Author recommendation
Aug. 26th, 2009 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tugrikBack in the late 80s I was a much more avid reader than I am today. I'd spend far too many hours soaking up every kind of sci-fi, adventure or cyberpunk novel I could. This continued on for the better part of a decade, but something about moving out to California and getting into the tech industry started to rob me of my free book-reading time. The constant reading tapered down to a trickle by the mid-90s, going down to almost nothing by the time 2000 rolled around.
Since getting the Kindle my reading spiked for a while, then slowed back to a trickle soon thereafter. I keep having to remind myself how fun it is to read recreationally and not just tech-manuals for work (or, more often, online configuration guides). Back home the roomies and I just got around to reorganizing the big library shelves in the den and it was rather depressing just how few of the books on there were mine. This has caused me to make a conscious choice to seek out stuff I used to love and load it up on the Kindle, building a virtual library to replace the physical one I used to own.
Last night I was describing a favorite sci-fi book to an online friend, which led me to poke around the internet to see what the author was up to these days. Daniel Keys Moran wrote a whole series of books but only two of them -- Emerald Eyes and The Long Run -- ever really hit print in any quantity. I found out that he's got a blog that's actually being updated . Even more fun, he's put up most of his books for free download!
If you were only to pick one book from that collection to read, I'd suggest giving The Long Run a try. It's an incredibly fun story that any fan of Snowcrash would most likely enjoy. Just keep in mind that (having been written in 1989) it's rather pre-Internet... so expect it to sound a little silly in places to those of you who've always had the Internet in your lives. :)
Just spreadin' the eBook love around...
Since getting the Kindle my reading spiked for a while, then slowed back to a trickle soon thereafter. I keep having to remind myself how fun it is to read recreationally and not just tech-manuals for work (or, more often, online configuration guides). Back home the roomies and I just got around to reorganizing the big library shelves in the den and it was rather depressing just how few of the books on there were mine. This has caused me to make a conscious choice to seek out stuff I used to love and load it up on the Kindle, building a virtual library to replace the physical one I used to own.
Last night I was describing a favorite sci-fi book to an online friend, which led me to poke around the internet to see what the author was up to these days. Daniel Keys Moran wrote a whole series of books but only two of them -- Emerald Eyes and The Long Run -- ever really hit print in any quantity. I found out that he's got a blog that's actually being updated . Even more fun, he's put up most of his books for free download!
If you were only to pick one book from that collection to read, I'd suggest giving The Long Run a try. It's an incredibly fun story that any fan of Snowcrash would most likely enjoy. Just keep in mind that (having been written in 1989) it's rather pre-Internet... so expect it to sound a little silly in places to those of you who've always had the Internet in your lives. :)
Just spreadin' the eBook love around...
