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Free Fiction Round-Up: May 31, 2011

31 May 2011  Books

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Listen to “Better Than Jelly Beans” by Doug Hilton at Beam Me Up! Podcast.
  • Listen to “Black Petals” (Pt 1) by Michael Moorcock at StarShipSofa.
  • Listen to “Creature” by Ramsey Shehadeh at Drabblecast.
  • Listen to “The Fire Of Asshurbanipal” by Robert E. Howard at Cthulhu Podcast.
  • Listen to “Judgment of Swords and Souls” by Saladin Ahmed at PodCastle.
  • Listen to “The Night Train” by Lavie Tidhar at Escape Pod.
  • Listen to “Simulacrum” (Pt 2) by Ken Liu at Beam Me Up! Podcast.
  • Listen to “Tippler’s Bane” by Evelyn Wang at Pseudopod.
  • Listen to “The Voyage Of The Van Leeuwenhoek” by John Medaille at Dunesteef.

Comics and Graphic Novels

  • Bleedng Cool offers a preview of X-Men: Schism #1
  • Bleedng Cool offers a preview of Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld’s The Infinite #2
  • CBR offers a preview of Fear Itself: The Deep #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Flashpoint: Abin Sur – The Green Lantern #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Flashpoint: Secret Seven #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint #1
  • CBR offers a preview of The Guild: Bladezz
  • CBR offers a preview of Marvel Zombies Christmas Carol #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Shinku #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Soldier Zero, Vol. 1
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of the new Daredevil
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of Fear Itself
  • Dark Horse offers a preview of Hellboy: The Fury #1 by Mike Mignola
  • Read the full issue of Buffy #36 online at Dark Horse.
  • Tor.com offers a preview of Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol.

Flash and Micro Fiction

  • Listen to the flash fiction story “Purgatory is for Pencils” at the Hairy Mango.
  • Listen to the flash fiction story “Short Stories with Long Titles” at the Hairy Mango.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Bad Thing” by RJ Astruc at Antipodean SF.
  • Read the flash fiction “Dragon’s Quest” by Eleni Konstantine at Antipodean SF.
  • Read the flash fiction “Fundamental Forces” by Patricia Stewart at 365 tomorrows.
  • Read the flash fiction “Men of Wealth” by Ross Willard at Daily Science Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Magician” by Eleni Konstantine at Flashes in the Dark.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Most Beautiful Tree” by Jennifer Jackson at Flashes.
  • Read the flash fiction “Shades of Orange” by Caroline M Yoachim at Daily SciFi.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Sound of Silence” by Alvin G. Burstein.
  • Read the flash fiction “To Turn Back Time” by Leigh Kimmel at Every Day Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “To Soothe Ravaged Throats” by Allison Jamieson-Lucy.
  • Read the flash fiction “U is for Ubiquitous” by Tim Pratt at Daily Science Fiction.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Cyberpunk author Lewis Shiner (more) has released his collected writings under a Creative Commons license at The Fiction Liberation Front, including his award-winning novels Frontera, Deserted Cities of the Heart, and Glimpses. Shiner is best known for his inclusion in the seminal 1986 cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades, which included work by the likes of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
  • Download How To Slay a Dragon by Bill Allen for Kobo readers.
  • Download The Strange Case of Finley Jayne by Kady Cross for the Kindle.
  • Download The Winds of Khalakovo by Bradley P. Beaulieu for the Nook eBook.
  • Download Field Manual 060711: Identification and Neutralization of Robotic Combatants from Robopocalypse author Daniel H. Wilson at Scribd.
  • Read Jenna Black’s story “Nine-Tenths of the Law” from the upcoming Chicks Kick Butt anthology at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of the Star Wars novel The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance by Sean Williams from Suvudu at Scribd.

Poetry

  • Ash-brie’s Old Blue by Stuart Cooke
  • Chorus of Crows by K A Nelson
  • Darkside by Colleen Anderson
  • Freeloader by Mildred Tremblay
  • His Cream-colored, Conchordial Fracture by WC Roberts
  • How our heroine was made of porcelain by Jana Phipps
  • I Came Home with the Shopping by Jennifer Compton
  • The Influence of Lorca in the Outback by Michael Farrell
  • Letter to Ruth Stone by W. S. Merwin
  • My Mother Married Bigfoot by Steve Vernon
  • Propaganda by Shelley Ontis
  • the purpling by Kevin Gillam
  • The Revolution will not be on YouTube by Reg Braithwaite
  • Survey by John Kinsella
  • Their Music Shudders by Michael Fosburg
  • tidemark by Jane Gibian
  • Untitled by Davide Angelo
  • Upon the Leviathan’s Back by WC Roberts
  • Waking the Red Guardian by WC Roberts

Short Stories

  • Read “After All” by Carol Emshwiller at Strange Horizons.
  • Read Anna on the Threshold by K. Z. Perry at ChiZine.
  • Read “By Appointment” by Leslie Claire Walker at ChiZine.
  • Read “Founding Fathers” by Edward W. Robertson at AE SciFi.
  • Read “Finders keepers” by Clare Strahan at Overland Journal.
  • Read “Introduction to After All” by Gavin J. Grant at Strange Horizons.
  • Read “The Jar Collector” by Charles Tan at Philippine Genre Stories.
  • Read “Passion in Venice” by Cormac Brown at Dark Valentine Magazine.
  • Read “Simpler than that” by Kalinda Ashton at Overland Journal.
  • Read “Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order” by Damien Broderick at Tor.com.
  • Read “Tiny Drops” by L. L. Hannett at ChiZine.
  • Read “The Unicorn Hunter” by Matti Lena Harris at MindFlights.
  • Read “Unplugged” by Helen Dinmore at Overland Journal.
  • Read “Voodoo Child” by Jon Skovron at ChiZine.

Vintage Fiction

  • Download “The Cave” by P. Schuyler Miller at the Internet Archive.
  • Download “Seven Came Back” by Clifford D. Simak (1950) at the Internet Archive.
  • Download “The Standardized Man” by Stephen Bartholomew.
  • Download “The Time Mirror” by Clark South from Project Gutenberg.

Zines and Periodicals

  • The new issue of Aphelion Magazine featuring “Barrow Ben” by Chris Owens is up.



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