Category Archives: Short Story Collection

The Island and Other Stories by Peter Watts

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Josh

A collection of creative-commons licensed stories by Peter Watts, compiled by Paweł Dembowski, with the author’s permission. I love Watts’ writing–dark, sharp, hard science fiction–and his short work is a great place to start. Pawel wrote: Here’s a collection of … Continue reading →

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The Great Frustration by Seth Fried [Time-limited]

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Josh

I’d been meaning to check out this collection of stories by Fried, since it’s been very well-reviewed and recommended, and Fried comes across as smart and funny in social media and interviews. And now it’s free! Presumably for a limited … Continue reading →

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Single File Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Josh

From the compiler: In early December (2010), I used a file from the Australian Project Gutenberg to create an EPUB of most of Lovecraft’s works. It wasn’t a comprehensive file and while it’s been popular (just having hit 1,000 downloads … Continue reading →

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Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Josh

From the publisher: Best of the Decade: Salon, The Onion, HTML Giant, Village Voice “Her exquisite stories mix the aggravations and epiphanies of everyday life with the stuff that legends, dreams and nightmares are made of, from pop culture to … Continue reading →

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Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Josh

From the publisher: This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must … Continue reading →

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The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories by John Kessel

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Josh

From the publisher: An astonishing, long-awaited collection of stories that intersect imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O’Connor. Includes John Kessel’s modern classic “Lunar Quartet” sequence about life on the moon. “A sustained exploration … Continue reading →

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