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Martian race, Sarek. 3 out of 5 http://www.livingdigitally.net/books/farmer_one/farmer_one.html
“It owned her. Maybe it—the fear, the darkness, The Creep—wouldn’t take her this morning, but she knew it was out there. No, not out there. In here. In her head. The worst place of all. This was an inside job all the way. The monster rummaged in the rooms of her mind, hid in cramped [...]
“Peter Orullian: Let’s get underway by having you give us a snapshot of your work to set the stage for our conversation: genres you write in, recognitions, etc., publishing vitals, if you will. Ted Chiang: I write science fiction short stories. I have a collection of my stories, STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS, published [...]
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Human Legacy Project and Democracy Device protection. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.livingdigitally.net/books/venom/venom.html
Captive choice chew. 3.5 out of 5
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“”You’ve got some sort of wild man!” Lycon blurted with first glance. “Nonsense!” Vonones snorted. “Look at the tiny scales, those talons! There may be a race somewhere with blue skin, but this thing’s no more human than a mandrill is. The Numidians called it a lizard-ape in their tongue—a sauropithecus.” After that first startled [...]
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Spiders, millions of them – and hybrid experiments to escape. Maybe. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.livingdigitally.net/books/anansi/anansi_island.html
Beating up a beater. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/32537
““If one green bottle should accidently fall… it might just crack its skull and lie bleeding to death in Marylebone Lane.”” or following Konstantin ends violently. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/37062
“Have you heard of the Jekyll-Frankenstein serum?” 3.5 out of 5 http://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/alternative-history/lavie-tidhar/the-stoker-memorandum
Lost girl and lost purse keys murder setup. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7555
artificial intelligence pathways. 3.5 out of 5 http://kriswrites.com/2012/01/23/free-fiction-monday-the-questing-mind/
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A gangster is happily doing what they do when another wants to hire him to work for him and run some stuff. He doesn’t like this idea, but taking over would be ok. Things escalate, everybody dies, mostly. 3 out of 5 http://www.munseys.com/diskfour/fastonedex.htm
Bullets work on magical people, too. 3.5 out of 5 http://kriswrites.com/2012/01/16/free-fiction-monday-the-thrill-of-the-hunt/
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A robot gets independent. 3.5 out of 5
Birkin House and suicide and ghosts. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Of Time and Dust – Steven Savile and Steve Lockley
Ranks of Bronze finds a Roman Legion shanghaied and put to work for a group of interstellar traders. These rapacious types have agreements to solve conflicts by conflict – but only at the technology level of the locals. So if you have primitive barbarians with swords and shields – you send in your slave legion [...]
“Fyodor Kolyokov hadn’t needed the isolation tank for a long time: not since the early days when all needs Physick were safely defined by the razor-wire fences of City 512. But need and desire often mingle to the same effect, and so as soon as he found a way, Kolyokov moved the tank from Russia [...]
“So it was the blowpipe, then, as if there had been any doubt. Nothing else had the power to shake the ground like that. A hundred or more kilometres to the west, at this very moment, a payload was racing through the bowels of the Earth, slamming along a rifle-straight vacuum tunnel that would eventually [...]
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“So it was the blowpipe, then, as if there had been any doubt. Nothing else had the power to shake the ground like that. A hundred or more kilometres to the west, at this very moment, a payload was racing through the bowels of the Earth, slamming along a rifle-straight vacuum tunnel that would eventually [...]
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Fruity body supply. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=90
Heart squeeze for bodies. 3.5 out of 5 http://jkathleencheney.wordpress.com/free-fiction/a-hand-for-each/
Unfortunately, she was dead. 3.5 out of 5
Last of a team, looking to kill some Priests and helping out mother and son in Entity land. 4 out of 5 http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/50326
Continue reading about Memories of the Dead Man – Douglas Smith
Umayma boy drop. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/85599
Continue reading about The Seams Between the Stars – Kameron Hurley
Dead space program war. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/85603
Goats, no zombie. 4 out of 5 http://theflashfictionoffensive.blogspot.com/2011/10/anonymous-9-promo.html
Working on an accident. Crazy. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.powderburnflash.com/?q=node/253
California cannabilism epidemic. 3.5 out of 5 http://powderburnflash.com/?q=node/447
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“Only a Sakhran would be polite enough to describe it as a Command Post. It was a collection of three sheds (two plus an outside toilet) to which Madsen and two others had travelled by tracked groundcar. It was the only collection of buildings anywhere near the area where they had calculated, from the lifeboat’s [...]
Putting mum back. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.jennymag.org/spring-11-issue/catala
“Memphis paused for breath. It must have been hard, carrying Sunday and also having to keep his own balance. ‘The artilect sensed the presence of Sunday’s machines, the ones inside her head. It worked out how to talk to them, how to make Sunday think there was someone calling.’ The idea of a machine tricking [...]
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“Memphis paused for breath. It must have been hard, carrying Sunday and also having to keep his own balance. ‘The artilect sensed the presence of Sunday’s machines, the ones inside her head. It worked out how to talk to them, how to make Sunday think there was someone calling.’ The idea of a machine tricking [...]
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Music find. 2.5 out of 5 http://ttapress.com/downloads/of-dawn.pdf
The Baumoff Explosive – William Hope Hodgsonhttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605781.txt Light interruption = Boom. 3.5 out of 5 http://freesf.strandedinoz.com/wordpress/2007/06/the-baumoff-explosive-william-hope-hodgson/
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There’s a length introduction to this excellent 3.95 collection of his shorter work. Best of H P Lovecraft : The Rats in the Walls – H. P. Lovecraft Best of H P Lovecraft : The Picture in the House – H. P. Lovecraft Best of H P Lovecraft : The Outsider – H. P. Lovecraft [...]
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Just 3.13 here and pretty dull, except for the Resnick. Plus a sword article. Subterranean Online 20 : Subterranean Online 20 – William Schafer Subterranean Online 20 : White Lines on a Green Field – Catherynne M. Valente Subterranean Online 20 : SHAKA II – Mike Resnick Subterranean Online 20 : Antiquities and Tangibles – [...]
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Tchaka fleet empire fall. 3.5 out of 5 http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2011/fiction-shaka-ii-by-mike-resnick/
“It is necessary to speak of beginnings. Understand one thing, though, above all else. Whatever brought us to this moment, this declaration, could never have had a single cause. If we have learned anything, it’s that life is never that simple, never that schematic. You might say it was the moment when our grandmother set [...]
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Problems with dead granddad, etc. 3 out of 5 http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2011/fiction-balfour-and-meriwether-in-the-vampire-of-kabul-by-daniel-abraham/
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Maybe partners in this stuff. 3 out of 5 http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2011/fiction-antiquities-and-tangibles-by-tim-pratt/
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Coyote game. 3 out of 5 http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2011/fiction-white-lines-on-a-green-field-by-catherynne-m-valente/
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The usual 3.13ish bunch of oddballness, with some nifty photos. Flurb 11 : Big Store Baoding – Kek-W Flurb 11 : My Big Night Out With Thing – Leslie What Flurb 11 : Hotels – Alberto Chimal Flurb 11 : Medusa – Chris N. Brown Flurb 11 : The Ghosts of Carnivores – Minister Faust [...]
Kubrick set-to. 2.5 out of 5 http://www.flurb.net/11/11lain.htm
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Shapeshifter and telepath. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.flurb.net/11/11rucker.htm
Continue reading about Dispatches From Interzone – Rudy Rucker
Killer performance. 2.5 out of 5 http://www.flurb.net/11/11swanwick.htm
Painful big smash. 3 out of 5 http://www.flurb.net/11/11bef_eng.htm
Continue reading about The Last Hours Of The Last Days – Bernando Fernandez
Machine problems. 3 out of 5 http://www.flurb.net/11/11rojo_eng.htm
Odd hyperspace problem. 2.5 out of 5 http://www.flurb.net/11/11guffey.htm
Continue reading about Bring Me The Head Of André Breton! – Robert Guffey
With music. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.flurb.net/11/11anders.htm
Continue reading about Fairy Werewolf vs Vampire Zombie – Charlie Jane Anders
U-Men discovery expanding Tranquility. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.flurb.net/11/11faust.htm
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Bio-entity aid pregnant. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.flurb.net/11/11brown.htm
Multiple sided. 3 out of 5 http://www.flurb.net/11/11chimal_eng.htm
A decent issue at 3.33 Clarkesworld 64 : Scattered Along The River Of Heaven – Aliette De Bodard Clarkesworld 64 : What Everyone Remembers – Rahul Kanakia Clarkesworld 64 : All The Painted Stars – Gwendolyn Clare Felicity, or elsewhere. 3.5 out of 5 Boat life. 3 out of 5 Not too Bright fight role. [...]
Not too Bright fight role. 3.5 out of 5 http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clare_01_12/
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Boat life. 3 out of 5 http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kanakia_01_12/
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Felicity, or elsewhere. 3.5 out of 5 http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/de_bodard_01_12/
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Going for a different image. 3 out of 5 http://kriswrites.com/2012/01/09/free-fiction-monday-models/
No good at 3.00. The Peek story is ok and the discussion with De Bodard is interesting. Clarkesworld 63 : Clarkesworld 63 – Neil Clarke Clarkesworld 63 : Sirius – Ben Peek Clarkesworld 63 : In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All Of Our Problems – Chris Stabback Clarkesworld 63 : Silently And Very Fast 3 [...]
Bad apple. 2 out of 5 http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_12_11/
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I’m an alien. 3 out of 5 http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/stabback_12_11/
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A big alien virus quarantine. 3.5 out of 5 http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/peek_12_11/
“The Ivoire dipped, then rose, then flipped and doubled back. Inside the bridge, the crew could feel no difference despite the rapid movements. The only way anyone could tell if something had changed was the flow of data coming through all the monitors. The six-person bridge crew had fallen into their various roles, speaking rarely. [...]
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“We are at a tipping point in history. The Ghosts were driven back from Cthuga at the beginning of the war, and now they are reaching out towards Cthuga again. It is clear that they came to Fomalhaut because they wish to communicate with the Mind. We do not know if it wishes to communicate [...]
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“He refused to be baited. “So the Virga Home Guard agrees with Abyss’s official story, that the monster was a capital bug all along? — Even though there are dozens of Guard cruisers patrolling the sunless countries even now?” 3.5 out of 5 http://www.tor.com/stories/2012/01/ashes-of-candesce-excerpt
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“Nowhere else in the Archipelago is privilege and status so nakedly displayed as in Thule, the thistledown city, the city of tiers. It was built by swarms of machines long before the first generation of Quicks was created from their seedship’s genetic templates. The machines dropped a superstring of entangled gravitons into the centre of [...]
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“Weirdfictionreview.com: What weird writers did you grow up reading? How did they influence or not influence your writing? Lucius Shepard: I read Tolkien when I was a kid, also a few random books like A. Merritt’s The Moon Pool, but they didn’t make much of an impression. I didn’t really like Tolkien. My father forced [...]
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In the Coaching Game, you only need 3 works edited to qualify. For coaching, anthologies and magazines count. There are 331 overall editors and teamups, with 94 qualifiers. Gordon Van Gelder has stalled because FSF now only available on Kindle, literally and DRMed – can’t use it on Kindle 4 PC. Desktop being where I [...]
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BEYOND 33000 – The 2010 Fiction Season Short Game by Score In the Short Game, you only need 5 works to qualify. There are over 4400 authors and teamups with 831 qualifiers. In the fiction game, the short form only includes short stories, no excerpts, serials, poetry or non-fiction to be found here. Kristine Kathryn [...]
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BEYOND 33000 – The 2011 Fiction Season Long Game by Score In the Long Game, you only need 3 works to qualify. In the fiction game, the long form includes novels and collections and the odd omnibus. There are over 1200 in total, with 373 qualifiers. Not much change out the top, with Moorcock adding [...]
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BREAKDOWN BY WORKS 5 works to qualify, in both these blogs there are around 5692 authors or teamups, and there are almost 1200 authors and teamups qualified. As far as the 2011 fiction season goes : The Top Scorers A lot of poems means Robert E. Howard has soared past 500. Moorcock and Silverberg have [...]
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Combined Free SF Reader and Not Free SF Reader List By Author updated :- For November http://freesf.strandedinoz.com/
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For the End of 2011 Note changes : Free SF Reader List updated :- http://freesf.strandedinoz.com/freesflist.html Not Free SF Reader List updated : – http://freesf.strandedinoz.com/notfreesflist.html
Hey, enough with the family drama and blood. Just give me fish. Or chips. Or both! 3.5 out of 5 http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2012/01/01/a-crime-tail-top-writer-allan-guthrie-s-hard-hitting-but-heartwarming-seasonal-short-story-86908-23672491/
The Charnel House – Clark Ashton Smithhttp://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/22/the-charnel-god A man looks for a woman who has a sleeping sickness. She is abducted and taken to the death god Mordiggian. It seems he only wants dead people though, to her abductors dismay. His priests are also easy to annoy. 3 out of 5
Give me a story, D. 3 out of 5 http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/prose-poetry-plays/48
The Metamorphosis of Earth – Clark Ashton Smithhttp://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/134/the-metamorphosis-of-earth A bit of aphroditeoforming and interplanetary conflict. 4 out of 5 http://freesf.strandedinoz.com/wordpress/2007/05/the-metamorphosis-of-earth-clark-ashton-smith/
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Truth Fairy web. 3 out of 5 http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/new-fiction/crystal-halloway-and-the-forgotten-passage/
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Lawson is asked to protect a vampire council member from an assassin – at xmas. 3.5 out of 5 http://jonfmerz.net/2011/12/24/frosty-the-hitman-free-ebook-for-kindle-nook/
“”All that happened here, when we returned, was to deny Dragon information so it would snatch back its dracoman, like it did before, but also, to make it think we had followed up on our proposed plan but were then entertaining suspicions. I think that if Dragon had known that we knew what had really [...]
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“Humans have key characteristics other than size. We are tetrapods that are obligatory bipeds so we had the possibility to evolve hands. This is unique among mammals and reflects our unusual evolutionary journey from the trees to the plains of Africa. This change of habitat is somewhat unusual and seems to have been driven by [...]
In episode 100 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester offers up part three in our special three-part podcast on Sword and Sorcery moderated by editor, author and publicist Jaym Gates. This week’s panel: Jaym Gates (moderator) John O’Neill Howard Andrew Jones Ryan Harvey Bill Ward Jason M. Waltz James Enge Sam Sykes John R. [...]
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In episode 98 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester offers up part two of a special three-part podcast on Sword and Sorcery moderated by editor, author and publicist Jaym Gates. (See also: Part 1.) This week’s panel: Jaym Gates (moderator) John O’Neill Howard Andrew Jones Ryan Harvey Bill Ward Jason M. Waltz James Enge [...]
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“”I could use a man like you.” “If I fold, I die?” “I believe so.” “Then I’m forced to play.” “That’s the nature of a game with such stakes.” “No different then ruling a country,” Renue says. “Like the lives you’ve so callously taken over the years.” Mesmer scoffs. “What would you know? What inkling [...]
I died in sin and forthwith went to Hell; I made myself at home upon the coals Where seas of flame break on the cinder shoals. Till Satan came and said with angry yell, “You there—divulge what route by which you fell.” “I spent my youth among the flowing bowls, “Wasted my life with women [...]
We are the duckers of crosses, We are the swingers of swings. We count our gains and our losses In all of the fourth rate rings. We are the bums and the slackers Swiggers of Ancient Crow. Yet the fans pay sixteen smackers To see us knocked for a row. Bout losers and bout forsakers [...]
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I cannot believe in a paradise Glorious, undefiled, For gates all scrolled and streets of gold Are tales for a dreaming child. I am too lost for shame That it moves me unto mirth, But I can vision a Hell of flame For I have lived on earth. 3 out of 5 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Visions
Headlock, hammerlock, toss him on his bean again, Jump on his belly and boot him in the hips, Clamp the scissors on his neck and choke him till he’s green again Get the fans wild-eyed, with froth on their lips. Barlock, body-slam, nibble on his ears again— Its just like eating cabbage—and kick him in [...]
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Toil, cares, annoyances all fade away; I care not who may run for President. I drowse and swing my rum the live-long day, And watch the shallops skimming o’er the bay. 3 out of 5 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Toper
Sleigh fixing. 3 out of 5 http://kriswrites.com/2011/12/19/free-fiction-monday-christophers-crummy-christmas/
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“BPB: You mentioned in a recent interview that you were planning on visiting China for some necessary research for the next Darger and Surplus novel. Without giving away any spoilers, can you tell us where you’re going and what you plan to research? MS: The novel’s going to begin in Chengdu, a city in Sichuan [...]
Continue reading about Bradley P. Beaulieu Chats With – Michael Swanwick
4.5 out of 5
“The House of Hashish” starts off with a wonderfully atmospheric opening with Dr. Petrie keeping a lonely nighttime vigil in the now abandoned shadow-filled wharf-side Joy Shop with only the sound of lapping waves and the incessant squealing of rats to accompany him. From a window, he watches Nayland Smith approach an old beggar woman [...]
Bide by the fluted iron walls Take ye a serving wench to wife; Drown in the pot the bugle’s calls, Trade your spear for a peddler’s knife. Turn to the vendor’s paltry strife, Gird ye round with doors and bars Safely snore in the lap of Life— I must follow the restless stars. Wait at [...]
Gamma ray burster, moon shadow Asia no burn. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7299/full/465836a.html
I am weary of birth and battle, Seasons and Time and tide, Of the ocean’s empty rattle. And the woman at my side. I am weary of pain and revel, And eyes that glitter or weep; I will sell my soul to the Devil For a thousand years of sleep. Then never a dream shall [...]
4.5 out of 5
There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea, A gem that is set in the stars of the bay, And it lives in the hearts of the wanderers who stray, (And begob it’s too good for such spalpeens as ye!) Oh the sorrow on them that have sailed from its swards! On [...]
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There were three lads who went their destined ways Bewildered by this thing that men call Life Toiled through the week and idled leisure days. And cursed the world but knew the world was rife With thing of beauty. Even they could see. They reveled in old tales of ages hoary And plagued by souls [...]
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