"Closer to You" by Scott Bradfield

 

   We interrupt our regularly scheduled review to bring you Scott Bradfield reading himself:

First appeared in Tampa Review. Reprinted in his Greetings from Earth collection--a pdf of which you can get from the author for free.

The story's from the point of view of a girl whose understanding of the world lurks just outside of understanding. 

Playful with words and perspective. Recommended.

Free ebook by David Farland

Ashes and Starlight is free. It is set "in the Runelords universe, 800 years before the original series, and sequel to" Barbarians.

Asimov Robots on BBC + Free ebook lunch

BBC Radio 4 is dramatizing five Asimov robot stories.

A free ebook, The Future Is Nigh, edited by C. Stuart Hardwick, collects fiction from the following authors:

1. Martin L. Shoemaker, 
2. Liz Colter, 
3. Matthew S. Rotundo, 
4. C. Stuart Hardwick, 
5. Laurie Tom, 
6. Marina J. Lostetter, 
7. Brian Trent, 
8. William Ledbetter, 
9. Matt Dovey
10. J W Alden

Free ebooks; upcoming workshops

I haven't done free ebooks in awhile. Here are two:

1. Mike Resnick (plus discounts on other books/stories)
2. Charles Stross

David Farland has live and online workshops -- both worth your while

1. one live coming up in Phoenix
2. online rumored* to close shortly

*Dave himself is spreading this rumor. 

Free writing instruction ebook: William Bernhardt

Story Structure: 
The Key to Successful Fiction 
(Red Sneaker Writers Series) 
by William Bernhardt

FREE

Free and reduced (ebook) lunches

Stone Cold 
by Simon Clark 
Free

The Lies of Locke Lamora (The Gentleman Bastard Sequence) 
by Scott Lynch 
$.99

Links to Read: Books. Interviews, SF, Perspective, Stories

Free ebook

Siren Song At Midnight by David Farland

Books and Authors

Book of Kells online (what is it? Wiki)

Jonathan Lethem gives us leads on several authors

Lisa Tuttle's top 10 mould-breaking fantasy novels

Interviews:

Harlan Ellison

Kit Reed

On SF & Perspective

The lure of science fiction: an insider’s view by Tom Purdom

Teju Cole redefines words in an Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary manner.  Humorous.  Interesting, thoug,h how the politics on display could be altered if definitions were switched.  Would people still read and link to it?

Stories

New issue of Subterranean with long works by

1. Seanan McGuire and Jay Lake
2. Ted Chiang
3. Lewis Shiner
4. Ian Tregillis

Free ebook -- David Farland

A Rarefied View At Dawn by David Farland 

Free ebook about to disappear

The World Idiot by Rhys Hughes 

CODE: QZ48E

Literary arts links: a miscellany of interviews, news, free ebooks, and new movies

Miscellany of literary links:

Epic Fantasy sale ($.99-2.99):  Some authors:  Ruth Nestvold and Vera Nazarian.

10 Modern Must-Read Sci-Fi Masterpieces

• I recall reading the term "Sci-Fi" was evil and to be avoided as demeaning, but it's hard to avoid, even by fans of the genre--useful comments as it led to investigate Steve Miller and Sharon Lee which I have not yet done.  They have two free ebooks to check out:
• Fledgling
• Agents of Change

Interviews:

• Ray Bradbury video from 60s
• Nicola Griffith 
• Samuel R. Delany
• Sarah Pinborough

Claire Messud reacts to an interview question:  Characters don't have to be sympathetic.

Movies:

Kickstarter for a movie of Philip K. Dick's Radio Free Albermuth

Better trailer for new Superman 

"This Other Earth" by RPL Johnson

free ebook at Smashwords

A pretty cool alien invasion story.  Futuristic swash-buckling adventure, killing alien bugs and the like.  It treats an Earth terra- or xeno-formed, which sets up a nice metaphor for climate change.  Even better it treats our struggle to survive the change.  This might be worth expansion into a novel if more speculative bones were dug up.

There's a minor flash fiction piece about virtual reality included.

free ebook, story, imprint, interview

Richard Parks has a free Christmas story up.

Ruth Nestvold has a free ebook.

Masque Books, new digital imprint for novellas and novels

Robert Freeman Wexler interviewed

Free ebooks, interviews, 2001

Free Kate Wilhelm story

Free 40k ebook of interviews with... 

Bruce Sterling, Ted Striphas, Richard Nash, Kassia Krozser, Brian O'Leary, Joe Wikert, Piotr Kowalczyk, Joanna Penn, Joel Friedlander, Ken Liu, Jacob Appel, Rhys Hughes, Kaaron Warren, Jamie Todd Rubin

Charles Stross's theory of reviews

Samuel Delany 1990 interview

After posting on the 2001: A Space Odyssey analysis, someone pointed out this movie trailer recut for the modern blockbuster:

Free ebooks

Stakeout at the Vampire Circus (Dan Shamble, Zombie PI) by Kevin J. Anderson

Rabbit Hunter by Billie Sue Mosiman

Rhys Hughes also has a free ebook on Smashwords, but you may need to friend him to get the code.

Free ebook magazine

Michael Knost's respectable yet short-lived Noctem Aeternus is available free.   It features writers Charles Coleman Finlay, Cherie Priest, Michael Laimo, Tim Waggoner, and Ramsay Campbell.

Free ebook

The second in David Farland/Wolverton's series of the Golden Queen is now free.  Worth checking out.

free ebook: Golden Queen by David Farland

I enjoyed this one:  The Golden Queen - Book 1 of the Golden Queen Series by David Farland.  It begins in what feels like a fantasy world and gets gradually stranger and more science fictional.  Good fun.

Links: Free ebook, Free story, Shiner, Campbell, Tidbeck, NASA, Bullies

Interview I did with Lewis Shiner a few years back.  For some reason, my memory thought it longer.  Maybe because I'd done so much research for it.

Free ebook of John W. Campbell, one of the early major forces behind SF

Free Karin Tidbeck story online

Rumors of NASA's death greatly exaggerated?

School bully:  a short movie by Key & Peele on bullies that's simultaneously true, funny, and sad.  Too bad this has words you can't play at school.

Free ebooks & music

Just discovered Bibliotastic, a site with free ebooks (with suggested donations).  It includes authors Charles Stross, Brett Savory, Tom Lichtenberg, among others.

Paul Westerberg of The Replacements has a new song for free, "My Road Now."

Free ebooks

David Marusek, a fine and sometimes hilarious writer of science fiction, is giving away some of his short stories.

Also, Paul di Filippo offers for free his fun novella in the Linear City series, A Princess of the Linear Jungle, which pays homage to many SF classics.