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Ebook of the Week: The Blue Man Dreams the End of Time

Rob @ 52 Novels — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:21:11 +0000

The Blue Man Dreams the End of Time by Michael McIrvin. $2.99 from Smashwords.com
Sonny, living in an uneasy relationship with twin sisters, woke up blue. Not sad, but colored blue from head to toe. A warped message from a former CIA colleague that he and those he loves are marked for death? Sonny’s search for answers will lead him to a perverse reconciliation with his former bloody role in geopolitics – and reveal that violence and greed are the true mechanisms of history.

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Ebook of the Week: ROBOT SOUL

Rob @ 52 Novels — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:57:54 +0000

Robot Soul by James Fink. $2.99 from Smashwords.com
In the year 2015, household robot helpers are as common as electrical appliances. The overabundance of pollution and traffic has driven people out of the big metropolises into smaller suburbs much like Greenview, Il where the nation’s largest producer of these robots, Armonk Enterprises, reside. The town will be shaken by an unforeseen occurrence. One of the best selling machines, the BTX-20 kills

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Ebook of the Week: DAY ONE

Rob @ 52 Novels — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:24:04 +0000

Day One – The Best Book Never Written by B. S. Benev. You set the price! from Smashwords.com
Day One – The Best Book Never Written Day One is an unusual piece of experimental writing. Through its obscure story-line the book will face some difficult and often abstract ideas but in a light, slightly sarcastic tone. Both the story-line and the main character will be left for the reader to discover. Buyers can visit www.adonedeal.eu to discuss ‘Day One’ at any time.

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Shooting War

Rob @ 52 Novels — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:04:47 +0000

Shooting War: The New Graphic Novel (trailer) from SMITHmag on Vimeo.

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The two best things I saw this week

Rob @ 52 Novels — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:57:11 +0000

Saw this at Andrew Sullivan’s joint yesterday… a video called “My Dogs greeting me after returning from 14 months in Iraq.”

It’s beautiful:

Number two?

I’ve been reading THE NIGHT GARDENER, by George Pelecanos, effectively popping my Pelecanos cherry. It’s early still — I’m in chapter six — but he absolutely lives up to his billing.

The story was humming along quite nicely and then I read the following:

The business was owned by East African immigrants and located on a soon-to-be-reconstructed stretch of Florida Avenue, east of 7th, in LeDroit Park. An Ethiopian flag was painted on the sign out front, and Haile Sleassie’s framed image hung beside the wall of liquor behind the stick. The bar, called Hannibal’s by the locals because that was the night tender’s name, catered to Jamaicans, mostly, which appealed to Brock. His mother, who worked as a maid in a hotel up by the District line, had been born and raised in Kingston. Brock called himself Jamaican but had never set foot on the island. He was as American as folding money and war.

Reading this graf you’d swear it’s just a little backgrounder — and in so many ways it is.

But check out how economical it is. Just 112 words and you can see the inside of this place like you were standing in it and having a looksee for yourself. You know the kind of place it is and who goes there.

It’s the bar in your neighborhood.

You might not be a regular, but you know the names of the people who are. You know whether the place smells like years of cigar smoke and stale beer. There’s that table in the back corner, the one you hope is open when you walk in the door.

One hundred and twelve words.

But it was the last nine…

He was as American as folding money and war.

Fucking. Blew. Me. Away.

More than the description of that bar in LeDroit Park — which is the same as the one around the corner from you — you know instantly what this sentence means. There’s something so raw — truth laid so bare — about that description.

If there’s such thing as the perfect sentence, that’s it.

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Free stuff from Tor Books

Rob @ 52 Novels — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:53:45 +0000

Got this in the e-mail box on Wednesday:

Free Ebooks from World Fantasy Award Finalists

Last week we announced the return of free ebooks from Tor.com. We’re kicking things off this week with backlist titles from two of the authors who are finalists for this year’s World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. To download these and upcoming freebies, all you have to do is register at Tor.com.

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull are the first married couple to each simultaneously have a novel among the finalists for the World Fantasy Award — Emma’s TERRITORY and Will’s THE GOSPEL OF THE KNIFE. In commemoration of this, we’re offering registered Tor.com users free e-book editions of a pair of classics from the Bull and Shetterly backlists — Emma’s WAR FOR THE OAKS and Will’s DOGLAND. Check them out here!

Each title in our giveaway program will be available for A Limited Time Only, so don’t delay. The books will be offered in a variety of formats, with no DRM. After this month’s pair of books, we’ll be putting up a new title every month, so make sure you register — and tell your friends about the great books (and blogs, and art, and conversation) that are free at Tor.com every day.

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A few days late, but here it is anyway

Rob @ 52 Novels — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:15:58 +0000

Harry Potter fans are all over this right now… but for the rest of us who love the series (but don’t LOVE the series), Amazon’s got an exclusive Collector’s Edition of J. K. Rowling’s TALES OF THE BEEDLE BARD (due December 4, 2008). At a hundred bucks it’s a little on the pricey side, but it’s a beautiful book.

Use any of those links above to pre-order your copy today.

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