How alliterative a title is that, eh? 😉

Alliterative the date may be, but it’s not the richest haul of free reads we’ve had. Still, there’s plenty enough here to keep you entertained for seven days …

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A few from Manybooks.net:

• “The Quantum Jump” by Robert Wicks
• “Out Like a Light” and “Anything You Can Do …”  by Randall Garrett

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Another email from the sharp-eyed and well-connected (not to mention fabulously-named) Cole Kitchen:

“Another e-zine for the list: Allegory, the “tri-annual online
magazine of SF, fantasy & horror,”.

(I can’t find a back-issues archive on their site, but some of these can be found via the Internet Archive.)”

Thanks, Cole – added to the sidebar!

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Another new webzine on the block – albeit without any fiction content until the projected launch date of 1st March – is Oddlands Magazine, whose editor Soren Bask has just stepped out of the shadows. One to keep an eye on – and a new market for folk to submit to, of course. 🙂

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Jayme Lynn Blaschke appears to be doing some kind of running serial fiction thing over at the No Fear Of The Future group blog. Just posted is part three of “Memory”, but I assume you’ll want to start at the beginning.

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If I’m not very much mistaken, Peter Watts is also posting fictional snippets on his blog. “Job Security” certainly has his comments field buzzing, and rightly so.

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Free audio fiction! James Patrick Kelly, obviously pining for the halcyon days of reading his novel Look Into The Sun to the public of the interwebs (way back in the dark ages of, oooh, last year), has started doing the same with his Nebula-nominated story “Men Are Trouble“.

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Neil Beynon, fellow traveller of the Friday Flash Fiction train, is having a rather productive week. In addition to the usual FFF output (see below), he’s got a whole other story on his site: “Wide Open Space“.

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This is the second week in a row that a Futurismic staffer has had a story published. This week it’s the turn of blogger Tomas L. Martin, whose story “The Shogun and the Scientist” is now online at Aberrant Dreams.

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It’s a very thin week for the Friday Flash Fictioneers – a lot of us (including yours truly) appear to have had obstacles thrown in our way by that thing called life (which, despite being a great generator of stories, has a neat knack of preventing them being written). But a few of the troops are holding the fort:

Neil Beynon was late to last week’s offering, so “Silver” gets a plug this time round; his thoroughly punctual offering for this week is entitled “Fragments” – these in addition to the full story mentioned further up! Go, Neil!

New recruit Greg O’Byrne examines the “Life of Diamonds“; meanwhile, Gareth L Powell appears to have been doing some writing at the “Coffee House“.

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Non-fiction bonus! Via Warren Ellis‘s highly-trained gang of web-scouring super-monkeys at grinding.be (which anyone who digs Futurismic will probably love to bits and should subscribe to immediately):

“Stuart Home’s brilliant 1987 book THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE: UTOPIAN CURRENTS FROM LETTRISM TO CLASS WAR is available in full, here.”

As is pointed out, it’s sure to be dated. But even a dated political text can tell you a lot, if only about the time it was written. Right?

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That’s your lot – don’t forget to contact us with any tips, winks or blatant self-plugs you may have. In the meantime, have a great weekend!