For fans of DRM-free stuff (and who isn’t? Did you see O’Reilly sold 22K ebooks on DRM-free day? Awesome!), here’s a link to Defective by Design’s page of DRM-free suggestions.

We also added more Wildside Press titles as well as Rebecca Ore’s Becoming Alien trilogy, newly released as ebooks by Aqueduct Press. (They have a bunch of books I need to pick up, can’t decide whether to get print or ebook. Ha!)

Thaddeus suggested we add Night Shade Books, so we’ll give them a shout and see what they say. Night Shade are another press with a bunch of books I need to pick up! Wish I were going to WisCon where I’d be able to get them from some fave booksellers in the dealer’s room. Something I hope to do for years, no matter how popular ebooks—and this lovely site—become.

Who you become shapes what you remember about who you were. How you change depends on the minds you meet. If they’re not human, you stretch in ways you never expected to stretch. And you change how the others see themselves.

(The first book in the Becoming Alien series.)

“In this first book, we meet a young Tom Gentry. On his Virginia farm he encounters drug lords, rude locals, and other strange creatures (specificlly, a young alien by the name of Mica). Shortly after meeting Mica, Tom has a run-in with the local consabulary, which leads him to believe that a trip out of town mig be beneficial. So he ran … He never knew you could run so far.” — Roy Sloan (Amazon Review)

Locus, Philip K. Dick Award, and John W. Campbell award finalist.

All the different ways of being a smart calculating creature doesn’t mean that those creatures don’t do dumb things from time to time, borrow each others’ vices, and can’t have hangnails and broken feathers.

“Tom Red-Clay has grown up in the galaxy. Now, in the stunning sequel to BECOMING ALIEN, Tom must return to Earth on a secret mission for the Federation. His marching orders: “Three goals, two obligatory, one optional: research japan, go to dinner with two humans, find a wife.
“Set down in Berkeley, California, a world indeed no less strange to him than Karst, Tom must decipher the intrigues of humans and aliens alike – with the fate of Earth itself riding on his every move.”
anonymous (Amazon Review)

(The second book in the Becoming Alien series.)

Finalist for the Philip K. Dick and Locus Awards.

The scariest species can be your own. And the funniest, including you. In the end, a happy enough ending involves accepting creatures for what they are and can be. And every country boy made good out among strangers needs an extreme servant.

“The last book of the trilogy doesn’t pull any punches. Red Clay is a conflicted character.…on the one hand he hates having come from a world of war and prejudice.…on the other hand he slowly, and painfully comes to terms of who he is, and how far he’s gone. …[A] coming of age story for Tom Red Clay, and for Earth.”
Vincent Westerband (Amazon Review)

(The third book in the Becoming Alien series.)

Hugo-Award winning Electric Velocipede #23 features stories about genius artists who create new religions, steampunk warriors fighting in Egypt, wizard’s apprentices and fish, generation spaceships traveling through deep space, zombie hunters in underground crypts, women in a retirement home plotting against their male cohabitants, and a speculative tale about shiftless college students.

No matter what type of reader you are, there’s a story here for you. Authors include Dennis Danvers, Richard Butner, Patricia Russo, and others.

Electric Velocipede issue #20 features people like Lyn Battersby, Daniel Braum, and Shira Lipkin.

There’s an interview with the super-talented, multiple-award-winning Paolo Bacigalupi, and a “Blindfold Taste Test” with Laura Anne Gilman.

Electric Velocipede issue #19 a move back to single issues after two double issues.

A striking cover from Thom Davidsohn (which was selected for inclusion in Spectrum 17), and similarly striking stories from writers such as Mark Teppo, KJ Bishop, Ken Scholes, and more!

Electric Velocipede issue #17/18, another jam-packed double Electric Velocipede issue!

Great stories and poetry from people like Richard Bowes, KJ Bishop, Chris Roberson, Marly Youmans, Jay Lake, K. Tempest Bradford, and so many more! Another great cover from Thom Davidsohn.

Electric Velocipede issue #15/16 is our first double issue: 164 pages and almost 100,000 words of content! Featuring an amazing color wraparound cover from T. Davidsohn.

There’s also fiction from people such as Patrick OíLeary, Patricia Russo, William Shunn, Rachel Swirsky, and more. Lucius Shepard takes our Blindfold Taste Test this Electric Velocipede issue. The Electric Velocipede issue debuted at the 2008 World Fantasy Convention in Calgary, Oct 30 th Nov 2, 2008.

Zombies are relentless, ravenous creatures, and their insatiable appetite for living flesh has given author Mark McLaughlin plenty of food for thought. In BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE, you will sit down to a feast of zombie stories — seventeen in all.

Zombies can rise from the dead for countless reasons. Any horror-movie enthusiastic can tell you that. Sure, a zombie’s bite can turn its victim into one of the living dead. But that’s not all. In films, corpses have been turned into zombies through voodoo, nuclear power, viruses, parasites, Egyptian curses (if you count mummies as zombies), toxic chemicals, the Black Mass, and more. In his stories, McLaughlin explores many different ways to bring the dead back to life.

As you read these stories, you will learn about zombies created by Internet witches, and discover the bizarre secrets of the isle of Zovemba, also known as Zombie Island. And that’s not all. To satisfy your hunger for horror, McLaughlin has added sixteen stories about other types of humanoid monstrosities. Fiends and freaks come in many forms, and some of the very worst attempt to pass for people.In this collection, you will such ghastly, pulse-pounding tales of the macabre as “Beach Blanket Zombie,” “Vulture Soup for the Soulless,” “The Agony of Claude Bawls,” “Tears of the Expressionist Aphrodite,” “Cyber-Vengeance of the Internet Witches,” “ZOM BEE MOO VEE,” “Tell Your Secrets to the Slime,” “The Bloody Woman and the Chameleon Man, Also Known as Mom and Dad,” “Hello! My Name is Halja,” “Notes Concerning the Death and/or Decomposition of Reality,” “The Tale Of The Cat-Headed Man, The Man-Headed Dog, and the Lady With Rats For Hands,” and many more.