Project Manager Sarah Zettel writes that Book View Café is creating its own Book View Press, which will “expand the Café authors’ mission of bringing the best online fiction to the readers by bringing new work ready-to-read on the most popular ebook devices, including the Amazon Kindle, the Sony eReader, and a variety of cell phones.”
Their first title is already available. Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls, edited by Phyllis Irene Radford, is “a collection of rare reprints, hard-to-find favorites, and bold new tales.” It’s available for the Amazon Kindle, or directly from BVC in formats including pdf, mobi, prc, lit, lrf, and epub.
The book includes:
“Emancipation” by Patricia G. Nagle (first appeared in The Williamson Effect, 1996)
“Rocket Boy on Call” by Pati Nagle
“Blindsided by Venus in the House of Mars” by Nancy Jane Moore (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, 2003)
“Sitting Shiva” by Judith Tarr (Women at War, 1992)
“Kinds of Strangers” by Sarah Zettel (Analog Science Fiction & Fact, 1999)
“Alien Voices” by Phyllis Irene Radford (The Future We Wish We Had, 2007)
“Abelard’s Kiss” by Madeleine E. Robins (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1995)
“Perfect Stranger” by Amy Sterling Casil (F&SF, 2006)
“Revenants” by Judith Tarr (Dinosaur Fantastic, 1993)
“Its Own Reward” by Katherine Kerr (Whatdunnits I, 1992)
“Your First” by Sarah Zettel
“Gray to Black” by Brenda Clough
“Slick” by Sylvia Kelso (Antipodes: North American Journal of Australian Literature, 2004)
“Ask Arlen” by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff (Analog, 1997)
“Steelcollar Worker” by Vonda N. McIntyre (Analog, 1992)
“A Mighty Fortress” by Brenda Clough (Helix Magazine, 2007)
“Who Killed Science Fiction” by Jennifer Stevenson
“Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls” by Phyllis Irene Radford
“The Persistence of Souls” by Sarah Zettel
“Shadow Dancer” by Phyllis Irene Radford
In addition, “to celebrate the launch of Rocket Boy, BVC is holding a TwitterFic contest (see this page for details). The contest runs 3-5 November 2009, and the two winners will each receive copies of the ebook.
Book View Café is “the Internet’s only professional author cooperative.”