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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 21, 2008, 08:09:09 PM

Title: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 21, 2008, 08:09:09 PM: To celebrate the launch of their website, Tor is giving away several novels as well as cool backgrounds:

http://tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=577

Both Old Man's War and Spin are excellent.

Peter Watts' Blindsight:

http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

Ted Chiang's The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, the best short story of 2007, is available online in its entirety:

http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/fiction/tc01.htm

Post links if you got 'em.
Title: Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
Post by: Eric P on July 21, 2008, 09:10:59 PM: cory doctorow has all of his books released through creative commons

and i broke down and totally bought the ghost brigades
Title: Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
Post by: TVC15 on July 21, 2008, 09:15:57 PM: Patel already read all the Cory Doctorow stuff. He won't shut up about him. It's like he's Cory's girlfriend.
Title: Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 21, 2008, 09:31:07 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on July 21, 2008, 09:15:57 PM
Patel already read all the Cory Doctorow stuff. He won't shut up about him. It's like he's Cory's girlfriend.

Cory's battered girlfriend

I intentionally left Doctorow's books off

Ghost Brigades was fun. I haven't read the next two books in the series. I think Ghost Brigades might have been enough for me.
Title: Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on July 21, 2008, 09:37:42 PM: Any of these cyberpunk?
Title: Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
Post by: Eric P on July 21, 2008, 09:56:04 PM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on July 21, 2008, 09:31:07 PM
Ghost Brigades was fun. I haven't read the next two books in the series. I think Ghost Brigades might have been enough for me.

the first one was just so entertaining i couldn't resist
Title: Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
Post by: Sysgen on July 21, 2008, 11:43:00 PM: Thanks for this. Outstanding. Also finally loaded up Bookr on my PSP.
Title: Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
Post by: VALIS on July 22, 2008, 03:42:31 AM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on July 21, 2008, 08:09:09 PM
Post links if you got 'em.

http://www.freesfonline.de/Authors.html (free sf short stories)

http://www.electricstory.com/index.aspx (plenty of free ebooks, i think you have to register first, though)

http://freesfbest.blogspot.com/

http://worldlibrary.net/Baen.htm (this military & fantasy sf is most definitely not up my alley, but it may be yours..)
Title: Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 22, 2008, 01:57:56 PM: Thanks, Valis!

I found a few Cordwainer Smith stories online.

Scanners Live in Vain: http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1416521461/1416521461___5.htm
The Dead Lady of Clown Town: http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1416520953/1416520953___2.htm
Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons: http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/smith/smith1.html
Title: Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
Post by: Eric P on July 22, 2008, 02:02:54 PM: Every Thursday, Joe R Lansdale puts up a free story at

http://www.joerlansdale.com/stories.shtml

May be any one of a million genres and may be really violent.

if you're lucky