I don’t know about you, but I’m planning to spend this week assiduously avoiding watching the news. A big batch of free fiction should help…
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Again, only the one super-shorty from Manybooks:
- “Hard Guy” by H B Carleton
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Most of Feedbooks‘ output appears on Manybooks first… but Feedbooks offer more versions and a much better interface, and that’s market forces, folks. So here’s the links:
- “Cully” by Jack Egan
- “A Question of Courage” by Jesse Franklin Bone
- “Cerebrum” by Albert Teichner
- The People of the Ruins by Edward Shanks
- “It Could Be Anything” by John Keith Laumer
- “Get Out Of Our Skies!” by E K Jarvis
- “Tomorrow“, “The Lanson Screen” by Arthur Leo Zagat
- “The Dope on Mars” by John Michael Sharkey (And they only just found water there! Damned stoners get everywhere… )
- The Blue Germ by Maurice Nicoll
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Paul McAuley‘s still churning out the free stuff; here’s The Quiet War, chapters six and seven.
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Subterranean Online has posted the second instalment of Chris Roberson‘s “Mirror Of Fiery Brightness”
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This week’s offering from Strange Horizons: “Swan Song” by Joanne Merriam.
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Via SF Signal: “The Transhuman Singularity” is a science fiction virtuality space opera by Michael Blade
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At The Future Fire:
- “One Drop” by David Dumitru
- “Getting Down and Dirty” by Michael Johnson
- “Avatar on the Belts 3: Aither” by William J. Piovano
- “Suburban Alchemist” by Rob Sharp
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Tor.com has an original short story from one of my personal favourite authors, Rudy Rucker: “Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory”
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Two new pieces from SpaceWesterns:
- “The Mound—Part IV” by H.P. Lovecraft & Zealia Bishop
- “Better than Gold” by Robert Mancebo
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And let’s end with a handful of Friday Flash:
- Clive Birnie tells the tale of “The Identity Thief 3.0“
- Sarah Ellender wants to know “What Lies On The Other Side“
- Gareth L Powell‘s hanging out with the “Chip Heads“
- Neil Beynon remembers “When“
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And that’s your lot, folks. Keep those tip-offs and plugs coming in – deadline is 1800 GMT every Friday. In the meantime, have a great weekend!