Free e-books from TOR: Download ‘em now, before they vanish Sunday
Tor is boosting sales of selected books by giving them away in E—a strategy that might be especially effective with series, even if it won’t necessarily work with all titles.
From John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War to Harry Turtledove’s The Disunited States of America, I’ll pass on the direct links to these nonDRMed editions. Notice? The ePub format has starting to appear. Want the latest Tor news? Visit Tor.com and sign up. Also check out the Tor blog.
Freebies available through Sunday
Better act ASAP on the downloads. Patrick Nielsen Hayden writes: "At any rate, now that the life of our doughty little holding page is drawing to a close (shed a tear), we thought we’d make everything we gave away there–all the novels, all of the desktop wallpaper–…through Sunday, July 27. We’ve even gone back and added formats that weren’t available at first, so all of you who mourned (for instance) the lack of a Mobipocket version of Mistborn can now find happiness. Anyway, get ‘em while they’re here. Act now, act without thinking! Full list, with links, below the fold."
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
PDF || HTMLnew! || HTML zipnew! || Mobinew!
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Farthing by Jo Walton
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedies Lackey & James Mallory
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Lord of the Isles by David Drake
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Through Wolf’s Eyes by Jane Lindskold
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
The Disunited States of America by Harry Turtledove
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Reiffen’s Choice by S.C. Butler
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Spirit Gate by Kate Elliot
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Starfish by Peter Watts
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Touch of Evil by C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Orphans of Chaos by John Wright
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
In the Midnight Hour by Patti O’Shea
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey A. Carver
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Flash by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Soul by Tobsha Learner
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Darkness of the Light by Peter David
PDF || HTML || HTML zip || Mobi
Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosanew!
PDF || ePub
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:06 am
I am sure that Starfish, by Peter Watts, will become a SF classic. Read it!
Orphans of Chaos was great fun and I bought the remaining 2 paperbacks of the trilogy.
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:09 am
Oooh…Thanks for the links.
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Thanks for the recs, Paul–and Brian, I’m glad you’ll be following up on the links! But let’s have more discussion and pointers from you and others. Why do you like the books you do? I loved Old Man’s War because it was like Vonnegut’s works–funny, moving and insightful. For latecomers, the premise is that instead of dying, old people can get new bodies and fight the bad guys in outer space. Far better than the shuffleboard circuit. Unlike many SF novels, this one makes me care for the characters. If readers like Old Mans’ War, by the way, they might also go for The Memory of Mars, by Raymond Fisher Jones, which lacks the wit of Old Man’s War but might appeal to the same readers.
Thanks,
David
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September 14th, 2008 at 1:15 am
It’s worth pointing out that all of these e-books can still (at the moment) be downloaded even now.
The files have never been removed from the servers, just the index on the Tor.com blog.