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I've made my first novel, Ventus, available as a free download, as well as excerpts from two of the Virga books.  I am looking forward to putting up a number of short stories in the near future.

Complete novel:  Ventus

 

To celebrate the August, 2007 publication of Queen of Candesce, I decided to re-release my first novel as a free eBook. You can download it from this page. Ventus was first published by Tor Books in 2000, and and you can still buy it; to everyone who would just like to sample my work, I hope you enjoy this free version.

I've released this book under a Creative Commons license, which means you can read it and distribute it freely, but not make derivative works or sell it.

Book Excerpts:  Sun of Suns and Pirate Sun

I've made large tracts of these two Virga books available.  If you want to find out what the Virga universe is all about, you can check it out here:

Short Stories

I'll be adding new stories here periodically.  First of all, you can try my Aurora-award nominated short story "Hopscotch."  The year this was nominated, another of my stories was also nominated:  "The Toy Mill," which I wrote with David Nickle.  "The Toy Mill" won the award; but I've always been fond of "Hopscotch."  Here it is, in its entirety excerpted from my collection The Engine of Recall.

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Technology Foresight?

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A lot of people want to know what tech foresight is. Short answer: it's more money than I make from writing--sometimes

I've just been asked to do something at Boskone on technology foresight, and I thought I'd ask you guys what you'd like to see.  A one-man show?  A panel?  Powerpoint?  Hand-puppets?  Really, this is just an pretext for me to try to convince you to register on my site, so you can comment.  The mind-boggling inconvenience of doing so is keeping people from posting their glowing, effusive compliments about my excellent new site--but really, there's not much I can do about it without inviting the spambots back in.  Best idea:  go get an openID token, and then you won't have to bother with registering here.

I'll be writing up a lot more about foresight, some of it here, some of it there in the sidebar files; but Boskone is itching to know what I'll do for them.  Really:  suggestions?  Requests?

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Hand-puppets

Posted by Boris Legradic at Jan 31, 2008 07:56 AM
Definitely handpuppets. I never was at Boskone, being based in Europe and all, but I think the <i>original</i> Boskonites would have appreciated hand-puppets!

praise

Posted by Boris Legradic at Jan 31, 2008 08:01 AM
Oh, and I forgot: Awesome new site! It is really all Scalzi's fault that I am here, and now you got added to my bookmarks.

Oh, and the openID-thing did not work for me, but I perservered and used your on-site registration.

Decision

Posted by Karl Schroeder at Feb 01, 2008 07:24 AM
So I'll do a presentation myself on foresight--since I'll be talking about it today anyway on GridTalk in Second Life, I should have an impression of what people are interested in hearing about from audience reactions there.