{"id":10,"date":"2007-04-30T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=10"},"modified":"2007-04-30T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T16:29:00","slug":"sehemoth-set-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":""\u00dfehemoth" set free"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last couple of years I’ve been subjected to chronic whelming demand for a Creative Commons release of the final rifters novel. I am relieved to announce that “ßehemoth” went live as of 2a.m. this morning, over on the Backlist<\/a> page. (The first bug fixes were up by around 11, so if you downloaded the html version before then you’ll find hash where “°”s, “ß”s, and the like are supposed to be.) <\/p>\n

This is actually something of a landmark. Now, officially, my entire oeuvre is out there for anyone to pillage. “ßehemoth”, like my other CC releases, is available here as a pdf, zipped html file for convenient download, or as an eyeball-burning experience to be read online, right off the site. If precedent is anything to go on, others may well pitch in and translate into other formats — but they’ll have to find out about it first so, you know. Spread the word. I’ve done my bit.<\/p>\n

And yes, I am presenting the damn thing as originally intended before Tor’s beancounters got ahold of it: as a single self-contained entity, not the miserable abortion that was ripped in half and then thrown at the market in two soggy severed chunks, months apart, the slashed stubs of tendons once responsible for balance, arc, and thematic symmetry quivering and necrotic. <\/p>\n

You probably haven’t noticed, but I’m still a wee bit bitter over that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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