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Collection includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including works by Asimov, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, F. Open source science fiction: Thoughtcrime Experiments. Image by opensource.com What sort of material do you read the most?

Open source science fiction: Thoughtcrime Experiments

Anybody who reads knows the publishing industry has changed. We mourn over print media though we read happily from the strangely pleasant matte screen of the Kindle. We long for our thick summer magazines as we’re catching quick bites from PDAs and tiny laptops. Even people who love books--and I mean /love books/ in a way that’s perhaps a little strange--find themselves faced with new-media ways of doing old-creative things and opportunity where the new road leads.

Thoughtcrime Experiments. Books. Poetry, fiction creative writing at WildPen. Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. Open Source World Building with Fictopedia, The Fictional Encyclopedia. Open-source fiction? The open-source movement isn’t just for hackers.

Open-source fiction?

Hacks are having a go at it too, says Andrew Burt, a writer of both code and prose who has contributed to the BSD kernel, Perl and Linux and who founded the online writing workshop Critters. He encourages writers to expose the guts of their stories, just as Linus Torvalds does his code, and invite critique and contribution.