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Whilst perusing Kelly Link's brilliant short story anthology that she has graciously released under a creative commons license at the Small Beer Press website (http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/sth/Kelly_Link_Stranger_Things.htm) a thought bubble formed somewhere between the ceiling and my brain:
We should make a kind of list of the stuff that authors have creative commons licensed, and made available on-line. I'm not talking about self-published crud, or BS like the things that wash ashore on my blog. I mean honest-to-goodness trad published books and texts that are now CC, and readable on-line.
Baen Books Free Library, many titles and authors
http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm
Mayer Brenner
http://www.mayerbrenner.com/download/
Mike Brotherton
http://www.mikebrotherton.com/novels/index.html
Escape Pod
http://escapepod.org/
Rachel Caine
http://www.rachelcaine.com/free.html
Cory Doctorow
www.craphound.com
Neil Gaiman
http://browseinside.harpercollins.c...23&WT.mc_id=author_AmerGods_FullAccess_022208 <--The Gaiman says that's the link for American Gods. I haven't gotten it to work. Let me know if anyone figures this one out.
http://harpercoln.vo.llnwd.net/o16/StudyInEmerald_full.mp3 <-- Not technically CC, but an awesome audio link that belongs >somewhere<
http://www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/1696_1.pdf <--DC Comics giving away Issue #1 of Sandman! Is it CC? I DON'T CARE! It's free, and on-line.
http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool Stuff/Short Stories <-- Short Stories.
John Kessel
http://lcrw.net/kessel/#Free
Kelly Link
http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/sth/Kelly_Link_Stranger_Things.htm
Nick Mamatas
http://www.moveunderground.org/
Maureen McHugh
http://www.lcrw.net/mchugh/McHugh_Mothers.htm
Ben Rosenbaum
http://www.lcrw.net/rosenbaum/Rosenbaum_Ant_King.html
Brandon Sanderson
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/book/Warbreaker/page/20/WARBREAKER-The-Free-Fantasy-Book-Download
Lewis Shiner
http://www.lewisshiner.com/liberation/index.htm
Charles Stross
http://www.accelerando.org/
Jeff VanderMeer's Novella "The Situation"
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/files/Situation-Wired-Final.pdf
Vernor Vinge
http://vrinimi.org/rainbowsend.html
(This one doesn't look to be CC-licensed, but that's okay. The spirit of the CC is present.)
Peter Watts
http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
And seriously, guys and dolls, I *know* I'm forgetting people. There's a name on the tip of my damn tongue...
Anywho, check it and add your links. For some unfathomable reason, Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors are up on the latest tech and cutting edge futurism. We should celebrate it with a list of worthies.
We should make a kind of list of the stuff that authors have creative commons licensed, and made available on-line. I'm not talking about self-published crud, or BS like the things that wash ashore on my blog. I mean honest-to-goodness trad published books and texts that are now CC, and readable on-line.
Baen Books Free Library, many titles and authors
http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm
Mayer Brenner
http://www.mayerbrenner.com/download/
Mike Brotherton
http://www.mikebrotherton.com/novels/index.html
Escape Pod
http://escapepod.org/
Rachel Caine
http://www.rachelcaine.com/free.html
Cory Doctorow
www.craphound.com
Neil Gaiman
http://browseinside.harpercollins.c...23&WT.mc_id=author_AmerGods_FullAccess_022208 <--The Gaiman says that's the link for American Gods. I haven't gotten it to work. Let me know if anyone figures this one out.
http://harpercoln.vo.llnwd.net/o16/StudyInEmerald_full.mp3 <-- Not technically CC, but an awesome audio link that belongs >somewhere<
http://www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/1696_1.pdf <--DC Comics giving away Issue #1 of Sandman! Is it CC? I DON'T CARE! It's free, and on-line.
http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool Stuff/Short Stories <-- Short Stories.
John Kessel
http://lcrw.net/kessel/#Free
Kelly Link
http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/sth/Kelly_Link_Stranger_Things.htm
Nick Mamatas
http://www.moveunderground.org/
Maureen McHugh
http://www.lcrw.net/mchugh/McHugh_Mothers.htm
Ben Rosenbaum
http://www.lcrw.net/rosenbaum/Rosenbaum_Ant_King.html
Brandon Sanderson
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/book/Warbreaker/page/20/WARBREAKER-The-Free-Fantasy-Book-Download
Lewis Shiner
http://www.lewisshiner.com/liberation/index.htm
Charles Stross
http://www.accelerando.org/
Jeff VanderMeer's Novella "The Situation"
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/files/Situation-Wired-Final.pdf
Vernor Vinge
http://vrinimi.org/rainbowsend.html
(This one doesn't look to be CC-licensed, but that's okay. The spirit of the CC is present.)
Peter Watts
http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
And seriously, guys and dolls, I *know* I'm forgetting people. There's a name on the tip of my damn tongue...
Anywho, check it and add your links. For some unfathomable reason, Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors are up on the latest tech and cutting edge futurism. We should celebrate it with a list of worthies.
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