There are a lot of online magazines, some offering all or parital content for free!

Speculative Fiction

The Town Drunk free, funny, eclectic! This one is a lot of fun to read! A particularly amusing story by Rod Santos: “The Great Deeds of Payven Larum.”

Coyote Magazine - There’s some good stories out here. Well-rounded with light, short, long, weird…a little bit of everything. So far I haven’t found any of the stories I’ve read to be too dark for my tastes!

Weird Tales As of 5/30/07 there are about 4 free short stories on the sidebar. All of them were good; “For Fear of Dragons” by Carrie Vaughn and “Conversations in the Tomb of an Unknown King” by Richard Parks were Excellent.

Jim Baen’s Universe (subscription only, but this is the magazine of all magazines!) You can read the first part of the stories for free, but they will hook you so watch out!

Aberrant Dreams This magazine has some awesome graphics at the entrance and some very good stories. After reading three or four issues, I’d have to say there is more horror than I prefer, but it does have a bit of everything speculative.

www.anthologybuilder.com - this is a great site–you can pick and choose the stories you want to read and for about 15 dollars have it printed into a book and shipped directly to your door. I found a number of new authors via this site–there are some very good stories out there.

Podcast

www.clonepod.org This is my favorite podcast site so far. I renjoyed Jim Hine’s Jig the Goblin contribution as well as The Poisoned Chalice by Brian Stableford. I’m really looking forward to listening to Alien Hunt by James Hartley. The opening lines are great!

These short story podcasts make great listening for one and two hour car trips.

http://podcastle.org This is another site that has a lot of potential. So far what I’ve listened to has been a bit eclectic, but it’s a well-run site and I’m certainly going to continue downloading stories for car trips.

Wrong World - Now this is a classy site. Check out the work they do for just the introduction to a story by clicking through to the samples. There is quite a bit of horror from what I’ve read, and so far as I can tell there isn’t a lot of hints to the category of each story (although with a name like Wrong World, I guess you don’t necessarily expect every story to be lightness and fluff, now do you?) Of course you can preview before you buy so that helps. There’s also themed releases so that helps too!

Print Only Fantasy
My favorite is probably Blackgate, but it just doesn’t come out on schedule. There’s about two issues per year.

Non-Fiction

Discover Magazine is my favorite. Not tons of free content, but each issue does have a few free articles and a new article rotates out every so often.

For excellent online non-fiction science stories, try LiveScience.