Today's free story for Kindle is "Attitude Adjustment." The story originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction and was reprinted in Year's Best SF 15. When an explosion damages a lunar tourist shuttle, the pilot and passengers must figure out a way to prevent it from crashing into the surface. The story is available free from Amazon’s Kindle store until about... read more »
Continuing the weekday story giveaway, today's free Kindle short story is "Like Diamond Tears from Emerald Eyes." Jerton and his half-brother Larindo are a swordsman and a wizard for hire. When a mysterious veiled bride comes to town and offers them a fortune in diamonds to steal a box from a dead wizard's castle, Larindo insists that they take the... read more »
Today's free Kindle story is "In Memory." The story was a published finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest, and it was my first story sale ever. Mathematician Kenneth Granley uploaded his mind into a computer years ago. Because his memory is in a computer, it should be perfect. But he's just discovered that someone's been tampering with his... read more »
Today's free offering is "Betrayer of Trees," which was my winning story for the Writers of the Future Contest. When he was a young man, Janal betrayed the sentient trees that his people lived with. Now, fifty years later, he learns the true consequences of his actions. The story is available free from Amazon’s Kindle store until about midnight Pacific... read more »
Today's free Kindle story is "Tabloid Reporter to the Stars," originally published in Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show. The story is available free from Amazon’s Kindle store until about midnight Pacific Time tonight, but you don’t need a Kindle to read it. You can use the free Kindle app on your computer or smartphone. Lawrence Jensen is a disgraced... read more »
Today's free story, thanks to Amazon's Kindle Select program, is "The Ashes of His Fathers." It's set in the year 2999, when a representative of a distant religious colony world returns to Earth with the ashes of the original colonists. The story is available free from Amazon's Kindle store until about midnight Pacific Time tonight, but you don't need a... read more »
I'm testing out the new Kindle Select program. Through the program, Amazon Prime members can "borrow" one of my short stories for free at any time. But it also means that some of my short stories will be available for everyone to buy for free during limited promotional periods. So I'm going to test things out by offering one piece... read more »
I do not have my own entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. However, I was very pleased to find this bit in the entry on Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show: But Card's work does not dominate the magazine. If anything, the tone for the magazine – where the contents are pretty much evenly distributed along the sf/fantasy spectrum... read more »
I've been watching the new series Ringer, and I've found it rather compelling. But I figure a lot of viewers who started watching it aren't familiar with the origins of the major characters, so I thought I'd post a handy reference guide: Bridget Kelly: Her real name is Buffy Summers. Some sort of demonic creature stole her vampire-slaying powers, cloned... read more »
My story "A Great Destiny" is now live on the Daily Science Fiction website, where you can read it for free.
