Free e-book download from award-winning award-winning author Kelly Link

July 3, 2005 | 1:56 am

By David Rothman

Stranger Things Happen for Free More and more writers are following Cory Doctorow’s laudable example and posting e-books on the Net for free without DRM–to promote paper edtions. Among them is an aptly named Hugo nominee, Kelly Link. In ASCII, HTML and some other formats, you can download Stranger Things Happen. Description:

This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link, takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists…

(Thanks to Mike Cane.)

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Free e-book download from award-winning award-winning author Kelly Link

July 3, 2005 | 1:56 am

By David Rothman

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