It’s Friday, and this week the free fiction cup runneth over…
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Just one (very short) story from Manybooks:
- “Cully” by Jack Egan
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Feedbooks have yet another Futurismic re-release: “Maquech” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
And a bunch of other stuff:
- Refuge by Richard Herley
- “Children Of Tomorrow” by Arthur Leo Zagat
- “Seven Out Of Time” by Arthur Leo Zagat
- “The Putnam Tradition” by Sonya Dorman
- “I’m A Stranger Here Myself” by Mack Reynolds
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Here’s another couple of free chapters from The Quiet War by Paul McAuley; chapter 4 parts one and two, and chapter 5.
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Via SF Signal, Elizabeth Bear is in on the free excerpts game, too. Here are chapters one, two, and three of All the Windwracked Stars.
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It’s new issue time at Subterranean Online:
Chris Roberson kicks off the Fall 2008 issue of Subterranean Online with part one of a long novelette set in the world of his Celestial Empire, in which the future space race doesn’t go quite as anyone intended. “Mirror of Fiery Brightness” is action filled, the result of strange conjectures, and imbued with humanity, as are most of Chris’ entries in this future history.
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This week’s offering from Strange Horizons: “Kimberley Ann Duray Is Not Afraid” by Leah Bobet.
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From the charmingly affable Paul Cornell (yeah, that guy who writes Doctor Who scripts; he does other stuff too, y’know):
I was very pleased to have a story included in Pyr Books’ new original SF anthology Fast Forward 2, which will soon be available in all good book stores. I was even more pleased when editor Lou Anders told me he’d be launching the anthology by putting my story “Catherine Drewe”, complete, up on the Pyr website…
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Tor have got a new original Terry Bisson story available to read in full; it’s called “Catch ‘Em In The Act“.
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Via the superbly-monikered Cat Rambo, who’s holding the fort at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days at the moment:
The new issue of Farrago’s Wainscot is up, which includes my story, “The Fisherman’s Child“.
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SpaceWesterns have got themselves a spiffy RSS feed, which makes keeping on top of their updates much easier from my point of view. It also means I’m pleased to report that the following stories have materialised over there:
- A serialised version of H.P. Lovecraft and Zelia Bishop‘s “The Mound” in seven parts; latest updates are parts two and three.
- Amanda Spikol‘s “Old Habits“, which is apparently a prequel to “A Few Sunsets Too Many“.
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Being the beginning of the month, it’s new issue time for many a webzine. First up, Clarkesworld:
- “Gift of the Kites” by Jim C. Hines
- “Passwords” by John A. McDermott
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From Apex Online:
- “Blakenjel” by Lavie Tidhar
- “Hunting Aliens” by Erik Williams
- “I Know an Old Lady” by Nathan Rosen
- Spoiled Meat by Ryan C. Thomas
- “Dick Does Time” by Adam Roberts
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- “The Toymaker’s Grief” by Hal Duncan
- “This Is How We Remember” by Jaime Lee Moyer
- “Needle and Thread” by Ann Leckie and Rachel Swirsky
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Reflection’s Edge seems to lean toward fantasy, but the new issue has one story marked out as sf:
- “Roots as Deep as Mountains” by Thane Thompson
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Via BoingBoing, Small Beer Press are at it again:
To celebrate the publication of Kelly Link‘s new collection, Pretty Monsters, most of Kelly’s previous collection Magic for Beginners is now available as a free download in various completely open formats with no Digital Rights Management (DRM) strings attached. It is licensed under a Creative Commons (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0) license…
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John Joseph Adams just can’t stop himself – maybe he got bitten by something?
I’ve just added the following two free stories to the Free Stories & Excerpts page of The Living Dead’s website:
- “The Dead Kid” by Darrell Schweitzer
- “Beautiful Stuff“ by Susan Palwick
There’s now six free stories here on the website in their entirety, plus all the excerpts. Be sure to keep checking back to see more!
(I’ve only linked to the HTML versions; there are other portable formats available too.)
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Pick up the twenty-fifth piece of Jayme Lynn Blaschke‘s Memory… but mind you don’t cut yourself.
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A quick message from Ben Rawluk:
Here’s another shameless, shameless self-plug for some of my short-short fiction: “Night on the Compost Heap“. Thanks!
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And while we’re talking short-short fiction, here’s a handful of Friday Flash:
- “Thomas and the Machine” by Gaie Sebold
- “Avan” by Neil Beynon
- “Carried Out to the Sea” by Shaun C Green
Nothing new from Phred Serenissima this week, but he has collected together his previous Friday Flash stories into a digital book called Consent To Be Monitored, now available on Scribd.
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That’s it for this week – plenty to keep you busy there, I’m thinking. Don’t forget to send us your plugs, links and pitches before 1800 GMT next week… but for now, have a great weekend!