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Empress of Light
James C. Glass
In this sequel to SHANJI, Kati has used the light of creation to win a war bringing her to the throne as Empress of her planet, and she has forged new alliances with former enemies. Her daughter Yesui is born w...
Hôtel Transylvania
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Since 1978, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has produced about two dozen novels and numerous short stories detailing the life of a character first introduced to the reading world as Le Comte de Saint-Germain. We first mee...
Mother's Choice
Elizabeth Mansfield
It's a Mother's Duty To Protect Her Daughter
Cassandra Beringer would never allow her daughter Cicely to repeat her mistake and marry a man twenty years her senior--even if he is the handsome Viscount Inge...
Pock's World
Dave Duncan
In this thrilling story of adventure and suspense by master storyteller Dave Duncan, five flawed individuals must decide the fate of an entire world.
On the outskirts of the Ayne Sector sits Pock’s Worl...
Time Slave
John Norman
Dr. Brenda Hamilton--a Ph.D. mathematician from Cal Tech--is beautiful, though she does not know her true beauty. She is a woman, though she does not know her true womanhood. Deep within herself she is sensu...
Sunday in Hell: Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute
Bill McWilliams
Using long established historical records and contemporary journals as well as recently-released war-time documents, Bill McWilliams has created a brand-new minute-by-minute narrative of the Day that Will ...
Lord of the Fire Lands
Dave Duncan
Raider and Wasp have spent five years at Ironhall studying to become Blades, expert swordsmen whose talents stand unmatched. Magic both enhances the Blades' fighting skills and binds them in lifelong duty....
Miscalculations
Elizabeth Mansfield
His Woman Of Affairs
Jane Douglas had a sharp wit, a brilliant mind, and an extraordinary knack for numbers. As financial advisor to Lady Martha Kettering, she was able to provide for herself, her sister ...
The Girl With the Persian Shawl
Elizabeth Mansfield
An Arrogant Spinster, a Dashing Rake, and an Unsigned Painting
The Girl With Persian Shawl was a strangely bewitching masterpiece that had hung in the Rendell household for generations. Kate Rendell graci...
A Thousand Deaths
George Alec Effinger
While George Alec Effinger’s Budayeen novel WHEN GRAVITY FAILS is perhaps his most famous work, his lesser known novel THE WOLVES OF MEMORY remained his favorite. In it, he introduced readers to Sandor Couran...
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Callie's Convict
Heidi Betts
Between Heaven and Hell lies Purgatory, Texas--a town with too few saints...and too many sinners. STEALING THE MOMENT Wade Mason had been to Hell--and escaped. Shackled in iron manacles, the fleeing inmate t...
Imaginative Sex
John Norman
With 53 Detailed Scenarios for Sensual Fantasies and a Revolutionary New Guide to Male-Female Relations.
In 1974, the author of the controversial and popular
Gor novels revealed his vision for ...
Sister of the Sun
Clare Coleman
From Jean M. Auel's THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR to Linda Lay Shuler's SHE WHO REMEMBERS, novels set among pre-historic cultures have shown a very strong appeal to readers of all types from fans of genre fant...
This Kind of War
T.R. Fehrenbach
THIS KIND OF WAR is the most comprehensive single-volume history of the Korean-American conflict that began in 1950 and is still affecting United States' foreign policy. Fifty years later, not only does this e...
Sounding
Hank Searls
"He had a brain biologically identical to man’s but seven times its weight and volume," writes Hank Searls of a massive, aging sperm whale whose compassion, fear, and anger at man’s attacks on his kind dri...
War Surf
M. M. Buckner
What would you do if you were rich, bright, vigorous, virtually immortal—and nearly bored to death?
You’d invent a thrill sport…
"An Innovative and exciting read. A treat."
– C.J. Cherryh...
Kampus
James Gunn
The college of the future has just one purpose: endless battle. Political organizations urge ruthless combat with an invisible opponent and each student is challenged to be more extreme than the rest. One ma...
On Wings of Joy
Trudy Garfunkel
In this engaging history of dance, readers are introduced to the major performers, choreographers, and composers who influenced the development of ballet. Beginning with the birth of the art in the sixteenth-...
Picoverse
Robert A. Metzger
Robert Metzger writes classic hard SF but he does so in a way that emphasizes excitement and adventure and which shows the science in a way that makes it accessible and fascinating. In PICOVERSE, a team o...
Past Imperative
Dave Duncan
The Great Game of Gods is afoot.
In a world on the brink of madness...
In the summer of 1914, a young man of reputation beyond reproach awakens under police guard--grievously injured and accused of hei...
The Stoned Apocalypse
Marco Vassi
Marco Vassi was possibly the greatest erotic writer of his generation. His first publisher at Olympia Press, Maurice Girodias, compares his talent for prose to Henry Miller’s writing. His sexual explorat...
The Stone Mage & the Sea
Sean Williams
The Stone Mages rule the huge deserts of red sand. The vast coastlines are ruled by Sky Wardens. Magic is everywhere but not all have the power to control and direct it. Any child found to have magical abi...
This Kind of War
T.R. Fehrenbach
THIS KIND OF WAR is the most comprehensive single-volume history of the Korean-American conflict that began in 1950 and is still affecting United States' foreign policy. Fifty years later, not only does this e...
The Sex Sphere
Rudy Rucker
Punk-rock SF! Nuclear terrorists, a political kidnapping, and a giant woman from the fourth dimension. Say goodbye to the old world. This literary tour de force explores the landscape of the higher dimension...
Strip for Murder
Richard S. Prather
Shell Scott, a not-so-private investigator, has a new type of case; he has to bare it all. But this case requires no fancy P.I. accessories...in fact, it doesn’t require any accessories: he’s got to find...
Tag – You’re it!
That’s the banner that Hank St. James’s brandishes as he hurtles into battle with a book pirate. Only that’s not what he calls them. His name for them is “parasites”.
St. James is a piracy exterminator for hire. For a fee he monitors pirate sites and when he finds a client’s book on one he emails a takedown notice to the bad guys. “Sometimes this entails as many as nine emails to get one book taken down from one site,” he informs me. “They use some sites where they upload too and that site then re-ups to seven or eight other sites automatically.”
He claims a high success rate, about 98% getting links removed within 1-3 days. “I’ve cracked most of the larger ones,” he says.
Like anyone else in the law enforcement field, St. James’s job is fraught with danger. “I have been threatened by one clown in Holland connected with [an underground website] when we had a five day running battle to get one of my authors works removed from his site. I’ve picked up viruses from some sites which my software has caught. Fifteen of those viruses are in quarantine, however, as there apparently is no antidote for the strains that infected my computer. So, the virus software simply isolated the virus.”
Is Pirate Sinker cool and dispassionate? Hardly. “It is very frustrating, anger inducing work,” he says. “Recently, John Simpson had a new book come out and that same day it was on [another underground website] which kinda sent me into a blue rage. These shoplifting parasites have no shame.”
For more information you can reach him at piratesinker@gmail.com .
A number of publishers and organizations like Associated Press and The Financial Times have turned to a company called Attributor. Though not as dashing and glamorous as Pirate Sinker, Attributor boasts solid and respectable chops. “Attributor’s FairShare Guardian is the world’s first web-wide monitoring and enforcement platform,” says the company’s website. One of the its customers is Hachette, publisher of such imprints as Little, Brown and Grand Central Publishing. (See Hachette Hires Anti-Piracy Hammer.)
Richard Curtis
The pirate sinker is an amazing fellow, and apparently passionate about his work… and extremely good at it.
Wow… OK first off, there is no danger in this man’s life. Everyone gets computer viruses, and it is STANDARD PRACTICE for most virus software to quarantine the files on your hard drive. And there’s a good chance the viruses he got had nothing at all to do with his work!
Second, keep in mind that most peole who share ebooks online are individuals who are doing it without financial reward. Often they’re well-meaning people who want to share cool things they’ve found with friends and/or online communities they’re a part of. My point here is that by treating them like big bad guys (and treating the people who harass them on the web like cowboy superheroes) we’re just making the piracy worse. Want these people to stop doing this? Make personal appeals to them; point out that you won’t be able to keep writing if people keep doing this. Thank people who purchase your books legitimately by driving home how much you depend on their support. C’mon writers, use your communication skills! Because you WILL NOT stop piracy any other way. The web is too large to monitor all of it, and there hasn’t been a piece of software yet that hackers couldn’t crack. This fight will be won by appealing to people’s better nature, not by impotently threatening them across the internet. Yes, impotently – all the Hanks out there have not slowed down ebook sharing at all. In fact, it’s only getting worse.
One other quick point: you’ll get more customers if you support politicians whose economic policy is focused around creating a higher standard of living for the lower classes. Want people not to bootleg your book? It’s all about economics; when people don’t have a lot of money, spending the time (sometimes hours) to find bootlegged stuff online is worth saving a few bucks. A rising tide raises all boats, as they say. It also makes the crime rate go down too, but that’s another story.