Well, I think that's finally it for all the official publisher KDP slushpile freebies for Monday although I might have lost a few in the browser crash. There's some other non-KDP official author/small press stuff I'll post later when I have time, but right now I have 15 minutes to do today's time-limited KDP Select exclusive-or-else for who knows how long backlist sf/fantasy treat.
Beyond the Gate by Dave Wolverton writing as David Farland (and whose ISFDB and Wikipedia entries you can look up yourself today, because I still need to shower and eat before I leave) is 2nd in his Golden Queen epic sci-fi quest trilogy, originally out from Tor in 1995. We received the eponymous 1st in series a couple of months ago.
Free with DRM for who knows how long @ Amazon
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Description
When Gallen O’Day is hired to as a bodyguard to escort a young woman through the woods to the forbidden ruins at Geata Na Chruinn, it seems like an ordinary job—but all too soon, he finds himself fleeing for his life from creatures that seem like escapees from a nightmare—the alien dronon, led by their golden queen. With his best friend, a genetically engineered talking bear named Orick, and his girlfriend Maggie, Gallen soon finds himself tangled in an interstellar war that he never knew existed, racing across a host of worlds, confronted by a future unlike any that he had ever imagined.
The following is the probably-new stuff which makes the now 10 minute cutoff:
Australian writer Ian Moffit returns with his 1983 Collins-published Australia-set psychological suspense/crime thriller:
The Colour Man
Australian small-pressed history writer Hugh V. Clarke returns with:
Break-Out! - The Japanese POW Break-Out at Cowra, 1944
Hodder Headline-published Australian-resident British-Canadian writer David Crookes offers an historical adventure/drama set during the Elizabethan pirate/Spanish conquistador era with a search for Australia:
Children of the Sun
Harlequin-published presumably-not-Australian writer Sandra Marton returns with a contemporary romance:
Love Scenes
Small Australian press Big Sky Publishing has a few non-fiction military/cultural memoirs free today as well.
Time's up. Happy reading, if you manage to spot something you think you might like, or you really enjoy books set in Australia written by actual Australians.