{"id":137,"date":"2008-05-03T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=137"},"modified":"2008-05-03T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T17:44:00","slug":"freebies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Freebies"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the word is out<\/a> on the subject of the revamped Starship Sofa<\/a>. My reading of “Repeating the Past” is embedded near the end of their recent podcast<\/a>; also, the press release reports that I’ll be doing a “monthly” science-“fact” podcast called Reality, ReMastered<\/i>. I can confirm this, sort of, although the monthliness may be a bit iffy. I’m working on the first one now, and will repeat as time and inspiration allow.<\/p>\n

(Oh, wait a second. I’m listening to that audio feed even now, as it trickles down the teensy one-bar pipe’s worth of bandwidth I can squeeze through the walls of my remote cabin — I love these guys’ accents, and whoever they’ve got reading “Likely Lad” just rules<\/i> — but pretty much the first thing they say is that it is not<\/i> a podcast any more, but is, rather, an “audio science-fiction magazine”. I stand corrected, if a wee bit confused as to the difference.)<\/p>\n

Closer to home, Tor has asked for (and received) permission to release Starfish<\/i> as a free e-book for a two-week period, as part of ongoing promotion for their new website\/online community<\/a>. They’ve already done this with novels from a bunch of other authors including Karl Schroeder, David Drake, and the mighty John Scalzi, but I’d go out on a limb and state that my own involvement has a much higher irony quotient. Tor did, after all, respond to my request for a Creative Commons option in the Blindsight<\/i> contract by trying to insert a clause that would have forbidden me from even posting excerpts<\/i> of longer than 1,500 words on my own damn website. And Starfish is such a good candidate for a promotional free e-text release, since you can’t<\/a> find one<\/a> of those anywhere else on the planet.<\/p>\n

Glad they’re coming around, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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