Free/Bargain Science Fiction/Fantasy in July 2013

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

The Kingmaking (Pendragon's Banner Series #1)
by Helen Hollick

is this week's Nook Free Friday. You can download it for free.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/king...=9781402218880

Below is the blurb:

Who was THE MAN

Who became THE LEGEND

We know as KING ARTHUR?

"You are the Pendragon, rightful Lord of Dumnonia and the Summer Land;Lord of less Britain. By all that is right, you ought be seatedwhere Vortigern sits…You ought to be King."

Here lies the truth of the Lord of the Summer Land.

This is the tale of Arthur flesh and bone. Of the shaping of the man, both courageousand flawed, into the celebrated ruler who inspired armies, who capturedGwenhyfar's heart, and who emerged as the hero of the Dark Ages and the mostenduring hero of all time.

This is the unexpected story of the making of a king — thelegend who united all of Britain.

also free at amazon

[hwlester]

Not really sure where to put this genre wise since much of Michael Moorock's output is SciFi/Fantasy, but not all... A moderator can feel free to move it to the appropriate genre thread.

I just noticed that Michael Moorock's King of the City has been reduced by HarperCollins to $0.99 at Amazon, Kobo, Sony, B&N, Google, iTunes, and is actually $0.87 at Diesel.

I've not read it yet, but for that price, I'm buying it and adding it to my TBR since Moorcock is one of my favorite authors.

[HarryT]

A great deal at that price, but assuredly not SF/Fantasy .

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by HarryT

A great deal at that price, but assuredly not SF/Fantasy .

Yes, I think it's more of his modern fiction. Most of his work ultimately ties into his Eternal Champion/Multiverse in some way. If there's a more appropriate thread...

[caleb72]

Neal Stephenson's Reamde is currently $2.99 at Amazon (US).

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations—whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon). With Reamde, this visionary author whose mind-stretching fiction has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace—not to mention William Gibson and Michael Crichton—once again blazes new ground with a high-stakes thriller that will enthrall his loyal audience, science and science fiction, and espionage fiction fans equally. The breathtaking tale of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game, Reamde is a new high—and a new world—for the remarkable Neal Stephenson.

Amazon (US): LINK

[mewmartigan]

^ Awesome, thanks for the head's up. I really like Stephenson's work. I've got Anathem and now Reamde on my Kindle (both from daily deals) waiting to be read.

[Fbone]

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin is £0.99 at B&N and Amazon as part of the HarperCollins sale.
http://uk.nook.com/ebooks/a-game-of-.../9780007378425

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Thrones.../dp/B004GJXQ20

[ATDrake]

As part of the Smashwords July sale ending today, Nebula Award-nominee fantasy author Vera Nazarian (ISFDB entry) is offering a novella and a supernatural dating parody free-with-coupon, two free-to-download short stories, and 75% off two of her short story collections.

She's got a longish list of stuff on her author page, so the two coupon freebies and the sale books are:

• Vampires are from Venus, Werewolves are from Mars: A Comprehensive Guide to Attracting Supernatural Love
• The Young Woman In A House of Old
  and
• the short collections Salt of the Air and After the Sundial, which work out to be $1.25 each after discount

I find her writing style a bit on the florid side, but I've enjoyed a few of her stories in those old Marion Zimmer Bradley-edited Sword & Sorceress anthologies and she's been pretty generous with the freebie offers over the past year, so I'll be picking up both her sale short collections.

[koland]

Thanks....

[pdurrant]

I've just started a new thread for August.

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