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Once you've purchased an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, the wonderful world of public domain, Creative Commons and free e-book promotions opens up to you. In this weekly Kindle Reader feature, I point you to a few of the most interesting new free (or very cheap) e-books available for download from the web.

Free and inexpensive e-book selections for this week include classic novels you may have missed by Aldous Huxley and Thomas Hardy, science fiction blending gaming culture, globalization and the hegemony of corporations with technological trends, historical fiction set in New Zealand, a 1954 short story by Philip K. Dick of Bladerunner fame, and an omnibus collection of 33 sci-fi novels for less than a buck.

Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley. NOVEL. Download site: Manybooks. Format: Kindle. Price: FREE.
"On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabited by several of Huxley's most outlandish characters - from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable words an hour by 'getting in touch' with his 'subconscious,' to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with writing the definitive 'History of Crome'. Denis's stay proves to be a disaster after his weak attempts to attract the girl of his dreams, and endures the ridicule regarding his plan to write a novel about love and art. Lambasting the post-Victorian standards of morality, Crome Yellow is a witty masterpiece that, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's words, 'is too ironic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony.' - www.online-literature.com.

Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy. NOVEL. Download site: Feedbooks. Format: Mobipocket/Kindle. Price: FREE.
When the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene inherits her own farm, she attracts three very different suitors; the seemingly commonplace man-of-the-soil Gabriel Oak, the dashing young soldier Francis Troy, and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. Her choice, and the tragedy it provokes, lie at the centre of Hardy's ambivalent story. This Thomas Hardy classic was listed 10th in the Guardian's list of the greatest love stories of all time.

MetaGame, by Sam Landstrom. SCIENCE FICTION. Download site: Amazon. Format: AZW (Kindle). Price: $.80.
"Life is a game, literally. Winners earn immortality, while losers are condemned to aging and death. D_Light, a gifted player, knows this all too well and he's willing to do anything to win - even kill. It is no wonder then that when given the chance to enter a MetaGame - an exclusive, high-stakes, anything goes contest - he's quick to jump at the opportunity. The MetaGame starts out well enough for D_Light, the first quest being to hunt down a dangerous fugitive, but through his own ambition, the tables turn and D_Light finds himself the renegade. This novel blends emerging political and cultural trends, such as gaming culture, globalization, and the ever-increasing hegemony of corporations, with technological trends, such as genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. Emerging from this stew is an original world for you to explore through the point of view of its many "players".

Sentence of Marriage, by Shayne Parkinson. HISTORICAL FICTION. Download site: Smashwords. Format: Kindle. Price: FREE.
In 19th Century New Zealand, there are few choices for a farm girl like Amy. Her life seems mapped out for her by the time she is twelve. Amy dreams of an exciting life in the world beyond her narrow boundaries. But it is the two people who come to the farm from outside the valley who change her life forever, and Amy learns the high cost of making the wrong choice.

The Crystal Crypt, by Philip K. Dick. SCIENCE FICTION. Download site: Manybooks. Format: Kindle. First published in Planet Stories (Jan 1954). Price: FREE.
Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run. For the black-clad Leiters were on the prowl ... and the grim red planet was not far behind.

The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology. Download site: Amazon. Format: AZW (Kindle). Price: $.99.
This is an omnibus collection of 33 science fiction novels - all available at no cost if searched for and downloaded individually. Or you may wish to grab them all for under a buck. Authors include Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Edward Bellamy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lester del Rey, Harry Harrison, Murray Leinster, Andre Alice Norton, H. G. Wells, etc.
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And speaking of e-books on the cheap, if you are a connoisseur of Kindle classics - those classic works in the public domain usually available for free from sites like Project Gutenberg, manybooks.net, feedbooks and MobileRead, you can tell the world by wearing a Kindle Classics t-shirt. Or just keep it to yourself.