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Ebook Freebies #1

Monday, January 26th, 2009

By Robert Nagle

Welcome to the first installment of free ebooks.  Every few weeks, TeleRead provides a list of free ebooks which have come to our attention (see also our Guide to Free Ebook Download sites). This regular feature will give an annotated list of the latest ebooks to come to our attention recently.  (See also: Teleread’s general list of where to find free ebook titles).

This installment we’ll be playing a little game of catch up. Over the last few months Teleread has been blogging about so many free titles that it seems like a waste not to mention them here.  Also, two  wonderful blogs are providing  regular announcements about “new” free releases: Finding Free Ebooks and Ebooks Just Published. In many ways, this column is just culling stuff from there.

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E-book series review: Worlds Apart

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

By Chris Meadows

Aves_sky I happened across a mention of the “Worlds Apart” series in a posting on Baen’s Bar, from a reader who enjoyed them. Based on that reader’s description, I was intrigued—then I checked out the first book in the series, and was completely drawn in.

The “Worlds Apart” series by James Wittenbach currently consists of nine completed novels (out of a planned twelve) and three short stories, available for free download from the Worlds Apart website in DOC or RTF and PDF formats. Although Wittenbach has sold printed copies in the past, I have not been able to find anywhere on the site as it now exists that printed copies may be purchased.

The idea of space colonies setting out to discover what happened to their mother planet has been visited many times in science-fiction through the years—most obviously in Battlestar Galactica, of course. Nonetheless, when done well it has been one of my favorite SF themes—the rediscovery of lost knowledge, resumption of contact with lost civilizations, and solving of one of the greatest mysteries of the ages.

“Worlds Apart” could have been written with me in mind.

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