While much has been said about the author Orson Scott Card here and around the blogosphere, a different sci-fi writer, John Scalzi, has a very respectable offer for our men and women in uniform.
Last year, I and Tor Books made a special electronic edition of Old Man’s War available for free to the folks serving in Iraq and Afghanistan; here in 2006, we’re doing it with The Ghost Brigades. TGB is a follow-up to OMW but it’s a stand-alone book; you don’t need to have read Old Man’s War to be able to read The Ghost Brigades.
So: If you’re currently serving in Iraq or Afghanistan and would like to receive an electronic edition of The Ghost Brigades to read and (hopefully) enjoy, all you have to do is send an e-mail from your .mil account to [email protected] and ask for it. As soon as I get your request, I’ll send you an .rtf document (about 584kb in size), which you can format as you please for whatever you read things on.
Your cost: not a thing. You’ve earned some recreational reading, I expect.
Pass it around.
And if you’re not serving, youmight try buying or more of Scalzi’s books to show your appreciation.
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Old Man’s War is excellent and almost makes up for Heinlein being gone.
I second that… Old Man’s War is a great book. I just finished reading it for the second time…
Ghost Brigade is equally good… I am already on wait list for his next book…
K