In celebration (and promotion of course) of the final novel in Kameron Hurley's genre bending and genre redefining Bel Dame Apocrypha...

Jonathan Wood's very pleasing Urban Fantasy alt Cthulhu slash homage to Kurt Russell action movies No Hero is being given away free ...

"Rose of Fire" is a short story by Carlos Ruiz Zafon translated by Lucia Graves set in the world of the much beloved The Shado...

If you know Steampunk then the Foglios need no introduction for you. Phil and Kaja have created one of the seminal Steampunk comics (they...

Last night I finished  The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells, which is the sequel to the wondrous world she created with The Cloud Roads . If ...

Currently The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells is available free from Amazon in Kindle format.   I only recently read The Cloud Roads , but i...

Those of you with Nooks or the Nook apps can enjoy a free download of The Winds of Khalakovo until June 9th so get it while it is hot. Th...

Greetings ladies and gentlemen! Please steel yourself as you are in for quite a dark delicacy of a very strange and metallic kind.  For you...

Tis' the season to spread some holiday joy. And what would be better than a Sci-Fi story about Santa delivering presents at the end of t...

Tor.com has been on quite a roll late with its short fiction program. This week brings us a (longish) short story by Peter Orullian. Some ...

One of the very best debuts this year is Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis. What you haven't bought it yet because you were waffling despi...

This is the first of what I hope to be a regular feature called Getting to Know . The goal will be to give a brief overview of an author tha...

Orbit has the first 3 chapters of The Black Prism by Brent Weeks up on their site, which certainly gets my Epic Fantasy juices going.  Th...

Ari Marmell and Spectra have put up a short story titled The Orge's Pride  placed in the world of The Conqueror's Shadow . I've...

General Hatter Stuff: I saw Alice in Wonderland last night in 3D.  It was a fun movie that moved along at a nice clip, but the ending was...

In honor of tomorow's release of  Blake Charlton's debut novel Spellwright ( reviewed here ) he has given us a piece that was excis...

Shimmer has made an excerpt of Shweta Narayan's The Mechanical Aviary of Emperor Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar available free as an MP3 ...

Four years into development and Evil Hat Productions has finally announced the impending publication of The Dresden Files RPG.  The RPG wi...

Spellwright by Blake Charlton is at the top of the big Fantasy debuts for 2010 and now we have some lengthy samples to peruse. Here is the...