{"id":363,"date":"2008-03-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/enjoying-free-books\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:39","slug":"enjoying-free-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/enjoying-free-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying Free Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past three weeks, instead of doing all the studying \/ schoolwork I am supposed to have been doing, I have, among other things, also read three really great new books.  Too great, in fact, in that I read the latest today in one 8-hour sitting.  (Well, technically I did move from the couch to the chair, and paused to bake some chicken for supper&#8230; but I read the thing straight through, nonetheless.)<\/p>\n<p>The books were, in the order they arrived for free:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor-forge.com\/mistborn\"><em>Mistborn<\/em><\/a>, by Brandon Sanderson<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor-forge.com\/mistborn\"><img src=\"http:\/\/hbpub.vo.llnwd.net\/o16\/jackets\/100H\/9780765350381.jpg\" id=\"titleImage\" style=\"border:medium none;margin: 0 0 11px 30px;height:100px;\" alt=\"Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn)\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor-forge.com\/oldmanswar\"><em>Old Man&#8217;s War<\/em><\/a>, by John Scalzi<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor-forge.com\/oldmanswar\"><img src=\"http:\/\/hbpub.vo.llnwd.net\/o16\/jackets\/100H\/9780765348272.jpg\" id=\"titleImage\" style=\"border:medium none;margin: 0 0 11px 30px;height:100px;\" alt=\"Old Man's War\" \/><\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor-forge.com\/spin\"><em>Spin<\/em><\/a>, by Robert Charles Wilson<br \/><img src=\"http:\/\/hbpub.vo.llnwd.net\/o16\/jackets\/100H\/9780765348258.jpg\" id=\"titleImage\" style=\"border:medium none;margin: 0 0 11px 30px;height:100px;\" alt=\"Spin\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I thought about putting mini-reviews up here, but I don&#8217;t think I have anything amazing to add to the descriptions you can find elsewhere, other than to say that all three are very different books, but I enjoyed all three greatly.  Of them, <em>Spin<\/em> had me hooked the most, seeing as I was compelled to read it straight through.  If you like Science Fiction, I highly recommend it; very cool futurist technology ideas (and scary to think about those that are feasible&#8230;), and also very neat ideas about how a society might react in the face of a looming yet not immediate apocalypse (in this case, known with certainty to be some 40 years distant).<\/p>\n<h4>The most important part:<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>How you, fellow science fiction \/ fantasy lover, too, can get free digital books like these to read, on a weekly basis.  Check out the publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor-forge.com\/\">Tor<\/a>&#8216;s new program, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/\">&#8220;Watch the Skies.&#8221;<\/a>  They&#8217;ll send out free digital books once a week, and also enter you in a drawing for something or other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past three weeks, instead of doing all the studying \/ schoolwork I am supposed to have been doing, I have, among other things, also read three really great new books. Too great, in fact, in that I read the latest today in one 8-hour sitting. (Well, technically I did move from the couch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}