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There's a lot of good fiction on the web for free. Check out Corie Ralston's Looking Back over at Strange Horizons. Such a good story.

It's already been linked to from everywhere, but I'll also mention Cory Doctorow's 0wnz0red. Check out the glossary if you need some help. But even the glossary leaves you to your own devices with

Sleep, it's like a third of your life, 20, 30 years. What's it good for? It resets a bunch of switches, gives your brain a chance to sort through its buffers, a little oxygenation for your tissues. That stuff can all take place while you're doing whatever you feel like doing, hiking in the hills or getting laid. Make 'em into cron jobs and nice them down to the point where they just grab any idle cycles and do their work incrementally.

which was the point at which I said to myself "well, he just left most of the general readership in the dust."

Infinity Plus has a ton of good stuff. For now I'll restrict myself to plugging Ted Chiang's Understand, my third-favorite (praise with faint damns) Chiang story.

Sci Fiction's archives are also chock full of treasure. Don't miss Robert Sheckley's fantastically funny Cordle to Onion to Carrot. I'm forcibly restraining myself from excerpting, 'cause I'd end up quoting the whole French restaurant scene. Just go read it.