Some major-author Canadian sf/fantasy bargains from Kobo's Canada Day sale (may or may not be price-matched in other stores), supposedly good until July 6th, probably not available in other regions as these are mostly the regional Canadian publisher versions (not couponable):
Guy Gavriel Kay (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia; World Fantasy Award-winner) titles:
@ $4.99:
The River of Stars, 2nd in the Under Heaven duology set in a Tang Dynasty China analogue
@ $6.99:
Under Heaven (this may seem pricey, but there is no money-saving omnibus edition of these yet, and GGK's books normally go for $11.99 each off-sale and are rarely on; also, our petro-dollar is really low right now, so you might make out pretty well on the exchange rate if you're not one of us)
The three component parts of his Fionavar Tapestry trilogy (Arthurian/real-world crossover) are currently slightly cheaper than the price of the
$19.99 omnibus edition, though there's a chance the omnibus might go on sale at some point.
@ $2.99
The Summer Tree, 1st
@ $4.99
The Wandering Fire, 2nd
@ $9.99
The Darkest Road, 3rd
Even if the 3rd one doesn't drop later, the combined price is still $2 cheaper than the omnibus, and you could always just buy the first 2 and then wait to see if this one drops while you read them.
(Disclaimer: this is not an endorsement for actually buying the series if it's not already something you know you'll like, as these are my 2nd-least-favourite books of GGKs, although that's just a personal taste thing and the actual writing/plotting/characterization is decent enough, unlike that of
Ysabel, which is my least-favourite GGK book for well-deserved reasons.)
Margaret Atwood (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia; Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner for
The Handmaid's Tale)
@ $9.99
The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake; The Year of the Flood; MaddAddam 3-book omnibus edition (normally somewhere in the $25 CAD range off-sale, IIRC; I personally didn't like the 1st book enough to continue the rest even from the library which I may one day do out of sheer morbid curiosity, but a lot of people enjoy these)
Also, retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's (
Wikipedia,
cover of David Bowie's Space Odyssey sung on the station, former commander of the International Space Station) non-fiction memoir about his astronaut training and part of his time on the ISS is on sale as well if you're interested (normally in the $12 range or so):
@ $4.99
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth