Reading Time: 16 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a divorced witch, an archeologist sent to explore alien ruins, and two teenage girls accidentally pulled into a dystopian future.
Reading Time: 15 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a ghost trapper dealing with a creepy haunting, a sexy werebear, and a woman who discovers her magical powers just as she’s trapped at a Renaissance Faire.
Reading Time: 12 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a young lawyer trapped in a quirky, magical town, a girl who can see angels, a decommissioned spaceship that’s now humanity’s only hope to stop an alien advance, and book that’s been made into an action movie starring Mark Wahlberg.
Reading Time: 16 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes vampires, magic in space, a few dystopian worlds, futuristic horror, EMP, and humorous take on paranormal activity.
Reading Time: 15 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list features a cyberpunk bounty hunter, selkies, time travelers, and a hellhound on a mission.
Reading Time: 17 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list offers us an alien king, a fae assassin, a murderous pirate, and a mystery-solving witch.
Reading Time: 15 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a wicked prince, a dragon slayer, a school for magic, a crime-solving psychic, magical tattoos, and two different apocalypses.
Reading Time: 18 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes fae princes, telekinetic witches, angels, a demonic private eye, a couple of different dystopian futures, vampires, werewolves, and zombies.
Reading Time: 17 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes magic, werewolves, vampires, super-intelligent animals, and an alien battle in outer space.
Reading Time: 15 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes mystery, galactic empires, a mermaid, dark magic, post apocalyptic survival, and lots of romance.
Reading Time: 14 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes wizards, space fleet battles, bridges to other worlds, a sexy shape-shifting crocodile, and dragons.
Reading Time: 12 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes space opera, angels and demons, witches, fairies, and plenty of sexy supernatural action.
Reading Time: 14 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes space fleet science fiction, dystopian futures, urban fantasy, romance, and both historical and urban fantasy.
Reading Time: 13 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes EMP survival, changelings, a cozy magical mystery, a supernatural apocalypse, and a snarky magical private eye.
Reading Time: 14 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has galactic empire science fiction, occult suspense, a cozy paranormal mystery, vampires, genetic alteration, and lots of romance.
Reading Time: 14 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has time travel, faeries, a Sumerian goddess, witches, psychics, spaceships, alien lovers and post apocalyptic futures.
Reading Time: 2 minutes I never should have trusted him. Sure, he’s incredible with his fans. But I feel so betrayed.
Reading Time: 17 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has space battles, time travel, werewolves, more space battles, retold fairytales, first contact, more time travel, alien lovers, and cupcakes.
Reading Time: 14 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has vampires, dragons, witches, ghouls, cozy mysteries and galactic empires. And, as always, plenty of steamy romance.
Reading Time: 13 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has time travel, dystopian futures, zombies, magical mysteries, epic fantasies, and elves.
Reading Time: 12 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has space battles, time travel, dystopian futures, mermaids, magical mysteries, and an epic battle between good and evil.
Reading Time: 3 minutes When’s the last time you asked a robot to do something for you? I can tell you I do it almost constantly. My most consulted robot lives in a mainframe somewhere in the great Google warehouse in the sky. At least, I like to think so. Artificial intelligence has been a theme in science fiction …
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Reading Time: 12 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has space battles, mermaids, sexy alien warriors, sexy shapeshifting dragons, and several stories of dystopian futures.
Reading Time: 12 minutes A sleepy town in rural Alabama holds many secrets, not all of them worth digging up.
Reading Time: 25 minutes A man, twisted by hatred and his own experience, blunders his way into absolute power.
Reading Time: 16 minutes There is now, and indeed has always been, a tendency of society to split between those who favor progress and those who want things left well enough alone.
Reading Time: 13 minutes This tale is an excellent example of Vonnegut’s grasp of the hilarious and sometimes macabre nature of humanity.
Reading Time: 21 minutes In this story, the stark life of a moon miner conflicts with the psychological burden of life on the moon in a beautiful connection of suspense and raw emotion.
Reading Time: 2 minutes NavyCon, the premier science fiction and national security conference, returns for its fourth edition inviting speakers from a variety of backgrounds, including all five branches of the service, as well as civilian academia and science fiction fandom, to present on topics within the theme of national security in transition.
Reading Time: 48 minutes Different cultures hold different values. The laws and customs of a foreign land can feel downright alien.
Reading Time: 21 minutes The themes of power and beauty come together in a clash of wills, and of the soul, in this classic from Alan Nourse. The story portrays those who value power and have deep-seated senses of honor as the antagonists, who are nonetheless seduced by the soul of beauty.
Reading Time: 14 minutes With public companies creating direct computer-brain interfaces, and the augmentation of human consciousness with AI just around the corner, the core theme of this story hits home in modern times.
Reading Time: 12 minutes This technique of intellectual suspense and argument is a great example of fantastic storytelling that doesn’t involve rayguns or spaceships.
Reading Time: 27 minutes Randall Garret weaves a fantastic tale with the suspense building throughout. What is precognition? Is it something that is a charlatan’s hoax or does it fall into the fringes of science?
Reading Time: 23 minutes By N.T. Narbutovskih The term “droid” has a special place in the heart of everyone who has a passing familiarity with science fiction. Mari Wolf coins the term in this quirky tale about robots, consciousness, and humanity. Wolf’s forecast of the rise of human-consciousness equivalent artificial intelligence has all the classic veneer of the Golden …
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Reading Time: 90 minutes In this story set in her incredible Darkover universe, Marion Zimmer Bradley masterfully blends science and fantasy, psychological suspense, and action.
Reading Time: 36 minutes Any sacrifice for the greater good is acceptable. War doesn’t wait on the needs of the individual. These themes are present in today’s tense international environment just as they were when Dick wrote this packed tale. From AI to warfare to original sin, this story hits all the big questions. Classic Phillip K. Dick tales …
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Reading Time: 9 minutes Ben Bova weaves a short and impactful story that doesn’t get bogged down in the weeds.
Reading Time: 10 minutes People will jump at the chance for more, better, newer. Frank Herbert sets up a clever byplay of greed in many forms in this story.
Reading Time: 32 minutes Damon Knight gives us a roller-coaster ride through one person’s journey of both literal and metaphorical self discovery.
Reading Time: 15 minutes What mental stress is waiting for our astronauts on extended journeys, and what treatment can we possibly offer them? Frederick Pohl gives us one fascinating option.
Reading Time: 25 minutes In this story, Silverberg brings us a brief glimpse into a deeply divided society, divided not just by differing values and ideas but by their very own physical bodies.
Reading Time: 10 minutes What would you do if you could choose a future for humanity? Would you choose one of abject squalor, or would you make some small sacrifice for the betterment of future generations?
Reading Time: 35 minutes People struggle to connect. These struggles resonate today more than ever. In modern media, we find ourselves confronted with viewpoints and even ways of life that we find alien.
Reading Time: 35 minutes The conflict between generations, stability and energy, has special in the current events of our time.
Reading Time: 17 minutes Institutions fail us. Destruction awaits us around every corner. These fears are as true today as in the 1950s, when James Blish wrote his short story “One-Shot.”
Reading Time: 18 minutes As artificial intelligence and nanotechnology are changing the way we wage war, some things will always stay the same.
