Literature (Common Content)
Creative works that are mainly text.
This page shows all common content literature. For a list that only contains free, libre and open works, see Literature (Libre)
Literature
- A Wind At The Window ● 'A horror story concerning blasphemous marks in the snow of a Finnish winter, the college students it threatens, and the American veteran who may know more than he tells.'
- Abulafia ● A collection of random concept and word generators for story gamers.
- Captive ● A novel about an Al-Qaida agent under interrogation.
- Dispatches from Wondermark Manor ● '[A] rollicking, absurd, completely ridiculous humor novel from the author of the celebrated comic strip “Wondermark."'
- Dscript ● A new Roman script.
- Eastern Standard Tribe ● A book of the near future.
- Emily Speaks ● 'My attempt at grappling with issues of feminist dialectic in a short, entertaining fashion. Or, if you prefer, a story about a piece of software that turns loneliness into cash.'
- Fantastique Unfettered ● A magazine of short stories.
- Ficly (Jenny Everywhere) ● Ficly microfiction about Jenny Everywhere.
- Free as in Freedom ● A biography of free software guru Richard Stallman.
- Free Software, Free Society ● Selected essays of Richard Stallman.
- Icke ● 'A sad story about a miserable kid and the perils of fish telepathy. Despite this flippant description, I consider this one of my more successful horror stories.'
- In The Blindness Of The Glare ● 'Part of the deal with the Ardwin ransom was that I agreed to write a story for ten of the $50+ donors. Each one got to dictate one element for inclusion. This is that story.'
- Jenny Everywhere ● Jenny Everywhere, aka the Shifter, is the world's first open source superhero.
- Little Brother ● A hacker, wrongly imprisoned, tries to take down the police state.
- Machine of Death ● This book, unlike most others, started its life as an offhand comment made by a bright green Tyrannosaurus rex.
- Myths Retold ● An informal take on myth, legend and fairy tale.
- Octobriana ● A public doman, communist-era superhero.
- Overclocked ● 'Stories of the future present'
- Pirate Cinema ● "Pirate Cinema successfully follows the same pattern as his previous YA novels, mixing an adventurous, whip smart young main character with a relevant socio-political theme and wrapping all of it in a fast-paced, entertaining story."
- Regret, with Math ● 'Winner of the 2008 Richard Eastman fiction prize, “Regret, With Math” is about a young man who studies the martial arts, or doesn’t, and who dates his former college buddy’'s ex- girlfriend, or doesn’t, and who gets in horrible, life altering trouble. Or possibly doesn’t. It’s also about parallel universe theory.'
- Shrimp ● 'A realistic peek at people in a suburban American strip-mall dojo, complete with realistic divorce friction and realistic bleak memories.'
- Solitudes & Silence ● A novel set in the Theonosis setting.
- The Beggar's Opera ● An 18th Century ballad opera.
- The Enemy and How I Helped to Fight it ● A political satire about the situation that used to prevail in the Israeli-Lebanese boder.
- The New Death and others ● '44 stories. 19 poems. No sparkly vampires. There’s a thin line between genius and insanity, and James Hutchings has just crossed it – but from which direction?'
- The Open Utopia ● An open content take on Thomas More's Utopia.
- The Ware Tetralogy ● Sci-fi about human-cyborg relations.
- These People Mean Nothing To Each Other ● 'Four short pieces form something greater than the sum of their parts.'
- Tings ● A NaNoWriMo novel.
- Two Things She Does With Her Body ● Really, I think it’s better to read this without a lot of prologue and setup. //
- Two-Fisted Tweets ● //'Thirty mostly humorous stories, including science fiction, fantasy, horror and romance. Each story is less than 140 characters long (the length of a Twitter tweet).'
Sources of Literature
- Aaron Pogue ● A fantasy author.
- AudioBooks by verkaro.org ● Audiobooks.
- Benjamin Rosenbaum ● A science fiction author.
- Charles Stross ● A sci-fi author.
- Cory Doctorow ● An author who pioneered using free ebooks to sell hard copies.
- Ficly ● A site of microfiction where you can add sequels and prequels to the writing of others.
- Free Software Foundation ● A foundation to encourage the use of free software licences.
- Freetems ● Collection of CC0 / public domain photos, ebooks, music etc.
- Greg Stolze ● An RPG designer.
- James Hutchings ● 'James Hutchings lives in Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Enchanted Conversation and fiction365 among other markets.'
- LibriVox ● 'Extensive collection of free audio books read by volunteers; the goal is to record every book in the public domain.'
- LoudLit.org ● Audiobooks.
- ManyBooks ● A gratis ebook site.
- Peter Watts ● A hard sci-fi author.
- Project Gutenberg ● A website that preserves out-of-copyright books.
- Public Domain Review ● Reviews and catalogues of works in the public domain.
- Public Domain Super Heroes ● A wiki of superheroes and villains that have lapsed into the public domain.
- Small Beer Press ● "Read to live. Live to read."
- Strolen's Citadel ● "[A]n interactive, searchable role playing resource"
- Twine Games ● Online choose your own adventure games.
- unglue.it ● A project to crowdfund the application of Creative Commons licensing
- Valentin Champer ● A poet.
- zero-project ● A collection of musical compositions, audiobooks and songs.
page revision: 13, last edited: 14 Dec 2012 00:21
