Tor's ebook club is offering Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief for free download through Friday - another book I've been thinking of reading and haven't gotten that round tuit yet, so yay!

I don't really have any book progress to report, so I won't bother doing a post tomorrow. I'm still enjoying listening to Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear, ( Read more... )

• I have been intending to read Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning for some time. Lo and behold, it's the Tor.com eBook of the month! If you're in the US or Canada (only, sorry!) you can sign up at that link and get a download link. This is only valid through 11:59 PM ET March 23rd.
• Sutcliff Swap is open for sign-ups through March 24th. See
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I would have included this in yesterday's reading post had the email announcement arrived yesterday rather than today, but. The 2017 SYNC summer has begun! For those of you unfamiliar with this, it's a free summer YA/teen audiobook program from AudioFile Magazine; two free audiobooks, one new and one older, are put up for download every week for ( Read more... )

I epubified the sequel to the original M/M book I wrote about last post and put it on Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/download/b8miarnyv8vzbnm/The_Road_Home_-_Kastor_2.epub for those of you who'd like the e-reader format.

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What I just finished reading: Kastor Chronicles 1: The Forge of Dawn which is original M/M by Jesse Hajicek (I read his The God Eaters years back, and remember liking it) I found via the recs list I pointed to yesterday. It's quest fantasy, interesting though not super-original world-building, but it's well-written (except for an unfortunate ( Read more... )

Well, assuming that you enjoy what I enjoy.

Some fic:

After Darkness, Light (3510 words) by
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Happy last day of 2009 (or first day of 2010, depending on where you are in the world)! I know a lot of people had sucky years, and if you're one of them, here's to a better 2010; me, I had a pretty awesome year (and decade, for that matter) but hey, bring on the next one, it's time.

Thanks to dawn_guy and catbear, darththalia, ladysunflow, and
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The end of the year has never been a gift-giving holiday for me; we celebrated a more traditional Hannukah when I was a child, and my nonreligious inlaws celebrate Christmas by eating a lot, drinking Bourbon and playing poker (which I approve of, totally). But that doesn't mean I don't like prezzies! So thank you to mergatrude and
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Thanks to all who have served so that I don't have to. Here, have some thematically relevant music. All on my website, so right-click save, or use DownThemAll.

Over the Hills and Far Away - John Tams. This is the theme music for the Sharpe series.
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Clam Chowder. Classic Australian WWI song by Eric Bogle.
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Last night I found myself desperately earwormed by something I thought that maybe I had heard on my new favorite internet radio station, Folk Radio UK (which is entirely commercial-free and listener-supported, and easy to donate to by PayPal, and if you like the kind of music I do you should check it out), but I could only remember a couple of ( Read more... )