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Howard Alan Treesong

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FREE SCIENCE FICTION
« 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.
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Eric P

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« Reply #1 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
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Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2008, 09:31:07 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.
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« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2008, 09:37:42 PM »
Any of these cyberpunk?
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Eric P

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Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2008, 09:56:04 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
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Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2008, 11:43:00 PM »
Thanks for this. Outstanding.  Also finally loaded up Bookr on my PSP.

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« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2008, 03:42:31 AM »
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..)

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Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
« Reply #8 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
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Re: FREE SCIENCE FICTION
« Reply #9 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
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