October 19th, 2026
Home | Log in!
❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
Welcome to FreshFiction

Are you a reader
or an author?

Help us personalize your experience. Choose your role below.
You can always change this later using the switcher button.

or

You can switch anytime using the floating button.

Limited Time Fresh Fiction Access

Exclusive Marketing Opportunities for Authors

Curious about how Fresh Access helps authors gain more visibility and connect with active readers?

Discover premium promotional opportunities, enhanced exposure, and author-focused services designed to help your books stand out.

Read More →
On Top Shelf
📚 New Books This Week 📰 Latest News 🎪 Reader Games 👻 🎃 Halloween Contest Giveaways 🎃

October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

Slideshow image


slideshow image
A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


slideshow image
Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


slideshow image
If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


slideshow image
She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


slideshow image
He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


slideshow image
She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Rule 34 by Charles Stross

Purchase

Add to Wish List


Also by Charles Stross:

The Regicide Report, February 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
A Conventional Boy, January 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Season of Skulls, May 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Invisible Sun, July 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
Invisible Sun, October 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Escape from Puroland, July 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Dead Lies Dreaming, November 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Dark State, November 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Delirium Brief, July 2017
Hardcover
Empire Games, January 2017
Hardcover
The Annihilation Score, July 2016
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Nightmare Stacks, July 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
The Annihilation Score, July 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Revolution Trade, February 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Traders' War, November 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Bloodline Feud, September 2014
Paperback
The Rhesus Chart, July 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Neptune's Brood, July 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Rule 34, July 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The Apocalypse Codex, July 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Rule 34, July 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
The Fuller Memorandum, July 2011
Paperback (reprint)
The Fuller Memorandum, July 2010
Hardcover
Wireless, July 2010
Paperback
Wireless, July 2009
Hardcover
The Jennifer Morgue, January 2009
Trade Size
Saturn's Children, July 2008
Hardcover
Halting State, October 2007
Hardcover
Accelerando, July 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Glasshouse, July 2006
Hardcover

RULE 34
By: Charles Stross

Ace
July 2012
On Sale: June 26, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 1937007669
EAN: 9781937007669
Kindle: B004Y3I6XW
Paperback / e-Book
Add to Wish List

Other Editions
Hardcover (July 2011)

Suspense | Science Fiction

Meet Edinburgh Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh, head of the Innovative Crimes Investigation Unit, otherwise known as the Rule 34 Squad. They monitor the Internet for potential criminal activity, analyzing trends in the extreme fringes of explicit content. And occasionally, even more disturbing patterns arise… Three ex-cons have been murdered in Germany, Italy, and Scotland. The only things they had in common were arrests for spammingβ€”and a taste for unorthodox entertainment.

As the first officer on the scene of the most recent death, Liz finds herself sucked into an international investigation that isn’t so much asking who the killer is, but whatβ€”and if she doesn't find the answer soon, the homicides could go viral.