Free: Fledgling by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

artifact · 03-31-2013, 01:45 PM

Fledgling, a book in the Liaden Universe, by Sharon Lee & Steve Millier is now in the Baen Free Library. A great Space Opera series.

Quote:

Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is home to one of the galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Both Theo's mother, Kamele, and Kamele's onagrata Jen Sar Kiladi, are professors at the university, and they all live comfortably together, just like they have for all of Theo's life, in Jen Sar's house at the outskirts of town.

Suddenly, though, Theo's life changes. Kamele leaves Jen Sar and moves herself and Theo back into faculty housing, which is not what Theo is used to. Once settled back inside the Wall, Kamele becomes embroiled in faculty politics, and is appointed sub-chair of her department. Meanwhile, Theo, who has a notation in her file indicating that she is "physically challenged" has a series of misadventures, including pulling her best friend down on the belt-ride to class, and hurting a team mate during a scavage game.

With notes piling up in her file, Theo only wants to go "home," to the house in the suburbs, and have everything just like it used to be.

Then, Kamele uncovers evidence of possible dishonest scholarship inside of her department. In order to clear the department, she and a team of senior professors must go off-world to perform a forensic document search. Theo hopes this will mean that she'll be left in the care of the man she calls "Father," Professor Kiladi, and is horrified to learn that Kamele means to bring Theo with her!

This is the same series, but different character focus, as the previously mentioned freebie Agent of Change.

gweeks · 03-31-2013, 01:58 PM

Amazon link

http://www.amazon.com/Fledgling-Liad...dp/B00APAELRI/

It's not free there yet, but it should be shortly. A day or two. It should show up free at iTunes in the same time frame.

Greg

Deljah · 03-31-2013, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gweeks

Amazon link

http://www.amazon.com/Fledgling-Liad...dp/B00APAELRI/

It's not free there yet, but it should be shortly. A day or two. It should show up free at iTunes in the same time frame.

Greg

I got it free on Amazon on 3/29. *RETRACTION* - I thought I got it for free, but I actually paid for it. Too much one-clicking!

kindlekitten · 04-01-2013, 01:28 AM

Finally free!

bgalbrecht · 04-01-2013, 01:30 AM

I'm actually a bit surprised by this. It was my impression that they did not believe the lost revenue from the freebies would be recovered by the sales in their other books. Perhaps there are enough books in the series now that the freebies are a worthwhile trade-off.

artifact · 04-01-2013, 07:15 PM

According to Sharon Lee's Blog Fledgling is now Free on Amazon as well. See link above.

bgalbrecht: I first got Fledgling when it was originally released in framed HTML form for free... somewhere (Baen I think), so in the case of this particular novel it was once free and is now free again. Plus Theo's continuing adventures make up the majority of their more recent and future releases so it makes sense to me to suck people into her story. That doesn't explain Agent of Change so it could be they feel they have a large enough body of work for free intros.

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03-31-2013, 01:58 PM	#2
gweeks Fanatic Posts: 502 Karma: 3367460 Join Date: Apr 2007 Device: Rocket, Nook ST, Kobo WiFi, Kindle PW	Amazon link http://www.amazon.com/Fledgling-Liad...dp/B00APAELRI/ It's not free there yet, but it should be shortly. A day or two. It should show up free at iTunes in the same time frame. Greg

04-01-2013, 01:28 AM	#4
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	Finally free!

04-01-2013, 01:30 AM	#5
bgalbrecht Wizard Posts: 1,806 Karma: 13399999 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: US Device: Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Clara HD, Kindle 4	I'm actually a bit surprised by this. It was my impression that they did not believe the lost revenue from the freebies would be recovered by the sales in their other books. Perhaps there are enough books in the series now that the freebies are a worthwhile trade-off.

04-01-2013, 07:15 PM	#6
artifact Addict Posts: 276 Karma: 3569616 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: jetBook (RIP), Kobo Touch	According to Sharon Lee's Blog Fledgling is now Free on Amazon as well. See link above. bgalbrecht: I first got Fledgling when it was originally released in framed HTML form for free... somewhere (Baen I think), so in the case of this particular novel it was once free and is now free again. Plus Theo's continuing adventures make up the majority of their more recent and future releases so it makes sense to me to suck people into her story. That doesn't explain Agent of Change so it could be they feel they have a large enough body of work for free intros.

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