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Free Fiction Round-Up: February 15, 2010

15 Feb 2010  Literature

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Listen to “Biographical Notes to ‘A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-planes’” by Benjamin Rosenbaum at PodCastle.
  • Listen to “The City Quiet as Death” By Steven Utley and Michael Bishop.
  • Listen to “Dreams of the White City” by Jay Lake at Transmissions From Beyond.
  • Listen to “The Language of the Whirlwind” written by Lavie Tidhar at Clarkesworld.
  • Listen to “The Mechanical Aviary of Emperor Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar” by Shweta Narayan at Shimmerzine.
  • Listen to “A Princess Of Earth” by Mike Resnick at Dunesteef.
  • Listen to “Pulp Cover” by Gene Wolfe at StarshipSofa.

Comics and Graphic Novels

  • There’s a new Torchwood Comic online. In it, the aliens have landed… see how Captain Jack and the rest of the Torchwood team fend them off in our brand new and exclusive Torchwood Comic.

More Links

  • obooko is a new website devoted to giving new writers the opportunity to test-the-water before committing to print. And for established authors to promote their work. The idea is that new writers self-publish and gain experience and feedback by agreeing to make their work available in digital format for free to a limited audience.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Download Book Three of The Lost Tribe of the Sith at StarWars.com.
  • Listen to a preview of the audiobook of A Dark Matter by Peter Straub.
  • Suvudu points the way to a pile of novel previews:
    • Against All Things Ending by Stephen R. Donaldson – Chapter 1
    • Bearers of the Black Staff by Terry Brooks – Chapter 2 [Video]
    • Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb – Prologue – Chapter 4
    • The Mystery Knight by George R. R. Martin – Novella Excerpt
    • Naamah’s Curse by Jacqueline Carey – Chapter X [Video]
    • Spellwright by Blake Charlton – Prologue – Chapter 4
    • Shadowheart by Tad Williams – Prologue [Video]
    • Shadowrise by Tad Williams – Chapter X, Chapter 3, Chapter 8

Poetry

  • Here’s a cool idea. The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse has compiled the Google searches that brought users to its site into a “Google poem” its calling “I am the Walking Apocalypse”.
  • Tropism offers a poem for Valentine’s Day: Scientific Romance.

Short Stories

  • Read “After We Got Back the Lights” by Eric Del Carlo at Strange Horizons.
  • Read “Harboring Pearls” by Mike Resnick at Subterranean Online.
  • Read “Tales from The New Universe: Gunny Homn” by Patrick Hester at All Things From My Brain All Things From My Brain.
  • Read “Treaty” by Jennifer R. Povey at Cosmos.

Zines and Periodicals

  • The Final issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction (IROSF) is online.



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