Free ebooks; upcoming workshops

I haven't done free ebooks in awhile. Here are two:

1. Mike Resnick (plus discounts on other books/stories)
2. Charles Stross

David Farland has live and online workshops -- both worth your while

1. one live coming up in Phoenix
2. online rumored* to close shortly

*Dave himself is spreading this rumor. 

Movement Moves (Genres and subgenres)

Charles Stross on worldbuilding for posthumans

Jane Lindskold on books that change your perspective (the article's strength, the explanation of "why", sadly disappears)

500 "new" old fairy tales

Rattle on Speculative Poetry

Omni arises with new fiction by Rudy Rucker

Jeffrey Ford on Tradition

Michael Swanwick on the fantasy traditional and how his novels navigate this

Charlie Hugh Smith predicts The Next American Revolution

James Patrick Kelly on Cyberpunk

Octavia E. Butler on Predicting The Future

Humorous bookcover cliches (although it doesn't hamper my appreciation of a few designs)

Links Scientific, LIterary, and Points Between

Literary links

20 Best Paranormal Fantasy Novels of the Last Decade

Kate Elliott on information in openings

On Self-Publishing:

1. Why Dean Wesley Smith believes in it
2. Why Charles Stross does not
3. Bradley P. Beaulieu Goes Hybrid 
4. Hugh Howey to the Aspiring

Contrarian Literary links

(Not) Celebrating 50 years of Strunk & White (disagreements over grammar)

Would a magazine -- any -- reject material it's already published?

Anis Shivany's 15 most over-rated contemporary authors

• Presented without comment 

Borderland:  Addressing Science from Another Perspective

Myke Cole on PTSD

• Cat Rambo on a similar subject except as it applies to writing

Maya Bohnhoff on Science vs. Religion (responding to Lawrence Krauss)

Scientific Links

Filtering salt from salt water -- End fresh water problems for coastal areas?

Reviving passenger pigeons from extinction?

Trigger drugs when needed.

Coming Global Population Decline?

Oddities

Mockumentary:  Was the destruction of the Death Star an inside job?

Writers, Writing, Free, Movies, Art, Science, Philosophy and Education

Writers and Writing:

Kristine Ong Muslim sample from her collection, We Bury the Landscape.

• Be one of the annoying cool kids to discover her before everyone else, and you'll say, "Oh, yeah. You mean you haven't read her?"

Submissions Grinder

Daniel Marcus calls for submissions to Geek Haiku

Rudy Rucker on Charles Stross

David Farland on setting accomplishable goals

Free ebooks:

David Farland story

Islamic SF

Movies

Film about writer Jay Lake's life & fight against cancer (Kickstarter/support)

Jay Lake has stage IV cancer and has a fundraiser for new treatment.

Petition to restore missing 25-min to Clive Barker's Nightbreed

Art and Artists (one's a fine writer, too)

Waiter Kevin Fair turns your guest checks into art

Mark Ferrari's art, writing and blog

Science, Philosophy and Education:

Giant squid

Future travelers to Mars may have to have psychological toughness.

Brain implant for depression.

The probable improbable?

Interesting link says, "[M]any students abandon their pursuit of science and engineering majors [because t]heir professors are grading too hard."

Comment: What this link doesn't show (and what I tell students) is that while students may get lower grades here, they may get higher pay/demand outside of college.  

On Social Media (gives partial perspective on where our electronic culture is headed):

Free ebooks, interviews, 2001

Free Kate Wilhelm story

Free 40k ebook of interviews with... 

Bruce Sterling, Ted Striphas, Richard Nash, Kassia Krozser, Brian O'Leary, Joe Wikert, Piotr Kowalczyk, Joanna Penn, Joel Friedlander, Ken Liu, Jacob Appel, Rhys Hughes, Kaaron Warren, Jamie Todd Rubin

Charles Stross's theory of reviews

Samuel Delany 1990 interview

After posting on the 2001: A Space Odyssey analysis, someone pointed out this movie trailer recut for the modern blockbuster:

free, present and future

Rudy Rucker on Philip K Dick (and other Rucker audios)

Mike Allen's Clockwork Phoenix has another anthology due

Rudy Rucker's latest Turing and Burroughs, free, CC

Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross' latest Rapture of the Nerds, free, CC

Nightshade hosts Jonathan Strahan's Eclipse anthology series as an online magazine

Diana Pavlac Glyer's Clay in the Potter's Hands is on sale for $.99 with coupon KB85J
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Free ebooks & music

Just discovered Bibliotastic, a site with free ebooks (with suggested donations).  It includes authors Charles Stross, Brett Savory, Tom Lichtenberg, among others.

Paul Westerberg of The Replacements has a new song for free, "My Road Now."