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Free Fiction Round-Up: May 17, 2011

17 May 2011  Books

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Listen to “As Below, So Above” by Ferret Steinmetz at PodCastle.
  • Listen to “Bibi from Jupiter” by Tessa Mellas at LightSpeed Magazine.
  • Listen to “Creation” by Jeffrey Ford at StarShipSofa.
  • Listen to “The Grey Fairy Book” by Andrew Lang at LibriVox.
  • Listen to “In the Water” by Katherine Mankiller at Escape Pod.
  • Listen to “Knights of the Rainbow Table” by Cory Doctorow at Craphound. [Part 2]
  • Listen “On Being Mandy” by Sandra M. Odell to at Pseudopod.
  • Listen to “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe at Cast Macabre.
  • Listen to “Shoveling Match” at Dunesteef.
  • Listen to “The Wendigo” by Algernon Blackwood at Librivox.

Comics and Graphic Novels

  • CBR offers a preview of Alpha Flight #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Drums #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Elric: The Balance Lost
  • CBR offers a preview of Fables #105
  • CBR offers a preview of Last Mortal #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Joss Whedon’s Fray
  • CBR offers a preview of Stan Lee’s Soldier Zero vol. 1
  • CBR offers a preview of Super Dinosaur: Origin Special #1
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of Mignola & Corben’s Being Human
  • Bleeding Cool offers a preview of Vescell #1
  • io9 offers a preview of Zombies vs Robots: Undercity #2

Flash and Micro Fiction

  • Listen to the flash fiction “The Eighth Age” by Matthew Sanborn.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Cost” by Jim Bronyaur at Flashes in the Dark.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Daily Commute” by J. Rohr at 365 tomorrows.
  • Read the flash fiction “A Mermaid’s Tale” by John D. Brooke at Weirdyear.
  • Read the flash fiction “Mirror” by Neil Leckman at Flashes in the Dark.
  • Read the flash fiction “S is for Solipsism” by Tim Pratt at Daily Science Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “Space Falling” by Jon Hakes at Brain Harvest.
  • Read the flash fiction “Sprites” by Patricia Stewart at 365 Tomorrows.
  • Read the flash fiction “Tempting the Wicked” by Samantha Memi at Every Day.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Download Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100: How Far Will the Biosciences Take Us? for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Download Dawn of Avalon by Anna Elliott for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Download Graveyard Games by Sheri Leigh for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Download The Thirteenth Unicorn by W. D. Newman for the Kindle.
  • Download Where Beauty Lies in Wait by Peadar Ó Guilín at the author’s blog.
  • Read an excerpt of Dark War by Tim Waggoner at issuu.
  • Read an excerpt of The Damned Busters by Matthew Hughes at issuu.
  • Read an excerpt of Embassytown by China Mieville at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Hitler’s War by Harry Turtledove at Scribd.
  • Read an excerpt of Mistification by Kaaron Warren at issuu.

Poetry

  • The Facebook Sonnet by Sherman Alexie [Zoom In]
  • Mythical Cities of Southwestern Minnesota by Megan Kurashige

Short Stories

  • Read “Act of Faith” by Fadzlishah Johanabas bin Rosli at Cosmos.
  • Read “Bibi from Jupiter” by Tessa Mellas at LightSpeed Magazine.
  • Read “Crazy Me” by James Patrick Kelly at Tor.com.
  • Read “Creation” by Jeffrey Ford at Fantasy Magazine.
  • Read “Dealing in Futures” by Judith Tarr at Book View Cafe.
  • Read “The Ghost Party” by Richard Larson at Subterranean Press.
  • Read “The Holder’s Black-Haired Daughter” by Kelly Jennings at Strange Horizons.
  • Read “Iridescence” by Jay Caselberg at Book View Cafe.
  • Read “Kapre: A Love Story” by Erin Chupeco at Philippine Genre Stories.
  • Read “Malfunction” by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks at Ray Gun Revival.

Vintage Fiction

  • Download the short story “The Golden Amazons of Venus” by John Murray Reynolds from Planet Stories at Project Gutenberg.
  • Download the short story “Henry Horn’s X-Ray Eye Glasses” by Dwight V. Swain from Amazing Stories at Project Gutenberg.
  • Download the short story “The Old Martians” by Roger Phillips Graham from Worlds of IF at Project Gutenberg.
  • Read “The Alien Vibration” by Hannes Bok from Avon Science-Fiction Reader #5.



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