Russell Coker’s Documents

Here are some free short science-fiction stories that I enjoyed reading:

• Maneki Neko by Bruce Sterling is an interesting story about a networked gift economy, I’d like to join such a network!
• The Exterminator’s Want Ad by Bruce Sterling is another good story about the gift economy, not as positive as Maneki Neki though.
• Barge Over Black Water – strange
• The Death Trap of Dr Nefario – amusing
• Anda’s Game by Cory Doctorow
• Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by Cory Doctorow – in comic book form, download the CBZ file as the CBR file seems corrupt.
• I Robot by Cory Doctorow
• Appeals Court by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross – unusual Christian sexual references
• The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away by Cory Doctorow – I didn’t like the ending but it has some good concepts
• The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening by Cory Doctorow, an amusing story of art in a dystopia
• Failed Utopia 42 from OvercomingBias.com
• Understand by Ted Chiang – interesting concept about brain improvement.
• True Names by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow, about two galactic-scale hive organisms.
• Down on the Farm by Charles Stross – one of his “Laundry” sci-fi-fantasy stories set in a Lovecroftian universe

Robert Reed has released enough great free sci-fi stories that he deserves his own section:

• Hexagons – interesting ideas about simulating social development, if someone was developing such a program I would contribute some code
• Man for the Job – bit of a surprise ending
• Hidden Paradise
• The Dragons of Summer Gulch
• Like, Need, Deserve – interesting ideas about soul creation
• Melodies Played upon Cold, Dark Worlds
• The Children’s Crusade – that might be a viable concept, maybe children could pay for scientific research
• Birdy Girl