A day of Crystal Rain goodness

March 21st 2008 at 11:28 am

First of all, if you sign up for Tor.com’s newsletter, as I mentioned in this blog entry, you get a free electronic copy of Crystal Rain.

Free as in beer.

You’ll also be entered into a chance to win a free Asus EEE mobile PC.

Secondly, if you own an Amazon Kindle, you can download Crystal Rain to it for free for it as well.

Thirdly, Rambles.net has posted a review of Crystal Rain:

Buckell has put together an absorbing adventure story with the added richness of an economically rendered culture that is outside the usual cast of science fiction. Backstory and history are equally subtly done and in no way impede the novel’s flow. The real joy, aside from the story itself, however, is the dialogue with its strong Afro-Caribbean flavor, which Buckell has rendered clearly and faithfully without making it incomprehensible.

In the comments someone asked why the other book, Ragamuffin, wasn’t available as a Kindle book yet. I imagine it’s because Tor went through the trouble of converting it to various e-formats for this Tor.com giveaway, so I imagine it wasn’t too much more trouble to make it Kindle-ready and post it up there right now.

And lastly, Jim Hines, buddy of mine and awesome writer-of-goblins that both Emily and I enjoy (there’s a humor trifecta in my house: Terry Pratchett, A. Lee Martinez, and Jim Hines), reviews Crystal Rain, which is awful nice of him.

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