Four Free Shiny Things

[arachnekallisti]

1. Baen Books have released a CD with the new printing of CryoBurn, the latest Miles Vorkosigan novel, which contains a full set of the Vorkosigan Saga and some cool extras. The really shiny thing is that they're also allowing free downloads of this CD as a promotion, and a load of other free SF novels. Which should keep you going for a while.

2. Black Library have also started releasing free ebooks. So far they've got First and Only (Dan Abnett, Sharpe in space, awesome) and Nightbringer (Graham McNeill, Ultramarines, becomes a bit more interesting if you read it with slash goggles on) available, and also some short fiction (including a short story by Sarah Calkwell, who is one of the better Space Marine fanfic writers).

3. The Clockwork Dolls, a rather fantastic steampunk band, have made three of their best songs available for free download here, and there's also their rather fantastic cover version of "Don't Stop Believin'" available.

ETA: And also their cover of "The Final Countdown".

4. Cries of the Planet is Vernian Process' steampunk remix of the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack. FREE STEAMPUNK FFVII. DO WANT.

Comments

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Cor Anglais. F*** me. (Or is it a Serpent? I always get those two confused.)

Can I be in a Steampunk band?

[arachnekallisti.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I'm not so hot on identifying woodwind instruments myself. I had got as far as "not a clarinet, probably".

I shall stick some more brass bits on my theremin and be with you shortly.

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Theoretically, in a world where I wasn't being eaten by law, I would be so up for this. *sigh*

[arachnekallisti.livejournal.com]

Hey, by the time you're a fully qualified lawyer, I might actually have learned how to play the damn thing.