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Friday Free Fiction for 5th October

A pretty decent haul this week:

Gareth L. Powell‘s on a roll as far as getting his work published is concerned. In addition to the stuff that’s made it into real dead-tree venues, here’s some of his work you can read for free:

[Disclosure – Gareth’s a good friend, and fellow (founding) member of the Friday Flash Fictioneers]

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Via Nancy Jane Moore:

Here’s a goody for your free fiction page: Suzette Haden Elgin‘s
novel, The Communipaths, first published as an Ace double back in 1970, is now available free online.

By the way, Elgin is still writing and publishing — she just released (in print) an SF poetry collection “Twenty-One Novel Poems.” She blogs at http://ozarque.livejournal.com/ .

Also, the new issue of Farrago’s Wainscot is out, with stories by Forrest Aguirre, Michael Jasper, Yoon Ha Lee, Timothy S. Miller and Jenn Reese. Plus poetry and other.

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Clarkesworld Magazine provides us with “Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-realist Aswang” by Kristin Mandigma.

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Project Gutenburg has some freebies by Alan E. Nourse: “The Link“, “Meeting of the Board” and “My Friend Bobby“.

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Here’s a new site that I’d not heard of before: Every Day Fiction does what it says on the tin, and delivers you a short story (apparently not always sf) every day. I discovered it after Ken MacLeod noticed he got a name-check in a piece called “Security Question” by Ramon Rozas III.

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Chris Roberson‘s on a roll with his own Friday Freebies – here’s a big old chunk of his novel Paragaea.

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The one and only Charlie Stross isn’t able to give away the entirety of his latest novel, Halting State, under a Creative Commons licence, but he is able to provide us with some of the early chapters – start with the prologue.

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Futurismic’s own Jeremiah Tolbert has a great flash piece up at the Daily Cabal – “My Cell Phone is a Slut”, no less.

And as always, if you’ve a hunger for the bite-sized stuff, the Friday Flash Fictioneers can deliver: the above-mentioned Gareth L. Powell gives us “Driving to the Moon”; Gareth D. Jones has his tongue in his cheek with “The Alliterati”; Martin McGrath has been playing catch-up after a few weeks of silence, and you can see the results; Neil Beynon delivers “A Bit Of A Pickle”; and there’s always “Secrets of the Faith” by yours truly. Looks like some of the gang are running a little late this week, so you may want to keep your eyes peeled for work from Shaun C. Green … and last but not least, welcome to our newest recruit Dan Pawley, whose FFF debut is entitled “Transportation”.

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And one to watch out for in the weeks to come – Fantasy Magazine is moving entirely away from print and changing to a free weekly online format – and increasing their per-word price for accepted fiction in the process!

Enjoy your weekend!

Authors, editors and anyone else – if you’ve got something free to read or listen to that you want included in next week’s round-up, drop an email to me (Paul Raven) via the address embedded in my name on the Staff page. Cheers!

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