Some Book News & Reviews
Get Your Read On!
OK, here's some free stuff... (Via Boingboing)
1) Fans of Firefly? Got a Browncoat hanging in the closet?
You'll like this, then! A free Firefly novel!
OK, it is fanfiction, I will admit. However, it's fanfic by a reasonably well-known fantasy author named Stephen Brust. I've read two or three of his novels, and they're good reads.
He decided he had to jump into the Firefly 'verse, and the result is shiny!
Go here to download it in .pdf or .doc format. I've read it, it's almost as good as watching an episode!
2) I know I've mentioned this next book before, as have other bloggers. It's called 'Old Man's War' by John Scalzi, and it's one of the best SciFi novels I've read in years.
If you go here and sign up for the Tor Books mailing list, you'll get a chance to download it for free, and also more free books once a week.
3) Not free, but well worth your time is a novel called 'The Ruins', by Scott Smith. I wrote about his first novel called 'A Simple Plan' some time back, and this is his new one. Apparently he puts out one book every 15 years, but this was worth the wait!
I read a blurb about the book by Stephen King, who called it "the best horror fiction of the new century" or something close to that, and picked up a copy cheap on eBay.
I started reading about 11 pm last Saturday night, and didn't stop until I was finished, sometime in the wee hours of the morning.
What's most unsettling about the book is that there's no guessing what's ahead. You know going in that it's a horror novel, and you read and you read, and it's like waiting for that damn cat to jump out yowling and scare the shit out of you. You know the monster's finally going to appear, then it doesn't. Until it does. But you really weren't expecting it at that point, so you shit yourself. And then, the horror never stops, so you've just got to sit there, eyes bugged out, covered in shit, until the bitter end.
Just read it! Wear a diaper!
4) Finally, if you have a Half Price Books in your neck of the woods, they should have a short stack of books in their SciFi section entitled 'Freedom!', edited by Martin Greenberg & Mark Tier. The store nearest the office had 5 copies, and they usually send equal amounts to the various branches.
It's an omnibus edition of two previous books, 'Give Me Liberty' and 'Visions Of Liberty', each a collection of short stories with personal liberty and freedom as a central theme. The first book's stories are pulled from old-school SF authors, and the second one's from more recent sources.
It's only $5, and you'll get 100 times that value from the ideas within.
OK, here's some free stuff... (Via Boingboing)
1) Fans of Firefly? Got a Browncoat hanging in the closet?
You'll like this, then! A free Firefly novel!
OK, it is fanfiction, I will admit. However, it's fanfic by a reasonably well-known fantasy author named Stephen Brust. I've read two or three of his novels, and they're good reads.
He decided he had to jump into the Firefly 'verse, and the result is shiny!
Go here to download it in .pdf or .doc format. I've read it, it's almost as good as watching an episode!
2) I know I've mentioned this next book before, as have other bloggers. It's called 'Old Man's War' by John Scalzi, and it's one of the best SciFi novels I've read in years.
If you go here and sign up for the Tor Books mailing list, you'll get a chance to download it for free, and also more free books once a week.
3) Not free, but well worth your time is a novel called 'The Ruins', by Scott Smith. I wrote about his first novel called 'A Simple Plan' some time back, and this is his new one. Apparently he puts out one book every 15 years, but this was worth the wait!
I read a blurb about the book by Stephen King, who called it "the best horror fiction of the new century" or something close to that, and picked up a copy cheap on eBay.
I started reading about 11 pm last Saturday night, and didn't stop until I was finished, sometime in the wee hours of the morning.
What's most unsettling about the book is that there's no guessing what's ahead. You know going in that it's a horror novel, and you read and you read, and it's like waiting for that damn cat to jump out yowling and scare the shit out of you. You know the monster's finally going to appear, then it doesn't. Until it does. But you really weren't expecting it at that point, so you shit yourself. And then, the horror never stops, so you've just got to sit there, eyes bugged out, covered in shit, until the bitter end.
Just read it! Wear a diaper!
4) Finally, if you have a Half Price Books in your neck of the woods, they should have a short stack of books in their SciFi section entitled 'Freedom!', edited by Martin Greenberg & Mark Tier. The store nearest the office had 5 copies, and they usually send equal amounts to the various branches.
It's an omnibus edition of two previous books, 'Give Me Liberty' and 'Visions Of Liberty', each a collection of short stories with personal liberty and freedom as a central theme. The first book's stories are pulled from old-school SF authors, and the second one's from more recent sources.
It's only $5, and you'll get 100 times that value from the ideas within.
posted by El Capitan | 3:05 PM
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