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Please note that ARC is only available for iPad or Kindle...Thank you to TRSF, with ePub and Kindle formats.

Compatibility problems generally go away if you have Calibre and the appropriate DRM-stripping plugins...

But if you'd rather deal with an SF magazine that doesn't impose DRM in the first place, check out Interzone:

http://ttapress.com/interzone/

You can get it in the usual formats from Smashwords or Fictionwise:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/132535
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b129717/Interzone-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy-Magazine-235/TTA-Press-Authors/?si=0

and there's a free sample issue:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/60013
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/74316

> I think he may have released Crystal Nights as a free download.

Yup, it's on his publisher's website: http://ttapress.com/CrystalNights.pdf

Plus, people have developed the world-inside-a-computer theme in fiction so much since those days. Cyrstal Nights by Greg Egan comes to mind as a story that could totally blow people's minds on the big screen.

One of the better online SF communities is the venerable rec.arts.sf.written newsgroup (available here for the usenet-challenged), worth reading for an unusually high level of discussion (if you can ignore the usual sprinkling of spam). There are plenty of people there who'll make useful suggestions if you let them know what you like already.

Check out SF Site for tons of reviews, excerpts, and another forum.

I actually find Amazon quite useful for discovering new stuff (especially now they have excerpts from a fiar number of books). It doesn't need to be 'dicey and expensive' if you buy secondhand or discounted stocks from Amazon Marketplace traders with decent feedback (or similar small dealers that sell via ebay or AbeBooks ).

Why not subscribe to one of the major SF magazines like Interzone or Analog ?

Or you could subscribe to a Science Fiction magazine. They usually have good review sections as well as some good short sci fi for the busy reader. My personal recommendation is Interzone magazine. It's pretty good, British but I think you can get it everywhere and it also has the best film reviews I've ever read (albeit always arriving long after I've seen the film). Definitely worth it for people who don't have the time to work their way through a bookshop looking for the occasional good sci fi.

In addition to the other replies, there's also Interzone, which is British and of a slightly different tone.

"Learning to Be Me". Interzone #37, July 1990. Also in Egan's anthology Axiomatic