Stuff to Read for Free, 4/23 -- Special International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day Edition!!!
For those of you looking for Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Wretches, on this most auspicious of days, feast your browsers on:
Infinity Plus has an excerpt from Kay Kenyon’s new novel Bright of the Sky and the story “In Transit” by Keith Brooke and Eric Brown.
Alex Irvine's story "Europe" is available as a PDF.
The entire text of Charles Stross's novella "Missile Gap" (currently a Locus Award nominee, and originally from the Locus-nominated anthology One Million A.D., edited by Gardner Dozois) has been put online for free by Subterranean Press.
Keith R.A. DeCandido posted his short story "Wild Bill Got Shot" for IP-STD.
I think I've forgotten to mention this before, but Eric Flint regularly posts snippets of his books (he's currently posting from 1634: The Baltic War, 1634: The Bavarian Crisis, and Pyramid Power) on his webpage. (And by "regularly," I mean "what looks like the whole damn novel, in big chunks, with some every day.")
Jeffrey Ford has posted a story, "Weiroot," for IP-STD.
David Moles contributes his story "On the Night."
Chris Roberson gives us "The Famous Ape."
John Scalzi offers us the first half of an unfinished YA novel he wrote a decade ago, The Durant Chronicles.
Ryk E. Spoor's contribution is the story "Shadow of Fear," in two parts.
Sean Williams tosses his story "The Seventh Letter" into the pot.
Gwenda Bond points to her story "Unflappable," available for free for quite some time now.
Farah Mendelsohn posts part of her upcoming book, The Child Reader and the Reading Child.
Jess Nevins posts five pages of entries from his upcoming The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes.
And, to wrap it all up, the mother of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, Jo Walton, has a long list of stories available for free for IP-STD. (From a cursory glance, it looks like she's listed a bunch that I haven't, but I think I also have some that she doesn't, yet.)
Update, 4/25: Dusk Peterson is attempting to collect links to all of the IP-STD posts (and ancilliary items, such as banners and T-shirts); there's a whole bunch at this page, and more will be added as they are discovered.
Comments
If you're keeping track, I've posted my out-of-print YA SF novel Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star (originally published by Roussan Publishers of Montreal) on my website, and also made available PDF and Mobipocket versions for download.
Posted by: Edward Willett | April 23, 2007 12:32 PM
I've 'reprinted' my first Asimov's story, "First Principles", on my blog, eddvick.livejournal.com. Also, I'm part of a group of writers posting free SF/F flash stories every weekday at dailycabal.com
Posted by: Edd Vick | April 23, 2007 03:33 PM
I was lucky enough to get to record Charles Stross, John Scalzi, and Tobias Buckell on Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day Eve. They talk all about it on my podcast at www.timetravelershow.com. Thanks to you, Andrew. You often have links to my podcast and it's appreciated.
Posted by: The Time Traveler | April 24, 2007 08:31 PM
Not only does Eric post the first 1/2 or so of each of his books in three-times-a-week snippets to his web site at http://www.ericflint.net but all of his columns on DRM and copyright are also publicly viewable at http://www.baens-universe.com back to issue one.
Additionally, Baen's Universe has made Mike Resnick's Hugo nominated short story available for free on their site.
Finally, since Eric comes close to being the Master of pixel stained technopeasants, don't forget Baen's Free Library with _lots_ of free books which Eric has either posted or talked other authors into posting over the last several years. http://www.baen.com/library/
I admit that those aren't IP-STD books, they're just entire free books with no DRM in multiple formats posted by great authors.
Aaron Allston
Andre Norton
Christopher Anvil
Catherine Asaro
Lois McMaster Bujold
John F. Carr
Paul Chafe
Rick Cook
John Dalmas
David Drake
Rosemary Edghill
Linda Evans
Eric Flint
Michael Flynn
Dave Freer
Mark A. Garland
Roland Green
Ellen Guon
James P. Hogan
Sarah Hoyt
Karen Koehler
Mercedes Lackey
Keith Laumer
Murray Leinster
Holly Lisle
Duncan Long
Elizabeth Moon
Howard L. Myers
Charles G. McGraw
Larry Niven
Jerry Pournelle
John Ringo
Richard Roach
Fred Saberhagen
James H. Schmitz
Ryk Spoor
D. W. St. John
Harry Turtledove
Lars Walker
David Weber
K. D. Wentworth
Michael Z. Williamson
Posted by: Rick Boatright | April 27, 2007 05:35 PM