Heads up, Friday people – time for your weekly wheelbarrow of free science fiction stories from the far-flung bends and spirals of the intertubes!
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A big batch from ManyBooks this time out:
- “Shipwreck in the Sky” by Eando Binder
- “With the Night Mail” by Rudyard Kipling
- “The Terror from the Depths” by Sewell Peaslee Wright
- “The Door” by Evelyn E Smith
- “Keep Out” by Frederic Brown
- “No Pets Allowed” by Monette A Cummings
- “Operation Lorelie” by William P Salton
- “Acid Bath” by Vaseleos Garson
- “The Mathematicians” by Arthur Feldman
- “Cogito, Ergo Sum” by John Foster West
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But just the one from FeedBooks:
- “The Gun” by Philip K Dick
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HUB Magazine presents “Storm CHASER” by Craig Pirrell
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There’s only the one DVD extra from Shadow Unit, but that should be “Sufficient“. Arf!
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Chris Roberson is back in the free-fic saddle with “Annus Mirabilis”
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Still coming steady from Fort Stoddard, Eternal Franchise is up to chapter 9.1
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A R Yngve sez:
My homepage has been updated with chapter 6 of my unsold novel The Time Idiot (the ongoing serial). This is a short, funny novel about a dumb man who has gained power far beyond his ability to handle it responsibly — in this case, the power to alter history. (You can call it a metaphor, if you’re into metaphors.)
Cheers, A R!
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Via BoingBoing (and pretty much the rest of the genre sub-web) comes the word that Catherynne M Valente is posting one chapter a week from her superbly-titled YA fantasy novel, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Also mentioned at BoingBoing is a similar effort by a chap called Jonathan, who says “I’ve set myself the target of putting a free short story online every week, and to keep doing just that for a year. […] more than that, I am making these stories available under a Creative Commons Share-alike Licence, hoping that others will take the stories to places that even I can’t imagine.” Well, good on him; go take a look, why don’tcha?
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Once again, SF Signal have a hugely comprehensive post of free fiction for each day of the past week, so go follow those. They also pointed out that Hachette – the people behind SF publisher Orbit Books – have made The Digital Plague by Jeff Somers available to read online, albeit from a rather fiddly Flash interface that crashes my browser (64-bit Kubuntu doesn’t handle these things well, sadly).
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And last but not least, a few short pieces from the ever-reliable Sumit Dam: “The Queen Is Dead” and “Manna“.
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That should keep you out of trouble while the boss finishes off his extended Friday lunch meeting, right? Right – and don’t forget you can drop us a note with any suggestions for next week’s collection. In the mean time, have a great weekend!