Looking for something to read on you shiny new ereader (or iPad)? Classic science fiction is one of my favorite genres and lots and lots of this stuff is available for FREE.
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Showing posts with label ebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebook. Show all posts
Sunday, September 12, 2010
FREE SF Reader List (Updated 9/2010)
Looking for something to read on you shiny new ereader (or iPad)? Classic science fiction is one of my favorite genres and lots and lots of this stuff is available for FREE.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Night of the Living Dead 25th Anniversary Tribute Magazine
Who would have thought that this movie would still resonate with viewers nearly 45 years later? Certainly not the director George Romero or he wouldn't have let the copyright lapse!
The Crosseyed Cyclops has posted this nice tribute issue from 1993.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
The Neglected Books Page
Looking for something else to read? Take a stroll through the neglected books page and find your own 'good books that almost nobody else has read.' I consider myself something of a fringe reader (in that I am not all that excited about the reading from the bestseller list) so this website should prove quite valuable to me. I have seen quite a few links on their pages to many of my other favorite internet book sites in just my first few minutes of browsing.
They offer an RSS feed to help you keep up with their frequent updates.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl
I saw that one of my favorite vintage SF stories was recently posted at manybooks so I thought I would pass along the link to the ebook and to the classic old-time radio show. Enjoy!
Link (ebook in multiple formats)
Link (otr)
Link (the otr script)
Listen:
 | X Minus One - X Minus One, Tunnel Under The World |  |
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 | Found at X Minus One, Tunnel Under The World on KOhit.net |  |
Sunday, April 11, 2010
The Girl From Hollywood by Edgar Rice Burroughs (ebook)
Who am I kidding? I have so much to read that I will probably never get to this one but it does look rather intriguing don't you think? I have read lots of ERB's stuff in the past but never any of his romance output (with a pulp/detective flair) so I will definitely put this in my ereader (along with the two hundred plus other books in there!).
From the manybooks tagline:
An uncensored story of the motion picture colony that explains what the public has long wanted to know.
Link (multiple formats at manybooks.net)
Link (to all Edgar Rice Burroughs books at manybooks.net)
Friday, April 9, 2010
The Punk Zine Archive
The Punk Zine Archive has been posting lots of vintage punk zine scans for all interested parties to enjoy. I know it won't appeal to most of this blog's readers but some of you will surely appreciate it.
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
Astounding Stories - June 1931 (ebook)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Seduction of the Innocent - The Influence of Comics On Today's Youth (1954)
The Crosseyed Cyclops has posted this fascinating look at 1950's paranoia. As a companion piece I highly recommend The Ten Cent Plague by David Hajdu, a modern look at the comic 'scare' of the 1950's.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Raymond Chandler Ebooks
A lot of Raymond Chandler ebooks have been posted in multiple formats at the mobileread forums recently. There is lots of detective pulp fiction goodness here and it's free.
From wikipedia:
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private detective story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now characteristic of the genre. His protagonist, Philip Marlowe, is, along with Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, considered synonymous with "private detective."
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Wailing Octopus by Harold Leland Goodwin (ebook)
I don't know about the book (yet, I have added it to my oversized "ebooks to be read" pile) but the cover art is pretty cool! How else does one pick out which books to read?
About the author (from wikipedia):
Known to his friends as Hal Goodwin, Goodwin wrote popular science books, mostly about space exploration, as Harold L. Goodwin, "Hal Goodwin" and "Harold Leland Goodwin". He also wrote children's books as Blake Savage (Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet) and John Blaine (the Rick Brant series). In the latter case, he co-wrote (with Peter J. Harkins) the first 3 books in the series and wrote books 4 through 24 by himself.
Link (manybooks.net - multiple formats)
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Talbot Mundy Ebook Collection
Link (mobileread, multiple formats and updates are ongoing)
The wikipedia entry for Talbot Mundy:
Born in London, at age 16 he ran away from home and began an odyssey in India, Africa, and other parts of the Near and Far East. By age 29, he had begun using the name Talbot Mundy, and a year later arrived in the United States, starting his writing career in 1911.
His first published work was the short story "Pig-Sticking in India", which describes a popular, though now outlawed, sport practiced by British forces.
Many of his novels, including his first novel Rung Ho!, and his most famous work King of the Khyber Rifles, are set in India under British Occupation in which the loyal British officers encounter ancient Indian mysticism. The novels portray the citizens of Imperial India as enigmatic, romantic and powerful. His British characters have many encounters with the mysterious Thugee Cults. The long buildup to the introduction of his Indian Princess Yasmini and the scenes among the outlaws in the Khinjan Caves clearly influenced fantasy writers Robert E. Howard and Leigh Brackett.
His related Jim Grim series, which has mystical overtones and part of which is available over the web from theosophical sites, ran in Adventure magazine before book publication. Mundy was associated with Theosophy's movement, a friend of Katherine Tingely[1]
Beginning in the late 1920s Mundy wrote a number of stories about Tros of Samothrace, a Greek freedom fighter who aided Britons and Druids in their fight against Julius Caesar.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
FREE Ebooks By Edgar Wallace
There has been literally a flood of Edgar Wallace ebook postings to mobileread's forums lately in many formats. Follow the link for a complete listing and enjoy! (who needs $15 ebooks?)
From wikipedia:
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875 – February 10, 1932) was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals.
Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author. In the 1920s, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him.[1] He is most famous today as the co-creator of "King Kong", writing the early screenplay and story for the movie, as well as a short story "King Kong" (1933) credited to him and Draycott Dell. He was known for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, The Four Just Men, The Ringer, and for creating the Green Archer character during his lifetime.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
FREE ebooks at Barnes and Noble (.com)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Free SF Reader List (Updated for 2010)
It's kind of silly to say that it is updated for 2010 being that it was posted the day before 2010 actually began but it is updated and it is HUGE.
Link
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Friday, December 11, 2009
Astounding Science Fiction Scans
Thursday, December 10, 2009
A Christmas Carol - FREE Audio Books, Old-Time Radio, and Ebooks
Pick from a few different audiobook versions of this Dickens classic (or pick them all):
Narrated by Antonia Bath
Narrated by Kristen McQuillin
Narrated by Patrick Stewart
Bonus:
Download the eboook (many formats from manybooks.net
BBC Old-Time Radio Version (Ralph Richardson as Scrooge)
Sleeping Dogs Radio Playhouse Audio Drama Production
12 Different Old-Time Radio Versions of the Story
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Tom Swift Ebook Collection (EPUB)
Five volumes each containing five books. A fun children's adventure series by Victor Appleton that started in 1971 and continued through over 100 volumes. EPUB format.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Astouding Stories - April 1931 - Complete Issue In Multiple Ebook Formats
Manybooks has a lot of vintage sci-fi pulps for your downloading pleasure including this issue from 1931:
MONSTERS OF MARS by EDMOND HAMILTON
Three Martian-Duped Earth-Men Swing Open the Gates of Space That for So Long Had Barred the Greedy Hordes of the Red Planet. (A Complete Novelette.)
THE EXILE OF TIME by RAY CUMMINGS
From Somewhere Out of Time Come a Swarm of Robots Who Inflict on New York the Awful Vengeance of the Diabolical Cripple Tugh. (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.)
HELL'S DIMENSION by TOM CURRY
Professor Lambert Deliberately Ventures into a Vibrational Dimension to Join His Fiancée in Its Magnetic Torture-Fields.
THE WORLD BEHIND THE MOON by PAUL ERNST
Two Intrepid Earth-Men Fight It Out with the Horrific Monsters of Zeud's Frightful Jungles.
FOUR MILES WITHIN by ANTHONY GILMORE
Far Down into the Earth Goes a Gleaming Metal Sphere Whose Passengers Are Deadly Enemies. (A Complete Novelette.)
THE LAKE OF LIGHT by JACK WILLIAMSON
In the Frozen Wastes at the Bottom of the World Two Explorers Find a Strange Pool of White Fire—and Have a Strange Adventure.
THE GHOST WORLD by SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT
Commander John Hanson Records Another of His Thrilling Interplanetary Adventures with the Special Patrol Service.
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