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Ebooks & DRM

Simon & Schuster are offering a free download of the first novel in their Vampirates sequence, for a month from today. I’ve been vaguely interested in these, and a free ebook really caught my eye –...

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Chronicles of an Age of Darkness

Between 1986 and 1992, New Zealand-based author Hugh Cook wrote a ten-volume series of inventive, grim, exuberant, disconcerting, nonplussing, and downright bloody weird fantasy novels. They weren’t...

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Akačehennyi on a Diet of Dreams

By Kayleigh Ayn Bohémier. This is a blog novel, available here under a Creative Commons license. It’s a dense, flavoursome book, making use of the blog medium—it’s basically in the form of a journal,...

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A.M. Tuomala – Erekos

Erekos is A.M. Tuomala’s first novel, and also the first offering from independent digital publishers Candlemark & Gleam. You can read the first chapter, or buy it for immediate download, at the...

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Jekkara Press

I recently got hold of an Android phone, so of course I’ve been looking through the free SF&F ebooks available. There are some really good ones available, and if I scrape up the time I’ll post some...

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Best of 2010, and Christmas Giveaway – Erekos by AM Tuomala

Now closed! Congratulations, Penelope Friday! This year’s Best Of post is early, because I’ve managed to arrange a special treat for you! But first, the results. I’ve read enough Really Good Books this...

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Some recent reads

Surface Detail – Iain M Banks A story of the harrowing of a virtual Hell, and associated shenanigans. To those who’ve read more of the Culture novels than I have, a particular line at the ending may...

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Steam Powered – Steampunk Lesbian Stories (ed. JoSelle Vanderhooft)

This anthology works well both as a collection of short work with a steampunk sensibility, and as romance & erotica. Not all of them feature explicit (or any) sex, but they all have good central...

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Collage Criticism

This is made from selected parts of an e-text of Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees, which I typeset, printed out, and ripped up. (No actual books were harmed in the creation of this artwork.) I’ve done...

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Patricia S Bowne – Advice From Pigeons

Hiram Rho is a junior demonologist at the Royal Academy of Osyth, and also a natural philosopher—in this context, someone who can communicate with animals, rather than a proto-scientist. Unlike the...

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