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ATDrake · 03-30-2012, 12:16 AM

Well, eReaderIQ seems to be behaving again, and I'm back at a computer where I have leisure time to trawl through it. Although frankly, I wound up skipping a bunch of stuff because there were some 13 pages of things today and I suspect the feature title is going to expire in a few more hours as well.

But we do have a couple of nice backlist offerings and the usual established author self-pubs, as well as a surprisingly high proportion of non-repeat sf/fantasy.

As for today's feature, it's from an author I've never read, but know through other means. I'm taking a chance that this is indeed DRM-free, as I seem to recall his making a point of making them so, and apologize in advance if this turns out not to be the case.

Memesis: modifiction and other strange changes by fellow MR member author Keith Brooke (ISFDB, Wikipedia) is a themed collection of his short stories in what looks like sf and fantasy genres (may end up being just one or the other). The title story originally appeared in Interzone, and several others from the TOC have listings in the ISFDB spanning over a few decades, from the looks of it.

Frankly, I've never read anything by Brooke, but for several years he ran the nifty Infinity Plus UK SF webmagazine, which still houses in its archives some very good sf/fantasy shorts by a number of distinguished authors, including Connie Willis, Brian Stableford, and Charles Stross, if you'd like to go take a look.

It's now morphed into the Infinity Plus ebook brand of reprint and new sf/fantasy/horror stuff, from which I bought a number of things during the Read an E-Book Week sale when they had 25% off selected titles at Smashwords.

Anyway, he offers via KDP not only his own collection, but also a few other works by other authors, which hopefully you can pick up in the 3 remaining hours before the Amazon servers rollover to the next scheduled batch of KDP freebies, assuming this is a 1-day only offer like many of the Infinity Plus titles have been thus far.

Free for who knows how long, probably without DRM @ Amazon main UK DE ES FR IT

Description
A world where islands of rock float on a molten sea, a man whose son flies high while he can only watch, a seaside town held together by the belief of its inhabitants. Eight stories about strange changes and the strangely changed, each with a new afterword by the author of Publishers Weekly starred novels Genetopia and The Accord.

The other Infinity Plus title on offer is Kaitlin Queen's crime novel (blurb says she is a prominent children's writer using a pseudonym): One More Unfortunate

There's also a repeat of Iain Rowan's short story available in one of their collections, if you missed it earlier: Lilies. And as always, you can pick up a permafreebie short story and a sampler of stories from assorted IP authors via Smashwords.

The rest of the slushpile, not sorted and repeats mostly skipped, though I'll mention that if you're missing series stuff, there's another repeat Jake Lassiter legal thriller by fellow MR member author Paul Levine and minor ISFDBed Chris Howard has a repeat of some fantasy series thing.

Ballantine-published Laura Benedict offers a Southern Gothic supernatural horror-ish suspense thriller: Devil's Oven

Dell-published Tara Janzen offers a contemporary romantic suspense which she says was originally published by Bantam in 1993 as part of their Loveswept line: Avenging Angel

Macmillan and Robert Hale-published Michael Parker returns with a treasure hunt/conspiracy thriller: Roselli's Gold

Michael Hogan, who writes academic small-press non-fiction about Latin America, among other things, returns with a poetry and prose-piece collection originally out from small press Gallimaufry in 1978: A Lion at a Cocktail Party His bio has had stuff added which says that one of his novels was the basic of a particular MGM movie.

Samhain-published Ellen Fisher returns with a paranormal romance novella which she says has been previously published: The Shadows of Night (Kindred) I read and liked her earlier KDP sci-fi romance spoof Farthest Space: Wrath of Jan which had lots of fun references to Star Trek, Star Wars, and 2001, among other classic stuff and is the only one out of all these KDP books that I've actually read thus far, so her writing may be worth a try if you like paranormal romance.

Minor ISFDBed Glen R. Krisch returns with a supernatural/horror thriller: Where Darkness Dwells

Neil Davies has one poem listed in the ISFDB. He offers a collection of "dark imagination" shorts: Interludes

Minor ISFDBed Robert E. Keller returns with a fantasy novella: The Battering Ram at Doom's Gates

Small publisher Post Mortem Press offers newbie writer Kenneth W. Cain's sci-fi/horror crossover thriller: These Trespasses (The Saga of I)

UK writer Ken McClure returns with another 1996 Simon & Schuster-published medical thriller: Pandora's Helix

Baen-published Dave Freer & Eric Flint offer a short story: Red Fiddler

Minor ISFDBed Canadian Cheryl Kaye Tardif returns with the "school edition", whatever that means, of her YA novel which has been picked up by Imajin/n from its original 2003 Canadian small press release: Whale Song: School Edition

Award-winning South African expat playwright Ian Fraser returns with a novella (may be a repeat): The Nog Sisters

Scott Nicholson has another batch of looks-new and repeats: Linkage for the lot

Robert W. Walker also has another batch of looks-new and repeats: Linkage for the lot

TV show tie-in writer and fellow MR member author Lee Goldberg and the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers offer a bunch of advice and behind the scenes TV books, which include contributions Greg Cox, whose ISFDB entry lists tie-in novels across many sfnal franchises, and Jeff Mariotte and Max Collins who are apparently recognizable names in horror and/or thriller writing: Linkage for the lot

Australian sf/fantasy writer and fellow MR member author Patty Jansen re-offers some old stuff and what looks like a new thing: Linkage for the lot ETA: Turns out the non-repeat one is actually free to all via Smashwords: Charlotte's Army

Apparently once upon a time when Thatcherites ruled the UK, Toyah was some sort of very prominent British pop star who ran an eponymously named band and Chris Limb who ran her official fan club has a memoir about: I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan in case you have some ancient Anglophilic nostalgia about the 80s lurking in your heart.

Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like and can grab it in time before it expires, or if you, too were a teenage Toyah fan.

03-30-2012, 12:16 AM	#1
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free (Kindle DRM-free) Memesis by Keith Brooke [SF/Fantasy Collection] Well, eReaderIQ seems to be behaving again, and I'm back at a computer where I have leisure time to trawl through it. Although frankly, I wound up skipping a bunch of stuff because there were some 13 pages of things today and I suspect the feature title is going to expire in a few more hours as well. But we do have a couple of nice backlist offerings and the usual established author self-pubs, as well as a surprisingly high proportion of non-repeat sf/fantasy. As for today's feature, it's from an author I've never read, but know through other means. I'm taking a chance that this is indeed DRM-free, as I seem to recall his making a point of making them so, and apologize in advance if this turns out not to be the case. Memesis: modifiction and other strange changes by fellow MR member author Keith Brooke (ISFDB, Wikipedia) is a themed collection of his short stories in what looks like sf and fantasy genres (may end up being just one or the other). The title story originally appeared in Interzone, and several others from the TOC have listings in the ISFDB spanning over a few decades, from the looks of it. Frankly, I've never read anything by Brooke, but for several years he ran the nifty Infinity Plus UK SF webmagazine, which still houses in its archives some very good sf/fantasy shorts by a number of distinguished authors, including Connie Willis, Brian Stableford, and Charles Stross, if you'd like to go take a look. It's now morphed into the Infinity Plus ebook brand of reprint and new sf/fantasy/horror stuff, from which I bought a number of things during the Read an E-Book Week sale when they had 25% off selected titles at Smashwords. Anyway, he offers via KDP not only his own collection, but also a few other works by other authors, which hopefully you can pick up in the 3 remaining hours before the Amazon servers rollover to the next scheduled batch of KDP freebies, assuming this is a 1-day only offer like many of the Infinity Plus titles have been thus far. Free for who knows how long, probably without DRM @ Amazon main UK DE ES FR IT Description A world where islands of rock float on a molten sea, a man whose son flies high while he can only watch, a seaside town held together by the belief of its inhabitants. Eight stories about strange changes and the strangely changed, each with a new afterword by the author of Publishers Weekly starred novels Genetopia and The Accord. The other Infinity Plus title on offer is Kaitlin Queen's crime novel (blurb says she is a prominent children's writer using a pseudonym): One More Unfortunate There's also a repeat of Iain Rowan's short story available in one of their collections, if you missed it earlier: Lilies. And as always, you can pick up a permafreebie short story and a sampler of stories from assorted IP authors via Smashwords. The rest of the slushpile, not sorted and repeats mostly skipped, though I'll mention that if you're missing series stuff, there's another repeat Jake Lassiter legal thriller by fellow MR member author Paul Levine and minor ISFDBed Chris Howard has a repeat of some fantasy series thing. Ballantine-published Laura Benedict offers a Southern Gothic supernatural horror-ish suspense thriller: Devil's Oven Dell-published Tara Janzen offers a contemporary romantic suspense which she says was originally published by Bantam in 1993 as part of their Loveswept line: Avenging Angel Macmillan and Robert Hale-published Michael Parker returns with a treasure hunt/conspiracy thriller: Roselli's Gold Michael Hogan, who writes academic small-press non-fiction about Latin America, among other things, returns with a poetry and prose-piece collection originally out from small press Gallimaufry in 1978: A Lion at a Cocktail Party His bio has had stuff added which says that one of his novels was the basic of a particular MGM movie. Samhain-published Ellen Fisher returns with a paranormal romance novella which she says has been previously published: The Shadows of Night (Kindred) I read and liked her earlier KDP sci-fi romance spoof Farthest Space: Wrath of Jan which had lots of fun references to Star Trek, Star Wars, and 2001, among other classic stuff and is the only one out of all these KDP books that I've actually read thus far, so her writing may be worth a try if you like paranormal romance. Minor ISFDBed Glen R. Krisch returns with a supernatural/horror thriller: Where Darkness Dwells Neil Davies has one poem listed in the ISFDB. He offers a collection of "dark imagination" shorts: Interludes Minor ISFDBed Robert E. Keller returns with a fantasy novella: The Battering Ram at Doom's Gates Small publisher Post Mortem Press offers newbie writer Kenneth W. Cain's sci-fi/horror crossover thriller: These Trespasses (The Saga of I) UK writer Ken McClure returns with another 1996 Simon & Schuster-published medical thriller: Pandora's Helix Baen-published Dave Freer & Eric Flint offer a short story: Red Fiddler Minor ISFDBed Canadian Cheryl Kaye Tardif returns with the "school edition", whatever that means, of her YA novel which has been picked up by Imajin/n from its original 2003 Canadian small press release: Whale Song: School Edition Award-winning South African expat playwright Ian Fraser returns with a novella (may be a repeat): The Nog Sisters Scott Nicholson has another batch of looks-new and repeats: Linkage for the lot Robert W. Walker also has another batch of looks-new and repeats: Linkage for the lot TV show tie-in writer and fellow MR member author Lee Goldberg and the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers offer a bunch of advice and behind the scenes TV books, which include contributions Greg Cox, whose ISFDB entry lists tie-in novels across many sfnal franchises, and Jeff Mariotte and Max Collins who are apparently recognizable names in horror and/or thriller writing: Linkage for the lot Australian sf/fantasy writer and fellow MR member author Patty Jansen re-offers some old stuff and what looks like a new thing: Linkage for the lot ETA: Turns out the non-repeat one is actually free to all via Smashwords: Charlotte's Army Apparently once upon a time when Thatcherites ruled the UK, Toyah was some sort of very prominent British pop star who ran an eponymously named band and Chris Limb who ran her official fan club has a memoir about: I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan in case you have some ancient Anglophilic nostalgia about the 80s lurking in your heart. Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like and can grab it in time before it expires, or if you, too were a teenage Toyah fan. Last edited by ATDrake; 03-30-2012 at 01:17 AM. Reason: Link fixing. You wouldn't think a space and a <br> would make that much difference to the usual Amazon cruft, but it does.