Tor Free E-books: The Complete List

by @scottmarlowe 3/15/2009 9:04:00 AM

Note: If you're visiting from Tor Books, welcome. If not, and you're interested in signing up for Tor's Free E-book Giveaway, you can still sign up at their site, though they're almost done with the promotion. Right about July 20, 2008 is the end. Tor's promotion is over and as far as I know the links have been taken down. Sorry if you missed it.

I've been running a series of blog posts, one each week, featuring each of Tor's free e-book giveaways. In short, each post delves a bit into that week's e-book and provides some background on the author.

In addition, if you're interested in downloading the e-books, ... [More]

Tor Free E-book: Spirit Walk by Charles de Lint

by @scottmarlowe 3/14/2009 3:57:00 PM

It's been long enough since I last reported a free e-book out of Tor that I can't help but think I missed one (or two).

Anyway, Tor's got another one out there. This time we get to take a look at Charles de Lint's Spirit Walk. From the post:

Charles de Lint’s Spiritwalk (1992) is the sequel to Moonheart, his groundbreaking novel about the people in and around a house in modern Ottawa that straddles this world and another one. Here is the same cast of characters, as they deal with a pair of very different threats to the ancient house. As in Moonheart, de Lint skillfully combines a contemporary... [More]

Tor Free E-book: The Buried Pyramid by Jane Lindskold

by @scottmarlowe 12/17/2008 7:03:00 PM

Tor has another free giveaway out there: Jane Lindskold's The Buried Pyramid. This is the second book Tor is giving away by Lindskold. The first was Through Wolf's Eyes. My post about that one remains the most visited post on this site.

So what's The Buried Pyramid about? Check this out from Tor's posting:

Set in the Victorian age, The Buried Pyramid is, at the start, an archaeological suspense novel. Jenny Benet, a recently orphaned American who was raised in the Wild West before being “finished” in Boston, goes to Egypt with her uncle, Neville Hawthorne, a prominent British archaeologist. They&rsqu... [More]

Tor Free E-Book: Spaceman Blues by Brian Francis Slattery

by @scottmarlowe 11/4/2008 1:19:00 PM

Tor's got another free e-book out there available for immediate download. This month's Tor Free Giveaway is Spaceman Blues, by Brian Francis Slattery.

On Slattery's web site, the author lays claim to the professions of "editor, writer, and occasional musician". The editor part includes a specialization in "economics, public policy, and international affairs". As a writer, he has an extensive list of non-fiction and fiction. His music… well, since my blog doesn't really cover music, I'll leave that exploration up to the reader.

Slattery also has postings on Tor's web site: Future W... [More]