Free Audiobook - Ringworld

Ringworld by Larry Niven & narrated by Tom Parker, is free at Audible.com. This is an unabridged version and runs 11-1/4 hours.

Book Description
Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. It is 93 million miles in radius - the equivalent of one Earth orbit or 600 miles long - 1,000 meters thick, and much sturdier than a Dyson sphere. What other advantages are there to this world? The gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of 770 miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls 1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping.

Larry Niven's novel Ringworld won the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.

Free Audiobook - A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole & narrated by Barrett Whitener, is free from Audible.com until December 15. This is an unabridged version and runs 13-1/2 hours.

Book Description
"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once."

So enters one of the most memorable characters in recent American fiction. The hero of John Kennedy Toole's incomparable, Pulitzer Prize-winning comic classic is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter". His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures.

Free Video - When We Left Earth

You can get season one of When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, from The Discovery Channel, for free right now. You must FIRST enter the promotion code BLASTOFF, so that you'll get the $11.94 credit to your account, before purchasing the season. To do this, click where it says Redeem a gift card or promotion code & view balance, directly beneath the viewing window. Enter the promotion code and wait to see a confirmation that the $11.94 has been credited to your account. Then, click on the button that says Buy Season 1 with 1-Click $11.94. You'll get a confirmation email that shows the purchase and the credit, with a net zero billing.

Season Synopsis
Discovery Channel presents the dramatic story of NASA's pioneering, awe-inspiring missions commemorating the first 50 years of space exploration in the landmark special series When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions. Featured is never-before-seen footage from NASA's secret film vaults, digitally remastered into stunning quality.

Sign up now for Kindle for Mac

Amazon has officially announced their Kindle for Mac Reader and you can now sign up to be notified when it is ready for download.

System Requirements

• A Mac with a 500MHz Intel or PowerPC processor or faster
• At least 512MB of RAM
• Screen resolution of 800x600 or greater
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
• 100MB of available disk space

Click HERE to sign-up to be notified.

Free Book - DEAD(ish)

DEAD(ish), by Naomi Kramer, is available for free from Smashwords and in the B&N store for the nook. The version at Smashwords is DRM free (and Kindle compatible), but you'll want to download any versions you want and make a backup, as it can't be added to your library when it is that price. The version at B&N is also DRM free (although only in EPUB format), but will stay in your library after purchase. This one isn't in the Kindle store (at least not yet), although that is supposed to be an option for those in the Smashwords Premium Catalog (as this one is).

Regardless of where you buy it, it's a short read (~10K words), so you should be able to breeze right thru it.

Book Description
Linda’s had a bad day. First her boyfriend killed her. Then she woke up, still on this boring plane of existence, and with an odd obsession about her missing body. Mike won’t tell her what he did with her body, and she can’t find the stupid thing herself. There’s only one thing she can do - torment the bastard until he coughs up the information.

Click HERE for the B&N version.