It’s time for more free fiction! The Locus SF Foundation has announced the top finalists in each award category. Many of the shorts and novelettes are free to read online.
Check out the full roster from Locus, with standard font links for open access work and bold for purchasing links. Here’s the abbreviated list of free material:
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NOVELETTE
- “If You Take My Meaning“, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 2/11/20)
- “The Inaccessibility of Heaven“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 07-08/20)
- “The Pill“, Meg Elison (Big Girl)
- “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super“, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 05-06/20)
- “A Whisper of Blue”, Ken Liu (The Book of Dragons)
- “A City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat“, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 10/21/20)
- “Two Truths and a Lie“, Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com 6/17/20)
- “Fairy Tales for Robots”, Sofia Samatar (Made to Order)
- “Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo“, Catherynne M. Valente (Strange Horizons 9/7/20)
- “A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential“, JY Neon Yang (Clarkesworld 5/20)
SHORT STORY
- “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse“, Rae Carson (Uncanny 1-2/20)
- “In the Lands of the Spill“, Aliette de Bodard (Avatars Inc)
- “Dresses Like White Elephants“, Meg Elison (Uncanny 5-6/20)
- “The Sycamore and the Sybil“, Alix E. Harrow (Uncanny 3-4/20)
- “The Girlfriend’s Guide to Gods“, Maria Dahvana Headley (Tor.com 1/23/20)
- “Wait for Night“, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com 9/02/20)
- “Little Free Library“, Naomi Kritzer (Tor.com 4/8/20)
- “The Mermaid Astronaut“, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/27/20)
- “50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know“, Ken Liu (Uncanny 11-12/20)
- “Open House on Haunted Hill“, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 6/15/20)
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J.R. Johnson 
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