via boingboing.net
“Vernor Vinge has put the entire text of his magnificent, prescient, mind-alteringly good novel Rainbows End online as a free download. This was one of the best books of 2006, a book that practically defines what “post-cyberpunk” really means: stories about what happens when the world (and not the street) finds its own use for technology. The tech touches — massive, augmented reality ARGs; adaptive full-body user-interfaces; destructive book-scanners — are half-predictive, half-allegorical, and entirely provocative. What a treat!”
and I still don’t get it 