The Creative Commons is a wonderful thing. Thanks to the tireless promotion by the likes of Cory Doctorow and many others there is a lot of very high quality content out there (including Corys excellent books):
Peter Watts writes fairly dark science fiction. The Rifters triology starts with Starfish, set primarily at the bottom of the ocean with a bunch of characters who might, most charitably, be described as 'damaged' - it is full of the paranoia of the alien movies (without an alien) and some very interesting science. Highly recommended.
Also highly recommended are my friend Ricks (Richard Wright) books. He has released a brilliant collection of his short stories most of which have been in print in once place or another but are now very hard to get hold of. If you like dark fiction with a knack of getting into your head and messing with it (not to mention the odd dab of very dark humour) then rush over there and download it now. You won't be disappointed.
Posted by Mark at December 28, 2006 10:32 AMHi Mark
Seasons greetings.
Great shout on the Peter Watt's Rifter Trilogy.
I downloaded it this afternoon and have only just looked up ! I think you have just written off the remainder of my holiday before I start back on Monday.
Ross
Posted by: Ross Goodman at January 5, 2007 12:09 AMNot sure if it's relevant but I got the following errors:
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Database handle destroyed without explicit disconnect at lib/MT/App.pm line 355.
when I posted my last comment.
Ross
Posted by: Ross Goodman at January 5, 2007 12:11 AM