Free/Bargain Science Fiction/Fantasy in July 2013

[pdurrant]

A thread for July.

We point out free and bargain SF/Fantasy titles to each other. Please don't post any self-published books, and please do a search before posting to avoid duplicates.

Be aware that many freebies are only free for a day, so grab them fast. Enjoy!

[gbm]

Todays U.S. Kindle Daily deal for SF/F is, The Year of the Jackpot by Robert Heinlein

This novelette appeared in the March 1952 issue of GALAXY and is the only work which Heinlein wrote specifically for Horace Gold, the editor of GALAXY magazine. (Heinlein’s novel THE PUPPET MASTERS had been serialized in the September through November 1951 issues of GALAXY but Gold had merely acquired serial rights to a contract novel which had been written for Scribner’s.) Heinlein never again appeared in Gold’s GALAXY. This novelette, set in a near-future only subtly different from the McCarthyite and politically menacing present deals with social deterioration, cultural breakdown in a careful, documentary style which becomes terrifying. His romantically-linked leads are emotionally affecting but never sentimentalized, the background of chaos in which they enact their tragic, drowning love, is sparingly but furiously painted. Heinlein’s 1952 is clearly the apotheosis of those “Crazy Years” which he had noted in his famous chronological Future History, published a decade earlier in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION as a precis of his intended career. Perhaps no story of this period limns its political and cultural dysfunction as accurately as this novelette. Overshadowed by Heinlein’s juveniles and his famous later novels, THE YEAR OF THE JACKPOT may be the purest version of his portfolio and his most memorable work of less than novel length. It is one of his most exemplary stories and perhaps his best.

bernie

[gweeks]

Originally Posted by gbm

Todays U.S. Kindle Daily deal for SF/F is, The Year of the Jackpot by Robert Heinlein

Also published in The Menace from Earth so you might have a copy already. Baen has The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth as a single ebook.

http://www.amazon.com/Green-Hills-Ea...dp/B00APA1AEK/

$6.83 for both at Amazon.

Greg Weeks

[gbm]

Originally Posted by gweeks

Also published in The Menace from Earth so you might have a copy already. Baen has The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth as a single ebook.

http://www.amazon.com/Green-Hills-Ea...dp/B00APA1AEK/

$6.83 for both at Amazon.

Greg Weeks

I do.
When I do my books at Baenebooks sort by Robert A. Heinlein, all the ebooks, except the ebook only bundle shows "Previously Purchased". Will have to buy them over the next few months.


bernie

[koland]

free:

The Department 19 Files: the Secret History of a Teenage Vampire by Will Hill
Sold by: HarperCollins

A short story from the world of Department 19.

In 1891, Abraham Van Helsing and a group of friends faced Dracula, the world’s first vampire – and won. The survivors of that battle founded Department 19, and have been secretly saving the world ever since. A highly classified archive exists recording every act of bravery in that time.

That archive is now open. These are the Department 19 files.

Secret Department 19 headquarters, present day.

Larissa Kinley is a fully armed Operator for Department 19, a secret branch of the government dedicated to saving us all from the supernatural. She's also a vampire. And a teenage girl. When the 17-year-old survivor of a vampire attack is brought to the Department's base, Larissa finally finds the courage to tell someone her deepest secrets. But when the past catches up with you, sometimes it has fangs…

http://www.amazon.com/The-Department.../dp/B00DAK728A

[pdurrant]

Phoenix Pick's freebie this month is Rogue Queen by L. Sprague de Camp. The coupon code is 9991539.

http://www.phoenixpick.com/catalogue/PPickings.htm

They are also offering his "Lest Darkness Fall" in mobi/kindle and epub for $4.99, in an edition that includes several related stories from other authors. It was too tempting for me!

[Dr. Drib]

Got the L. Sprague de Camp book.

Thank you!




Don

[hwlester]

There are separate threads for each of these, but I figured I'd post links to the threads in this thread in case someone's only following this thread. Both of these just started in the past couple of days:

• Storybundle Sci-Fi Bundle
• Humble eBook Bundle 2

[slex]

[Deleted by moderator. Please read the first post in the thread properly: Please don't post any self-published books

Thank you.]

[jgaiser]

Perusing SFSignal this morning I found a posting about 175 SF/F/H Kindle books for $3.99 or less for the month of July. A good assortment and a couple I'm going to grab.

Be aware that all the links have affiliate codes for SFSignal.

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/201...-3-99-or-less/

[slex]

Originally Posted by slex

Deleted by moderator. Please read the first post in the thread properly: Please don't post any self-published books

Thank you.

The point of not posting self-published books is, IMO, to avoid having the thread overflooded with obscure titles by unknown authors. As I pointed out in my post, the book in question is well received and gets good reviews at some sites (Kurkus among them).

So, delete it if you want to, but I think that as a result of your actions some people have missed a chance to get a book for free, which they could've liked.

Out of curiousity, if Stephen King, e.g., self publishes a book, will you delete links to it?

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by slex

Out of curiousity, if Stephen King, e.g., self publishes a book, will you delete links to it?

If *he* posted a link here? Yeah, probably. As the forum title says -- no self-promotion.

[slex]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

If *he* posted a link here? Yeah, probably. As the forum title says -- no self-promotion.

Self-promotion is not in question here, we talk about linking to discounted and bargain titles which are self-published (and not by a publishing house).

[scottken]

Originally Posted by slex

The point of not posting self-published books is, IMO, to avoid having the thread overflooded with obscure titles by unknown authors. As I pointed out in my post, the book in question is well received and gets good reviews at some sites (Kurkus among them).

So, delete it if you want to, but I think that as a result of your actions some people have missed a chance to get a book for free, which they could've liked.

Out of curiousity, if Stephen King, e.g., self publishes a book, will you delete links to it?

There's a separate forum for "Author Self Promotions." You can post your promo there. Nuff said.

[scottken]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

Perusing SFSignal this morning I found a posting about 175 SF/F/H Kindle books for $3.99 or less for the month of July. A good assortment and a couple I'm going to grab.

Be aware that all the links have affiliate codes for SFSignal.

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/201...-3-99-or-less/

Thanks for the link! Lots of good stuff in there (Valente, Silverberg, Gaiman, Clark, Van Vogt, Wendig...)