Bargain @ $1.50 each from Amazon's AmazonCrossing exclusive translation/international imprint (last day, these were monthly deals):
- Pathological by award-winning Chinese author Jinkang Wang (ISFDB, SFE; he has one of China's Nebula equivalents), a biological technothriller which Hugo & Nebula Award-winning author Nancy Kress praises in the editorial reviews section.
- The Oddfits by American-Australian author Tiffany Tsao (ISFDB), 1st in her Oddfits series, this one a metaphysical urban fantasy about a misfit boy who discovers that he belongs to a hidden group of people who can access another world, and also that there are the obligatory forces that oppose that sort of thing.
Also, at $1.99 from AmazonCrossing:
The Original Dream by award-winning Indonesian writer Nukila Amal (
ISFDB), a metaphysical literary fiction journey of self-discovery novel with magical realism elements that ISFDB thinks is close enough to sfnal to include.