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I just finished reading a small selection of short stories from Pat Elrod, published on her web page in support of the International Pixel-stained Technopeasants, a cause which I am fully behind.
This is basically an extention of the argument I've mentioned here several times, where some authors flip out and refuse to make their content available on line, and others put up selected works for free and call it good publicity, and both sides enlessly wrangle about piracy and profit loss and all that stuff. Most of my favorite authors whose positions I'm aware of have come down on the side of the free books, but as I mentioned earlier with Mr. Pournelle, some of them haven't, which disappoints me, to see science fiction authors that I like behaving like luddites. But Pat Elrod is on my side here, and the stuff she put up is good stuff! Go, read it. There's one good vampire story, another from the same setting but with the vampire making only a token appearance, a spiffy Myrh story which is, as Myrh tends to be, at least PG-13, and also a really weird one-shot that actually kind of creeped me out.
This is basically an extention of the argument I've mentioned here several times, where some authors flip out and refuse to make their content available on line, and others put up selected works for free and call it good publicity, and both sides enlessly wrangle about piracy and profit loss and all that stuff. Most of my favorite authors whose positions I'm aware of have come down on the side of the free books, but as I mentioned earlier with Mr. Pournelle, some of them haven't, which disappoints me, to see science fiction authors that I like behaving like luddites. But Pat Elrod is on my side here, and the stuff she put up is good stuff! Go, read it. There's one good vampire story, another from the same setting but with the vampire making only a token appearance, a spiffy Myrh story which is, as Myrh tends to be, at least PG-13, and also a really weird one-shot that actually kind of creeped me out.
