Free and Bargain Scifi/Fantasy for December 2012

[elaysee]

For $free I'll take a chance on a title like this:

Vampires are from Venus, Werewolves are from Mars: A Comprehensive Guide to Attracting Supernatural Love by Vera Nazarian
(Amazon US)

The critically acclaimed author of MANSFIELD PARK AND MUMMIES tackles a hilarious new parody topic -- supernatural relationship advice!

Admit it, you've secretly dreamed of dating a sexy brooding vampire or an alpha werewolf...

But what about dating zombies, mummies, angels, fairies, demons, ghosts, random spotted aliens with tentacles, or other random metaphysical impossibilities?

Furthermore, what if those paranormal beings in turn dreamed of dating each other -- each one in search of their own supernatural soul mates?

The answer lies, as usual, in the planets, and the entire solar system of planetary harmonic alignment.

Take the supernatural compatibility test and discover your own soul planet.

Discover what planet rules which supernatural species, and which paranormal personality combinations offer the most compatibility to each other -- and to you.

And then, be matched with the supernatural soul mate of your wildest dreams!

It's all in here!

Plus, as a special bonus, discover the Supernatural Matchmaker's greatest advice -- the Love Secret.

[Blue Tyson]

The Fritz Leiber Lankhmar books all 7 for $35.00

http://www.baenebooks.com/p-1213-faf...ollection.aspx

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Blue Tyson

The Fritz Leiber Lankhmar books all 7 for $35.00

http://www.baenebooks.com/p-1213-faf...ollection.aspx

Very good. I bought them the last time Baen offered this deal. Classics that every fantasy fan should have. This is the series which invented the "sword and sorcery" sub-genre of fantasy.

[Synamon]

14 by Peter Clines is $2.99 at Amazon and the companion audiobook at Audible is only $1.99 when you buy the ebook. I've been wanting to get the audiobook for my husband, so I jumped at this.

Chosen by Audible.com as the best sci-fi novel of 2012!

Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches.

There are some odd things about Nate's new apartment.

Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn't perfect, it's livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don't nag at him too much.

At least, not until he meets Mandy, his neighbor across the hall, and notices something unusual about her apartment. And Xela's apartment. And Tim's. And Veek's.

Because every room in this old Los Angeles brownstone has a mystery or two. Mysteries that stretch back over a hundred years. Some of them are in plain sight. Some are behind locked doors. And all together these mysteries could mean the end of Nate and his friends.

Or the end of everything...

[NightBird]

Originally Posted by Synamon

14 by Peter Clines is $2.99 at Amazon and the companion audiobook at Audible is only $1.99 when you buy the ebook. I've been wanting to get the audiobook for my husband, so I jumped at this.

This looks good - thanks! Also $2.99 at B&N.

[Mort1997]

The Secret War

The Secret War (MFW Curran) is free today at Amazon UK. I think this has been free previously on the US site

[gbm]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

The Secret War

The Secret War (MFW Curran) is free today at Amazon UK. I think this has been free previously on the US site

Also free at Amazon US. The Secret War M. F. W. Curran.


bernie

[Apache]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

The Secret War

The Secret War (MFW Curran) is free today at Amazon UK. I think this has been free previously on the US site

Thank you for this one.
Apache

[haydnfan]

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is $1.99 today. Sorry for posting this so late, but I just assumed that a kindle daily deal would be immediately noticed in this forum.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003RRXXMA/

[NightBird]

One of the Kindle Daily Deals today is The Color of Magic by Terry Prachett at $1.99 from HarperCollins. Was $.99 last year so if you missed it then...

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.

The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins -- with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind.

Also, Dodger is $2.99 at Amazon, B&N, Sony, and Kobo.

A storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately from a horse-drawn carriage in a vain attempt to escape her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not, because he's . . . Dodger.

Seventeen-year-old Dodger may be a street urchin, but he gleans a living from London's sewers, and he knows a jewel when he sees one. He's not about to let anything happen to the unknown girl—not even if her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England.

From Dodger's encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery.

Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett combines high comedy with deep wisdom in this tale of an unexpected coming-of-age and one remarkable boy's rise in a complex and fascinating world.

[NightBird]

Kindle Daily Deal for SF/Fantasy:Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky is $2.99. Reprint from Chicago Review Press. Down from $12.99.

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a “full empty,” something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he’ll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.

First published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel’s publication in Russia.

About the Author
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are the most famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction, and the authors of over 25 novels and novellas. Their books have been widely translated and have been made into a number of films. Arkady Strugatsky died in 1991. Boris Strugatsky died in November 2012.

[AnemicOak]

HarperCollins has the C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy on sale for $1.99 each right now (or $1.39 each at Books on Board). Price should be good at any of your favorite retailers.

Out of the Silent Planet Amazon | BoB

Perelandra Amazon | BoB

That Hideous Strength Amazon | BoB

Just as readers have been transfixed by the stories, characters, and deeper meanings of Lewis's timeless tales in The Chronicles of Narnia, most find this same allure in his classic Space Trilogy. In these fantasy stories for adults, we encounter, once again, magical creatures, a world of wonders, epic battles, and revelations of transcendent truths.

[NightBird]

From HarperCollins: Dragon Haven (Rain Wilds Chronicles, Vol. 2) by Robin Hobb $.99, $.69 at BOB.

Kobo

B&N

Sony

BOB

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Dragon Keeper returns with a second enthralling tale of dragons and humans, adventure and discovery, love and freedom

Centuries had passed since dragons last roamed the war-torn world of the Rain Wild River. But as peace once again settled upon the land, a lost generation of sea serpents—ancient, half-starved, and weary—returned to cocoon, certain that they would be reborn as the beautiful and powerful dragons of legend. But their arduous journey exacted a heavy toll, and the proud serpents emerged as sickly, half-formed beasts, unable to fly or hunt . . . or thrive. For years now they have been trapped on a swampy riverbank between forest and river, hungry and barely alive, reliant on humans to provide for them.

With their survival at stake, fifteen dragons—among them the wise golden Mercor, the haughty and dazzling silver-blue queen Sintara, and the delicate copper beauty Relpda—have set off on a dangerous trek into the unknown, up the Rain Wild River, in hopes of rediscovering the ancient Elderling city of Kelsingra, the lost haven for dragons and Elderlings alike. The dragons are accompanied by a disparate group of human keepers, rejects from Rain Wild society. They, too, yearn to find Kelsingra and create a home of their own, one in which they may make their own rules and decide their own fate. But is Kelsingra real or merely a fragment of a glorified past buried deep in the dragons' shared memories? No map exists to guide them, and the noble creatures find their ancient recollections of little use in a land changed by generations of flooding and seismic chaos.

As the dragons, the humans—including the strong and defiant Rain Wild girl Thymara; the wealthy dragon scholar and Trader's wife, Alise; and her companion, the urbane Sedric—and their magical supply barge, captained by the gruff Leftrin, forge their way ever deeper into uncharted wilderness, human and beast alike discover they are changing in mysterious and dangerous ways. While the bonds between them solidify, starvation, flashfloods, and predators will imperil them all. But dragons and humans soon learn that the most savage threats come from within their own company . . . and not all of them may survive.

Returning to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb creates a lush and ultimately triumphant tale set in an imaginative world of magic and wonder as compelling and emotionally resonant as our own.

[NightBird]

Free YA dark fantasy from Evil Jester Press: The End of Autumn by Aric Sundquist.

Trapped in a never-ending stasis between life and death, three kids set forth on a perilous journey to escape a nightmarish apparition called the Timekeeper. But in order to break the curse of their hometown, they must first travel across a dark and surreal landscape, into the very heart of winter itself, and beyond...

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by NightBird

From HarperCollins: Dragon Haven (Rain Wilds Chronicles, Vol. 2) by Robin Hobb $.99.

Thanks. "Dragon Keeper with Bonus Material" is on my TBR from where I picked it up for free several years ago... I decided to add this one for only 99 cents (although Sony added tax to bring it to $1.04). I'd have bought it from Kobo if I could have used a coupon on it.

BTW, your BOB link is broken.