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I'll nominate Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.
Abstract from Doctorow's web site: Little Brother is my first young adult novel, a story about hacker kids in San Francisco who use technology to reclaim democracy from the Department of Homeland Security after a terrorist attack and the concomitant crackdown. It was published by Tor Books on April 29, 2008. Even though I have already read it... I am sure the discussion thread will be interesting considering the topic of the book being personal freedoms in the modern age of "The War on Terror". BOb |
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Oh cool Well I'm nominating Prague by Arthur Phillips and The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst, both part of the free Random House promo. |
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But according to what was decided originally, the February book must be in the MR library. So that leaves out the Random House freebies.
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I'll give a third to Little Brother.
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Though I do like the idea of the book being available on MR. It means that someone's conversion will get read. That will make someone feel good knowing his/her upload is something others do want to read.
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I agree, but there aren't a lot of contemporaries available (and I don't think we should tap out MR authors, because there is a future month just for that). If we can find more contempory books that have been uploaded or can be, I encourage everyone to vote for those. I'm just concerned it'll be tough.
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I would have thought, personally, that "contemporary fiction" was fiction both written and set in today's world. I don't think that SF fits, by that definition.
If SF does fit the definition, then presumably anything in Baen's "free library" is "up for grabs"? |
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