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Free Fiction Round-Up: February 15, 2011

15 Feb 2011  Books

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Just in time for Valentines, Last.FM has posted tracks from Telling Tales by Neil Gaiman, including the short story “Harlequin Valentine.”
  • Listen to “The Alarm” by Harris Tobias at Dunesteef.
  • Listen to “Dr North’s Wound” by John Dodds at StarShipSofa.
  • Listen to “Galapagos” by Caitlín R. Kiernan at StarShipSofa.
  • Listen to “Galapagos” by Caitlín R. Kiernan at StarShipSofa.
  • Listen to “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift at SFFAudio.
  • Listen to “To Ride Beyond the Wide World’s End” by Caitlin Brennan at PodCastle.
  • Listen to “The Tricks of London” by Elizabeth Bear at Subterranean Press.

Comics and Graphic Novels

  • Comic Book Resources offers a preview of Hawkeye: Blindspot #1
  • Comic Book Resources offers a preview of King Conan: The Scarlet Citadel #1
  • Comic Book Resources offers a preview of Morning Glories Vol. #1
  • Comic Book Resources offers a preview of Silver Surfer #1
  • Comic Book Resources offers a preview of Star Trek: Infestation #1
  • Read a 6-page preview of the Dollhouse comic at io9. It’s the Rossum apocalypse all over again!

Flash and Micro Fiction

  • Read Arthur C. Clarke’s 31-Word Short Story at Neatorama.
  • Read the flash fiction “An Accident Going Somewhere To Happen” by Shaun A. Saunders at Antipodean SF.
  • Read the flash fiction “Ninja Nemesis” by Crisetta Macleod at Antipodean SF.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Download all 151 installments of “With a Little Help by Cory Doctorow at DailyLit.
  • Download The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells at a Kindle Book at Amazon.
  • Download the vintage sci-fi novel Industrial Revolution by Poul Anderson.
  • The Ghosts of Broken Blades by Monte Cook is being serialized at Paizo.
  • Read an excerpt of Diving into the Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  • Read an excerpt of Dust by Elizabeth Bear at Suvudu.
  • Read an excerpt of Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith from MacTeen Books.
  • Read an excerpt of Death Cloud by Andrew Lane at MacMillan.
  • Read an excerpt of Dead Space: Martyr by B.K. Evenson at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Hellhole by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of the long awaited The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss!
  • Read an excerpt of The Unremembered by Peter Orullian at the author’s website.
  • Read the prologue of Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey.

Poetry

  • Download an audio track of Instructions by Neil Gaiman from Last.FM
  • The Dream Police by Lyn C. A. Gardner

Short Stories

  • Read “Beauty Belongs to the Flowers” by Matthew Sanborn Smith at Tor.com.
  • Read “Borrowed Time” by Stephen Kotowych at World SF.
  • Read “The Death Collector” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia at Canadian Sci-Fi Review.
  • Read “Fatherhood” by Kristen Lee Knapp at Redstone Science Fiction.
  • Read “Like a Hawk in its Gyre” by Philip Brewer at Redstone Science Fiction.
  • Read “The Perfect Man” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch at the author’s website.
  • Read “Though Smoke Shall Hide the Sun” by Brit Mandelo at Tor.com.
  • Read “Widows in the World” by Gavin J. Grant at Strange Horizons.

Zines and Periodicals

  • This motnh’s issue of The Absent Willow Review is online. It features “The First Sign of Aggression” by Elizabeth Green, “The Probability Machine” by Arthur M. Doweyko, “A Taste of the Grave” by Ben Nardolilli, and more.



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