Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov is $1.99 on
Amazon.com
A prequel to the
Foundation series, focusing on Hari Seldon.
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky is $2.99 on
Amazon.com
Was on my wishlist. Just $1 discount on this novella, but just what I've been irrationally waiting for. The science-fantasy stuff I like - a society unaware it's in a science-fictional setting.
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A junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe.
Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.
But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).
But Elder Nyr isn’t a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, and his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon…
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