaming Freebies

Today there are two cool eZines for your reading pleasure, some good audio fiction, useful gaming items, including two new gaming 'zines. And Lt. Bob has another episode of "MOOOOOOOVIIIIIIIEEEE" or "It Came from the Internet Archive!!!"




Prisoners Of The Lost Universe (1983). Sci-Fi.
"A scientist, a reporter and a repairman are accidentally transported to a prehistoric world in a parallel universe when they fall into the beam of the experiment during an earthquake aftershock."

Or download it from the Internet Archive.








Now Posted: New Myths Issue 15. Speculative Fiction
Includes speculative fiction, flash, and poetry by Russ Colson, Swapna Kishore, Darren Latta, Tony Peak, Mel Obedoza, and T.C. Powell.

Now Posted: Sorcerous Signals May - Jul '11 Issue. Fantasy.
Featuring fantasy fiction and poetry by Gabrielle Bryden, Alva J Roberts, Richard H Fay, K S Dearsley, Aspen deLainey, Sylvia Hiven, Kathryn Sullivan, Edward W. Robertson, and Ray Yanek.










@LibriVox: "Operation: Outer Space" by Murray Leinster, read by Mark Nelson. 6 and 3/4 hours. Science Fiction.
"Jed Cochrane is about to take off on man's first interstellar voyage. His mission: Make sure it's good television! "





@Craphound: "Knights of the Rainbow Table" by Cory Doctorow, complete in seven parts. Part One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven.
"a story commissioned by Intel's Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson. Brian oversees Intel's Tomorrow project, which uses science fiction to spark conversations about product design and use among Intel's engineers, and he was kind enough to invite me to write a story of my choosing for the project."

Serial Audio
@Beam Me Up: Episode #267 "Luna Voices: on the Solar Winds. Part 2 of 2" by Nick Wood, read by Paul Cole.
"In part 2, a painful and gruesome death awaits. He is already seeing things . . . because what he does see can not possibly be there under ANY circumstances! Let alone the the raw radiation environment of the airless moon!"








@DriveThruRPG: Savage Insider #1
Very nice looking inside. "Welcome to the inaugural issue of Savage Insider - a new electronic magazine dedicated to Savage Worlds. This first issue is filled with new Savage Worlds content, fiction, licensee information, and an introduction to several Savage Worlds licensees."



@DriveThruRPG: Tattlebox #1
A small, nice looking new Pathfinder/3.5E eZine with "Falling Leaves: a comic of fey proportions, Let's Split the Party!: an essay on why you should split the party 14 new weapons, 6 new weapon special features, a new artifact, and more"

@RPG Creatures: [Monster] "Gendrohka" for most Fantasy RPG.
"As the mystics and wizards of the old desert cultures invoked the powers of rain and water, something vile and hideous stumbled out of the sea in answer to their rituals. A strange species, made by the deities of the ocean, sat foot upon the dry lands, and brought a new kind of magic with them."



@The Land of NOD: [Villain] "Meat" for Mystery Men.
@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [Magic Item] "Shell of Calming"
@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [Spells] "Borrow from Plane,""Conjure Herald," and "Weaponshield"
@A Field Guide to Doomsday: [Monsters] "Thotter" "Briarbear"and "Narl" for Mutant Future.
@WotC: [Monster Update] "Wights and Ghosts" 4E.
@WotC: [Cartoons] Misfit Monsters #1 and Epic Campaign #6.
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Friday, May 6, 2011

Friday Freebies Complete

Happy Weekend! A few cool items today. SF and Fantasy stories, another part of the Vampire serial at White Wolf, Escape Pod's audio version of the recently posted "Shannon's Law" by Cory Doctorow. Added the gaming section and an additional audio fiction link.

Illustration for the audio drama "The Stuff of Myth" by Roger Gregg.







@Daily Science Fiction: "The Beauty Garden" by Damon Shaw.
"The invaders kicked down the gate in the village stockade. Eurwen heard the crowd behind her moan in fear, but did not allow herself to flinch as the flimsy barrier crashed to the ground. She raised her hand, as much to still her own heart as to calm her people."

@Anotherealm: "The Red Queen" by Noeleen Kavanagh.
"And Rose was a fool of a girl. She always had been, ever since she had been a small child. I still cannot believe that I bore a child so utterly alien to me. Maybe the peasants are right when they speak of children spirited away in the night and changelings left in their place."

Serial Fiction
@White Wolf: Silent Knife, part 4 by David Nurenberg.
"Now she was staring into Bourne’s startled, porcine eyes, at his scraggly black beard, at the tip of her blade as she pointed it at him with her free hand."

Classic SF
@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "The Telenizer" by Don Thompson, from Galaxy Science Fiction (March 1954).
"Langston had technicolor delusions; inanimate objects came alive in his hands; THEY were persecuting him, out to get him ... what a relief it was to know he wasn't going insane!"







@Escape Pod: Episode #291 "Shannon’s Law" by Cory Doctorow, read by Mur Lafferty.
"When the Way opened again, the day I turned seventeen, I didn’t hesitate. I packed everything I could carry—every scratched phone, every half-assembled laptop, every stick of memory, and every Game Boy I could fit in a duffel bag."

@Radio Drama Revival: Episode 224 "Stuff of Myth" (Part One) by Roger Gregg. Mythology/Comedy. [site found via SFFaudio]
"Ahh, ancient Greece. Hot nymphs, raging orgies, much wine, song, and occasional transformations into livestock. All well and good, right? Well things are more wacky than ever in the sizzling and scandalous interpretation of the myth of Orpheus"














@Fighting Fantazine: Issue #6 featuring "Escape from the Sorcerer"
"A 200 reference bumper length mini Fighting Fantasy adventure:
The kingdom of Alkemis has come under repeated attack from neighbouring Agra. Unable to hold back the hordes of Lizard Men and chaotic Asuras led by the evil sorcerer Grudar Kreshnel, YOU and a few dozen fellow survivors were captured. One by one your fellow countrymen have been brutally executed, until only YOU remain. Will YOU be able to escape from the Sorcerer?"



More Cool Gaming Items
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Fantasy and Dark Fiction and Audio, and Classic SF - All Free

Some great free fantasy and dark fiction today as three of the premiere sites (Tor, ChiZine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies) have new stuff. Classic SF, Flash Fiction and Poetry, and some cool audio (fantasy, dark, and wuxia). And now cool Comics.

Illustration for "Shannon’s Law" by Cory Doctorow, also added since the partial posting earlier.








@Tor.com: "The Iron Shirts" by Michael F. Flynn.
"To the battles of 13th-century Ireland come new warriors...from across the Western Sea."



Also at Tor.com: "Shannon’s Law" by Cory Doctorow.
"When the Way opened again, the day I turned seventeen, I didn’t hesitate. I packed everything I could carry—every scratched phone, every half-assembled laptop, every stick of memory, and every Game Boy I could fit in a duffel bag."


@Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Issue #68 featuring fantasy fiction:
"The Finest Spectacle Anywhere" by Genevieve Valentine.
"I could hardly keep from laughing at the rubes that panicked and then applauded three times as loud as they would have if it had all been perfect. Elena and the others had Boss's copper bones—what could happen to them that couldn't be mended?"

and "Buzzard's Final Bow" by Jason S. Ridler.
"They ran through the tumbles and bumps, grips and leaps, Buzzard tossing and turning with Razor as she barely noticed, thrashing about to make it look real."

@ChiZine.com: The Chiaroscuro: Volume 47, Week 5 featuring Dark fiction.
"Dogs Want to Eat You" by Ralph Robert Moore.
"Upstairs, in the bedroom, flat on his back, paralyzed, James heard, from below, his wife’s moans, her final scream."

"Fortune" by Shira Lipkin.
"A man, shuffling and reshuffling a deck of oversized cards . . . one leg extended, one folded, a mirror of Vegas Vic above him. He was talking to himself—no, singing, with the buzz and hiss of neon drowning him out almost completely."

"The Performer" by Philip Nutman.
"None of this came as a surprise: he had suggesting remaking Cammell & Roeg’s PERFORMANCE as a joke just to piss off the suits at Warners, who’d paid him $3 million for a two picture deal after his remake of Disney’s 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA had grossed $190 M domestically."

"Dirty Money" by S. E. Ward.
"Quick-change, one hand to the next, liquid far from its source. A bill, a suck; money, money, money. Pop the cap. Drink it down. Ooze, jet, scarlet, spray. Wait for the shudder of someone else’s sight to pass."

"The Spider House Rules" by Rain Graves.
"They had a club like important boys do, and there were secret words, secret things to keep in boxes like a candle and matches, secret handshakes, and secret things to do. It was important to be secret; no girls allowed."

and "Last of His Kind" by Sandra McDonald.
"Those of you who still explore graveyards and scour old records might as well hang up your wooden stakes, or use them to mark seedlings in vegetable gardens, or burn them in fires; the vampiri are gone, finito, they no longer swoop through the sky or glide before mirrors which do not show their reflections."

Classic SF
@The Internet Archive: "The Lost Machine" by John Beynon Harris (John Wyndham), from Amazing Stories (April 1932 ) [via Marooned - Science Fiction & Fantasy books on Mars].
"Psychologists -- and others -- are greatly concerned about the effects -- possible and assured -- of machines and the machine age, on human life and endeavor. But who has ever stopped to consider the possible reactions -- or thoughts -- of the advanced machine of the future?"

@Project Gutenberg: Four Philip K Dick science fiction stories have been updated with additional e-book options.
Serial Fiction
@Paizo.com: "Two Pieces of Tarnished Silver" by Erik Mona, Chapter Three: Beyond the Demon Lens.
"For a long moment Korm Calladan felt only a pleasant warmth. Gone were the fears of starvation, the thrill of combat in the cramped underdeck of the Queen's Lament, the suspicion of the Lady Iranez and her imposing crew."







@Dark Fiction Magazine: Issue 7: "Sacred Fire" [via Free SF Reader].
"Dark Fiction Magazine is a monthly, short fiction podcast magazine, bringing [. . .] the very best that horror, fantasy, and science-fiction has to offer."

"Xenos Beach" by Graham Joyce, read by Danny Davies.
"The Winter King" by Liz Williams, read by Kim Lakin-Smith.
"Who Slays The Gyant, Wounds The Beast" by Mark Chadbourn, read by Marty Perrett.
"Paying For Rain" by Jaine Fenn, read by Emma Newman.

@Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "The Fairy Gaol" by Heather Fawcett, from Issue #66 (Apr. 7, 2011).
"I will fashion a dagger worthy of his jeweled throat."

@Kung Fu Action Theater: Kung Fu Action Tales, Episode Four - "The Inuyama Rebellion, Part 1- The Two Samurai"
"Knowing that the declaration of independence will surely bring the deaths of her sons, the clan lord’s wife, Lady Murasaki, has secretly dispatched two of the clan’s samurai -the elder Jiro and his apprentice Masato- to Kurokawa lands in an effort to rescue the boys"







@Every Day Fiction: "His Mother's Son" by JR Hume. SF.
@Flashes in the Dark: "La Muerte" by Cynthia (cina) Pelayo.
@365 tomorrows: "The Vendetta" by Patricia Stewart.
@Weirdyear: "Snowflakes" by Ian Chung.
@Eschatology: "The Icicle" by Rick McQuiston.
@Daily Science Fiction: "Vacuum Decay" by Ramon Rozas.
@ChiZine: [Dark Poetry]






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Escape From Terra "is a continuing story set in the late 21st Century. and concerns humanity's advance both through outer space and social evolution. People living in the frontier are liberated from traditional power structures and free to develop new customs and rules as may suit them -- although the United World government on Terra (Earth) is envious of colonial success and anxious to establish its grip on human lives and wealth as far as it can." Looks interesting.
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