Jason Stoddard has made his Winning Mars novel, expanded from his novella first published in Interzone 196, available for free download under a Creative Commons license.

Jason says: “Winning Mars is a work of near-future fiction. It‚Äôs entirely possible that by the time it crawls through the 2-year process of conventional publishing, it will be irrelevant — or at least extremely dated. Second, I like writing. I want people to read my stuff. If the gigantic advance (LOL) that I‚Äôm going to get from a conventional publisher is getting in the way of people reading my stuff, then I‚Äôd rather just have people read my stuff. Third, I write a lot. I have a lot of trunk novels — think, like, 4 of them — that I really need to clear out so I can work on new stuff.”

Download it here.