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Free Fiction Round-Up: May 15, 2012

29 May 2012  Books

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Download “A Hunger for the Infinite: A Galactic Center Story” by Gregory Benford.
  • Listen to “Fable From a Cage” by Tim Pratt at PodCastle.
  • Listen to “The Homecoming” by Mike Resnick at Escapepod.
  • Listen to “In The Cemetery of Frozen Ships” by Suzanne van Rooyen.
  • Listen to “Isolation Point” by John Shirley at Tales to Terrify.
  • Listen to “In The Cemetery of Frozen Ships” by Suzanne van Rooyen (Part 2).
  • Listen to “Movement” by Nancy Fulda at Escapepod.
  • Listen to “Transfer of Ownership” by Christie Yant at Drabblecast.
  • Listen to “Tricentennial” by Joe Haldeman at StarShipSofa.
  • Listen to “The Women Who Watch” by Thomas Owen at Pseudopod.

Comics and Graphic Novels

  • CBR offers a preview of Bloodshot #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Hardcore #1
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of Higher Earth
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of Saga #3
  • Major Spoilers offers a preview of The Praetorian

Flash and Micro Fiction

  • Listen to the flash fiction story “Breakwinder” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
  • Listen to the flash fiction story “The Icee Planet” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
  • Read the flash fiction “A Glorious Kingdom” by David D. Clark at Yesteryear.
  • Read the flash fiction “How Exactly Do I Get Out of Here?” by John Lasanich.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Last Sentinels” by Dawn Lloyd at Eschatology Journal.
  • Read the flash fiction “A Recipe for Broke-Heart Bread” by K. Bird Lincoln.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Download Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Download The Trouble With Spells (Of Witches and Warlocks #1) by Lacey Weatherford for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Blue-Blooded Vamp by Jaye Wells at Orbit Books.
  • Read an excerpt of Children of the Halo by EJ Spurrell at the author’s website.
  • Read an excerpt of The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston.
  • Read an excerpt of The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie [Chapter 2, 3, 4] at Gollancz.
  • Read an excerpt of The King’s Blood by Daniel Abraham at A Dribble of Ink.
  • Read an excerpt of The Moon Moth by Jack Vance and Humayoun Ibrahim.
  • Read an excerpt of The Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson, et al at Ars Technica.
  • Read an excerpt of Struck by Jennifer Bosworth at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of To Say Nothing of The Dog by Connie Willis at Scribd.

Poetry

  • Fiesta of Our Lady by Ann K. Schwader
  • Inheritance by Marge Simon
  • Not the Home World by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
  • The Robot’s Passing by Ken Poyner

Short Stories

  • Read “About Fairies” by Pat Murphy at Tor.com.
  • Read “Adrift” by Willis Couvillier at KasmaSF.
  • Read “Amelie’s Guardian” by Bryan Thomas Schmidt at the author’s website.
  • Read “The appropriate response” by Jeff Samson at Nature.
  • Read “A Beer and Tentacles” by Holliann Kim at Lovecraft eZine.
  • Read “Beside Calais” by Samantha Henderson at Strange Horizons.
  • Read “Captain Quasar and the So-Called Emperor of the Universe” by Milo James Fowler at RayGunRevival.
  • Read “The Earth of Ashes” by Yukimi Ogawa at Expanded Horizons.
  • Read “The Excalibur” by Robin Bailes at Ray Gun Revival.
  • Read “Fable From a Cage” by Tim Pratt at PodCastle.
  • Read “Holo, Goodbye” by Richard Zwicker at MindFlights.
  • Read “Houseflies” by Joe Pitkin at Cosmos.
  • Read “In The Cemetery of Frozen Ships” by Suzanne van Rooyen (Part 2).
  • Read “The Last Sentinels” by Dawn Lloyd at Eschatology Journal.
  • Read “Lola Ging and the Crispa Redmanizers” by Nikki Alfar.
  • Read “Midnight in Golgotha” by Peter Ike Amadi at StoryTime.
  • Read “Outwitted” by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt at Wily Writers.
  • Read “Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold” by Theodora Goss.
  • Read “Singer And Sword” by Jack Hillman at Buzzy Magazine.
  • Read “Some Theories on Time Travel” by Nathan Tavares at Expanded Horizons.
  • Read “Swanskin Song” by An Owomoyela at Expanded Horizons.
  • Read “They Come In Through the Walls” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam at Expanded Horizons.
  • Read “Trickster’s Song” by Christopher Reynaga at Expanded Horizons.
  • Read “Two Lovers on a Train” by Angel Johnson at Expanded Horizons.
  • Read “Watcher In The Wings” by Angela Carr at MindFlights.

Vintage Fiction

  • Download the novel The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt at Project Gutenberg.
  • Download the novel The Return by Walter De la Mare at Project Gutenberg.
  • Download the novel Twilight Stories at Project Gutenberg.



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