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.
A free bit of fiction in the form of the slightly dodgily named ‘wovel’ or web novel.
Anyway it’s a nice idea, throwing up a short installment of fiction and then asking for the readers to vote on the direction before the next installment is published.
I’ve no idea what the story is about but [...]
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 [...]
Random house are kindly giving away some free science fiction and fantasy ebooks over at Suvudu. Some pretty good stuff too, I particularly recommend Naomi Novik’s “His Majesty’s Dragon” for some alternate Napoleonic history with added dragons…loved that book and I still have the rest of the series sitting on my to read list.
Looks to [...]
Literate Machine is a handy looking site allowing the authors of various digital media (magazines,ebooks,comics,art) to upload and distribute their work either free or for a charge with the site taking a small cut.
I love platforms for media that might not necessarily find homes with traditional publishers and something like this could be great for [...]
