Literature (Libre)

Creative works that are mainly text.

This page only shows free, libre and open literature. For a list that includes semi-libre (that is to say, noncommercial and verbatim works), see Literature (Common Content).

General

Literature

• A Vessel For Offering ● 'Hard boiled pseudo-Lovecraftian space noir with squishy (and doomed, of course) romantic bits.'
• Abulafia ● A collection of random concept and word generators for story gamers.
• Biodigital ● 'Biodigital is a novel, first published as an Ebook via Unglue.it, about a Silicon Valley tech genius/messiah and the quasi-religious cult of transhumanist computer designers and brain hackers who follow him.'
• Dscript ● A new Roman script.
• Entropy Of Imagination ● 'The inhabitants of this future Web reside in a closed system, where all possible experiences will soon be exhausted. The Web is winding down, falling into stasis. Here, Flatline is a brief infusion of novelty, bringing chaos to the system.'
• Fantastique Unfettered ● A magazine of short stories.
• Ficly (Jenny Everywhere) ● Ficly microfiction about Jenny Everywhere.
• Free as in Freedom ● A biography of free software guru Richard Stallman.
• Future of Copyright ● A competition for fiction and non-fiction entries on copyright.
• Future of Copyright 2.0 ● A collection of fiction and non-fiction.
• Green Comet ● A sci-fi novel.
• Hoborg ● 'A dieselpunk novel with Spanish-created robot hobos in a balcanized America at the beginning of the XX century.' - that anyone can edit, fork and contribute to.
• Jenny Everywhere ● Jenny Everywhere, aka the Shifter, is the world's first open source superhero.
• Octobriana ● A public doman, communist-era superhero.
• Poetics for Cosmonauts ● A book.
• Project N ● A light novel.
• Roadkill ● A short story by Leonard Kirke.
• Solitudes & Silence ● A novel set in the Theonosis setting.
• Stick's Adventure ● New Brothers Whim picturebook.
• Superpower Wiki ● A wiki that describes thousands of supernatural powers.
• The Beggar's Opera ● An 18th Century ballad opera.
• The Collected Writings of Jeremy Kellerman Volume One ● '""The Jeremy Kellerman Blog!" was created in February of 2011 as an outlet for the writings of Michigan-based creative genius and self-help guru Jeremy Kellerman and his associates.'
• The Enemy and How I Helped to Fight it ● A political satire about the situation that used to prevail in the Israeli-Lebanese boder.
• The Open Utopia ● An open content take on Thomas More's Utopia.
• Tings ● A NaNoWriMo novel.

Sources of Literature

• Aaron Pogue ● A fantasy author.
• Aelius Blythe ● A fiction author.
• Brothers Whim ● A Creative Commons book publisher.
• Emily C O'Leary ●
• Ficly ● A site of microfiction where you can add sequels and prequels to the writing of others.
• Folger Shakespeare Library ● ' This database offers access to tens of thousands of high resolution images from the Folger Shakespeare Library, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, and art.'
• Free Software Foundation ● A foundation to encourage the use of free software licences.
• Freetems ● Collection of CC0 / public domain photos, ebooks, music etc.
• HG Wells ● A famous author.
• Jagannath Mohanty ● An Odia author and academic.
• James Hutchings ● 'James Hutchings lives in Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Enchanted Conversation and fiction365 among other markets.'
• John Sundman ● An author.
• Leonard Kirke ● An author.
• LibriVox ● 'Extensive collection of free audio books read by volunteers; the goal is to record every book in the public domain.'
• ManyBooks ● A gratis ebook site.
• Project Gutenberg ● A website that preserves out-of-copyright books.
• Public Domain Review ● Reviews and catalogues of works in the public domain.
• Public Domain Super Heroes ● A wiki of superheroes and villains that have lapsed into the public domain.
• The SCP Foundation ● X-Files like wiki.
• Twine Games ● Online choose your own adventure games.
• unglue.it ● A project to crowdfund the application of Creative Commons licensing
• Valentin Champer ● A poet.
• zero-project ● A collection of musical compositions, audiobooks and songs.

Novel

Novels

• Biodigital ● 'Biodigital is a novel, first published as an Ebook via Unglue.it, about a Silicon Valley tech genius/messiah and the quasi-religious cult of transhumanist computer designers and brain hackers who follow him.'
• Tings ● A NaNoWriMo novel.

Sources of Novels

• Aaron Pogue ● A fantasy author.
• John Sundman ● An author.

Character

Characters

• Jenny Everywhere ● Jenny Everywhere, aka the Shifter, is the world's first open source superhero.
• Octobriana ● A public doman, communist-era superhero.

Sources of Characters

• Public Domain Super Heroes ● A wiki of superheroes and villains that have lapsed into the public domain.

Short Story

Short Stories

• Roadkill ● A short story by Leonard Kirke.

Sources of Short Story

• James Hutchings ● 'James Hutchings lives in Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Enchanted Conversation and fiction365 among other markets.'

Audiobook

Audiobooks

• Future of Copyright ● A competition for fiction and non-fiction entries on copyright.
• Future of Copyright 2.0 ● A collection of fiction and non-fiction.

Sources of Audiobook

• LibriVox ● 'Extensive collection of free audio books read by volunteers; the goal is to record every book in the public domain.'
• Pratham Books ● A publisher of multicultural and multilingual children's books.
• zero-project ● A collection of musical compositions, audiobooks and songs.