Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Brian Eno and David Byrne are going to be re-releasing a remastered version of the classic My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (with seven extra tracks) - but this time it'll also come with a Creative Commons licence that will allow you to make your own remixes, and a download site...

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts came out in 1981. Over the last decades, hundreds of artists in genres ranging from DJs to alternative to electronic have all borrowed from its ideas and claimed its influence. It is now being re-issued in a beautiful new package, with extensive liner notes and photos, and featuring 7 previously unreleased tracks from the original album and a film by influential artist Bruce Conner.

The remix site isn't quite ready yet, but...

Canadian SF authorPeter Watts has made his first two novels (and a selection of short stories) available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence.

Download link for a PDF of Starfish
Download link for a PDF of Maelstrom

You can find other formats at mobileread.com.

They're rather excellent dystopias. Behemoth, the final volume of the "Rifters" sequence, is apparently going to be offered in a similar manner soon...