I’ve had a Google Wave account for a little while now but haven’t really had a chance to spend much time playing with it. To be honest I fired it up, thought “OK what now” and promptly forgot about it.
Partly this is because it’s not immediately clear how best to use the thing and partly [...]
I wanted to like it, I really did. I quite enjoyed “The Da Vinci Code” as a fun, yet slightly silly thriller and I could just about look past the “bollocks wrapped up as fact” feat he pulled off which still has people quoting “facts” from the book because Dan Brown told them it [...]
One of my favourite podcasts, StarShipSofa has just released a collection of stories they have broadcast as a book in various formats. You can buy the book in either standard or deluxe printed version and you can also grab an epub version at Smashwords. However they are also providing a PDF free for the taking [...]
Go and grab a free ebook from the excellent Scott Westerfeld. Don’t get put off by the YA tags on his books, he writes great science fiction regardless of how they wish to sell it.
It’s a PDF and I’ve not had time to test it on my ebook reader yet but it’s definitly worth a [...]
I’ve actually got a copy of their last book “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” which I’ve not got round to reading yet but I’m loving the trailer for the new book “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters”. I might have to make some room in the to-read list
I’ve been trying to catch up a little with the rather enormous stack of books I have bought over the last year so I thought I’d post up a few book reviews in an effort to post a little more regularly.
First up then is “The Martian War : A Thrilling Eyewitness Account of the Recent [...]
Cheers Neil for pointing this one out. Haven’t caught up with the latest series but gotta love Mitchell & Webb.
Spotted an interesting looking free anthology this morning released under Creative Commons license.
Handily they supply in plenty of different formats with scope for converting this to read on pretty much anything…although artwork may be an issue on some devices.
On the ridiculously large read pile but I may bump this one to the top as I’m [...]
OK time to start posting again, so first up is Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie, a book shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009.
It’s available today as an ebook from 12 noon for 24 hours so grab it quickly. I have no idea what format they are planning to provide, hopefully it will be [...]
An interesting idea this one, author Max Barry has decided to publish a new book “Machine Man” one page at a time in real time which means it could go completely of the rails or be quite brilliant. I do like the idea of reading something as it is written with no editing and rewriting [...]
