Two of My Favorite Words

[Bob_Probst]

FREE and BOOKS

I've read some of Cory Doctorow's stuff on the web but didn't realize his fiction was being published free.

Here's his Gutenberg listings: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a3826

He's a science fiction writer who focuses on the near future and the philosophies that will take us there. Kurt Vonnegut without the humor maybe?

Anyway, it's free and not at all bad:

From Eastern Standard Tribe

Art Berry was born to argue.

There are born assassins. Bred to kill, raised on cunning and speed, they are
the stuff of legend, remorseless and unstoppable. There are born ballerinas,
confectionery girls whose parents subject them to rigors every bit as intense as
the tripwire and poison on which the assassins are reared. There are children
born to practice medicine or law; children born to serve their nations and die
heroically in the noble tradition of their forebears; children born to tread the
boards or shred the turf or leave smoking rubber on the racetrack.

Art's earliest memory: a dream. He is stuck in the waiting room of one of the
innumerable doctors who attended him in his infancy. He is perhaps three, and
his attention span is already as robust as it will ever be, and in his dream --
which is fast becoming a nightmare -- he is bored silly.

 

[thormagni]

I've read some of Cory Doctorow's stuff on the web but didn't realize his fiction was being published free.

Cory is a regular contributor/owner of boingboing.net, one of my favorite sites and a daily read for me. I actually have Eastern Standard Tribe, I just haven't gotten around to reading it yet.