Karl Schroeder’s Ventus available as a free e-book
By Paul Biba
To celebrate the 2007 publication of Queen of Candesce, I decided to re-release my first novel as a free eBook. You can download it from this page. Ventus was first published by Tor Books in 2000, and and you can still buy it; to everyone who would just like to sample my work, I hope you enjoy this free version.
I’ve released this book under a Creative Commons license, which means you can read it and distribute it freely, but not make derivative works or sell it.
Ventus is a novel of information apocalypse set in the far future. For a thousand years the sovereign Winds have maintained the delicate ecological balance of the terraformed planet Ventus. Now an alien force threatens to wrest control of the terraforming system away from the Winds…
Jordan Mason, a young tradesman, is thrust into the midst of an ancient galactic conflict when he becomes the only human on Ventus who can locate the source of the alien threat. But will he side with the Winds, who have brutally suppressed technological development among the human colonists of Ventus? Or will he throw in his lot with an entity that may be planning to remake Ventus in its own, deathly image? Ventus incorporates ideas about nanotechnology, terraforming, and information theory in an epic tale of war, tragic love, betrayal and transcendence.
The book is available in HTML, PDF, MobiPocket, eReader, MSReader, Sony Reader and FBReader.
Thanks to Ebooks Just Published for the heads up.
December 12th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Also available on Feedbooks (it was uploaded months ago): http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1690
December 12th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Awesome book.