Burn

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I am listening to an audio version of James Patrick Kelly's Burn. It's a really nice story so far, and I'll go ahead and make a premature recommend if you wish to risk it turning emabrrassingly horrible halfway through. I don't think it will, though; I've also enjoyed the other Kelly I've read, and trust him.

Cory Doctorow has been having loud sex in public with this novella since it's not just entirely free to download - in both text and audio formats - under a Creative Commons license, but it just this month won a Nebula award, the first CC story to do so.

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Thinking about the title of this story - which begins on a sort of Amish-analog community living on planet "Walden" in the distant future - reminds me of all the ads for BUUURNNN CYCLE, an adventure game from like a dozen years ago for the Sega Saturn. Remember those? With the hippie guy on the bus? Crazy. I don't think I've ever met anyone who ever played that game. (Or who owned a Sega Saturn.)

Comments

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

Cory Doctorow has been having loud sex in public

thank you for that pleasant mental image. this is my little mental scar du jour.

[cnoocy]

It doesn't compare to your scarring, but I would like to note that everytime anyone mentions this book, I get the Usher song of the same name in my head.

[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

I have a Saturn. Come on over some time and I'll drag it out of the closet, and we can play some Guardian Heroes.