Tuesday book club with Neasden Postlethwaite

[hirez]

It's a day of being reminded to mention stuff by the LJ activities of other people. And furtling with Django.

Anyway. If you go and sign up at www.tor.com, they'll send you links to free electronic versions of fine SF/F books. Even though reading long-form works on screens makes me want to tear my eyeballs out after a while, I can say that Jo Walton's 'Farthing' is a splendid work. I shall likely beetle to the electronic shop and purchase the dead tree version directly. Curse those lovely Tor types and their fiendish commercial acumen.

Comments

[diffrentcolours]

Hmm, I failed to spot the TLD there and wondered what anonymous onion routing had to do with science-fiction...

[dr-atheist.livejournal.com]

Talking of new distribution of books methods via inter tubes.
http://www.scottsigler.com/
He podcasts his books, and then gives away PDF's before selling dead tree versions. I haven't got round to listening/reading yet, but it looks interesting.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

i am reading Farthing at the moment, courtesy of Tor.com. i must say that so far i really don't rate it. it's a bit obvious, and the voice it's written in is kinda pretentiously tcked on. i dunno. maybe it improves, i'm not far in.

i really enjoyed Old Man's War and Spin, and am eagerly anticipating there being more lovely proper SF at some point.