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Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners available for free download
SFScope —
... is releasing most of her previous collection, Magic for Beginners , as a free Creative Commons-licensed download. Due to contractual obligations two stories, "The Faery Handbag" and "Magic for Beginners," are not included in this download. The rest of it, however, is available as a text file, in html, rtf, and pdf, on this page . Link and her co-publisher Gavin Grant write that her first collection, Stranger Things Happen , "has been downloaded more than 60,000 times since it was placed online (and it is still selling a couple of thousand copies a year) so we're pretty ...
Free fiction: Kelly Link - "Magic for Beginners" (collection)
Variety SF —
Kelly Link's collection "Magic for Beginners". [via Boing Boing] Includes 2 Nebula Award winning stories, but misses 2 stories from print edition. My own experience has been limited to only one of her stories - "Most of My Friends are Two-Thirds Water" (not from this collection) - and it wasn't a happy one because of language used. But one story is no way of judging an author, & she seems to be a well-talked-about one. Table of contents. "The Hortlak" "The Cannon" "Stone ...
Friday Free Fiction for 3rd October
Futurismic —
... “Needle and Thread” by Ann Leckie and Rachel Swirsky
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Reflection’s Edge seems to lean toward fantasy, but the new issue has one story marked out as sf:
“Roots as Deep as Mountains” by Thane Thompson
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Via BoingBoing, Small Beer Press are at it again:
To celebrate the ...
Free Kelly Link
The Art Department —
... I am truly ashamed that I have not read more Kelly Link stores. The few I have read, I’ve loved. So, I'm outing myself to tell you, yes you – both smarter and more ambitious than I — that she is offering her stories from Magic for Beginners online. ...
Free Fiction: Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
Grasping for the Wind —
Small Beer Press offers Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners for free download. Click HERE.
To celebrate the publication of Kelly's new collection, Pretty Monsters, most of Kelly's previous collection Magic for Beginners is now available as a free download in various completely open formats with no Digital Rights Management (DRM) strings attached. It is licensed under a Creative Commons (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0) license allowing readers to share the stories with friends and generally have at them in any noncommercial manner. ...
Kelly Link, Amazing Stories, James Maxey, Vampires, and More
QuasarDragon —
... Most ("The Faery Handbag" and "Magic for Beginners" are missing) of Kelly Link's anthology Magic For Beginners, is available for free download in PDF, Doc, and other formats HERE. [via ...
Kibbles and Bits
The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. —
In case you haven't already heard, Kelly Link's swell second short-story collection Magic for Beginnners (in nearly its entirety) is being made available for free digitally to celebrate the publication of her new YA collection, Pretty Monsters . And, in completely different news, I reviewed Rutu Modan's collection Jamilti and Other Stories yesterday for ComicMix. ...
Best of the Millennium!
The Mumpsimus —
The Millions polled a bunch of writers to come up with a fun list of really good books: It’s a bit early, of course, to pass definitive judgment on the literary legacy of the ’00s, or how it stacks up against that of the 1930s, or 1850s. Who knows what will be read 50 years from now? But, with the end of the decade just a few months away, it seemed to us at The Millions a good time to pause and take stock, to call your attention to books worthy of it, and perhaps to begin a conversation.As of this writing, they haven't revealed the top two, but numbers 3-20 are there, and it's a good list ...
