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Originally Posted by Nyssa
Changing subjects.....
I want [read: need] a good, sink your teeth in, standalone novel.
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How about "The Warslayer", "Old Nathan" or "The Forlorn"? You can grab those free at
http://www.baenebooks.com/c-1-free-library.aspx and several other free books. There are also some short story and non-fiction collections. The current year's collections are continually added to throughout the year so check each month for more additions.
There's a lot more at
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ but you have to download full CD images or ZIP files of the contents due to Baen's deal with Amazon since they started selling ebooks there as well as on the Baen site.
The Cryoburn CD with most of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series was there but she requested it be removed. All the books and short stories Baen has for free are at the request of the authors or authors' estates.
The Scepter'd Isle CD is chock full of fantasy books. Rosemary Edghill with or without Mercedes Lackey (who also co-wrote some with Anne McCaffrey) has a rather different take on elves.
Baen giving away some e-books and having no DRM and providing their books in many different formats
and placing no restrictions on the e-books other than not re-selling them has been a huge boon for the company. Instead of treating all their customers as potential thieves, Baen chose to treat them as book buyers and it has paid them very well.