It’s Friday, and that can mean one thing and one thing only – it’s free fiction time! Let’s see what we’ve got in the magic bag of RSS this week…
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A couple from Manybooks.net:
- “The Machine That Saved the World” by Murray Leinster
- “The Success Machine” by Henry Slesar
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A couple at FeedBooks:
- “Citadel” by Algis Budrys
- “A Choice of Miracles” by James A Cox
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And a couple at Gutenberg:
- “Pandemic” by Jesse F. Bone
- “Next Door, Next World” by Robert Donald Locke
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Via Klima’s Weekend Getaway at Tor.com:
I had suggested that people read stories from a generation different from the one they belonged to. To that end, we have:
“The First Commandment” by Gregory Benford
“The Sky is Large and the Earth is Small” by Chris Roberson
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If I’m not very much mistaken, Peter Watts is sneaking out microfiction at his blog again. Much like Futurismic‘s very own Mac Tonnies, Watts is “Loving the Alien“:
We sleep. The chimp makes grudging corrections to a myriad small trajectories. I set the alarm to wake me every few weeks, burn a little more of my candle just to check up on it; but it doesn’t seem to be trying to slip anything past me this time.
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Here’s issue 4 of Oddlands Magazine:
Short Fiction