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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"?
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."
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
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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Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction
Short stories from Firebird's Lloyd Alexander, Nancy Farmer, Meredith Ann Pierce, Elizabeth Wein, Michael Cadnum, Kara Dalkey, Nancy Springer, Emma Bull, Patricia A. McKillip, Delia Sherman, Megan Whalen Turner, Laurel Winter, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Sherwood Smith, Diana Wynne Jones, November Sharyn, and Charles Vess.
Firebirds Rising: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Original SpecFic short stories by Francesca Lia Block, Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Diana Wynne Jones, Ellen Klages, Tanith Lee, Kelly Link, Patricia A. McKillip, Tamora Pierce, and Sharyn November.
Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories
Reprints of short stories by Diana Wynn Jones, including a few very hard to find. Recommended for 10+.
"The Girl Jones", "Nad and Dan adn Quaffy", "The Plague of Peacocks", "The Master", "Enna Hittims", "
The Girl Who Loved the Sun", "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool", "Aunt Bea's Day Out", "Carruthers", "What the Cat Told Me", "The Green Stone", "The Fat Wizard", "No One", "Dragon Reserve, Home Eight", "Little Dot", "Everard's Ride"
~ SpecFic Online Guestbook ~
Mickie_G wrote...
Enjoyed reading your lens. Thanks for the hard work of collecting links.
Posted June 09, 2008
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Posted October 04, 2007
Bibliovore wrote...
The Baen Free Library is also a must for people looking to ethically read free specfic online
Posted August 31, 2007
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Posted April 19, 2007
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