NOTE: While Tor is making two e-books available simultaneously as free downloads (this one and War of the Oaks, by Emma Bull), I am splitting them up for purposes of my Tor Free E-books Giveaway series.
Tor has
reinstated their free e-book giveaway program wherein they will make available for download one free e-book per month. I don't think this continuation of the program has an end date currently, so enjoy. The only catch is that you will have to join their site as a member in order to get the downloads, and each e-book will only be available for a limited amount of time.
This month's free giveaway (along with the aforementioned War of the Oaks) is Dogland, by Will Shetterly.
Shetterly maintains a blog and where, after clicking through a couple of times, I came across this interesting tidbit from his biography page:
I live in Tucson, Arizona, with my wife, Emma Bull, and our cat, Toby, the Terror of the West. When I was a boy, I lived at a tourist attraction attraction called Dog Land that inspired my novel, Dogland.
He claims metatheism as his source of spiritual nourishment, links to a cookie recipe titled "Shetterly's Finest-Kind Cookies" that I would have tried out if only the link worked (I like cookies), and offers this:
In 1994, I ran for Governor of Minnesota and finished third in a field of six.
Hey, this guy could have been president, or perhaps vice-president.
His bibliography boasts a long list of novels, short stories, anthologies, comic books and graphic novels, and a trio of screenplays.
As far as what Dogland is about, I grabbed this from Amazon:
In late 1950s Florida, the transplanted Nix family opens Dogland, a tourist attraction, and their beliefs in integration attract the attention of the Klan. Young Christopher Nix befriends a black man and a Seminole woman who may know the real secret to the Fountain of Youth. Shetterly captures the rhythm, feel, and language of cracker Florida, its legends, and the clash of cultures.
I have to admit, not my usual. But I downloaded it for free, so I'm sure to give it the first 50 pages if nothing else.