Free Science Fiction & Fantasy Books Online

Introduction

This is a listing of sites that legally offer free books, for reading and listening (audio), for Science Fiction-Fantasy works.

All of these sites listed have content that is legal for them to distribute and for you to read and/or download..  If you find that any site listed is offering content that can not be legally transferred, please let me know in the comments below. 

Also, I would appreciate it if you would post comments about any sites that you like or do not like so that information can be added to the site's listing here.  This would help new users to decide which sites to try.

This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our forums. 

Most entries at those sites that offer only online listening can be downloaded with the Firefox addon DownloadHelper.

A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:

• 100+ Places For Free Books Online
• Free Audio Books Online

Libraries are also an excellent source for reading and listening materials for Science Fiction-Fantasy.  To find out more information on your local library, the links here may help:  Library Information

There are 13 other book  pages here at Gizmo's covering other various popular book genres and offering links to free online books listed here:  Book Genre Pages

Although not involving ebooks, Rizar's Top 20 Science Fiction Films for Technology page here at Gizmo's has some great information that will interest any SciFi buff.

Science Fiction/Fantasy (Reading)

Arthur's Classic Novels (Science Fiction) - Arthur's classics of science fiction collection (450+)

Baen Free Library - A small library of downloadable science fiction novels in a variety of formats.

BaenCD - A small collection of science fiction books from Baen's promotional CDs.  They are downloadable in a variety of formats as well as viewable online.

BBC (Dr. Who) for those who like Dr. Who, this is  a collection of 8 books for online reading or download in a choice of 3 formats

BookGlutton  has a very interesting collection of 269 free science fiction novels for online reading with the added  feature of  groups available for discussion of the readings.  Nice combination of reading and socializing.  Suggested by an anonymous poster.

BooksOnlinePage has 3 full fantasy and 1 full science fiction novel, all by Hugh Cook  available for free online reading.

BookYards (SF Fantasy) 51 novels available in pdf download

Earthbound The 5 book science fiction series of Earthbound available for download in lit .pdb .pdf .txt .rtf.

Feedbooks (Science Fiction) - nice size collection downloadable in a variety of formats.

Fiction Press (Science Fiction)  (Fantasy) a large collection of writings by new unsigned authors

FindingFreeeBooks  has links to a lot of nice science fiction novels being offered  free for download in a variety of formats. There is a lot of unique stuff here.   Also worth checking out the limited time offers section as there will be some science fiction novels there.

Free ebooks.net (Science Fiction) 64 free books available for online reading or download in pdf or MobiPocket.  Looks to be a mix of classic and modern. Registration is required.  The Standard (free) membership allows 5 books per month.  The classics can be gotten elsewhere, but there are some unique entries here.

Free SF Online over 2,000 links to books for reading online

GetFreeBooks  has a nice listing of free sci fi books available for download.  There are new offerings added regularly.

Globusz (Science Fiction) 10 books for online viewing or download

Google Book Search (Science Fiction) 14 books for online viewing or download as pdf

Gutenberg (Science Fiction) Large collection available for download in several formats

Gutenberg (Fantasy) Large collection available for download in several formats

KalinBooks has 4 science fiction novels of Kalin Ringkvist available for online viewing or download in pdf (with a fifth on the way.

KnowledgeRush has 39 classic science fiction works available for download in test or html/

Listverse  has a interesting top ten list (though there are 11 entries) of the free sci fi books on the web.

ManyBooks (Science Fiction) 687 books downloadable in a variety of formats

MemoWare (Science Fiction) 659 ebooks downloadable in a number of formats

MobileRead (Science Fiction) 103 works listed in forum posts with links to html or download for mobile

Qvadis (Science Fiction) 373 books available in doc format

Munsey's (Science Fiction) 646 books viewable online or downloadable in a large selection of formats.

ProjectGutenbergAustralia has its science fiction project page which has links to a large number of science fiction and fantasy novels online.  Viewing and download options vary.  Worth checking out as there is a lot of material here.

Scifimatter  has a nice listing of free sci fi books available on the internet.  Some are already listed here, but there are quite a few unique entries.

specficworld  has a small collection of free sci fi books available for download in pdf.  Mostly short story collections.

Suvudu  offers the first book in some of their acclaimed series for free download.  Interesting entries.

Tor.com has a good number of Science Fiction & Fantasy stories available for download in pdf, mobi pocket, html or ePub.  Also available for listening or download as MP3.

WorldWideSchool has a good number of classic science fiction works available for online viewing.  A good number of HG Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs along with individual works of several other authors.

Wowio (Science Fiction) 78 books available for free online reading

Science Fiction/Fantasy (Audio)

AudioBooksForFree has 64 Science Fiction and 132 Fantasy audio books for download in MP3 format.  However the free download is only available for bearable quality (8kBps) and segmented MP3 files.  Some interesting entries here that are not found elsewhere.

AudioBooks.net has 18 Science Fiction and 7 Fantasy audio books.  You must register (free) to download.  While many are available elsewhere, there are some there I did not see elsewhere.

AudioBookTreasury (Science Fiction) has only one work (In A Thousand Years-Hans Christian Andersen) available for free download in MP3 (or complete work in Zip) or for listening online.

BooksShouldBeFree has 29 Science Fiction and 26 Fantasy audio books for download in very good quality MP3 format.  Some of the fantasy works were not what I consider fantasy, but the science fiction collection has a few unusual and interesting looking entries.

Earthbound AudioBooks has the five volume Earthbound series available for download in very good quality MP3 or for streaming. 

JimKelly (InternetArchive) the internet archive offers a number of works by Science Fiction writer Jim Kelly, originally offered as podcasts, for online listening or download in MP3 or Ogg Vorbis.

LibriVox offers 106 Science Fiction works as well as 96 Fantasy works available for download in MP3 (64kb/128kb) or ogg vorbis.  All are human read.  This is a very nice collection.

Lit2Go offers only one Science Fiction work (Invisible Man), but has a good number of Fantasy works available for download in very good quality MP3.  They are also available for online reading. (You need to enter Science Fiction or Fantasy as search keywords).

MariaLectrix is a site that is primarily known for its books catering to a Catholic readership.  However, their Science fiction audio book section is a very interesting collection of serial books, mostly from the 1930s magazine Astounding Stories of Super Science.  They also have a nice collection under the Fantasy category.

Podiobooks has a collection of audio books that were originally released as podcasts.  Interesting collection that has sub-sections of Alternative History, Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Magical Realism and Science Fiction.  These are available for download in very good quality MP3.

StoriesNow offers a small but interesting collection of free Science Fiction audio books for download in MP3.

Tor.com has a good number of Science Fiction & Fantasy stories available for download in pdf, mobi pocket, html or ePub.  Also available for listening or download as MP3.