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Babel_17 Donating Member (948 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-21-07 09:29 AM
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Two free books (Wordpad Document) by James L. Halperin (Plus links to other free e-books)
The Truth Machine and The First Immortal, namely.

http://coins.ha.com/ttm/

http://coins.ha.com/tfi/

The First Immortal by James L. Halperin is now available as a free download for yourself and to share with your friends and loved ones (just email the link to this page, or forward the entire book in MS Word format). The First Immortal is the novel to read if you're curious about cryonics, which suggests freezing humans after legal death in the hopes that someday science can advance to the point where even those now considered terminal will be resurrected and rejuvenated with their youth, health, memories and personality intact. A national best-seller, The First Immortal is one of the most meticulously researched scientific novels ever written, and presents a balanced, and at times frightening, yet ultimately optimistic view of the possibilities of human science and philosophy. It has been estimated that, since its initial publication by Random House in 1997, this novel has been instrumental in recruiting over half of those people now joining cryonics organizations.

P.S. If you enjoyed "The First Immortal" or "The Truth Machine" (Halperin's first novel), please consider posting a review on Amazon or purchasing copies at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345421825/ref=ase_jameslhalpe
or
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345421825/ref=ase_jameslhalpe


The Truth Machine by James L. Halperin is now available as a free download for yourself and to share with your friends (just email the link to this page, or forward the entire book in MS Word format). An international best-selling "futurism fiction" novel, The Truth Machine imagines a world logically extended from 1995 through the next half-century in which a foolproof lie detector is unleashed upon civilization, changing every aspect of human existence on earth and upending the life of its own creator. The Truth Machine has been translated into many languages, including Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Serbian, and Hebrew. Over 300,000 copies have been sold since it was first published by Random House in 1996. Many readers claim to have read the book dozens of times. The Truth Machine is currently under development as a major motion picture by Lion's Gate Entertainment.

Amidst the many glowing reviews for his books I found this.

Truth be told, Halperin is not a novelist. He is an extremely accomplished amateur futurist.

I suspect that's about as good a "caveat downloader" as any I'm likely to find. I haven't read these books but I thought some here might like some free cerebral entertainment for the weekend.

I gather you're supposed to read The Truth Machine first.

Baen Books has a number of authors who've graciously allowed their novels to be downloaded.

http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm

http://www.baen.com/library/home.htm

Baen Books is now making available — for free — a number of its titles in electronic format. We're calling it the Baen Free Library. Anyone who wishes can read these titles online — no conditions, no strings attached. (Later we may ask for an extremely simple, name & email only, registration. ) Or, if you prefer, you can download the books in one of several formats. Again, with no conditions or strings attached. (URLs to sites which offer the readers for these format are also listed.)

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/

The above site offers a lot of content, part of which is making available short stories that are (apparently) in the public domain.

A great example would be the short story by Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, which has been the inspiration for several movies.

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/OccOwl.shtml

Though I found the annotated version, from a different site, very useful.

http://extend.unb.ca/wss/1145demo/owl2.htm

I have to mention Project Gutenberg.

"Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. Our collection was produced by thousands of volunteers."

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

One last link, here's the e-book reader I use.

http://www.spacejock.com/yBook.html

Huh, I just now noticed, it even offers the option of downloading Project Gutenberg index of books. Using it now, it performed two downloads, several megabytes in size, and now I have a nice list of books I can download. :)

I grabbed "Colony,"--or "Free State"?
"Dependence,"--or "Just Connection"?, by Alpheus H. Snow as a test, it worked.

I assume no liability for any of the above, as always, use safe computing practices when installing and using software.


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Staph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-21-07 11:22 AM
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1. Thanks for the link to the Halperin books.
I've been downloading Baen books and Project Gutenberg books for some years.

On the Baen site:
Let me recommend the 1632 books by Eric Flint. While some of Baen's writers are politically slightly to the right of Attila the Hun, Flint is a former union organizer, active in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam movements, as well as a summa cum laude history graduate of UCLA. The 1632 books begin with the movement, in time and place, of a six-mile wide chunk of present-day West Virginia back to the middle of Germany in the middle of the Thirty Years War. Realizing that they can't go back to the twentieth century, the West Virginians decide to start the American Revolution 150 years early and bring democracy to Europe. The main characters are not superheroes; they are the local UMWA president, the head cheerleader, the high school history teacher.

About Project Gutenberg:
If you'd like to help the folks from Project Gutenberg, don't just donate money. Help them preserve books by turning scanned images of old books into electronic copies. The site is Distributed Proofreaders ( http://www.pgdp.net/c/default.php ). As of today, they have preserved 10,235 titles. You can help by registering, then reviewing the scanned text of a single page and comparing that page to the generated OCR text. DP asks that you just proofread a page a day.
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Babel_17 Donating Member (948 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-21-07 03:50 PM
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2. Huh, thanks for that info! Getting it now. (nt)
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