#freescifi — Public Fediverse posts

Rae Zalopany, author of “The Trident-Tailed Water Monster” in The Future Fire #76, is with us today for a #microinterview about her story, monsters, writing and water. http://press.futurefire.net/2026/06/microinterview-with-rae-zalopany.html

#monsters #freescifi

Rae Zalopany, author of “The Trident-Tailed Water Monster” in The Future Fire #76, is with us today for a #microinterview about her story, monsters, writing and water. http://press.futurefire.net/2026/06/microinterview-with-rae-zalopany.html

#monsters #freescifi

We’re joined by Christine Amsden, author of “Believe Me” in The Future Fire #76, for the first of this issue’s #microinterview series. http://press.futurefire.net/2026/06/micro-interview-with-christine-amsden.html
#freescifi #monsters #flashfiction

We’re joined by Christine Amsden, author of “Believe Me” in The Future Fire #76, for the first of this issue’s #microinterview series. http://press.futurefire.net/2026/06/micro-interview-with-christine-amsden.html
#freescifi #monsters #flashfiction

Need free sci fi that is not a content farm My short stories are now free foreverest. Yes that pun hurt me too. https://inkican.com/now-free-foreverest-scifi-short-story #freescifi #shortstory

Need free sci fi that is not a content farm My short stories are now free foreverest. Yes that pun hurt me too. https://inkican.com/now-free-foreverest-scifi-short-story #freescifi #shortstory

In the dappled shade of a stand of bamboo, an old woman takes a stick and scratches two curved lines in the dusty yellow earth. “Pai is for pera Limue’s plucked eye” #speculativefiction #sociolinguistics #FreeScifi

We were both teenagers at the time. Or near enough, anyway. Neither of us knew when our birthdays really were. Children didn’t seem to be born in Shenzhen. They materialized around alleyways and market stalls before being adopted by the proper enclaves. #speculativefiction #freeScifi #novelette

The Future Fire new issue 2024.69: Special issue on hopeful SFF

http://futurefire.net/2024.69/

#speculativefiction #freescifi #magazine #hopeful #nice #optimistic #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #poetry

The Future Fire new issue 2024.69: Special issue on hopeful SFF

http://futurefire.net/2024.69/

#speculativefiction #freescifi #magazine #hopeful #nice #optimistic #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #poetry

Avra Margariti @avramargariti , author of the poem “Homunculi of Creation” in The Future Fire #68, joined us for a lightning chat about alchemy, cosmogony and mythology.

http://press.futurefire.net/2024/03/micro-interview-with-avra-margariti.html

#microinterview #freescifi #mythology #alchemy

Avra Margariti @avramargariti , author of the poem “Homunculi of Creation” in The Future Fire #68, joined us for a lightning chat about alchemy, cosmogony and mythology.

http://press.futurefire.net/2024/03/micro-interview-with-avra-margariti.html

#microinterview #freescifi #mythology #alchemy

Jennifer R. Donohue, author of “The Ensanguined Shore” in The Future Fire #68, joins us for a chat about mythology, mythography, and the sea.

http://press.futurefire.net/2024/03/micro-interview-with-jennifer-r-donohue.html

#microinterview #mythology #freescifi #mythography

We were delighted to invite Emma Burnett, author of “Escape Choice” in TFF #68, to join us for a chat about SF, the sea, and future work.

http://press.futurefire.net/2024/03/mirco-interview-with-emma-burnett.html

#microinterview #spaceopera #neurodivergence #freescifi #speculativefiction

We invited Laura Blackwell (@pronouncedlahra) author of “A Witch, a Wakening” in The Future Fire #68, to join our micro-interview series.

http://press.futurefire.net/2024/02/micro-interview-with-laura-blackwell.html

#dream #dreams #witch #witchcraft #beyourbestself #microinterview #freescifi

We invited Laura Blackwell (@pronouncedlahra) author of “A Witch, a Wakening” in The Future Fire #68, to join our micro-interview series.

http://press.futurefire.net/2024/02/micro-interview-with-laura-blackwell.html

#dream #dreams #witch #witchcraft #beyourbestself #microinterview #freescifi

The Future Fire issue 2024.68

http://futurefire.net/2024.68/

#magazine #newissue #freescifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #fantasy #horror #dreamquest #surreal #SFpoetry #spaceopera #folkhorror #weird #witchcraft

The Future Fire issue 2024.68

http://futurefire.net/2024.68/

#magazine #newissue #freescifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #fantasy #horror #dreamquest #surreal #SFpoetry #spaceopera #folkhorror #weird #witchcraft

We invited Elena S. Kotsile, author of “How to plant an olive tree on the Moon when all is lost” in The Future Fire #67, over for a brief chat about trees, planets and poetry.

http://press.futurefire.net/2023/12/micro-interview-with-elena-s-kotsile.html

#microinterview #freescifi #SFpoetry #ecoSF #poetry #moon

Very pleased to invite Juliet Kemp (@juliet) author of “Just as You Are” in The Future Fire #67, over for a wee chat.

http://press.futurefire.net/2023/12/micro-interview-with-juliet-kemp.html

#microinterview #freescifi #AI #parenting

Very pleased to invite Juliet Kemp (@juliet) author of “Just as You Are” in The Future Fire #67, over for a wee chat.

http://press.futurefire.net/2023/12/micro-interview-with-juliet-kemp.html

#microinterview #freescifi #AI #parenting

We welcome Beth Cato, author of the poem “How magic will help you take the bastards down” in The Future Fire #67 for a short conversation.

http://press.futurefire.net/2023/12/micro-interview-with-beth-cato.html

#microinterview #freescifi #hopefulSF #witchcraft

Welcome, @FoggWriter, author of “Microseasons of the Dead” in The Future Fire #67 (and many previous stories), to the micro-interview series, where today we focus a lot on seasons… http://press.futurefire.net/2023/12/micro-interview-with-vanessa-fogg.html

#microinterview #seasons #freescifi #prosepoetry

Welcome, @FoggWriter, author of “Microseasons of the Dead” in The Future Fire #67 (and many previous stories), to the micro-interview series, where today we focus a lot on seasons… http://press.futurefire.net/2023/12/micro-interview-with-vanessa-fogg.html

#microinterview #seasons #freescifi #prosepoetry

Jonathan Olfert, author of “Collective Bargaining” in The Future Fire #67, came by for a short chat about the story, equity, AI and the future of education.

http://press.futurefire.net/2023/12/micro-interview-with-jonathan-olfert.html

#microinterview #freescifi #reasonableaccommodations #noAI

We invited Priya Chand, author of “Woman, Soldier, Girl” in The Future Fire #67, over for a brief chat
http://press.futurefire.net/2023/11/micro-interview-with-priya-chand.html

#microinterview #speculativefiction #postcolonial #freescifi

We’re very pleased to have Bernie Jean Schiebeling, author of “Crumb Cutie Exodus” in The Future Fire 67, over for a chat about help, hope, and projects. http://press.futurefire.net/2023/11/microinterview-with-bernie-jean.html

#microinterview #freescifi #hopepunk #interview

If you enjoy any of the fiction, poetry and art in The Future Fire #67, please leave a note saying so in the comments underneath the post at http://press.futurefire.net/2023/10/new-issue-202367.html

#speculativefiction #ScifiPoetry #SFpoetry #ScifiArt #freeScifi #tipyourfaves

If you enjoy any of the fiction, poetry and art in The Future Fire #67, please leave a note saying so in the comments underneath the post at http://press.futurefire.net/2023/10/new-issue-202367.html

#speculativefiction #ScifiPoetry #SFpoetry #ScifiArt #freeScifi #tipyourfaves

TFF#67 features fiction and poetry by Jonathan Olfert, @juliet, @FoggWriter, @priyachandwriter, Bernie Jean Schiebeling, Elena S. Kotsile & Beth Cato http://futurefire.net/2023.67/

#freeScifi #speculativefiction #magazine

TFF#67 features fiction and poetry by Jonathan Olfert, @juliet, @FoggWriter, @priyachandwriter, Bernie Jean Schiebeling, Elena S. Kotsile & Beth Cato http://futurefire.net/2023.67/

#freeScifi #speculativefiction #magazine

The Future Fire Issue 2023.67 http://futurefire.net/2023.67/

#freescifi #freefiction #scifiart #magazine #speculativefiction #fantasy #horror #poetry

The Future Fire Issue 2023.67 http://futurefire.net/2023.67/

#freescifi #freefiction #scifiart #magazine #speculativefiction #fantasy #horror #poetry

More #freescifi if you live in Australia, or are able to move there... for example Olaf Stapledon's excellent works, Last and First Men, and Star Maker, and more:

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601101h.html

http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#stapledon

@ajroach42 @sohkamyung

I have the vaguest idea that I've read The Purple Death, so very many years ago. Probably not so. Probably conflated The Purple Pileus with The Stolen Bacillus, both by Wells. But it leads me to two lists of "Ancient Science Fiction" which might be worth picking over:

https://glitternight.com/2014/03/03/ten-neglected-examples-of-ancient-science-fiction/

https://glitternight.com/2017/11/19/ancient-science-fiction-eight-more-examples-1744-1910/

And of course, if it's ancient, it must also be free.

#FreeSciFi

@ajroach42 @sohkamyung

I see Jules Verne has many #FreeSciFi works: Twenty Thousand Leagues (horizontally) Under the Sea, and A Journey to the Centre of the Earth... also From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon.

But who were the contemporaries of H G Wells, and what did they write?

@ajroach42 @sohkamyung

Seems that Baen have a lot of #freescifi - free to read, not freely distributable. So for example in the anthology The World Turned Upside Down we get Clarke's Rescue Party, many others, and finally Theodore Sturgeon's Thunder and Roses:

http://hell.pl/szymon/Baen/The%20best%20of%20Jim%20Baens%20Universe/The%20World%20Turned%20Upside%20Down/0743498747_toc.htm

"The stories were selected because of the impact they had on us several decades ago, as we were growing up in the '50s and '60s."

Lots here:
https://www.baen.com/allbooks/category/index/id/2012

@ajroach42 @sohkamyung

oh, for #freescifi you should peruse the works of Herbert George Wells. The Time Machine, of course, and The War of the Worlds, but also When The Sleeper Wakes, The World Set Free, The First Men In The Moon, The Island Of Doctor Moreau.

Perhaps the shorts are the most digestible - all the above, and several anthologies, in Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/30

@ajroach42
@sohkamyung

@ajroach42 Extra Credits on YouTube does a wonderful introductory chronological series to SciFi in their Extra SciFi playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5AW7F7lD_cGWqxbWIIWIfup

Including the OG Sci-Fi 'Frankenstein', which many might not even think of when you talk about science fiction.

While not all of the titles discussed might be #PublicDomain, I'm quite sure quite a number of the early titles are.

#ExtraCredits #ExtraSciFi #ScienceFiction #FreeSciFi #openCulture

Speaking of #freescifi, Unsong and Ra are both worth a read:
http://unsongbook.com/
https://qntm.org/ra

Mostly short SF stories here:
https://www.freesfonline.de/

Also Tor publish annual roundups of their free shorts.
https://www.tor.com/2018/12/04/all-of-tor-coms-original-short-fiction-from-2018/

@drwho @ajroach42

@ajroach42 By Peter Watts:

Starfish: https://rifters.com/real/STARFISH.htm

Maelstrom: https://rifters.com/real/MAELSTROM.htm

Behemoth: https://rifters.com/real/Behemoth.htm

And, of course, Blindsight: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

BY-NC-SA v2.5

#freescifi #hardSF

Another great bit of #FreeScifi can be found in the works of Andre Norton: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7021

Norton is fun, here's an excerpt from her wiki page:

Andre Alice Norton was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, first woman to be SFWA Grand Master, and first inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

One of my favorite #FreeScifi books is a cheesy little scifi adventure called Little Fuzzy by H Beam Piper.

I'm not a huge fan of Piper's other work, but this story is a ridiculous little adventure romp, that feels for all the world like a picture of a future that could have never been.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137

Hey Nerds! Its #openCulture time.

I want your suggestions for your favorite public domain or creative commons science fiction books.

Toot 'em at me, or use the hashtag #FreeScifi

I'm going to get things started in the replies to this post, and I look forward to seeing what you have to offer as well.