The Free
- Authors
- Gilliland, Mike
- Publisher
- Attack International
- Tags
- thriller , feminism
- ISBN
- 9780951426135
- Date
- 1986-05-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.48 MB
- Lang
- en
The Free was first published in 1986 by Hooligan Press of London (with a parenthesis after the copyright date saying “Except to anarchists”). It was republished in 1990 in this identical edition by Attack International
In this original version, the book consisted of eleven chapters and 142 pages.
In 2007 the novel was rewritten and greatly expanded. The text, now 342 pages, five acts and fifty chapters long, was published online in 2011 and in paper by Amazon in 2012. It can still be downloaded for free at thefreeonline.wordpress.com. It also has a Facebook following and a wordpress blog, so that readers can respond. .
I should add that the 1986 version has its own interest. It does not often engage in ideological statements, it ends with the more realistic deaths of some characters as opposed to the more romantic ending of the 2007 version, and the speed of the narrative is compelling. I encourage those who can find the 1986 version to read it as well.
Dr Daniel P. Jaeckle, author of Embodied Anarchy in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed