I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to worry about how fast the weeks are flying by – it seems I scarcely finish wrapping up one weekly batch of free fiction before I start compiling another one.
But hey, it’s good to be busy, right? Right – so here’s this week’s batch of free sf online; a little smaller than usual, perhaps, but still plenty to be going on with…
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Just the one at ManyBooks:
- “The Eye of Alloria” by Rae Lori
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Gareth L Powell eschews flash fiction this week to reprint in full a story from his collection The Last Reef: “Hot Rain”
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Jason Stoddard continues to deliver chunks of his now-trunked novel Eternal Franchise; here’s chapter 2.3
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Tor.com is giving away electronic copies of Charles de Lint‘s novel Spiritwalk (if you’re a signed-in member of the site, natch, but that don’t cost nuffink, mistah). But you don’t need to log in or sign up to read “Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky in the same place. How’s about that, eh?
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Brain Harvest presents “Sky and Sea” by Vylar Kaftan; I’ve also added the site to the sidebar of justice, and as they’ve got a decent RSS feed you can follow I’m going to stop linking to individual stories from now on. Only so many hours in the week, you dig?
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Book View Cafe presents “Something For Everyone” by Jennifer Stevenson
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Subterranean Press presents “Her Voice in a Bottle” by Tim Pratt
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Strange Horizons presents part 2 of “Diana Comet” by Sandra McDonald
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Shadow Unit Season 2 is warming up with DVD Extra #1: “La Befana”
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Orbit Books are giving away the first chapter of This Is Not a Game, the new metaverse technothriller from Walter Jon Williams (which is currently whispering sweet nothings from my to-be-read shelf as I type…)
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And here are the crumbs that SF Signal‘s ever-hungering web-vacuum caught that we’d missed:
- Mindflights presents “The One with the Waggly Tail” by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
- There’s a new online genre short fiction webzine by the name of The Hive Mind; they have an RSS feed for your convenience, which is a good move
- Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist has the full text of “Precision Set” by L E Modesitt, Jr., from the forthcoming Viewpoints Critical collection
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And finally here’s some Friday Flash Fiction:
- “Wanderlust” by Shaun C Green… as well as “Heralded by Iron“, and “Punk’s Not Dead” and “Colours Move” (he’s been on a catch-up mission this week, y’see)
- “Three Blue Things” by Sarah Ellender
- “The King’s Pleasure” by Gaie Sebold
- “The Loneliest Whale in the World” by Sumit Dam
- “Navita” by Gareth D Jones (a Latin translation, no less)
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And there you go – turned out to be more stuff than I thought!
Still, the more the merrier, so keep those tipoffs and plugs coming in through the usual channels. In the meantime, have a great weekend!