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Andre Norton's Time Traders Series Free Online

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.

2:44 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Annalee Newitz
865 views, 7 comments

Latest by Dillenger69: It's also available at Webscriptions as part of Baen's free... That's where I got it when I read it. more »

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Slipstream Office Politics in Jeff VanderMeer's "The Situation," Free Online

Jeff VanderMeer is one of those authors whose books seep into your brain, trickle down your spine, and lodge somewhere deep in the insect parts of your DNA. Heavily influenced by Lovecraft, VanderMeer is perhaps best known for the dreamy-crawly short story collection City of Saints and Madmen, set in the brooding metropolis Ambergris, a location where many of his other stories and novels are set. Now his latest novel The Situation, which is about office politics at a beetle-implant development company, is available as a free download online via Wired. Yes, it's this week's lunchtime reading. More »

10:24 AM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,413 views, 16 comments

Latest by Tenno: Sweet. A new addiction. I just need to finish the newest Greg Cook. more »

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Firefly Novel from Steven Brust is Action-Packed and Fun

Firefly fans and the Browncoats at Whedonesque are rejoicing this week because they have a free ebook set in the Firefly universe from author Steven Brust. Yes, My Own Kind of Freedom is today's lunchtime reading (and, depending on how quickly you read, possibly tomorrow's and the next day's too). More »

11:00 AM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Annalee Newitz
15,001 views, 34 comments