{"id":413,"date":"2007-09-11T08:12:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T12:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2007-09-11T08:25:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T12:25:43","slug":"free-fiction-at-manybooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Free Fiction at ManyBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an odd blast-from-the-past-y feeling when <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\">SF Signal<\/A> mentioned that <A HREF=\"http:\/\/manybooks.net\/titles\/garrettgr2233222332-8.html\">Brain Twister<\/A>, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/manybooks.net\/titles\/garrettgr2233822338-8.html\">The Impossibles<\/A>, and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/manybooks.net\/titles\/garrettgr2234222342-8.html\">Supermind<\/A> were all available from ManyBooks.  I have these three books, with those covers and everything, about three feet away from me, as I <del datetime=\"2007-08-20T16:12:28+00:00\">stole<\/del> borrowed them from my dad when I moved out.  (Hi, Daddy!  I have your books!)<\/p>\n<p>This site is a fantastic resource for free e-texts, and is just another example of the power of the Internet; it&#8217;s maintained by Some Guy, as a public service.  I just love that.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/manybooks.net\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n<p>(Note: This is hardly the only game in town for free SF online.  Google &#8220;free science fiction ebooks&#8221; for enough to keep you reading until your eyeballs fall out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an odd blast-from-the-past-y feeling when SF Signal mentioned that Brain Twister, The Impossibles, and Supermind were all available from ManyBooks. I have these three books, with those covers and everything, about three feet away from me, as I stole borrowed them from my dad when I moved out. (Hi, Daddy! I have your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}