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Looking for something awesome to read this weekend, but don't want to spend a lot of money? Urban fantasy writer Stacia Kane writes in to say that the ebook of the first novel in her Downside Ghosts series, Unholy Ghosts, is on sale for a dollar on Amazon. io9 contributor Chris Braak called the book "intensely compelling," and offers you this enticing window on what you'll get (for just a dollar!): More »
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Here's your weekend book deal: Pyr Books is making ebooks of Ian McDonald's Hugo-nominated novel The Dervish House available for $1.99 for a limited time. Snap this one up, because (spoilers!) it's going to be io9's August book club pick. Grab it cheap at Amazon. More »
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Life as a miner in the asteroid belt is rough and ugly. But then you score enough nickel to get all your friends drunk at a bar on Ceres, and things start looking up. Until they go downhill fast. More »
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Wondering what the movie version of Y: The Last Man will turn out like? A sneak peak appeared online in the form of an early draft of the movie's script, written by creator Brian K. Vaughan. More »
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Every year, movie insiders produce The Black List: the best unproduced screenplays doing the rounds that year. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, all of those screenplays are now online to read. Go and enjoy. (Thanks, Zack!) More »
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Can't wait to discover the world of Surrogates before next week's release of the Bruce Willis movie? Get a jump on everyone else by downloading the original comic book to your iPhone. And of course, the first hit is free. More »
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Never mind crime-fighting and detecting the truth behind dastardly crimes; Brazilian cartoonist Eduardo Medeiros has shown us the truth behind Batman in a wonderful five-page silent strip, including how he really feels about the Man of Steel. More »
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Wondering what kind of agenda vampires may have in store for the human race? Or which member of The View's cast might be about to meet with an unfortunate accident? Buffy The Vampire Slayer's Harmony explains all to Stephen Colbert. More »
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Paolo Bacigalupi's smart, worldly writing has made him the new darling of the literary scifi scene, and now you can read his latest story online - it's a very plausible tale about blogger newsrooms of the future, including Gawker. In "The Gambler," our hero Ong works at a media conglomerate competing with Gawker, but he just can't keep his feed numbers up. Bacigalupi's written a keenly-observed story about an unpopular but idealistic writer in a media landscape dominated by celebrity news and gadget reviews. More »
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An Italian tailor has a crush on the daughter of his late patron, so he builds a time machine to impress her. The resulting story, Eugene Mirabelli's "The Only Known Jump Across Time," is lovely and lyrical and just a bit of a tease. Set in 1928, Mirabelli's time-travel romance sort of uses the idea of jumping into the future as a metaphor for escaping class-based romantic constraints. And it's free online, for a while. More »
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