Cybermage

There is a lot of good free online scifi out there. I have tried to collect some of the resources I have found useful here. It’s not unusual for publishers and authors to make the first Novel in a series available for free. Just to get you hooked. I think it works great for both them and us readers.

You might want to check out some of my favorite writers on the Author pages. I have tried to put links to free online books there.

• Baen Free Library (recommended) contains work from many good authors I like: David Weber, Larry Niven, John Ringo, Elizabeth Moon, Lois McMaster Bujold.
• Clarkesworld
• Electric Velofipede
• Expanded Horizons is a online magazine with many good short stories.
• Fantastic Metropolis discontinued content still available
• Fictionwise Free eBooks
• free-online-novels.com/sciencefiction.html
• Free Speculative Fiction Online (recommended) is a good comprehensive list of free online scifi. It contains content links for Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award.
• independentbook.com – (seems to be down) has Richard Stott’s Empire series among others.
• Infinite Matrix – discontinued content still available
• infinity plus – British sf. discontinued content still available
• Justfreebooks is a search engine for free online books
• Lone Star Stories
• Memoware – free books and documents for PDAs
• Project Gutenberg Science Fiction Bookshelf – scifi in many different languages.
• SF & Fantasy Books Online
• Suvudu Free Library (New January 2010)- also contains non scifi
• Subterranean Press Magazine
• The Online Book Page – also contains non scifi books.

Some authors also have free samples on their homepages:

• Lois McMaster Bujold mostly excerpts and also the award winning The Mountains of Mourning.
• Aliette de Bodard – short stories with a unique perspective.
• Ursula Le Guin
• John Scalzi (recommended) – great sampler, contains Old Man’s War and Agent to the Stars.
• Charles Stross

I will add more links as I go. I appriciate pointers and suggestions of the ones I missed.