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Free Fiction Round-Up: June 16, 2012

24 Jun 2012  Books

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Listen to “The Bee Charmer of Beckett Falls” by Patty Templeton at Pseudopod.
  • Listen to “Clay” by James Joyce at Miette’s Bedtime Story Podcast.
  • Listen to “The Day I Didn’t Meet Christopher Walken” by Martin Mundt.
  • Listen to “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury” by Neil Gaiman at SoundCloud.
  • Listen to “A Nice Jewish Golem” by Ao-Hui Lin at Drabblecast.
  • Listen to “One Ear Back” by Tina Connolly at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
  • Listen to “Origin” by Ari Goelman at Escapepod.
  • Listen to “Renfrew’s Course” by John Langan at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Listen to “Squonk and the Lake Monster” by P.M. Butler at PodCastle.
  • Listen to “Where Late The Sweet Bird’s Sang” by Kate Wilhelm at StarShipSofa.

Comics and Graphic Novels

  • Blastr offers a preview of Before Watchmen’s Silk Spectre

Flash and Micro Fiction

  • Listen to the flash fiction story “Snow Justice” by Matthew Sanborn.
  • Listen to the flash fiction story “Zing Zou Zou” by C. S. E. Cooney at Toasted Cake.
  • Read the flash fiction “Don’t Look” by Beth Cato at Grand Science Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “Downloadable Content” by Susan Nance Carhart.
  • Read the flash fiction “Epitaph” by Jeromy Henry at Quantum Muse.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Machine” by Tony Rauch at Weirdyear.
  • Read the flash fiction “Metatemporal Intervention Bureau” by Jae Miles.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Night Of The Living And The Dead” by Bart Meehanat.
  • Read the flash fiction “Tendrils” by Sean Johnston AntipodeanSF.
  • Read the flash fiction “(The Winged Creatures of) Zebjudar” by Tony Rauch.
  • Read the flash fiction “Without Glass” by K. Pittman at 365 Tomorrows.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Download The Fierce Reads anthology for free from Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Black Bottle by Anthony Huso at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Caliban’s War by James S.A. Corey at Orbit.
  • Read an excerpt of Ghost Key by Trish J MacGregor at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of A Kingdom Divided: Empire of the Moghul by Alex Rutherford.
  • Read an excerpt of Queen’s Hunt by Beth Bernobich at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Rapture of The Nerds by Cory Doctorow And Charles Stross.
  • Read an excerpt of Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovich at Scribd.
  • Read an excerpt of Year Zero by Rob Reid at Wired.

Poetry

  • Driving Into Snow by Marge Simon
  • The Godzilla Sestina by Bao Phi
  • Heritage by Thavisouk
  • Hold Fast by Leah Bobet
  • Love in the Time of Zombies by Guante
  • On the Irrelevance of Genre Poetry by Michael A. Arnzen

Short Stories

  • Read “68˚ 07’ 15”N, 31˚ 36’ 44”W” by Conrad Williams at Weird Fiction Review.
  • Read “aimforthe<3" by Leah Bobet & Emma Bull at Shadow Unit.
  • Read “Bottled Spirits” by Pamela K. Kinney at Buzzymag.
  • Read “Contact” by Eileen Gunn at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Read “Death and the Thunderbird” by Michael J. DeLuca at Ceaseless Skies.
  • Read “Deathday” by Jonas David at Daily Sci-Fi.
  • Read “The End of All Days” by Michael K. Iwoleit at Inter Nova.
  • Read “Forger’s Folly” by Noah Griffith at Short-Story.me.
  • Read “Freezing Geezers” by Kit Reed at infinity plus.
  • Read “The Girl With Dead Flowers in Her Hair” by Eric Christ at Buzzy Mag.
  • Read “The Keats Variation” by K. M. Ferebee (Part 2) at Strange Horizons.
  • Read “The Magician of Words” by Ruth Nestvold at Daily Sci-Fi.
  • Read “Manhunt” by Ben Godby at AE SciFi.
  • Read “Material Witness” by Brenta Blevins at Wily Writers.
  • Read “Out of Work” by Jack Coey at Short-Story.me.
  • Read “The Pretty Woman Without Mercy” by Steven Mathes at Daily Sci-Fi.
  • Read “Renfrew’s Course” by John Langan at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Read “The Shepherd” by RJ Barker at Gollancz.
  • Read “Song Of The Body Cartographer” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz at PGS.
  • Read “Special Ops” by Michael Haynes at Ray Gun Revival.
  • Read “A Spell of Vengeance” by DB Jackson at Tor.com.
  • Read “Squealer” by Robert Nathan Correll at Nature.
  • Read “Triangle” by Gavin G. Smith at Gollancz.
  • Read “Who’s Yer Mummy” by Mike Bryant at Mad Scientist Journal.
  • Read “The Willow” by Justin Isis at Inter Nova.

Vintage Fiction

  • Read “The Cosmic Computer” by H. Beam Piper at Project Gutenberg.



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