Category: fiction
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Free Speculative Fiction Online
In search for free speculative fiction online, I was introduced to this site titled just that. You can go to freesfonline.net and see all kinds of stuff you may have missed.
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What Scifi short stories are free on Gutenberg?
As I continued my quest for free short stories and the best really short stories online, I stumbled across many Scifi short stories that are free on Gutenberg. So what Scifi short stories are free on Gutenberg? These, at least (let me know in the comments if you find more and I’ll add to the…
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Free short stories : where do I find sites for short stories and essays?
Where do I go to find sites for short stories and essays? Free short stories are pretty easy to find on Gutenberg, but the truth is that sometimes you need a curated list rather than just a single search term wading through the public domain sludge. I’ve got you. Here’s the list of the best…
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The best really short stories
Talking through the Robert Sheckley stories made me ponder what the best really short stories might be. They’d need to be the sorts of things you could read in under 15 minutes, preferably in under 10. It would also be skewed towards what I myself have read, which admittedly is significantly less than some of…
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Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Because I was 8 years old when this site was created and because I’m professionally rather new to speculative fiction (I only recently discovered Alfred Bester and Robert Sheckley), I didn’t know about the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Here’s a look at what it feels like: So it’s just pages and pages of things I…
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Grantville Gazette IV edited by Eric Flint
This review will be short and sweet. I ordered Granville Gazette IV at the prompting of Kerryn and Bjorn Hasseler because of a story I was working on spec for the new 1632 magazine. I think the thing I want to say is that sometimes anthologies like this never quite find their true audience because…
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Book Burning in Fahrenheit 451 what is it about ?
For the first time, I read Ray Bradbury’s classic and I wanted to ponder book burning in Fahrenheit 451 what is it about ? This book isn’t about us, right? It’s about those other people who burn books. Because it’s the book-burning book, right? The one about the people who censor and ban and burn? …
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Can Wattpad read to you?
Some of you have landed here asking can Wattpad read to you? Yes, but don’t use Speechify. Here’s why: Speechify is impoverishing audiobook narrators, stealing their voices, and using artificial intelligence software to turn works by creators (often without the consent of the creators) into full-blown audiobooks. The audiobook narrator that would have been hired…
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Will Wattpad shut down?
Some have stumbled onto the site asking will Wattpad shut down? I have no stake in this fight, but I would say a few things: Probably not. Here’s why: For starters, Wattpad has hundreds of millions of dollars of investor funding. They’re one of the largest writing platforms in the world and they only got…
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Rewards for Tap and Die + Harry Rides Preorders
Seconds Left for Preorder Rewards! It’s launch month for BOTH Tap and Die and Harry Rides the Danger. Both come out on Halloween and they’re both excellent presents for fall birthdays, Halloween fanatics, fall festival presents (such as Jewish High Holidays), and early Christmas presents. We have exactly ONE MONTH to get in 100 preorders. The fabulous Daniel Dorse,…
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Frugal Wizard’s Guide — *ahem* HANDBOOK — to Surviving Medieval England by Sanderson
I was one of the many who nearly pulled the trigger on Sanderson’s $42 Million kickstarter and got all the goodies and one of the reasons was The Frugal Wizard’s Guide to Surviving Medieval England. I ended up checking out the Frugal Wizard’s Guide at the NYPL when I saw it on the shelf. It…
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Alfred Bester and The Light Fantastic
In working through Robert Silverberg’s Science Fiction 101 (a compilation of essential Silver-era speculative fiction and analysis of how to write it), I came across The Light Fantastic by Alfred Bester in the bibliography. When I talk about silver era, I mean the post-Baron Edward John Moreton Draw Plunkett Lord Dunsany, post-H.G. Wells, pre-Nebula Award…