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Greg Bear's new novel, Hull Zero Three, is just out in hardcover — but you can read it for free if you go to a Starbucks from Nov. 23 to Dec. 7. Just use your computer or wireless device. [Orbit] More »
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You need some science fiction, and you need it now. Unfortunately, you don't have a ton of money to spend. But as long as you have an internet connection, these resources will help you get free books and stories online. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5409015&view=rss&microfeed=true In anticipation of Scott Westerfeld's alternate history novel Leviathan, Simon & Schuster has made his book Uglies available for free download. It's the first book in his young adult series about a strictly regimented, post-scarcity society where all people undergo an operation at age 16 to make them pretty, and Tally Youngblood, a teenager who stumbles upon the sinister truth behind the operation. Of course, it's all an evil plot to get you hooked so you'll buy the rest of the series. [Simon & Schuster via Westerblog] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5331726&view=rss&microfeed=true If you're looking for something new to listen to this weekend, head over to Audible Frontiers, Amazon's SF audiobook imprint. From now until July 24th, they're giving away the complete audio version of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's novel The Disappeared, the first of her Retrieval Artist series. Yes, that's "giving away" as in "for free" - All you have to do is register at the site. [Free The Disappeared Download] More »
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If you grew up reading Andre Norton's 1970s YA fiction like Star Ka'at, then you'll want to cast back further into history and check out some of the novels from her Time Traders series, many of which are free online. Today, the resourceful nerds at BoingBoing linked to the third book in the Cold War series that pits time-traveling Soviets against time-traveling U.S. spies. The third book, The Defiant Agents, is about how a group of Apache natives colonize space (yay for getting to be the colonizers this time around?), but the first book (Time Traders) sets the scene by giving us a 1950s-style temporal arms race between the commies and the capitalist pigdogs. Download them both and while away a couple of afternoons. More »
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