Free/Bargain Science Fiction/Fantasy in June 2013

[HarryT]

Today's Kindle Daily Deal from Amazon UK is The Mammoth Book of SF Wars, a collection of 24 military SF stories. I have about a dozen books in the "Mammoth Books" series and they're always good. A bargain at 99p.

[murraypaul]

Amazon UK's daily deal is Dark Eden by Chris Beckett at 99p.

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2013

A marooned outpost of humanity struggles to survive on a startlingly alien world: science fiction as it ought to be from British science fiction's great white hope.

You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of Angela and Tommy. You shelter beneath the light and warmth of the Forest's lantern trees, hunting woollybuck and harvesting tree candy. Beyond the forest lie the treeless mountains of the Snowy Dark and a cold so bitter and a night so profound that no man has ever crossed it. The Oldest among you recount legends of a world where light came from the sky, where men and women made boats that could cross between worlds. One day, the Oldest say, they will come back for you.

You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of two marooned explorers. You huddle, slowly starving, beneath the light and warmth of geothermal trees, confined to one barely habitable valley of a startlingly alien, sunless world. After 163 years and six generations of incestuous inbreeding, the Family is riddled with deformity and feeblemindedness. Your culture is a infantile stew of half-remembered fact and devolved ritual that stifles innovation and punishes independent thought.

You are John Redlantern. You will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. You will be the first to abandon hope, the first to abandon the old ways, the first to kill another, the first to venture in to the Dark, and the first to discover the truth about Eden.

[pdurrant]

science fiction as it ought to be from British science fiction's great white hope.

I'm astonished that any marketing copywriter would use that phrase now. It isn't the 1960s anymore.

[HarryT]

It would have been somewhat offensive even then, I think. It's the kind of thing one sees in late 19th century novels, along with expressions such as "the white man's burden".

[murg]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I'm astonished that any marketing copywriter would use that phrase now. It isn't the 1960s anymore.

Unless he's a very large whale...

[koland]

or named Bob ....

[caleb72]

For me, this was definitely a case of a cliche diminishing the meaning of an expression over time. It hadn't even occurred to me that this was referring to a white person until it was mentioned. I had to read up on the expression to find out where it came from.

[gbm]

Todays (U.S.) Kindle Daily Deal in SF/F is, A Fall ofMoondust by Arthur C. Clarke for $1.99.


bernie

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by gbm

Todays (U.S.) Kindle Daily Deal in SF/F is, A Fall ofMoondust by Arthur C. Clarke for $1.99.


bernie

Also available at amazon.ca for CDN$ 1.99
http://www.amazon.ca/Moondust-Arthur.../dp/B00AHGE4Q8

[itisbomb]

Today's Nook Daily Find is

A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection, Books 1-3 with Bonus Material: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window
by Lemony Snicket

It can be downloaded for $2.99.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-se...=9780062132956

[AnemicOak]

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (book 1 in the Mistborn trilogy) is $2.99 right now at Amazon and B&N. No price drop so far at Kobo, Diesel or Sony

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial-arts action that begins in Mistborn.

For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.
Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.
But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Readers of Elantris thought they'd discovered someone special in Brandon Sanderson. Mistborn proves they were right.

At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

[Fbone]

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson is $2.99 again at Amazon and B&N.

http://www.amazon.com/Gardens-Moon-M...ns+of+the+moon
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gard...=9781429926584

[scottken]

City of Dragons by Robin Hobb $2.99 at Amazon Main
(Book 3 of the Rain Wilds Chronicles)

New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb returns to world of the Rain Wilds—called “one of the most gripping settings in modern fantasy” (Booklist)—in City of Dragons. Continuing the enthralling journey she began in her acclaimed Dragon Keeper and Dragon Haven, Hobb rejoins a small group of weak, half-formed and unwanted dragons and their displaced human companions as they search for a legendary sanctuary. Now, as the misfit band approaches its final destination, dragons and keepers alike face a challenge so insurmountable that it threatens to render their long, difficult odyssey utterly meaningless. Touching, powerful, and dazzlingly inventive, Hobb’s City of Dragons is not to be missed—further proof that this author belongs alongside Raymond E. Feist, Terry Brooks, and Lois McMaster Bujold in the pantheon of fantasy fiction’s true greats.

A Crown Imperiled: Book Two of the Chaoswar Saga By Raymoned E Feist $2.99 at Amazon Main

The Chaoswar—the fifth and final Riftwar—is in full, explosive swing in Raymond E. Feist’s A Crown Imperiled, the second book in the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling fantasist’s monumental saga of courage, conflict, and bitter consequence. Once again, Midkemia, the author’s brilliantly conceived fantasy milieu, is in gravest danger from outside invaders—and from treacherous forces within—as the death of a powerful leader throws the world into chaos and threatens all hope of enduring peace. Returning in A Crown Imperiled are some of Feist’s most memorable characters—including the great sorcerer, Pug, who has been a fan favorite since his introduction in the author’s beloved classic, Magician—and the action, as always, comes fast and furious. The Chaoswar Saga is the master fantasist working at the peak of his powers, and further proof why Raymond E. Feist, like Terry Goodkind, George R. R. Martin, and Terry Brooks, is one of the true giants of epic fantasy fiction.

[Amy_k]

From Google Play: Beach Bargains Science Fiction & Fantasy for $2.99

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Wake of the Bloody Angel by Alex Bledsoe (Eddie Lacrosse Book #4)

Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by Amy_k

From Google Play: Beach Bargains Science Fiction & Fantasy for $2.99

Google Play

Thanks for pointing this out. I had previously picked up Ender's Game from B&N's half price sale and I was able to pick up Speaker for the Dead from this one plus a couple of other items.