Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of Arthur C. Clarke's Tales from the White Hart, which got back into my thoughts a few years ago because of a hilarious story @cstross wrote (YES HE CAN DO HUMOR). It's got a bunch of neat things in it, including a story about the dangers of using machine learning and music. Maybe I should reread it, but I did like it the last time I did.
Cached (barely) US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of Guy Gavriel Kay's TIGANA. This was the first book of the author's after the Fionavar Tapestry that I read. I think it's midway between the pure fantasy of Fionavar and the historical fantasies he has made a career out of. I liked it a lot but it is ... really depressing in a lot of ways. Also one of the best magical curses I've ever seen.
It's a good time to say "FUCK YOU EVIL FASCIST INVADERS" I say.
Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of @davidbrin's EARTH: A NOVEL, which I *have* and *have read* and *did like*. I might be in a minority there, but it is just chock-full of BIG IDEAS and characters. I'm still waiting for some of the stuff it predicted to come about (telepathic computers!). The actual end of the book caused me to not quite get the ending in Scalzi's REDSHIRTS.
This has a super-optimistic ending that we won't be getting in reality. Alas.
Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of @matociquala's Ancestral Night (White Space Book 1) which I *have* and *have read* but can't remember much of. It's back on my Want to Read list, so I'll get to it.
Anyway, I'm sad, so claim one if you haven't read it, or tell other people about the giveaway if you have, or do both, and if you can, maybe try to do something kind for someone?
Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of @ursulav's THE SEVENTH BRIDE, which is a lovely retelling of Bluebeard. (I've been spinning the random book picker until I see books I have an upbeat association with.)
I'm a bit distracted right now, so it's hard for me to write things about it, but it *is* good, as are all of the author's classic story retellings. You should read them all, I think.
@darnell Apple's libraries have fairly different SSL/TLS APIs, because of a bunch of frustration had with openssl. (Some of which was licensing, mind you, but some of which was due to things like wanting it to be asynchronous, or support various OS features had implemented.)
The "security codes funded by" the US gov't include AES, RSA, ECDSA, and so forth.
Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of Devon Monk's Death and Relaxation (Ordinary Magic Book 1), the beginning of a delightful romcom series with gods and demons and werewolves and vampires and Valkyries and so forth. I highly recommend the series -- it's got romance and laughs and *smiting* (but mostly intelligent, compromised solutions to problems).
Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of Shadow of a Dead God (Mennik Thorn Book 1) by @patricksamphire, which TO THE AMAZEMENT OF ALL, I not only have but have read! (Just recently.) I enjoyed it quite a bit; it was very reminiscent of early Taltos and Dresden books, which is a good thing. I have at least one of the sequels, so I should get around to that at some point.
As always, feel free to claim one, tell other people about the giveaway, or tell a fascist to fuck off, or any/all of those!