Phoenix Picks’ September’s Free EBook is Carolyn Ives Gilman’s outstanding novella, Arkfall.
Arkfall was nominated for the Nebula this year (but lost out to The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker).
Carolyn Gilman is a not a prolific author, but nearly everything she writes get outstanding reviews. Her novel Halfway Human is an outstanding study of [...]
Posts under ‘Free Fiction’
Free Fiction: Arkfall by Carolyn Ives Gilman
Free Fiction: Major Karnage by Gord Zajac
Get a free pdf download with audio features of the satirical SF novel Major Karnage by Gord Zajac just for “liking” WOWIO on Facebook.
Free Fiction: Another Name for Dawn by Paul S. Kemp
Paul S. Kemp’s Erevis Cale is one of the best dark anti-heroes you can read. However, unless you get Dragon Magazine, his origin story was unknown. But now Kemp is making available in PDF format “Another Name for Dawn” the Erevis Cale origin story for download at his website.
Free Audio Fiction: Suzanne Collins and Shirley Jackson
Audiobook Community has two great downloads this week. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, read by Carolyn McCormick, and The Lottery and 7 Other Stories by Shirley Jackson, read by Carol Jordan Stewart. Download of the OverDrive Media Console, and email registration is required to download these MP3 audiobooks.
Remember that each pair of free [...]
Free ebook: Dark Water’s Embrace by Stephen Leigh (aka S. L. Farrell)
Phoenix Pick’s free ebook for August is Stephen Leigh’s Dark Water’s Embrace. Stephen also writes under the pseudonym of S.L. Farrell.
The book won the Spectrum award when originally published and got extensive critical acclaim.
The Coupon Code is 9991300 Instructions and download link at www.PPickings.com.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The Coupon Code itself is unchanged from last [...]
Free Reading: That Was The Millennium That Was by John Scalzi
Before he goes on a blogging hiatus for six weeks, John Scalzi has a little gift for all his readers.
A decade ago, I wrote a series of entries which I called “That Was The Millennium That Was,” chronicling what I thought were some of the best, worst and weirdest things of the last millennium. It [...]
Free Audio Fiction: The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Download the MP3 audiobook version of The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor today only at Audiobook Community. A download of the free audiobook software, OverDrive® Media Console™ is required, as is giving your name and email address.
Available only in: US & dependencies, Philippines, Canada, UK, EU, British Commonwealth
Free Fiction: Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon
Kindle users (or Kindle for PC users) can download Bright of the Sky, Kay Kenyon’s first novel in her Entire and the Rose quartet for free right now.
Free Fiction: Billy’s Picture Book by Terry Bisson and Rudy Rucker
Billy’s Picture Book contains Terry Bisson’s collection of thirteen off-kilter tales about an eager lad named Billy—”Billy and the Spacemen,” “Billy and the Ants,” “Billy and the Talking Plant,” and more. The tales are like Zen parables, with an odd, rollicking humor. Rounded out by the artist Rudy Rucker’s surreal painted illustrations, Billy’s Picture Book [...]
Give the Gift of Terry Brooks – for Free!
Terry Brooks is running a promotion at his blog, where you can gift a friend a free copy of Running with the Demon:
Want to be a nice person? Give Running With the Demon to a friend who hasn’t read Terry before — for free! That’s right, for free. While supplies last, Del Rey Books will [...]
