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Monday, May 20, 2013

Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 5/16/2013 [feedly]

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Something's very rotten on a sailboat in the middle of the North Pacific. I've got Part 3 of my contemporary fantasy novelette, The Raven's Head Dagger and the Custom of the Seas. For those of you who like coming late to things, there's a Part 1 and a Part 2 as well.

What's special about today's free fiction?

Tor has a story from George RR Martin's Wild Cards shared world: "The Button Man and the Murder Tree" by Cherie Priest
Books One and Two from Christopher Buecheler's The II AM Trilogy
Books One and Two from Jay Swanson's The Vitalis Chronicles
Silvia Moreno-Garcia has posted the first chapter of her upcoming contemporary fantasy novel, Young Blood. Read it and then give her all your money (it's crowdfunding, so that's what you're supposed to do)

Written

@Nightmare: "Doll Re Mi" by Tanith Lee [Horror] (also available in audio)
@Tor: "The Button Man and the Murder Tree" by Cherie Priest [Science Fiction]

Written – Flash

@365 tomorrows: "Good to Have Company" by Townsend Wright [Science Fiction Flash]
@Daily Science Fiction: "Puss" by Melissa Mead [Twisted Fairy Tale Flash]
@Flashes in the Dark: "Guard Duty" by James C. Clar [Horror Flash]

Written – Serialized

@HiLobrow: The Clockwork Man by E.V. Odle – Chapter 9 [Science Fiction - from 1923]
@Author's Site: The Raven's Head Dagger and the Custom of the Seas by Regan Wolfrom – Part 3 of 5 [Contemporary Dark Fantasy]
@Author's Site: Remnants by Daniel Powell – Chapter Seven: Into the Reclamation Zone [Apocalyptic]

Audio

Beware the Hairy Mango #167 – "Movie Gamera" by Matthew Sanborn Smith [MuchMangoMayo
@Clarkesworld: "Tachy Psyche" by Andy Dudak [Contemporary Fantasy]
@Nightmare: "Doll Re Mi" by Tanith Lee [Horror]
PodCastle #260 – "Fine Flying Things" by Adele Gardner [Fantasy]
StarShipSofa #289 – "First Fire" by Terry Bisson and "Return of the Mutant Worms" by Peter F. Hamilton [Science Fiction]

Audio – Serialized

Beam Me Up #365 – Conclusion of "Trath: The Final intervention" by David Scholes and Chapter 3 of No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber [Science Fiction]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

@Amazon:
- The II AM Trilogy by Christopher Buecheler: [Urban Fantasy Series]
  - The Blood That Bonds [First of Series]
  - Blood Hunt [Second of Series]
- Eden Book 1 (Eden Series) by David Holley [Science Fiction Adventure Novel - First of Series]
- The Flight of the Griffin by C.M. Gray [YA Fantasy Novel]
- Grimm End by S T Cameron [Horror Novel]
- "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" (eBook Original) by Neil Gaiman [It's NEIL GAIMAN, people]
- "Lucky Thirteen" by Marko Kloos [Science Fiction Short Story]
- Second Sight: Second Tale of the Lifesong by Greg Hamerton [Epic Fantasy Novel - Second of Series]
- Sword Bearer (Return of the Dragons) by Teddy Jacobs [Epic Fantasy Novel - First of Series]
- The Vitalis Chronicles by Jay Swanson: [Epic Fantasy Series]:
  - White Shores [First of Series]
  - Tomb of the Relequim [Second of Series]
@Project Gutenberg:
- The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales by Hans Christian Andersen [Fairy Tale Collection - from 1863]
- The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne [Science Fiction Adventure Novel - from 1874]
- Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by P. H. Emerson [Fairy Tale Collection - from 1894]

Free Audiobooks

@LibriVox: The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales by Hans Christian Andersen [Fairy Tale Collection - from 1863]

Excerpts

@Tor: Excerpt from Replica by Jenna Black [YA Science Fiction]
@Author's Site: Excerpt from Young Blood by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Chapter One [Contemporary Fantasy]