[extropy-chat] Books available online - free

[Neil Halelamien]

On 7/6/05, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Internet Public Library
> <http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/>
> maintains an index page of many sources of online books.
> ...

In addition to the good sources you mentioned, there have recently
been some new sci-fi novels released as free downloads. Below is the
text of one of my slashdot submissions which keeps on getting
rejected:

Two prominent science fiction authors have released their newest
novels as <a
href=http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/publisher/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000968186>free
downloads</a> (in addition to bookstore physical copies). The first is
<a href=http://craphound.com/someone/000363.html>Someone Comes to
Town, Someone Leaves Town</a>, by <a
href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow>Cory Doctorow</a>.
This is an unconventional story about an entrepreneur (who happens to
be the child of a mountain and a washing machine) who gets involved in
a scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless mesh network, among
other things.  The second is <a
href=http://www.accelerando.org/>Accelerando</a>, by <a
href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross>Charles Stross</a>,
which tells the tale of three generations of the Macx family
(beginning with perptually-slashdotted venture altruist Manfred Macx)
in the years leading up to and beyond a technological singularity. To
help provide more info on certain technical topics from Stross's
novel, I've started up a <a
href=http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Accelerando_Technical_Companion>Technical
Companion</a> on wikibooks.

Without html: Two prominent science fiction authors have released their newest
novels as free downloads (in addition to bookstore physical copies).
The first is Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, by Cory
Doctorow. This is an unconventional story about an entrepreneur (who
happens to be the child of a mountain and a washing machine) who gets
involved in a scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless mesh
network, among other things. The second is Accelerando, by Charles
Stross, which tells the tale of three generations of the Macx family
(beginning with perptually-slashdotted venture altruist Manfred Macx)
in the years leading up to and beyond a technological singularity. To
help provide more info on certain technical topics from Stross's
novel, I've started up a Technical Companion on wikibooks.