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It's #MondayMotivation and TIME TO READ! Yup, I'm talking about free romance ebooks that are available today and will make your whole week better. Stop by. #FreeEbooks #Romance #Romancelandia #StuffYourEreader #SelfCare #RomanceReaders #Patreon https://www.patreon.com/SiobhanMuir/posts/monday-free-166304958?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
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Woohoo! Who needs to fill up their TBR with romance books? Today's the day to get 950+ romance books for free on your favorite retailer and direct from authors. This is a great way to find new-to-you authors long with your favorites. Happy Reading! #romance #freebooks #RomanceBookBlast #AmReading #FreeEbooks #Romancelandia #RomanceAuthor https://romancebooklovers.com
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Love speculative fiction?
Like free stuff?
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Also, "Mr. Perkins Goes to Hell" is FREE at Smashwords until July 31!
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Love speculative fiction?
Like free stuff?
The eBook of "Academic Displacement" is available at no cost from a variety of participating stores!
Also, "Mr. Perkins Goes to Hell" is FREE at Smashwords until July 31!
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/2002539
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Love speculative fiction?
Like free stuff?
The eBook of "Academic Displacement" is available at no cost from a variety of participating stores!
Also, "Mr. Perkins Goes to Hell" is FREE at Smashwords until July 31!
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/2002539
#specfic #scifi #horror #thriller #book #books #ebook #ebooks #freebook #freebooks #freeebook #freeebooks #speculativefiction #sciencefiction #read #reads #reading #readingcommunity #whattoread #bookstodon #booktodon #scifibooks
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Love speculative fiction?
Like free stuff?
The eBook of "Academic Displacement" is available at no cost from a variety of participating stores!
Also, "Mr. Perkins Goes to Hell" is FREE at Smashwords until July 31!
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/2002539
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REMINDER: Some great deals on eBooks from The Nod/Wells Timelines are coming July 1st but you don't have to wait to begin your speculative-fiction journey.
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REMINDER: Some great deals on eBooks from The Nod/Wells Timelines are coming July 1st but you don't have to wait to begin your speculative-fiction journey.
"Academic Displacement" is already FREE at participating retailers. Grab yours now!
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REMINDER: Some great deals on eBooks from The Nod/Wells Timelines are coming July 1st but you don't have to wait to begin your speculative-fiction journey.
"Academic Displacement" is already FREE at participating retailers. Grab yours now!
#booksofmastodon #readersofmastodon #read #reads #reading #readingcommunity #specfic #scifi #horror #paranormal #thriller #freeebook #freeebooks #whattoread #greatreads #bookstodon #booktodon #speculativefiction #sciencefiction #NWT
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REMINDER: Some great deals on eBooks from The Nod/Wells Timelines are coming July 1st but you don't have to wait to begin your speculative-fiction journey.
"Academic Displacement" is already FREE at participating retailers. Grab yours now!
#booksofmastodon #readersofmastodon #read #reads #reading #readingcommunity #specfic #scifi #horror #paranormal #thriller #freeebook #freeebooks #whattoread #greatreads #bookstodon #booktodon #speculativefiction #sciencefiction #NWT
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@Sheril
And if you don't have independent book shops in your area, you still have other options:Online, Thriftbooks and Powell's Books are good. You might also check libraries in your general area; most of them sell books at very low prices to raise funds. I've made some great finds at library book sales! For used books, Biblio.com, BetterWorldBooks.com, and Biblio.co.uk are independent book marketplaces that serve independent book shops - NOT Amazon.
As for ebooks, you can borrow MANY ebooks for free from the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/texts
I'm always amazed that Barnes & Noble (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/nook-books/_/N-8qa) are still in business, but they do have a lot of books available for sale in EPUB format.
Kobo (https://www.kobo.com/) is another large ebook seller. They're based in Canada, but are owned by a Japanese company. They also manufacture their own line of independent ebook readers that are compatible with other formats.
Baen (https://www.baen.com/) specializes mostly in science fiction ebooks (and physical books). They also have a free library of ebooks. I've made some good finds there.
I haven't used epubBooks (https://www.epubbooks.com/) much, but they do seem to have a goodly number of free ebooks. I suspect that many of them are also available via Project Gutenberg, but that's just a guess.
The same applies to Snewd (https://snewd.com/) and FadedPage (https://www.fadedpage.com/index.php). FadedPage has some free ebooks that Project Gutenberg doesn't, apparently due to differences between Canadian and American copyright law.
Project Gutenberg is a treasure trove of free classics available in many formats; most of them are older books, but you can make some surprising finds. https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg Australia (https://gutenberg.net.au/) has some free books that aren't available on Project Gutenberg, since Australia has different copyright laws from the USA.
Standard eBooks (https://standardebooks.org/) hosts free public domain ebooks, many of which are sourced from Project Gutenberg. However, these books have been intensively cleaned up and are generally superior to their Project Gutenberg sources.
And if you're willing to fly the Jolly Roger, you can find virtually ANY ebook on Anna's Archive; look them up on Wikipedia to find their currently-functioning mirrors, as they're frequently attacked by various governments. It's still far more moral to use them than to give money to Jeff Bezos! He's put a lot of great used book shops out of business, treats his workers worse than animals, and is killing off the planet.
Happy reading! 🤓📖
#Books #Ebooks #FreeEbooks #AmazonSucks #AmazonAlternatives #QuasitBookRecs
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@Sheril
And if you don't have independent book shops in your area, you still have other options:Online, Thriftbooks and Powell's Books are good. You might also check libraries in your general area; most of them sell books at very low prices to raise funds. I've made some great finds at library book sales! For used books, Biblio.com, BetterWorldBooks.com, and Biblio.co.uk are independent book marketplaces that serve independent book shops - NOT Amazon.
As for ebooks, you can borrow MANY ebooks for free from the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/texts
I'm always amazed that Barnes & Noble (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/nook-books/_/N-8qa) are still in business, but they do have a lot of books available for sale in EPUB format.
Kobo (https://www.kobo.com/) is another large ebook seller. They're based in Canada, but are owned by a Japanese company. They also manufacture their own line of independent ebook readers that are compatible with other formats.
Baen (https://www.baen.com/) specializes mostly in science fiction ebooks (and physical books). They also have a free library of ebooks. I've made some good finds there.
I haven't used epubBooks (https://www.epubbooks.com/) much, but they do seem to have a goodly number of free ebooks. I suspect that many of them are also available via Project Gutenberg, but that's just a guess.
The same applies to Snewd (https://snewd.com/) and FadedPage (https://www.fadedpage.com/index.php). FadedPage has some free ebooks that Project Gutenberg doesn't, apparently due to differences between Canadian and American copyright law.
Project Gutenberg is a treasure trove of free classics available in many formats; most of them are older books, but you can make some surprising finds. https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg Australia (https://gutenberg.net.au/) has some free books that aren't available on Project Gutenberg, since Australia has different copyright laws from the USA.
Standard eBooks (https://standardebooks.org/) hosts free public domain ebooks, many of which are sourced from Project Gutenberg. However, these books have been intensively cleaned up and are generally superior to their Project Gutenberg sources.
And if you're willing to fly the Jolly Roger, you can find virtually ANY ebook on Anna's Archive; look them up on Wikipedia to find their currently-functioning mirrors, as they're frequently attacked by various governments. It's still far more moral to use them than to give money to Jeff Bezos! He's put a lot of great used book shops out of business, treats his workers worse than animals, and is killing off the planet.
Happy reading! 🤓📖
#Books #Ebooks #FreeEbooks #AmazonSucks #AmazonAlternatives #QuasitBookRecs
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@Sheril
And if you don't have independent book shops in your area, you still have other options:Online, Thriftbooks and Powell's Books are good. You might also check libraries in your general area; most of them sell books at very low prices to raise funds. I've made some great finds at library book sales! For used books, Biblio.com, BetterWorldBooks.com, and Biblio.co.uk are independent book marketplaces that serve independent book shops - NOT Amazon.
As for ebooks, you can borrow MANY ebooks for free from the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/texts
I'm always amazed that Barnes & Noble (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/nook-books/_/N-8qa) are still in business, but they do have a lot of books available for sale in EPUB format.
Kobo (https://www.kobo.com/) is another large ebook seller. They're based in Canada, but are owned by a Japanese company. They also manufacture their own line of independent ebook readers that are compatible with other formats.
Baen (https://www.baen.com/) specializes mostly in science fiction ebooks (and physical books). They also have a free library of ebooks. I've made some good finds there.
I haven't used epubBooks (https://www.epubbooks.com/) much, but they do seem to have a goodly number of free ebooks. I suspect that many of them are also available via Project Gutenberg, but that's just a guess.
The same applies to Snewd (https://snewd.com/) and FadedPage (https://www.fadedpage.com/index.php). FadedPage has some free ebooks that Project Gutenberg doesn't, apparently due to differences between Canadian and American copyright law.
Project Gutenberg is a treasure trove of free classics available in many formats; most of them are older books, but you can make some surprising finds. https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg Australia (https://gutenberg.net.au/) has some free books that aren't available on Project Gutenberg, since Australia has different copyright laws from the USA.
Standard eBooks (https://standardebooks.org/) hosts free public domain ebooks, many of which are sourced from Project Gutenberg. However, these books have been intensively cleaned up and are generally superior to their Project Gutenberg sources.
And if you're willing to fly the Jolly Roger, you can find virtually ANY ebook on Anna's Archive; look them up on Wikipedia to find their currently-functioning mirrors, as they're frequently attacked by various governments. It's still far more moral to use them than to give money to Jeff Bezos! He's put a lot of great used book shops out of business, treats his workers worse than animals, and is killing off the planet.
Happy reading! 🤓📖
#Books #Ebooks #FreeEbooks #AmazonSucks #AmazonAlternatives #QuasitBookRecs
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@chartier
The author Lord Dunsany wrote a very short story on that topic at the time:THE FOOD OF DEATH
Death was sick. But they brought him bread that the modern bakers make, whitened with alum, and the tinned meats of Chicago, with a pinch of our modern substitute for salt. They carried him into the dining-room of a great hotel (in that close atmosphere Death breathed more freely), and there they gave him their cheap Indian tea. They brought him a bottle of wine that they called champagne. Death drank it up. They brought a newspaper and looked up the patent medicines; they gave him the foods that it recommended for invalids, and a little medicine as prescribed in the paper. They gave him some milk and borax, such as children drink in England.
Death arose ravening, strong, and strode again through the cities.
- "Fifty-One Tales" (1915), by Lord Dunsany
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lord-dunsany/fifty-one-tales
#Books #Bookstodon #LordDunsany #Dunsany #FreeEbooks #QuasitBookRecs
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@chartier
The author Lord Dunsany wrote a very short story on that topic at the time:THE FOOD OF DEATH
Death was sick. But they brought him bread that the modern bakers make, whitened with alum, and the tinned meats of Chicago, with a pinch of our modern substitute for salt. They carried him into the dining-room of a great hotel (in that close atmosphere Death breathed more freely), and there they gave him their cheap Indian tea. They brought him a bottle of wine that they called champagne. Death drank it up. They brought a newspaper and looked up the patent medicines; they gave him the foods that it recommended for invalids, and a little medicine as prescribed in the paper. They gave him some milk and borax, such as children drink in England.
Death arose ravening, strong, and strode again through the cities.
- "Fifty-One Tales" (1915), by Lord Dunsany
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lord-dunsany/fifty-one-tales
#Books #Bookstodon #LordDunsany #Dunsany #FreeEbooks #QuasitBookRecs
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@chartier
The author Lord Dunsany wrote a very short story on that topic at the time:THE FOOD OF DEATH
Death was sick. But they brought him bread that the modern bakers make, whitened with alum, and the tinned meats of Chicago, with a pinch of our modern substitute for salt. They carried him into the dining-room of a great hotel (in that close atmosphere Death breathed more freely), and there they gave him their cheap Indian tea. They brought him a bottle of wine that they called champagne. Death drank it up. They brought a newspaper and looked up the patent medicines; they gave him the foods that it recommended for invalids, and a little medicine as prescribed in the paper. They gave him some milk and borax, such as children drink in England.
Death arose ravening, strong, and strode again through the cities.
- "Fifty-One Tales" (1915), by Lord Dunsany
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lord-dunsany/fifty-one-tales
#Books #Bookstodon #LordDunsany #Dunsany #FreeEbooks #QuasitBookRecs
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Messing around with books, as I always do.
I found a book by John Ball, who wrote "In the Heat of the Night" and other Virgil Tibbs novels. This one is called "The First Team", and it's not related to the VIrgil Tibbs series at all. So far it's about a man who works in the White House as a Russian translator. But Russia has conquered the USA thanks to the hippies and liberal politicians.
John Ball was a bit of a right-winger. And a white one, if you were wondering. Sydney Poitier did Ball a HUGE favor by not playing Virgil Tibbs the way he was written in the book, i.e. as basically a white guy dyed brown (metaphorically).
I'm not sure how far I'll get with "The First Team". The Russians are comically evil, so far.
I also took a look at the first few pages of "The Impossibles" by Mark Phillips. It features mind-crime (apparently) in the far-flung, exotic future of 1972! So far the writing seems above par, so that's good. I'll see where it goes.
Hold on! Turns out that "Mark Phillips" was a pseudonym used by Lawrence Jannifer (a good science fiction writer) and Randall Garrett (the author of the "Lord Darcy" stories, which is basically Sherlock Holmes in a magic-based universe). They wrote a series of three books under that pseudonym, and all three are available for download from Project Gutenberg—along with quite a few others!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25267
#Books #Bookstodon #FreeEbooks #ProjectGutenberg #ScienceFiction #QuasitBookRecs
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Messing around with books, as I always do.
I found a book by John Ball, who wrote "In the Heat of the Night" and other Virgil Tibbs novels. This one is called "The First Team", and it's not related to the VIrgil Tibbs series at all. So far it's about a man who works in the White House as a Russian translator. But Russia has conquered the USA thanks to the hippies and liberal politicians.
John Ball was a bit of a right-winger. And a white one, if you were wondering. Sydney Poitier did Ball a HUGE favor by not playing Virgil Tibbs the way he was written in the book, i.e. as basically a white guy dyed brown (metaphorically).
I'm not sure how far I'll get with "The First Team". The Russians are comically evil, so far.
I also took a look at the first few pages of "The Impossibles" by Mark Phillips. It features mind-crime (apparently) in the far-flung, exotic future of 1972! So far the writing seems above par, so that's good. I'll see where it goes.
Hold on! Turns out that "Mark Phillips" was a pseudonym used by Lawrence Jannifer (a good science fiction writer) and Randall Garrett (the author of the "Lord Darcy" stories, which is basically Sherlock Holmes in a magic-based universe). They wrote a series of three books under that pseudonym, and all three are available for download from Project Gutenberg—along with quite a few others!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25267
#Books #Bookstodon #FreeEbooks #ProjectGutenberg #ScienceFiction #QuasitBookRecs
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Messing around with books, as I always do.
I found a book by John Ball, who wrote "In the Heat of the Night" and other Virgil Tibbs novels. This one is called "The First Team", and it's not related to the VIrgil Tibbs series at all. So far it's about a man who works in the White House as a Russian translator. But Russia has conquered the USA thanks to the hippies and liberal politicians.
John Ball was a bit of a right-winger. And a white one, if you were wondering. Sydney Poitier did Ball a HUGE favor by not playing Virgil Tibbs the way he was written in the book, i.e. as basically a white guy dyed brown (metaphorically).
I'm not sure how far I'll get with "The First Team". The Russians are comically evil, so far.
I also took a look at the first few pages of "The Impossibles" by Mark Phillips. It features mind-crime (apparently) in the far-flung, exotic future of 1972! So far the writing seems above par, so that's good. I'll see where it goes.
Hold on! Turns out that "Mark Phillips" was a pseudonym used by Lawrence Jannifer (a good science fiction writer) and Randall Garrett (the author of the "Lord Darcy" stories, which is basically Sherlock Holmes in a magic-based universe). They wrote a series of three books under that pseudonym, and all three are available for download from Project Gutenberg—along with quite a few others!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25267
#Books #Bookstodon #FreeEbooks #ProjectGutenberg #ScienceFiction #QuasitBookRecs
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Quasit's Book Recommendations: "A Shropshire Lad" by A. E. Housman (1896)
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.Meet A.E. Housman, if you haven't met him before. His poetry may not be fashionable any more (he rhymed, which is apparently a cardinal sin among poets these days), but it was brilliant, addictive, and powerfully moving.
I memorized many of his poems for years, just for the fun of it. There are lessons in them that I treasure.
That's why, when I came across a TERRIBLY mangled Barnes & Noble ebook of "A Shropshire Lad", I couldn't resist writing a review in the style of Housman:
The verses get five stars from me;
The presentation, one.
A pity 'tis that OCR's
So ruined poor Housman's fun!The headers cleave each verse in twain
The lines lie torn and wrent,
How cruel to make him die again!
Needlessly violent.But hope lives on, for pristine text
of "Shropshire Lad" is free
On Project Gutenberg, the home
of Housman fans like me.And here's the link, available on Project Gutenberg in all the major ebook formats. Enjoy!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5720
Happy reading! 🤓📖
#QuasitBookRecs #Books #Classics #Bookstodon #Poetry #FreeEbooks
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Quasit's Book Recommendations: "A Shropshire Lad" by A. E. Housman (1896)
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.Meet A.E. Housman, if you haven't met him before. His poetry may not be fashionable any more (he rhymed, which is apparently a cardinal sin among poets these days), but it was brilliant, addictive, and powerfully moving.
I memorized many of his poems for years, just for the fun of it. There are lessons in them that I treasure.
That's why, when I came across a TERRIBLY mangled Barnes & Noble ebook of "A Shropshire Lad", I couldn't resist writing a review in the style of Housman:
The verses get five stars from me;
The presentation, one.
A pity 'tis that OCR's
So ruined poor Housman's fun!The headers cleave each verse in twain
The lines lie torn and wrent,
How cruel to make him die again!
Needlessly violent.But hope lives on, for pristine text
of "Shropshire Lad" is free
On Project Gutenberg, the home
of Housman fans like me.And here's the link, available on Project Gutenberg in all the major ebook formats. Enjoy!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5720
Happy reading! 🤓📖
#QuasitBookRecs #Books #Classics #Bookstodon #Poetry #FreeEbooks
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Quasit's Book Recommendations: "A Shropshire Lad" by A. E. Housman (1896)
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.Meet A.E. Housman, if you haven't met him before. His poetry may not be fashionable any more (he rhymed, which is apparently a cardinal sin among poets these days), but it was brilliant, addictive, and powerfully moving.
I memorized many of his poems for years, just for the fun of it. There are lessons in them that I treasure.
That's why, when I came across a TERRIBLY mangled Barnes & Noble ebook of "A Shropshire Lad", I couldn't resist writing a review in the style of Housman:
The verses get five stars from me;
The presentation, one.
A pity 'tis that OCR's
So ruined poor Housman's fun!The headers cleave each verse in twain
The lines lie torn and wrent,
How cruel to make him die again!
Needlessly violent.But hope lives on, for pristine text
of "Shropshire Lad" is free
On Project Gutenberg, the home
of Housman fans like me.And here's the link, available on Project Gutenberg in all the major ebook formats. Enjoy!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5720
Happy reading! 🤓📖
#QuasitBookRecs #Books #Classics #Bookstodon #Poetry #FreeEbooks
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Here's something I've been looking forward to: the first free ebook recommendation.
H.G. Wells was not only a founding figure in the creation of the genre of science fiction; he created plots which have continued to define the genre to this day. "The War of the Worlds", "The Time Machine", "The Invisible Man", "The Island of Doctor Moreau" are just a •few• of Wells' genre-defining novels.
Which makes it easy to overlook the many brilliant short stories he produced during his career, covering horror, humor, fantasy, science fiction, and more.
My introduction to Wells was a purple hardcover book that I found among the family books when I was a child: "Thirty Strange Stories". It mesmerized me. Although the stories are more than 100 years old now, they felt remarkably modern and relevant.
Sadly that book is long out of print, but Standard Ebooks has created a free eBook that has virtually all the same stories. It's called "Short Fiction, by H. G. Wells" and it's available in all the major eBook formats. It includes 55 of his classic short stories, and they're incredibly readable!
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-g-wells/short-fiction
There are stories here which will stay with you forever. "The Stolen Bacillus", "The Treasure In the Forest", "The Lord of the Dynamos", "The Cone", "Under the Knife", "The Truth About Pyecraft"...there are just too many amazing, gripping stories to list them all. The sheer •flexibility• that Wells demonstrates is astounding. He'll have you terrified one moment, laughing the next, and crying the moment after that.
And it's free. What more could you ask for?
Happy reading! 🤓📖
"A small shopman is in such a melancholy position, if his wife turns out a disloyal partner. His capital is all tied up in his business, and to leave her means to join the unemployed in some strange part of the Earth. The luxuries of divorce are beyond him altogether. So that the good old tradition of marriage for better or worse holds inexorably for him, and things work up to tragic culminations. Bricklayers kick their wives to death, and dukes betray theirs; but it is among the small clerks and shopkeepers nowadays that it comes most often to a cutting of throats."
- "The Purple Pileus"
#Books #Bookstodon #ScienceFiction #Horror #Humor #English #FreeEbooks #QuasitBookRecs
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Here's something I've been looking forward to: the first free ebook recommendation.
H.G. Wells was not only a founding figure in the creation of the genre of science fiction; he created plots which have continued to define the genre to this day. "The War of the Worlds", "The Time Machine", "The Invisible Man", "The Island of Doctor Moreau" are just a •few• of Wells' genre-defining novels.
Which makes it easy to overlook the many brilliant short stories he produced during his career, covering horror, humor, fantasy, science fiction, and more.
My introduction to Wells was a purple hardcover book that I found among the family books when I was a child: "Thirty Strange Stories". It mesmerized me. Although the stories are more than 100 years old now, they felt remarkably modern and relevant.
Sadly that book is long out of print, but Standard Ebooks has created a free eBook that has virtually all the same stories. It's called "Short Fiction, by H. G. Wells" and it's available in all the major eBook formats. It includes 55 of his classic short stories, and they're incredibly readable!
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-g-wells/short-fiction
There are stories here which will stay with you forever. "The Stolen Bacillus", "The Treasure In the Forest", "The Lord of the Dynamos", "The Cone", "Under the Knife", "The Truth About Pyecraft"...there are just too many amazing, gripping stories to list them all. The sheer •flexibility• that Wells demonstrates is astounding. He'll have you terrified one moment, laughing the next, and crying the moment after that.
And it's free. What more could you ask for?
Happy reading! 🤓📖
"A small shopman is in such a melancholy position, if his wife turns out a disloyal partner. His capital is all tied up in his business, and to leave her means to join the unemployed in some strange part of the Earth. The luxuries of divorce are beyond him altogether. So that the good old tradition of marriage for better or worse holds inexorably for him, and things work up to tragic culminations. Bricklayers kick their wives to death, and dukes betray theirs; but it is among the small clerks and shopkeepers nowadays that it comes most often to a cutting of throats."
- "The Purple Pileus"
#Books #Bookstodon #ScienceFiction #Horror #Humor #English #FreeEbooks #QuasitBookRecs
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Should I try to recommend a book once a day here? If so, should it be a free ebook?
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Should I try to recommend a book once a day here? If so, should it be a free ebook?
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@JB105 some of Agatha Christie's earlier mysteries, including some Poirot stories, are available free in all the major ebook formats from Standard eBooks and Project Gutenberg.
The Standard eBooks versions are better formatted, but there are more books on Project Gutenberg. Of course there are many more books of hers that haven't yet entered the public domain, although new ones become available every year.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie
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@JB105 some of Agatha Christie's earlier mysteries, including some Poirot stories, are available free in all the major ebook formats from Standard eBooks and Project Gutenberg.
The Standard eBooks versions are better formatted, but there are more books on Project Gutenberg. Of course there are many more books of hers that haven't yet entered the public domain, although new ones become available every year.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie
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A well-formatted edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is available FREE in all the major ebook formats from Standard Ebooks.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/omar-khayyam/the-rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/edward-fitzgerald
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A well-formatted edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is available FREE in all the major ebook formats from Standard Ebooks.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/omar-khayyam/the-rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/edward-fitzgerald
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Seconding Lord Dunsany on Standard Ebooks — The King of Elfland's Daughter is the one that hooked me. Their Dunsany typesetting is gorgeous too. And for anyone digging further back: William Morris's The Well at the World's End is on SE as well.
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Seconding Lord Dunsany on Standard Ebooks — The King of Elfland's Daughter is the one that hooked me. Their Dunsany typesetting is gorgeous too. And for anyone digging further back: William Morris's The Well at the World's End is on SE as well.
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@jarulf @bookstodon
Why recent? Are you sure you've read all the great older books?Have you read Steven Brust's "Vlad Taltos" series? The "Ethshar" series by Lawrence Watt-Evans? Both of those are still being written and published, and they're both great.
Or Barry Hughart's "Bridge of Birds" —have you read that? Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light", or his "Amber" books? Michael Moorcock's "Eternal Champion" books are classics that have had a major impact on the field of fantasy.
Lord Dunsany's books were groundbreakinging, and they're free and all the major ebook formats on Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2685
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lord-dunsany/the-book-of-wonder/sidney-h-sime
Have you read "Empire of the East" by Fred Saberhagen? It's unique and very memorable.
I could keep going, but I don't want to overdo it. Still, I'm happy to recommend books anytime!
#BookRecommendations #Books #Bookstodon #Fantasy #FreeEbooks
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@jarulf @bookstodon
Why recent? Are you sure you've read all the great older books?Have you read Steven Brust's "Vlad Taltos" series? The "Ethshar" series by Lawrence Watt-Evans? Both of those are still being written and published, and they're both great.
Or Barry Hughart's "Bridge of Birds" —have you read that? Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light", or his "Amber" books? Michael Moorcock's "Eternal Champion" books are classics that have had a major impact on the field of fantasy.
Lord Dunsany's books were groundbreakinging, and they're free and all the major ebook formats on Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2685
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lord-dunsany/the-book-of-wonder/sidney-h-sime
Have you read "Empire of the East" by Fred Saberhagen? It's unique and very memorable.
I could keep going, but I don't want to overdo it. Still, I'm happy to recommend books anytime!
#BookRecommendations #Books #Bookstodon #Fantasy #FreeEbooks
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And then I checked Project Gutenberg. A HUGE number of Mack Reynolds' books and stories are in the public domain! I should note that some of them include a bit of softcore pornography, although I haven't checked the specific books on PG.
"Black Man's Burden" was particularly notable, as I recall - not as porn (don't remember if it had any), but in it's approach to race. Anyone familiar with the famous poem by Rudyard Kipling will, of course, recognize the source of the title.
Here's a link to all 33 of his works on Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Mack+Reynolds
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And then I checked Project Gutenberg. A HUGE number of Mack Reynolds' books and stories are in the public domain! I should note that some of them include a bit of softcore pornography, although I haven't checked the specific books on PG.
"Black Man's Burden" was particularly notable, as I recall - not as porn (don't remember if it had any), but in it's approach to race. Anyone familiar with the famous poem by Rudyard Kipling will, of course, recognize the source of the title.
Here's a link to all 33 of his works on Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Mack+Reynolds
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I stumbled on a free collection of short stories by Mack Reynolds, the mercenary-turned-science-fiction-writer! He focused on the economic and sociological aspects of the future, writing often about (for example) a universal guaranteed income back in the 60s and 70s!
The ebook is free, well-formatted, and available in all the major ebook formats.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mack-reynolds/short-fiction
