- Paulo Coelho - The Witch of Portobello
- Neil Gaiman - American Gods
- Erin Hunter - Warriors #1: Into the Wild
a place for microcontroller and Raspberry Pi projects, eBooks and books and some geocaching stuff.
Friday, May 30, 2008
HarperCollins' BrowseInside service
HarperCollins is offering free books for online reading using the new BrowseInside service (in beta)... Check out the books on the right hand side:
New eBook from TOR
New free eBook downloadable from TOR:
Daniel Abraham - A Shadow in Summer [May.30 '08]
Daniel Abraham - A Shadow in Summer [May.30 '08]
Friday, May 23, 2008
New eBook from TOR
New free eBook downloadable from TOR:
C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp - Touch of Evil [May.23 '08]
C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp - Touch of Evil [May.23 '08]
Friday, May 16, 2008
Review: The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose
I'll start by saying that I liked this book a lot. It is my first encounter with David Ambrose but I am sure I'll pick up more books of his.
I love books that have a Science Fiction background to them but this is not all they are: Science Fiction. The Many Worlds theory and the bit of time travel ideas in this book are only a backdrop to explore ideas about mind, about unconscious versus conscious which can become (and behave) like independent entities. For me, this book is a discourse about human mind (and mostly about what we don't know about mind) and the universes it can create, that could be as real for someone as any palpable reality around.
In the end, one can't be sure if the Richard A. Hamilton is indeed time- and parallel universe-traveling or he is just getting crazy; or maybe he is just more perceptive than the rest of us, starting to see his alter-ego(s) (or maybe the little voices in his head) as real persons.
I definitely recommend this book not all to Science Fiction fans but to anyone.
3 1/2 out of 5 stars.
I love books that have a Science Fiction background to them but this is not all they are: Science Fiction. The Many Worlds theory and the bit of time travel ideas in this book are only a backdrop to explore ideas about mind, about unconscious versus conscious which can become (and behave) like independent entities. For me, this book is a discourse about human mind (and mostly about what we don't know about mind) and the universes it can create, that could be as real for someone as any palpable reality around.
In the end, one can't be sure if the Richard A. Hamilton is indeed time- and parallel universe-traveling or he is just getting crazy; or maybe he is just more perceptive than the rest of us, starting to see his alter-ego(s) (or maybe the little voices in his head) as real persons.
I definitely recommend this book not all to Science Fiction fans but to anyone.
3 1/2 out of 5 stars.
Friday, May 09, 2008
Free download from John Kessel and Small Beer Press
To celebrate the publication of his first new collection of short stories in ten years, The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories, John Kessel and Small Beer Press have made it available as a free download in various completely open formats with no Digital Rights Management (DRM) strings attached, here (found via Teleread).
Free downloads and shareware eBooks
Several eBooks offered as free downloads or shareware, by authors like Jeff VanderMeer, Richard Kadrey, Charles Stross and others, featured in this Teleread post.
Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End" as a free download here (found via Boing Boing).
Shareware books
Richard Herley, a known English author, is offering his novels as shareware: download them for free and if you like them you could send him "between $1.70 and $2.50, according to length" via PayPal. (found via Teleread).
Cory Doctorow's website
All of Cory Doctorow's book are free to download under CC license at craphound.com
Thursday, May 08, 2008
New Cory Doctorow book
Cory Doctorow's new book, "Little Brother" is now available for download here under a Creative Commons license
John Scalzi freebies
If you liked Old Man's War you may want to check out the other freebies offered by John Scalzi in the The Scalzi Creative Sampler.
Free eBooks from TOR
Free eBooks downloadable from TOR. The books offered until now are:
- Cherie Priest - Four and Twenty Blackbirds [May.02 '08]
- Karl Schroeder - Sun of Suns [Apr.25 '08]
- S.C. Butler - Reiffen’s Choice [Apr.18 '08]
- Harry Turtledove - The Disunited States of America [Apr.11 '08]
- Jane Lindskold - Through Wolf’s Eyes [Apr.04 '08]
- David Drake - Lord of the Isles [Mar.28 '08]
- Tobias Buckell - Crystal Rain [Mar.21 '08]
- Jo Walton - Farthing [Mar.14 '08]
- Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory - The Outstretched Shadow - book one of the Obsidian Trilogy [Mar.07 '08]
- Robert Charles Wilson - Spin [Feb.29 '08]
- John Scalzi - Old Man's War [Feb.22 '08]
- Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn [Feb.15 '08]