science fiction and fantasy book news & reviews
Interested in reading The Conqueror’s Shadow by Ari Marmell, but are unsure if you will like the author’s style? Try on a completely free novel in Black Crusade – a part of the Ravenloft series of books from Wizards of the Coast that never saw print but is available as a free PDF download.
Marmell explains [...]
Suvudu has added several new pieces of fiction in their free library: Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon by John Jackson Miller, Sheepfarmer’s Daughter by Elizabeth Moon, and “The Hoarder” and “Pride Before Fall” written by Kelly Meding.
Last April, on Peter S. Beagle’s 70th birthday, he accepted a challenge and set out to write an original song lyric or poem every week for a year. The twin ideas were to commemorate the 50th anniversary of selling his first novel, A Fine and Private Place, and to have a heck of a lot [...]
Multiple Bram Stoker award-winning author Jonathan Maberry has a free PDF download of a prequel short story to his novel Patient Zero available.
ABOUT PATIENT ZERO:
When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there’s either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills… and there’s nothing wrong with Joe [...]
Aidan, of A Dribble of Ink, points out that N. K. Jemisin (whose novel The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms I really want to read) has a free one-hour audio story up at Podcastle. You can also read the text in full HERE.
“Death is not a Gatherer’s business,” Cet said. Did the woman realizehow greatly she [...]
Black Gate has started, like Tor.com and others, its own series of free online comics. The Skulls holds more appeal to me than most others, because it is traditional sword and sorcery and its black and white illustration gives a significant dark feeling to the story, kind of like I like to imagine the settings [...]
I normally don’t post press announcements but this is too awesome not to share, and besides, its free fiction!
NEW YORK, NY – January 8, 2010 – Today genre site Suvudu.com unveiled its new relationship with the acclaimed, long-running Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. An agreement between the two allows Suvudu’s visitors access to one [...]
Google has a full length scan of one of the great Tom Swift stories. Even though I was born in the 80’s I still enjoyed these stories by Victor Appleton immensely. If you click the “more about this book” you can find links to download in pdf or epub format.
Yesterday, I told you about the free download from Kobo Books of Unseen Academicals a further search of their website reveals that they have three more sf/fantasy novels you can download for free (in several formats) and read on your computer, online, and using Adobe Digital Editions. Additionally, the Kindle Editions are also free, and [...]
Thanks to Books on the Knob and Jeff C. I can tell you that Terry Pratchett’s most recent Discworld novel is available for free download in epub format.
I reviewed the novel.
“Terry Pratchett continues his pattern of taking something from the real world, twisting it to fit in the Discworld universe, and adding bits of wry [...]
