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Friday, January 11, 2013


 A few more goodies for you today.  Back tomorrow.






Cool Site
 I don't mention cool sites that aren't about free fiction nearly enough, so one I should mention to correct that is The Comic Prospector, a site where Rusty Keele of  BestScienceFictionStories.com fame reviews comic books of virtually all genres.  Do yourself a favor and check it out. And don't miss the Elfquest review, which links to free online editions.



 
E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:

Comics
At Atomic Kommie Comics: Buster Crabbe in "Dark of the Moon" Sci-Fi. (1954).
At Atomic Kommie Comics: Spacehawk in "My Friend, My Foe" Sci-Fi. (1940).
At The Horrors of It All: "Gorillas, Ghosts, and Gangsters" Horror. Humor. (1942).
At Pappy's Golden Age: "The Devil's Typewriter" Horror. (1952).
At Digital Comics Museum:
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Some good freebies this morning as two of the regular great genre fiction sites (Buzzy Mag and Daily Science Fiction) are joined by a speculative fiction story from The New Yorker!  And there's great audio fiction at Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and Tales to Terrify. If you're not familiar with all three of these, you have many great hours of catching up ahead of you.

More later today, including comics, e-books, and a very cool site.

Today's QD Radio is Nightfall's SF/Horror story "Hands Off" by John Graham. A dangerous chemical that triggers extreme aggression is accidental spilled.


[Art from "Shirley Temple Three" linked below]


Fiction
• At Buzzy Mag: "The Call Of The Golden Gate" by Daniel Powell. Horror.
      "There was a man–a scholar–who claimed to have identified the monstrous creature. His credentials to make such a claim were, by his own admission, questionable. Still . . . a significant part of me believes him. What are my alternatives? I saw the thing."

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Death Before Dishonor" by Shannon Leight.
      "The siege lasted months, and those months were hard enough. Then the city fell and the conqueror marched in to claim the ashes, and Kere and I and every other living body were sold to Dogstown."

• At The New Yorker: "Shirley Temple Three" by Thomas Pierce. Speculative Fiction..
      "Tommy is driving in from Atlanta, where he works as the host of a popular show called “Back from Extinction.” On each episode they actually bring back long-dead, forgotten creatures—sabre-toothed tigers, dodo birds, and all the rest."

Flash Fiction

Audio Fiction
• At Escape Pod: "Shutdown" by Corry L. Lee. Science Fiction.
      "The alarm blared over the forest’s metallic rustling, and my HUD’s red warning light glazed the view through my faceplate. Ten seconds until the defense scan hit my position. Ten seconds until any motion, any electrical signature would whip vines down from the iron-cored trees, wrapping me as surely as steel cables, pinning me while cutter-bugs took me apart."

• At Pseudopod: "What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night" by Michael Marshall Smith. Horror.
     “The first thing I was unhappy about was the dark. I do not like the dark very very much. It is not the worst thing in the world but it is also not the best thing in the world, either. When I was very smaller I used to wake up sometimes in the middle of the night and be scared when I woke up, because it was so dark. I would go to bed with my light on, the one light that turns round and round, on the drawers by the side of my bed."

• At Tales to Terrify: "The Heart Is a Determined Hunter" by Thomas Smith. Horror.
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Other Genres
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There are some good free fiction links today, including the latest issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies and the conclusion of "Thieves Vinegar" at Paizo.


[Art from "Thieves Vinegar"]







Fiction
• At Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
"His Crowning Glory’: a new tale of the Antique Lands" by Noreen Doyle. Fantasy.
      "Jon sat down in the doorway to watch the man go about whatever odd business his God had appointed to him."

"The Giants of Galtares" by Sue Burke. Fantasy.
       Sardamira tugged her reins from Pinela's hands. "I'm staying. Whatever happens, I want to see what I came for."
• At Paizo: "Thieves Vinegar" (All four Parts) by Kevin Andrew Murphy. Fantasy Pathfinde.
     "The most horrible sight is watching those cultists throwing the corpse back up while a vampire vomits. This latter is particularly bad when you remember who the priestess seated me opposite. If I ever hear a bard say the words "bathed in blood" again, I swear I'll kick him."

Flash Fiction
Audio Fiction
• At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Seeking The Great Raymundo" Jamie Lackey. Fantasy.
      “Why in the world do you want to be a magician, if that’s the life they lead?” he asked me after one particularly bloodcurdling story about an angry mother.

• At 19 Nocturne Boulevard: "Afterlives 2.1 - Once Upon a Forgotten Boy"
     "Afterlives is a tale of what happens after death, or maybe afterlife.... and it isn't at all what you would expect."

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