Ventus Available Gratis
Posted on April 1, 2008
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I just noticed that Karl Schroeder’s Ventus is now available for free in digital format from Karl’s site in damned near every kind of format you could ever want.
In my opinion the description on Karl’s site really doesn’t do Ventus justice:
Ventus is a novel of information apocalypse set in the far future. For a thousand years the sovereign Winds have maintained the delicate ecological balance of the terraformed planet Ventus. Now an alien force threatens to wrest control of the terraforming system away from the Winds…
Jordan Mason, a young tradesman, is thrust into the midst of an ancient galactic conflict when he becomes the only human on Ventus who can locate the source of the alien threat. But will he side with the Winds, who have brutally suppressed technological development among the human colonists of Ventus? Or will he throw in his lot with an entity that may be planning to remake Ventus in its own, deathly image?
It’s actually far more interesting than that sounds. If you’re a fan of sci-fi/fantasy that also contains a healthy dose of hyper-plausible future tech (as opposed to the stuff from authors who treat future tech as a form of quasi-magical plot crutch/story filler) I urge you to download Ventus and give it a go. I thoroughly enjoyed it when I first read it a few years ago and it still holds a spot on my bookshelf to this day.
I think I shall pick up Sun of Suns next.
(To be clear, this is not an April Fool’s joke, despite the date).
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hey chris, thanks for the tip - do you use a portable reader or zee ol’ laptop? a super geek i work with has a sony reader and i’m thinking about getting one but i’m also wondering if i’d actually use it. i’ve yet to read anything of substantial length via computer screen.
I use a laptop but I’ve never read an entire novel on it. I’m old-fashioned, I like the dead tree format quite a lot.