Fictionwise has now released six 2002 Hugo nominated works as free eBooks (for your Palm or other PDA). And, each link link below includes a book-excerpt, so you can get a feel for the book before downloading it. The free eBooks include:
- “Fast Times at Fairmont High” by Vernor Vinge
- “May Be Some Time” by Brenda Clough
- “Lobsters” by Charlie Stross
- “The Curse of Chalion” (Extended Excerpt) by Lois McMaster Bujold
- “Hell is the Absence of God” by Ted Chiang
- “Old MacDonald had a Farm” by Mike Resnick
- “Undone” by James Patrick Kelly
- “The Return of Spring” by Shane Tourtellotte
- “The Days Between” by Allen Steele
“The Hugo Awards are among the most prestigious literary awards available and are presented annually by the World Science Fiction Society”. Thanks to PalmStation for the heads-up on this one.
And, if Josh reads this, hopefully he can enlighten me as to the proper means of citing books. For instance, I used double-quotes around the titles, but that was mostly an educated guess ;).
1) You have too many friends named Josh! :-)
2) The “proper” means of citing book is largely opinion. Just be consistent.
I was always taught that the proper means is underlining/ italics* for book titles and quotes (of the double persuasion) for chapter titles.
*italics, apparently, was the original accepted way, but in writing and in pre-computer days, underlining was much easier to do. I still use underlining most of the time even when italics are available.
Incidentally, citing a book involves having a references or citations section with the necessary information (publisher, date of publication, etc.) in a given format (IEEE, MLA, etc. which varies by field). So what you wanted to do was no exactly citing, but rather just have the appropriate form of writing a book title.
I can’t believe that you like words and other writing related stuff so much, but don’t know how you don’t know things like this.