…you should definitely check out Hugo 20007 winner for the best novel. But you knew that already, if an author gets the Hugo Award his/her book is a must-read.

The reason I mention this particular book is that Vernor Vinge (the author) is “giving it away” – the full text is available online! It’s just a single web page with no styling and is very easy to read. Actually, I just found another use for my PSP – reading HTML books.

You might know Vernor from his earlier work (he is a multiple Hugo Award winner) of which True Names is the one that made him a name. It’s a book about cyberspace, before William Gibson’s Neuromancer.