Small Beer’s Second Free Download of the Month

After making a splash last week by releasing The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories, a new collection by science fiction writer John Kessel, under a Creative Commons license with a free electronic edition, Small Beer Press is at it again, offering free downloads of Maureen McHugh‘s Story Prize-nominated collection, Mothers & Other Monsters. The “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0″ license essentially allows you to copy the book and give it to all your friends—as long as you don’t try to take credit for writing McHugh’s stories, and you actually give the book away, rather than charging anything for it. Both books are available in PDF, HTML, RTF, and text file formats, and readers are encouraged to modify the text for other platforms as well; fans have already assembled Mobipocket, Palm-compatible, and Sony Reader editions of Kessel’s stories.

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