Check out StarRigger.net for some free SF ebooks. I haven’t heard of this series, but I’ve downloaded the first three books, and if they are fun I plan to donate to the author. This just makes it so easy to check new stuff out.

I went to America last month, and as usual, I read a storm on the plane. I’ve been meaning to post this for ages, but I’ve been ridiculously busy so I haven’t gotten around to it. I’m finally going to just take some time this morning and post stuff. Space Opera I read the first […]

A while back, I wrote about reading Ebooks on the OLPC. I am really interested in getting myself a Kindle, but until there is a Japanese release I don’t see the point of buying one: the wireless portion won’t work in Japan, and that is a very attractive feature that I would rather not neuter. […]

I heard about this book sometime last week I think. I’m not sure where, but probably from one of the blogs that I follow. It is a very interesting and curious phenomena: a book written in 1929 becomes suddenly very popular. I’m curious, and thinking about getting a copy. Anyway, first up: an excellent introduction […]

In the past I read and wrote up Peter Watts’ Starfish. The review comes off a bit negative I think, which isn’t quite right because immediately after Starfish, I found the other two novels online and started reading them (sequentially, not in parallel.) Maelstrom has a different focus than Starfish, and went into more detail […]

This is just a really short post to point out the blog entry on the now-live Tor.com that has a collection of links to all the free ebooks they released and all the desktop wallpapers. I think they are only leaving those links live for a week, so you should check it out soon. It […]

So in my continuing line of ebook reviews, I present Vernon Vinge’s Rainbows End. Actually, this won’t be much of a review. It is freely available (at the link above, but I also have an Amazon.com link for the pretty cover) on his website and I highly recommend that you read it. This is a […]

Peter Watts: Starfish This book is a 1999 first novel.  It is set primarily deep in the sea, near the volcanic vents where there is strange sealife that glows in the dark and have made other adaptations to the crushing pressure.  At first, I had a really hard time getting into this novel.  I didn’t […]

Warning: I’ve got more Amazon links on the book covers. I like having little pictures to go with the words though, and this seems like a reasonable way to do it. If you buy stuff from the links maybe I get some money, but since I think that will go to my US address, it […]