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joshwritingIn the days of yore, FB allowed folks to post notes. The notes are all still there, if you have their addresses, but without that they are tough to find - and even if you can find them, there is no editing function remaining! So, I will be republishing the notes I value over here over the next month or two, then editing them subsequently.
This one was last updated by me on August 22, 2010. I know some of the links no longer work and that I have found others that should be here. I will update the page over the next little bit.
Free Online Books - Audio and Text
These are just a few of the many links out there - the audio books have a Fantasy and Science Fiction orientation. A couple of the print links do, too, but the others are far broader.
Audio links... Let me start with a good source for new fantasy short fiction:http://podcastle.org/
Their works run from roughly 5 minutes to 45 or 50, to my experience.
...http://escapepod.org/ - This is the equivalent site to Pod Castle, but on the other side of the fantasy/SF split.
http://www.starshipsofa.com/ is "The Audio Science Fiction Magazine."
You can find a large number of pieces of various lengths by going to:http://www.freesfonline.de/AdvancedSearch.html
In the Format section, click on everything but the headphones. Then, below, in Date of Addition, click on "Any." Then start the search! That will give you the first 50 of 435 they have - through Brin. If you narrow the search, it will give you different parts of the 435.
Another place to find such things is at hardsf.org - they have alphabetical lists:Authors A-F - http://www.hardsf.org/HSF0Sto1.htmAuthors G-0 - http://www.hardsf.org/HSF0Sto2.htmAuthors P-Z - http://www.hardsf.org/HSF0Sto3.htm
They also have some SF Drama, theoretically, but I am not getting much joy from the links at the moment.
You can also browse throughhttp://www.archive.org/search.php?query=fantasy+AND+collection%3Aaudio_bookspoetry+AND+subject%3A%22fantasy%22
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These are a few of my favorite sites for online books to read, though I confess to haunting books.google.com more than a little!
http://www.baen.com/library
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/digitalcuration/etext.html
http://manybooks.net/
Besides the audio books (and how to find them) that I mentioned above, http://www.freesfonline.de/ has more than a few really great titles.
Lots of cool stuff there.
Enjoy!
p.s. For a change, I have set this to be visible to everyone, if you want to link it. But do feel free to just copy it or to share your own favorites!
This one was last updated by me on August 22, 2010. I know some of the links no longer work and that I have found others that should be here. I will update the page over the next little bit.
Free Online Books - Audio and Text
These are just a few of the many links out there - the audio books have a Fantasy and Science Fiction orientation. A couple of the print links do, too, but the others are far broader.
Audio links... Let me start with a good source for new fantasy short fiction:http://podcastle.org/
Their works run from roughly 5 minutes to 45 or 50, to my experience.
...http://escapepod.org/ - This is the equivalent site to Pod Castle, but on the other side of the fantasy/SF split.
http://www.starshipsofa.com/ is "The Audio Science Fiction Magazine."
You can find a large number of pieces of various lengths by going to:http://www.freesfonline.de/AdvancedSearch.html
In the Format section, click on everything but the headphones. Then, below, in Date of Addition, click on "Any." Then start the search! That will give you the first 50 of 435 they have - through Brin. If you narrow the search, it will give you different parts of the 435.
Another place to find such things is at hardsf.org - they have alphabetical lists:Authors A-F - http://www.hardsf.org/HSF0Sto1.htmAuthors G-0 - http://www.hardsf.org/HSF0Sto2.htmAuthors P-Z - http://www.hardsf.org/HSF0Sto3.htm
They also have some SF Drama, theoretically, but I am not getting much joy from the links at the moment.
You can also browse throughhttp://www.archive.org/search.php?query=fantasy+AND+collection%3Aaudio_bookspoetry+AND+subject%3A%22fantasy%22
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These are a few of my favorite sites for online books to read, though I confess to haunting books.google.com more than a little!
http://www.baen.com/library
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/digitalcuration/etext.html
http://manybooks.net/
Besides the audio books (and how to find them) that I mentioned above, http://www.freesfonline.de/ has more than a few really great titles.
Lots of cool stuff there.
Enjoy!
p.s. For a change, I have set this to be visible to everyone, if you want to link it. But do feel free to just copy it or to share your own favorites!
