Archive for the ‘Open Fiction’ Category
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I am a huge fan of R. Stevens and Diesel Sweeties. Before you click that link, just fair warning that this web comic is not to everyone's taste. Some of it is a bit iffy in terms of being NSFW. If you don't mind slightly risque, strongly ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
The Creative Commons blog reported in July that Strange Horizons (recently featured in OMR) is giving its authors the ability to publish via CC. This is a decision the individual authors of articles and stories are making, not the magazine as a whole, so please check the license of any ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
The web is thick with 'zines now, but I wanted to showcase some of my favorites, specifically ones that look genre fiction with intelligence:
The SciPhi Journal: Sci Phi is the journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy. Each quarterly issue contains science fiction short stories with a philosophical theme and popular ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Remember our earlier story about Gaiman celebrating his blog's anniversary with an experiment, a book to be made available for free? The book in question was up for vote by his readers.
The poll results are in and the reader's selected American Gods. It will be available for free ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
This story is admittedly dated, but still worth pointing out. The books in questions are ebooks and apparently come without any DRM. The offer does require you to give up a little bit of personal info and the links to download the titles come in the form of ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
The glut of free information on the Internet can make you drunk with its excess. Free content galore, much of it open. But when creators of open content put it out there, more often than not we have an expectation to the consumers. (For the record, I'm mainly talking about ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Boing Boing has the story. To celebrate the seventh anniversary of his blog, with his publisher's approval, Gaiman will be making one of his books available for free online, for a month. The implication is that if this experiment works well, more of his works may be made ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
I very much admire people like Violet Blue and Cory Doctorow. They both are so busy and dedicated to what they believe in, it seems everything they touch turns to gold.
What I love about the Open movement is it can define the most amazing stuff. Sure, I can release novels ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
James Patrick Kelly, Hugo and Nebula winning science fiction author, is featured over at Creative Commons as their Featured Commoner. Jim is a favorite writer of mine, not only because he is vastly talented and very approachable, but also because of him being one of the first pro writers to ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
I've been listening to podiobooks for some time, and even though this blog is new, I still feel that a lot of the older books need love. So when I announce I'm listening to something (relatively) new, I'll also give some love to an older, completed book that I enjoyed ...
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