Another week flies by – is it just me or are they getting faster? Haven’t I said that before? What if I’m caught in some sort of temporal loop in a simulated universe? What if none of you are actually real?
Ah, who cares – it’s Friday, and there’s free science fiction stories to read on the internet. Get stuck in!
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Here’s a couple at ManyBooks:
- “Song in a Minor Key” by Catherine Lucile Moore
- “The Right People” by Adam Rakunas (Futurismic reprint!)
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And a bona fide classic from one of the genre’s best known names at FeedBooks:
- “Beyond Lies the Wub” by Philip K Dick
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HUB Magazine presents “The Not Knowing” by Conrad Williams
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Subterranean Online presents “Under the Honey” by Liz Williams
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Strange Horizons presents “The Man Who Lost the Sea” by Theodore Sturgeon, a classic from 1959
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Jason Stoddard presents chapter 5.1 of Eternal Franchise
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Jeremiah Tolbert presents “The Kansas Jayhawk vs. The Midwest Monster Squad“; this awesome geek-gonzo (geekzo? gonzeek?) story was published in Interzone a few years back, and comes with my sincerest recommendation as a fun read.
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Shadow Unit has posted another DVD Extra: “Disintegration”
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Via Tor.com (and others – saw it there first), Lone Star Stories are giving away a free PDF version of their recent anthology, the Lone Star Stories Reader.
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Via Cory at BoingBoing comes an opportunity to read a story originally written for him and his wife as a honeymoon gift: “(Nothing But) Flowers” by John McDaid
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Also via BoingBoing (and many many others), Steampunk Magazine returns after a long hiatus with the free-to-download 5th issue of the subgenre-defining zine.
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Just sneaking into my inbox before I leave the house comes a message from Lee Giminez:
I wanted to let you know that my science fiction short story, “September 12“, was just published in The Cynic Magazine.
Cheers, Lee!
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Unusually, we seem to have caught almost all the same things as SF Signal this week, though they do have a beefy round-up post from earlier today that might be worth looking through. And don’t forget they’ve collected links to all the free-to-read Hugo Award nominee stories as well.
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As my schedule in the world beyond the internet demands I be elsewhere this afternoon, I only have one piece of Friday Flash to report at the time of compiling this post, namely “Patterns” by Gaie Sebold. All later arrivals will be collected up in next week’s post, as always.
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And there’ you have it; don’t forget to send us your tip-offs, plugs and links about good sf stuff to read on the web. In the meantime, I’m off to London to meet none other than Tim Powers – have a good weekend!