Free Speculative Fiction Online
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Reading SpecFic: A Literacy Resource
This site provides links to free online Speculative Fiction. SpecFic is a broad and wonderous term that encompasses many forms of speculative genre writing.
Care has been taken to choose only sites that do not infringe on the authors' copyright.
What Is "Speculative Fiction"?
"Speculative Fiction", or "SpecFic", is a term coined by Robert Heinlein decades ago to describe literature that transcends the artificial boundaries of "Science Fiction" and "Fantasy". It's an inclusive term, allowing no snobbery or safety in cliched plots and paper doll characters. Think of it as "What If..." stories allowed to unfold in a fluid, natural manner.
Free range writing. It's healthier.
Free range writing. It's healthier.
Free SF Online: Speculative Fiction Stories
Statement from Free SF Online:
"All stories are available for free. This site does not link to pirated SF!
Sites violating the copyright of the respective stories by making them accessible
without the author's and/or publisher's agreement are not included."
"All stories are available for free. This site does not link to pirated SF!
Sites violating the copyright of the respective stories by making them accessible
without the author's and/or publisher's agreement are not included."
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byStrange Horizons
Strange Horizons is a free online magazine that publishes Speculative Fiction stories and articles each Monday and SpecFic art monthly.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand bySpecFic Authors Who Share Their Work Online
Note:
Please respect the rights of the author and read and/or link to these works only. No stealing to add content to your website! It's both disrepectful and illegal.
Please respect the rights of the author and read and/or link to these works only. No stealing to add content to your website! It's both disrepectful and illegal.
- Orson Scott Card
- An impressively generous collection of OSC books, short stories, reviews, articles, essays & plays.
- Neil Gaiman
- A small collection of Neil's short stories online.
- John Scalzi
- John Scalzi's SF humor novel Agent To The Stars.
More Free Reading Online
- SciFiction Archives
- SciFiction was the online SF magazine of the SciFi channel. The SciFiction Archives contain both classic and original stories.
- Science Fiction At Project Gutenberg
- Science Fiction from Jules Verne forward.
- Precursors of Science Fiction/Project Gutenberg
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Mary Shelley, Voltaire, and others who were the leading edge into Speculative Fiction.
- Baen Free Library
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Electronic books. Free ebooks from authors such as David Weber, Lois Bujold, David Drake, Mercedes Lackey and other greats.
Profits From This Lens...
Any profits made from this lens go to Room To Read, an organization whose goal is giving literacy and education to children who would not have it otherwise, worldwide.
Speculative Fiction Short Story Anthologies & Compilations
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axiomsedge
Mar 3, 2011 @ 9:40 am | delete
- Just wanted to let you know that your page has been included in our list of Squidoo Sci Fi/Fantasy Lenses over at A Lens on Sci Fi (www.squidoo.com/a-lens-on-sci-fi). Go there to vote for your lens and to submit others that genre fans will like.
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TheWhistler
Feb 18, 2010 @ 8:56 am | delete
- Good resource for anyone interested in Speculative Fiction. Well done. Thanks for the lens.
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Mickie_G Jun 9, 2008 @ 1:55 pm | delete
- Enjoyed reading your lens. Thanks for the hard work of collecting links.
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FiveStarAuthor
Oct 4, 2007 @ 5:24 pm | delete
- The 2007 BLACKGLOOM Trivia Contest is now open! Drop by my lens and click on the links to get a free eBook. Then answer 3 easy trivia questions from the eBook version for your chance to win one of several hardcover copies of THE BLACKGLOOM BOUNTY. Contest ends 12/1/2007.
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Bibliovore
Aug 31, 2007 @ 11:37 am | delete
- The Baen Free Library is also a must for people looking to ethically read free specfic online
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