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Free Fiction Round-Up: January 24, 2012

26 Jan 2012  Literature

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Listen to “All the Painted Stars” by Gwendolyn Clare at Clarkesworld.
  • Listen to “The Ballad of Delphinium Blue” by Samantha Henderson.
  • Listen to “Beautiful Dreamer” by Edward McKeown (Part 2) at Beam Me Up.
  • Listen to “Biba Jibun” by Eugie Foster at Pseudopod.
  • Listen to “Fruit Jar Drinkin’, Cheatin’ Heart Blues” by Patty Templeton.
  • Listen to “Martian V F W” by Vandenburg at The Drama Pod.
  • Listen to “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard.
  • Listen to “Surviving the eBookalypse” by Randy Henderson at Escape Pod.
  • Listen to “What Everyone Remembers” by Rahul Kanakia at Clarkesworld.

Comics and Graphic Novels

  • Bleeding Cool offers a preview of Kirby Genesis #0 And #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 #6.
  • CBR offers a preview of Crossed: Badlands #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Danger Girl: Revolver #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Murky World #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Supergirl #5
  • Read “The Situation,” an original comic story created by Jeff VanderMeer and Eric Orchard, about the perils of office politics in a world eerily different from ours.

Flash and Micro Fiction

  • Listen to the flash fiction story “Breakfast in Dread” by Bettina Borg Cardona.
  • Listen to the flash fiction story “The Madness of Andelsprutz” by Lord Dunsany.
  • Read the flash fiction “AI Robot” by Patrick Dey at Flash Fiction Online.
  • Read the flash fiction “All or Nothing” by Nancy Fulda at Daily Science Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “Cuy” by Michele Markarian at Yesteryear Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “Dumb as Dirt” by Garth Upshaw at Daily Science Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “Homecoming” by M. Darusha Wehm at Luna Station.
  • Read the flash fiction “Into the Forest” by Dana Dupont at Daily Science Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Relative Densities of Seawater and Blood” by An Owomoyela at Brain Harvest.
  • Read the flash fiction “Sea Ink” by Jennifer Linnaea at Flash Fiction Online.
  • Read the flash fiction “Sixty-one by Seventy” by K.G. Jewell at Daily SciFi.
  • Read the flash fiction “Stonehenge in his Garden” by Gerald Warfield.
  • Read the flash fiction “Subway” by Eric Suhem at Weirdyear.
  • Read the flash fiction “Things Exist by Imitation of Numbers” by Benjamin Rosenbaum at Daily Science Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “War Song I – Torvenfell” by Ram Iyer at Yesteryear Fiction.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Download Moon Spell by Samantha Young for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds at Gollancz.
  • Read an excerpt of The Butcher of Anderson Station: A Story of The Expanse by James S.A. Corey at Orbit Books.
  • Read an excerpt of Mass Effect: Deception by Willian C. Dietz at Scribd.
  • Read an excerpt of Overkill by Robert Buettner at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Quick Bites: A Short Story Collection by Jennifer Rardin.
  • Read an excerpt of Ragnarok by Patrick A Vanner at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Something Wikkid This Way Comes by Nicole Peeler.
  • Read an excerpt of Unfallen by Lilith Saintcrow by Lilith Saintcrow at Orbit Books.

Poetry

  • Carrington’s Ferry by Mike Allen

Serial Fiction

  • Nothing is Beyond by Davy Minor is a new sci-fi series you can read for free.

Short Stories

  • Download “The Taste of Promises” by Rachel Swirsky. [PDF]
  • Read “All the Painted Stars” by Gwendolyn Clare at Clarkesworld.
  • Read “Always True to Thee, in My Fashion” by Nancy Kress at Lightspeed.
  • Read “Bloodstone” by R.B. Payne at Wily Writers.
  • Read “Captain Clone” by Deborah Walker at Ray Gun Revival.
  • Read “Cosmic Love” by Harry Markov at The World SF Blog.
  • Read “The Driver” by Rahul Kanakia at Nature.
  • Read “Death Reported of Last Surviving Veteran of Great War” by Dan Abnett.
  • Read “Eliza” by Joshua Reynolds at Lovecraft eZine.
  • Read “Enter Here” by FJ Bergmann at Eschatology Journal.
  • Read “The Five Elements of the Heart Mind” by Ken Liu at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Read “Hel’s Half-Acre” by Jack Campbell at Baen eBooks.
  • Read “The Johnson Maneuver” by Ian Douglas at Baen eBooks.
  • Read “Judgement Day” by Gary Cuba at Eschatology Journal.
  • Read “Jungle Walkers” by David Klecha & Tobias S. Buckell at Baen eBooks.
  • Read “The Last Run of the Coppelia” by Genevieve Valentine at Baen eBooks.
  • Read “The Metal Men of Mars” by Joe R Lansdale at Tor.com.
  • Read “My Bicycle, 4500 A.D.” by Stephen Case at AE SciFi.
  • Read “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard at Clarkesworld.
  • Read “The Spaces Between Space” by Brett J. Talley at Lovecraft eZine.
  • Read “The Spaces In-Between” by A.B. Doh at StoryTime.
  • Read “A State of Variance” by Aimee Bender at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Read “Story with Pictures and Conversation” by Brontops Baruq.
  • Read “Sweet Embrace” by T. M. Hunter at Mindflights.
  • Read “Tark Left Santiago” by Joseph S. Pulver, SR at Lovecraft eZine.
  • Read “The Tower And The Kite” (Part 2) at Philippine Genre Stories.
  • Read “The Vessels” by Nancy O. Greene at Lovecraft eZine.
  • Read “What Everyone Remembers” by Rahul Kanakia at Clarkesworld.
  • Read “White Noise” by Michael Matheson at Lovecraft eZine.

Vintage Fiction

  • Download the short story “The Girl in the Golden Atom” by Ray Cummings from Librivox at the Internet Archive.
  • Download the short story “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir from Librivox.
  • Download the short story “Subspace Survivors” by E. E. Smith from LibriVox.
  • Listen to The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux from CBS Radio Mystery Theater at Journey Into…
  • Read the short story “The Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass” by Bruno Schulz (1937) at Weird Fiction Review.

Zines and Periodicals

  • Download issue ten of Shimmer Magazine. This issue features Nir Yaniv’s “A Painter, a Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor,” which was reprinted in Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010.



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