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Fandom pluggage: free Gideon the Ninth! by Delta Juliette on 2021-10-06 03:28:22 UTC Reply

Tor's eBook of the Month is Gideon The Ninth! For the low, low price of your email address, you can get a free copy at https://ebookclub.tor.com/

Gideon the Ninth is really good. Necromancy, duels, lesbians, space travel, a little body horror because, y'know, necromancy. It's by a Homestuck fan, and it shows- the narrator snarks at everything, the drama and melodrama are wonderful, and there's even face paint. If these things are interesting, you could spend time worse than giving it a read!

Having just finished the thing by Tomash on 2021-10-11 02:00:16 UTC Reply

The book was quite good and has a lot of twists and turns - and also ... aaaaaaaaaa. [concerned noises after ending]
Hmm... this sounds interesting. Space-travelling necromancers, eh? by ClaireBook1 on 2021-10-06 23:57:21 UTC Reply

I love fantasy/sci-fi stuff. I think I will have to check this out. -Claire
It's always gay necromancers by Thoth on 2021-10-06 19:03:46 UTC Reply

No really I keep running into fiction with gay necromancers in it suddenly and I don't know why this is happening.

Anyways, I've got another friend sitting three chairs away in the class I'm supposed to be paying attention to right now who swears by Gideon The Ninth, so... uh... I really need to get around to this one.
Ooh, I've heard of this. by Neshomeh on 2021-10-06 04:14:55 UTC Reply

In addition to everything you mentioned, a friend of mine described it as like Warhammer 40k but the protagonist knows it's grimderp? I'm not at all surprised it's popped up in this crowd. ^_^

I am intrigued. Can you recommend a free .epub reader? I've looked around a bit to see if such a thing exists (it does!), but a recommendation from a more tech-savvy friend would be appreciated.

~Neshomeh

By system: by Thoth on 2021-10-06 15:26:40 UTC Reply

Calibre is a free epub reader for Mac/Windows/Linux, and it's also a library manager designed to handle transfer to/from a Kindle, Nook, etc. Some PDF readers also work. There are also add-ons that let you read epubs in your web browser (because, by the way, an epub is just a renamed .zip with html inside, and a few extra files with some additional information).

On mobile, any ebook reader you have will probably accept epub at this point, and most phones come with software that can read epubs (google play books, ibooks, etc). On Android, I actually use Libera Reader, which provides an e-reader like interface that I think is pretty nice, although your mileage my vary.

There are also plug-ins that let you read epubs in your browser, which figures because