All the news that’s fit to capsulize!
iLOVE IT
Apple’s new iPhone apps store on iTunes includes dozens of downloadable freebies, including a few geared toward book lovers:
• “eReader” lets you read more than 50,000 e-books, with two included to start you off: Edgar Rice Burroughs’ TARZAN OF THE APES and James Fenimore Cooper’s THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS.
• “Shakespeare” puts the complete works of William Shakespeare at your fingertips.
• ”Clickwheel Comic Reader” brings JUDGE DREDD and 2000AD to your screen.
TOR-IFIC!
Head over to the new Tor.com by July 27 to download a host of free e-books from top authors like John Scalzi, Jo Walton, Harry Turtledove, Kage Baker, Peter David, Cherie Priest and many more.
IS YOUR STORY ‘ILL.’-IN’?
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard is sponsoring a crime fiction contest. Just submit a 3,000-word story set in Chicago; judging will be done by Michael Harvey, author of THE CHICAGO WAY and THE FIFTH FLOOR. The winner gets his or her work published in October’s issue of TIME OUT CHICAGO and evaluated by a Vintage editor.
AND CHECK OUT THAT SHOVEL!
Jeff Carlson has literally climbed the highest mountains in order to bring you a trailer for PLAGUE WAR, the sequel to last year’s virus thriller PLAGUE YEAR. The author describes the short as a cross between ALIVE, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN. There’s a darkly humorous strain of self-deprecation in there as well:
—Rod Lott
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I believe Plague War is a sequel to Electric Church.
That’s THE DIGITAL PLAGUE. Who knew “plague” was the Hot Title Word for 2008?
There are some gems on the Tor site, and if you haven’t read these 5 before, you should give them a try:
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell
Starfish by Peter Watts
In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
As for the rest, either I haven’t read them or didn’t think they were all that.