Infinity Plus has posted an excerpt of Martin Sketchley's novel The Liberty Gun and an excerpt of Gail Z. Martin's novel The Summoner.

Shaun Farrell (of Adventures in SciFi Publishing) is podcasting Paul Levinson's novel The Silk Code, in several installments, for free. (OK, so this is actually something to listen to for free, but it's close.)

Small Beer Press has put up an excerpt of Elizabeth Hand's upcoming novel Generation Loss on their website.

John Joseph Adams provides links to the F&SF stories on this year's Preliminary Nebula Ballot, all of which are free for the reading.