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Futurismic and FeedBooks – making quality science fiction more portable

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If you check out Futurismic‘s Friday Free Fiction posts, you’ll have noticed that we link regularly to FeedBooks, a site that aims to supply free-to-read ebooks in convenient portable formats. FeedBooks themselves have noticed, and we’ve been working with them to make Futurismic‘s fiction more accessible.

All stories published here at Futurismic are released under a Creative Commons license, so anyone can republish them provided they credit the authors and make no profit in the process. FeedBooks make stories more useful to the reader on the move by making them available in portable device-friendly formats like ePub, MobiPocket and iLiad, as well as printable PDFs.

So, if you keep an eye on the special Futurismic list at FeedBooks, you’ll see our back catalogue of fiction cropping up as time goes by. New stories will remain exclusive to Futurismic for the first three months, after which you’ll be able to pick them up in whatever format suits you best. The following titles are already available, with more to come in the future:

The FeedBooks team seem genuinely interested in getting good fiction into the hands of readers, and I recommend getting in touch with them if your webzine operates a similar model to Futurismic – it’s a great way to give your authors greater exposure.

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Friday Free Fiction for 8th August

It’s Friday, and that can mean one thing and one thing only – it’s free fiction time! Let’s see what we’ve got in the magic bag of RSS this week…

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A couple from Manybooks.net:

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A couple at FeedBooks:

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And a couple at Gutenberg:

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Via Klima’s Weekend Getaway at Tor.com:

I had suggested that people read stories from a generation different from the one they belonged to. To that end, we have:

“The First Commandment” by Gregory Benford
“The Sky is Large and the Earth is Small” by Chris Roberson

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If I’m not very much mistaken, Peter Watts is sneaking out microfiction at his blog again. Much like Futurismic‘s very own Mac Tonnies, Watts is “Loving the Alien“:

We sleep. The chimp makes grudging corrections to a myriad small trajectories. I set the alarm to wake me every few weeks, burn a little more of my candle just to check up on it; but it doesn’t seem to be trying to slip anything past me this time.

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Here’s issue 4 of Oddlands Magazine:

Short Fiction

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Friday Free Fiction for 1st August

It’s a weekday, and it’s the first of the month, which means that there’s a brand new original science fiction story here on Futurismic for you to read!

Alex Wilson‘s “Dry Frugal With Death Rays” is a superb slice of dark satire, so I’d like to suggest you start there before getting to grips with our usual round-up of free fiction elsewhere in the intertubes.

All done? OK, here we go…

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Just two titles from Manybooks.net:

And nothing at all from FeedBooks this week… I guess many of the volunteers who transcribe these stories are now burdened with summertime duties involving younglings. Hey, everyone needs a holiday, right?

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John “Electric Velocipede” Klima is climbing onto the Friday freebies bandwagon over at Tor.com:

Welcome to what will be a regular Friday feature from me. I am going to post a Weekend Getaway every Friday. This will be a link to a piece of short fiction that’s available online for free. I’ll discuss the piece(s) and give you links. Then you feel free to play in the comments and provide your thoughts on the work.

Here are the stories:

You’ll need to visit the Tor site to catch the discussion, of course, but I’ve provided the direct links to the stories for those who want to get straight to the action.

That post is from last week, by the way – a downside of being UK-based is that my Friday is finishing just as most of the States is digging into the second cup of coffee, so sometimes things get posted too late for me to add. 🙁

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While we’re talking about Hal Duncan, the man himself reports that there’s “a wee fairy story of mine called “The Behold of the Eye“” available in the latest issue of Lone Star Stories.

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More Shadow Unit DVD extras: “Two-Handed Grip“, and the tenth part of Vigil (which has no title I can accurately discern).

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Apex Online‘s latest fiction contribution is “In the Seams” by Andrew C Porter:

There isn