reduced ebook lunches

Jamais Vu (Year One) 
Authors: Harlan Ellison, Gary A. Braunbeck, Bruce Boston, Marge Simon, 
Editors: Paul Anderson, Eric Beebe 
$0.99

Whom the Gods Would Destroy 
by Brian Hodge 
$0.99

The Skull Ring 
by Scott Nicholson 
$0.99

Rosemary's Baby 
by Ira Levin 
$1.99

The Chain of Chance 
by Stanislaw Lem 
$2.51

The Plurality of Worlds: 
A Sixteenth-Century Space Opera 
by Brian Stableford 
$2.51
Four novellas up for Asimov's Readers' Poll, Sidewise, Locus awards (one reprinted by Rich Horton)

Modern Masters of Science Fiction 
$2.51

1. Gregory Benford
2. John Brunner
3. Greg Egan
4. William Gibson

Reduced ebook lunches

 Liquid Fear 
by Scott Nicholson 
$0.99

Missing Mom 
by Joyce Carol Oates 
$1.99 

The Apex Book of World SF2 
Lavie Tidhar 
$1.99
Today only

The Sands of Mars 
by Arthur C. Clarke 
$1.99 

Stories from the Twilight Zone 
by Rod Serling 
$1.99 

In Love & Trouble: Stories 
by Alice Walker 
$2.99

Modern Masters of Science Fiction -- $2.99 

1. Gregory Benford by George Slusser 
2. John Brunner by Jad Smith
3. Greg Egan by Karen Burnham 
4. William Gibson by Gary Westfahl 

New and reduced ebook lunches -- Updated with John Joseph Adams, Samuel R. Delany and Matthew Hughes

Military Science Fiction 1 by Bob Mayer $0.99

"2 Great Books for the price of one written by West Point Graduate and former Green Beret Bob Mayer."

Scott Nicholson
--from 99 cents to 2.99

Babel-17 
by Samuel R. Delany 
$1.99

The Compleat Guth Bandar 
by Matthew Hughes 
$2.99

The Galactic Center Companion 
by Gregory Benford 
$2.99

Ultimate Book of Impostors: 
Over 100 True Stories of the Greatest Phonies and Frauds 
by Ian Graham 
$2.51

By Blood We Live
 by John Joseph Adams, Editor 
$3.03

Awake in the Night Land 
by John C. Wright 
$4.99
--tales in William Hope Hodgson's Night Land
--first reprinted in Dozois' Year's Best SF

First Person Peculiar 
by Mike Resnick 
$4.99
--includes prize nominees

Age of Shiva 
(The Pantheon Series) 
by James Lovegrove 
$5.38

The Fall 
by Simon Clark 
$5.99

A Dark Traveling 
by Roger Zelazny 
$6.97

A Promise Of Stars 
by David Gerrold 
$6.99

The Adjacent 
by Christopher Priest 
$7.69

The Islanders 
by Christopher Priest 
$7.69

The Last Defender of Camelot 
by Roger Zelazny 
$7.97 

Dark Eden 
by Chris Beckett 
$7.99 

Welcome to the Monkey House: 
The Special Edition: Stories 
by Kurt Vonnegut (Author), 
Gregory D. Sumner (Editor) 
$7.99
--Editor analyses drafts and discusses how Vonnegut wrote title story.
--Could be a blast or a bomb.

Lovecraft's Monsters 

edited by Ellen Datlow 

$8.99

 Waldo & Magic, Inc. 
by Robert A. Heinlein 
$8.99 

7 Steps to Midnight 
by Richard Matheson 
$8.99

Upon A Sea of Stars 
(The John Grimes Saga) 
by A. Bertram Chandler 
$8.99
--four novels/collections in series

The Time Traveler's Almanac 
by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer 
$11.04

The Revolutions 
by Felix Gilman 
$11.04

Terry Pratchett
--new Discworld novel
--two Discworld companion books
--forthcoming: nonfiction

Shipstar 
by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven 
$12.74 
--sequel to their Bowl of Heaven
--a look at a dyson-sphere world
--similar to Ringworld with more emphasis on characters.
--two SF masters at play

Other Worlds, Better Lives: 
Selected Long Fiction, 1989-2003 
by Howard Waldrop 
$9.95

New, reduced, and bundled ebook lunches

Dorsai! 
(Childe Cycle) 
by Gordon R. Dickson 
$1.99

The Galactic Center Companion 
by Gregory Benford 
$2.99

Dark Expanse: Surviving the Collapse 

Ken Liu, Nancy Fulda, David Walton, Deborah Walker, SimonKewin, Michael Haynes, Matt Mikalatos, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Alex Shvartsman(Editor), William Snee (Editor) 

$4.99

Humble Bundle:

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1. Wil Wheaton -- The Happiest Days of Our Lives 
2. Holly Black -- Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale 
3. Steven Gould -- Jumper 
4. Various Authors -- Zombies Versus Unicorns - An Anthology 

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1. Yahtzee Croshaw -- Mogworld 
2. Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies 

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1. Homeland audiobook -- Cory Doctorow and narrated by Wil Wheaton 

Links about Reading

Jayaprakash on "How not to read in straight lines"

Harper's:  Future as Parable By John Crowley

Reading [Chekov] makes you more sympathetic

No surprise there.

Gregory Benford:  Verne to Varley: Hard SF Evolves

Jonathan Lethem on the subversive power of comics and science fiction 

The 'Dissident Gardens' author talks about Captain America, Philip K. Dick, and writing about his grandmother's sex life

David Farland/Wolverton links

David Farland's book giveaway for Nightingale.

His family still needs to raise $1.3 million dollars.

In light of what can happen to freelance writers, as had happened to Wolverton's son, Kristine Kathryn Rusch recommends taking out insurance.

David Farland, Frank Herbert, Michael Stackpole, Gregory Benford, Kevin J. Anderson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mike Resnick, B. V. Larson s story bundle--you decide what to pay. 

Links to Essays, Movie, Novel, Novel Contest, & Magazines

• David Sedaris in the New Yorker

• Gregory Benford, introducing a forthcoming book called Starship Century, discusses starships:  part 1, part 2.

• Jonah, award-winning video about the destruction dreams can have.  Cool but the theme seems problematic:  Is it better that the people suffer in poverty?  Why not pick up the trash instead?  Still, great imagery.

• Black Gate is publishing online the entirety of Martha Wells’s Nebula Award-nominated novel The Death of the Necromancer

• Sinister Grin Press Presents: The Fresh Meat Writing Contest: Horror novel contest which helps you write with help from famous writers and editors in the field.

• Interfictions, interstitial fiction magazine, is now online

Gregory Benford on SF, technology, romance, and marriage

"Remember also that science fiction is to technology as romance novels are to marriage:  a delicious form of propaganda."

--Gregory Benford from his collection, Anomalies

 

Gregory Benford on ideas

"I don't understand why people [a]re frightened of new ideas; I'm more frightened by the old ones.  On to the next idea!

"But ideas aren't everything."

--Gregory Benford from his collection, Anomalies

 

Explanations explained

Edge.com asks "WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION?"

Some of the following are only a few of the major-league hitters who reply: Rudy Rucker, Cliff Pickover, Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, Lawrence M. Krauss, Leonard Susskind, Douglas Rushkoff, Freeman Dyson, Gregory Benford, Brian Eno, Doug Coupland, John McWhorter, V.S. Ramachandran