Wana buy Gareth Powel's The Last Reef? You name your price!

Hey do you remember that great story that Gareth Powel let me read for Beam Me Up called "The Last Reef"? Well if you have forgotten it, let me remind you. It was about a man who goes to Mars to find out what happened to the woman that he loved very much. When he gets there he finds that she was one of a very small group that has "joined" with a computer communications system that has become self aware. What's more she has managed to walk out and remain virtually unaffected.
Anyway, the story evolves to the point where to save the girl, the sentient system and himself, he must join the machine as well. Not everything is as it appears though and I am not going to ruin the ending.

Why I am bringing this up is that this story is in the collection "The Last Reef & Other Stories" that was originally published in hardback and paperback by Elastic Press in August 2008. It contains 15 short stories, and received great reviews from Interzone, Prism, Sci-fi Online, and The Fix. (here is a link to the reviews ) and now if you would like a pdf of this book Gareth tells us that you can go to his page and make an offer!!!

If you're interested or want more information, you can click on this page link here

Tor offering Tobias Buckell's Crystal Rain Free

If you have been living in a cave for the past few months and are not up to date, Tor Books is offering several of it's most popular books as free pdf downloads from their site. Tor is giving away this and other books to help promote their new site. With that in mind, the newest offering is Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell. Crystal Rain is the first in a series by Buckell. Ragamuffin was the follow up, of which we have a review of, a couple of months ago.

Print copies from Amazon