A pleasantly slow day for the KDP Select exclusive-or-else slushpile, which actually didn't have too much Sturgeon's Law-mandated 90% crap to wade through before I started hitting the decent stuff, repeats or otherwise.
For our sfnal backlist treat today, we have the 3rd in a series of space opera adventures by a guy who must know what he's doing regarding space opera adventures, as he writes tie-ins for various spacefaring sf franchises as well as having previously collaborated with Harry Harrison, who is kind of known for them.
The Macrocosmic Conflict by David Bischoff (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia which says he has a Nebula nomination and a Star Trek episode based the story that got it) is 3rd in his Star Hounds space opera adventure series, for which we've previously received at least the 2nd book free.
This was originally out in paperback from Ace Books in 1986.
Free with DRM for who knows how long @ Amazon
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Description
A dystopian future.
A beautiful, wild female pilot on the run from an odious Federation.
A handsome, troubled pirate with a secret.
Aliens who enjoy bizarre apocaclyptic games...
Mix them together -- space adventure with thrusters on full!
Also in the slushpile, some series continuations both new and old and fresh horror & romance shorts for people to try out.
I.J. Parker returns with yet another installment in her historical Japan-set detective mysteries, this one out from St. Martin's Minotaur in 2002:
Rashomon Gate (Akitada Mysteries)
ISFDBed David Bain & ISFDBed Wayne Allen Sallee return to team up for a joint feature of crime and supernatural horror tales, from the looks of it:
Double Dare
New American Library-published Jessica Barksdale Inclán returns with a contemporary foodie general fiction about a woman with baking company business ambitions, including recipes:
Becca's Best
Harlequin-published Kate Hewitt offers a collection of short romance tales:
Love, Laughter & Lucky Marbles
Previously title-featured ISFDBed horror writer Kealan Patrick Burke and a number of other ISFDBed authors contribute to this horror/dark fantasy/bizarre suspense anthology:
Detritus
Also out from the same small press as above, Australian contributor Mary Borsellino (minor
ISFDB credits) offers a horror-ish mystery/adventure novel:
The Devil's Mixtape
Five Star-published Aris Whittier returns with a supernatural romantic suspense:
Secrets
William Morrow-published fellow MR member author Richard Herley offers a a "black comedy" with a bit of a love story in it which seems to be about a confidence scheme gone hilariously wrong:
Darling Brenda He also offers his Holby Memorial Prize-winning Morrow-published Stone Age England historical saga
free to all via Smashwords (may be price-matched in other outlets, other works $0.99-$3.99).
Avon-published Katy Munger writing as Gallegher Gray offers the 1991-Dutton Adult-published 1st in her comedic business workplace mystery series:
Partners In Crime (Hubbert & Lil) This, like her longstanding pricematched-to-Smashwords other freebie included earlier has been yanked for KDP exclusivity, but the sequels are still available
via Smashwords and couponable at price-matching outlets, if you find you like them.
Victoria Lynne offers her 1999 Dell-published Victorian historical romantic suspense:
With This Kiss
Much published romance author Susan Sizemore who includes at least Ellora's Cave among her visible book cover credits (I'm not going to dig further, but IIRC she's also got Harlequin and Berkley/Avon/whatever) returns to offer a collection of paranormal romance shorts:
A Little Death
Well, it's not often that we get grand sweeping historical sagas set in non-European/US/colonial countries being occupied by plucky settlers and these people have made a nice effort at formatting and putting in attractive chapter headers. so here's M. Salahuddin Khan's probably self-pub multigenerational Pakistani-written Afghanistan-set grand sweeping historical saga, which looks kind of interesting and seems to have reasonably decent prose, going by a quickie sample skim:
Sikander
Reasonably significant sfnal repeats from A.A. Attanasio & Keith Brooke. Minor credential sfnal repeats from Marilyn Peake, Steel Magnolia Press, Cheryl Kaye Tardif, Edward W. Robertson. Small press repeats (some new stuff maybe mixed in) from Camel Press, Coffeetown Press, Books We Love/BWLPP, Adventure Books of Seattle. Mystery/thriller backlist series repeats from Deb Baker, Sean Black, M. Ruth Myers, Libby Fischer Hellman. Romance author repeats from Mona Ingram, Nancy Bush, Valerie Douglas, Anh Leod.
Happy reading, if you manage to spot something you think you might like and ever actually get around to reading it.