Found this SF Anthology
Event Horizon 2017 Edited by Jake Kerr
SF Stories from 75 different authors
https://www.createspace.com/7011793
Free ebook version
http://once-and-future.com/2017/03/event-horizon-2017-a-free-campbellian-anthology/
more about the book
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/26/15066082/science-fiction-anthology-john-w-campbell-award-jake-kerr
Tau.Neutrino said:
Found this SF Anthology
Event Horizon 2017 Edited by Jake Kerr
SF Stories from 75 different authors
https://www.createspace.com/7011793
Free ebook version
http://once-and-future.com/2017/03/event-horizon-2017-a-free-campbellian-anthology/
more about the book
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/26/15066082/science-fiction-anthology-john-w-campbell-award-jake-kerr
Thanks T.N – downloaded
I thought I was the only SF fan around here.
Will look through, but with trepidation. Some SciFi works give me nightmares.
mollwollfumble said:
I thought I was the only SF fan around here.Will look through, but with trepidation. Some SciFi works give me nightmares.
Ray Bradbury has written some nightmare stuff.
Downloaded.
so how do you read epub without going through all the bullshit of signing up with overdrive?
JudgeMental said:
so how do you read epub without going through all the bullshit of signing up with overdrive?
You’ll sign your life away and like it God damn it!
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
so how do you read epub without going through all the bullshit of signing up with overdrive?
You’ll sign your life away and like it God damn it!
nah, i just find it naff to have to sign up to something just to read a file.
JudgeMental said:
so how do you read epub without going through all the bullshit of signing up with overdrive?
Have a look at FBReader, Boris. It’s a free, open source ebook reader that works with most ebook formats.
JudgeMental said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
so how do you read epub without going through all the bullshit of signing up with overdrive?
You’ll sign your life away and like it God damn it!
nah, i just find it naff to have to sign up to something just to read a file.
They need your data so someone can personalise the ads you never click on because they’re usually for things you’ve recently bought online.
JudgeMental said:
so how do you read epub without going through all the bullshit of signing up with overdrive?
Sign up with some other reader.
I downloaded Liberty from the Microsoft store, which is free and seems to work OK.
I believe that Caibre may also satisfy those requirements…
Converts formats, I think…
Bubblecar said:
They need your data so someone can personalise the ads you never click on because they’re usually for things you’ve recently bought online.
I wonder when the companies who pay big money to have their ads displayed to a carefully selected audience are going to catch on that most of that audience are people who recently had a transaction with the company, and so already know about them, and are not likely to be buying the same product/service again in the near future anyway.
furious said:
- I believe that Caibre may also satisfy those requirements…
Converts formats, I think…
It’s jolly good. I use it all the time. Even have the portable version on a USB stick.
btm won the answer contest. works and can see readable stuff.
JudgeMental said:
so how do you read epub without going through all the bullshit of signing up with overdrive?
I downloaded kindle for PC and opened the mobi version with that
you can close the kindle registration box
furious said:
- Have a look at FBReader, Boris. It’s a free, open source ebook reader that works with most ebook formats.
I believe that Caibre may also satisfy those requirements…
I find Calibre to be useful as a converter between different ebook formats, and a general ebook library manager, but not as a reader.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Found this SF Anthology
Event Horizon 2017 Edited by Jake Kerr
SF Stories from 75 different authors
https://www.createspace.com/7011793
Free ebook version
http://once-and-future.com/2017/03/event-horizon-2017-a-free-campbellian-anthology/
more about the book
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/26/15066082/science-fiction-anthology-john-w-campbell-award-jake-kerr
Anyone started reading it yet?
mollwollfumble said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Found this SF Anthology
Event Horizon 2017 Edited by Jake Kerr
SF Stories from 75 different authors
https://www.createspace.com/7011793
Free ebook version
http://once-and-future.com/2017/03/event-horizon-2017-a-free-campbellian-anthology/
more about the book
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/26/15066082/science-fiction-anthology-john-w-campbell-award-jake-kerr
Anyone started reading it yet?
Have not read them but have just finisher the Wool, Shift, Dust trilogy by Hugh Howey.
Pretty heavy going but strangely hard to put down.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20745447-the-wool-trilogy
mollwollfumble said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Found this SF Anthology
Event Horizon 2017 Edited by Jake Kerr
SF Stories from 75 different authors
https://www.createspace.com/7011793
Free ebook version
http://once-and-future.com/2017/03/event-horizon-2017-a-free-campbellian-anthology/
more about the book
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/26/15066082/science-fiction-anthology-john-w-campbell-award-jake-kerr
Anyone started reading it yet?
Read the first three or four stories last night. Nothing great, but these are fairly new authors and I wasn’t expecting Heinlein.
Read quite a few now and every relationship that is in the stories is lesbian.
JudgeMental said:
Read quite a few now and every relationship that is in the stories is lesbian.
In the future men will be redundant.
JudgeMental said:
Read quite a few now and every relationship that is in the stories is lesbian.
Basically. I must admit I’m probably about half way through and haven’t found a story that grabs me.
sibeen said:
JudgeMental said:
Read quite a few now and every relationship that is in the stories is lesbian.
Basically. I must admit I’m probably about half way through and haven’t found a story that grabs me.
i find them interesting mainly i guess is because i haven’t read much modern SF. The stuff i have on hdd is 50s, 60s 70s stuff. and the ones i read in book form were from that era too. probably haven’t got into the 90s at all.
JudgeMental said:
sibeen said:
JudgeMental said:
Read quite a few now and every relationship that is in the stories is lesbian.
Basically. I must admit I’m probably about half way through and haven’t found a story that grabs me.
i find them interesting mainly i guess is because i haven’t read much modern SF. The stuff i have on hdd is 50s, 60s 70s stuff. and the ones i read in book form were from that era too. probably haven’t got into the 90s at all.
Oh, there was the one story where the woman wasn’t overtly lesbian. The woman stuck on Pluto. She had a husband and a wife.
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
Read quite a few now and every relationship that is in the stories is lesbian.
In the future men will be redundant.
In the future?
kii said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
JudgeMental said:
Read quite a few now and every relationship that is in the stories is lesbian.
In the future men will be redundant.
In the future?
The Mr kii is good to put up with you.
Witty Rejoinder said:
kii said:
Witty Rejoinder said:In the future men will be redundant.
In the future?
The Mr kii is good to put up with you.
Oh, really? It works both ways. Plus, he’s already heading towards cyborg
In the forum tradition, without reading any of it…..is it all space type stories? I have never really been keen on space type stories. I like science fiction that takes something ordinary and extends it. “Web” by John Wyndham is an example of what I mean.
buffy said:
In the forum tradition, without reading any of it…..is it all space type stories? I have never really been keen on space type stories. I like science fiction that takes something ordinary and extends it. “Web” by John Wyndham is an example of what I mean.
no, not all space type stories. more human interest stories, quirky.
Witty Rejoinder said:
kii said:
Witty Rejoinder said:In the future men will be redundant.
In the future?
The Mr kii is good to put up with you.
He’s a saint really, we can only marvel at his psychosomatic deafness.
JudgeMental said:
buffy said:In the forum tradition, without reading any of it…..is it all space type stories? I have never really been keen on space type stories. I like science fiction that takes something ordinary and extends it. “Web” by John Wyndham is an example of what I mean.
no, not all space type stories. more human interest stories, quirky.
Thanks, I might have a look. I gather there is no index as such.
buffy said:
JudgeMental said:
buffy said:In the forum tradition, without reading any of it…..is it all space type stories? I have never really been keen on space type stories. I like science fiction that takes something ordinary and extends it. “Web” by John Wyndham is an example of what I mean.
no, not all space type stories. more human interest stories, quirky.
Thanks, I might have a look. I gather there is no index as such.
there is two index, one non-linking alphabetical and one linking by order.
Just read the SF book Avalon by Mindee Arnett. Although written recently (2014) it’s in the old-fashioned style, with interstellar spaceships travelling though gates, with crime bosses and a benign alien race with esp.
I really enjoyed it.
The target market is teenagers, and the genre is “boy and girl save the galaxy”, but they don’t save the galaxy, and there are enough cliffhangers and enough torture to make this a book for adults, too. Although there are goodies and baddies, it’s far from clear which major character goes in which category, and a moralist could have fun trying to sort out the different sets of moral values.
The main character, Jeth, steals spaceships for a living.
Summary. Not up there with Heinlein, but a heck of a lot better than Pohl. Equivalent in quality to Dreamfall by Joan D Vinge or Perdito Street Station by China Miéville.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/topics/science-fiction