ManyBooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook Reader. Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com >> Blog Archive » True Names. True Names, Part 01 Here's the first installment of a podcast reading of a new novella that I co-wrote with Hugo- and Nebula-nominee Benjamin Rosenbaum.
The story's a big, 32,000-word piece called "True Names" (in homage to Vernor Vinge's famous story of the same name), and it involves the galactic wars between vast, post-Singularity intelligences that are competing to corner the universe's supply of computation before the heat-death of the universe. Ben and I will be reading the story in weekly installments, taking turns as our schedules allow. The reading is Creative Commons licensed -- Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial -- and the story itself will be published this fall in Fast Forward 2, Lou Anders' followup to his knockout 2007 anthology, Fast Forward (regular Boing Boing readers will remember Paul Di Filippo's Wikiworld story from that volume).
Lou's given us permission to post the story's text simultaneous with the book's publication, under the same Creative Commons license. Cory Doctorow at The Bookworm. February is Keep Toronto Reading Month! Printing a Book with CSS: Boom! HTML and CSS, two of our favorite acronyms, are normally associated with web pages.
And deservedly so: HTML is the dominant document format on the web and CSS is used to style most HTML pages. But, are they suitable for off-screen use? Can CSS be used for serious print jobs? To find out, we decided to take the ultimate challenge: to produce the next edition of our book directly from HTML and CSS files. The book. WikiSummaries. The Big List of Bookish Social Networks at Deeplinking. New Rules for the New Economy. Intuition. Project Gutenberg Free eBooks.