Futurismic's weekly catalog of free sf

Cory Doctorow 4:26 pm Fri Sep 14, 2007

The science fiction blog Futurismic is now running a regular Friday feature devoted to rounding up the best free sf online this week. As more and more people have discovered it and sent them their picks, the list has grown, and this week, it seems to have achieved some kind of watershed moment, with a list of fiction so mind-croogglingly awesome that it makes me wish I could fork another instance devoted to nothing but reading. Here's just the first few, from manybooks.net:

Beyond the Vanishing Point by Raymond King Cummings
The Hunters by William Douglas Morrison
Cubs of the Wolf by Raymond F. Jones.
The Devil's Asteroid by Manly Wade Wellman
The K-Factor by Harry Harrison
The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison
A World is Born by Leigh Brackett
Space Prison by Tom Godwin
The Day of the Boomer Dukes by Frederik Pohl
The Worshippers by Damon Knight
The Burning Bridge by Poul Anderson
Spell of Catastrophe by Mayer Alan Brenner
Warning from the Stars by Ron Cocking
-And Devious the Line of Duty by Tom Godwin
Jubilation, U.S.A. by G.L. Vandenburg

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