Comments on: Futurismic's weekly catalog of free sf http://boingboing.net/2007/09/14/futurismics-weekly-c.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 11:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Paul Raven http://boingboing.net/2007/09/14/futurismics-weekly-c.html#comment-16449 Paul Raven Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-16449 Thanks for the plug, Cory -- but I should reiterate here that I rely heavily on the regular posts at <a href=""http://www.sfsignal.com">SFSignal</a> for much of the links I put in our Friday Fiction posts. And as an extra, I'd like to mention we'll be back to regularly posting fresh sf short stories as soon as the time-budgets of the volunteer Futurismic team allow us to get a new theme for the website sorted! w00t! Paul Raven - Non-fiction editor for Futurismic Thanks for the plug, Cory — but I should reiterate here that I rely heavily on the regular posts at SFSignal for much of the links I put in our Friday Fiction posts.

And as an extra, I’d like to mention we’ll be back to regularly posting fresh sf short stories as soon as the time-budgets of the volunteer Futurismic team allow us to get a new theme for the website sorted! w00t!

Paul Raven – Non-fiction editor for Futurismic

]]> By: Lee http://boingboing.net/2007/09/14/futurismics-weekly-c.html#comment-16253 Lee Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-16253 A step in the right direction ... thanks! A step in the right direction … thanks!

]]> By: bcrowell http://boingboing.net/2007/09/14/futurismics-weekly-c.html#comment-16552 bcrowell Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-16552 <p>ManyBooks looks like a cool site. I run site with a similar, but not identical mission, <a href="http://theassayer.org">theassayer.org</a>. Project Gutenberg also does something similar. As far as I can tell, here's how the three are different: <ul> <li><b>project gutenberg</b> - Only does old public-domain books. Hosts the books themselves. They only do books, not shorter works.</li> <li><b>theassayer.org</b> - I focus on modern books whose authors have intentionally made them available on the web for free. I don't host the books myself. I only do books, not shorter works. Users can post reviews, and can add books to the catalog on their own.</li> <li><b>manybooks</b> - They seem to do both old public-domain works and modern ones, and their catalog seems to include not just books but shorter works as well. They don't host the books themselves. </li> </ul> </p> ManyBooks looks like a cool site. I run site with a similar, but not identical mission, theassayer.org. Project Gutenberg also does something similar. As far as I can tell, here’s how the three are different:

  • project gutenberg – Only does old public-domain books. Hosts the books themselves. They only do books, not shorter works.
  • theassayer.org – I focus on modern books whose authors have intentionally made them available on the web for free. I don’t host the books myself. I only do books, not shorter works. Users can post reviews, and can add books to the catalog on their own.
  • manybooks – They seem to do both old public-domain works and modern ones, and their catalog seems to include not just books but shorter works as well. They don’t host the books themselves.
]]> By: vls http://boingboing.net/2007/09/14/futurismics-weekly-c.html#comment-16595 vls Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-16595 Project Gutenberg does shorter works also and much of the recent SF has been fairly modern stories that were not renewed for copyright. As a matter of fact, all but a couple of the stories listed above were produced for Gutenberg by <a href='http://www.pgdp.net">Distributed Proofreaders.</a> Project Gutenberg does shorter works also and much of the recent SF has been fairly modern stories that were not renewed for copyright.

As a matter of fact, all but a couple of the stories listed above were produced for Gutenberg by