FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

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The pretty much annual sale on John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider is on for $1.99.

Kobo CA: The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner

Amazon CA: The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner

[salty-horse]

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey is $2.99 (down from $10) on Amazon.com and other US stores.
A novella. "The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing."

Thorn by Intisar Khanani is $2.99 on all major US and Canadian stores.
First in a series, but a standalone. A retelling of the Goose Girl by the Brothers Grimm. Described by the author as a "story of sorcery, betrayal, and finding the strength to chart your own course".

[itisbomb]

Blood of Elves (The Witcher #2)
by Andrzej Sapkowski

is $2.99 at U.S. stores

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/blood-of-elves

Below is the blurb:
Now a Netflix original series!

The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, becomes the guardian of Ciri, surviving heiress of a bloody revolution and prophesied savior of the world, in the first novel of the New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Netflix show and the hit video games.

For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf.

Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as the Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world -- for good, or for evil.

As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is hunted for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt's responsibility to protect them all. And the Witcher never accepts defeat.

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

Blood of Elves (The Witcher #2)
by Andrzej Sapkowski

is $2.99 at U.S. stores

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/blood-of-elves

Below is the blurb:
Now a Netflix original series!

The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, becomes the guardian of Ciri, surviving heiress of a bloody revolution and prophesied savior of the world, in the first novel of the New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Netflix show and the hit video games.

For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf.

Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as the Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world -- for good, or for evil.

As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is hunted for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt's responsibility to protect them all. And the Witcher never accepts defeat.

Isn't Geralt of Rivia a commentator on Fox News?

[cc_in_oh]

Originally Posted by GlenBarrington

Isn't Geralt of Rivia a commentator on Fox News?

That's worth at least 2 extra bowls of soup...

[Tarana]

Adulthood Rites (The Xenogenesis Trilogy Book 2) By Octavia E. Butler $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Adulthood-R...2492584&sr=8-1
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/adulthood-rites

[curtw]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

^ I looked at the company that's holding the auction. Be VERY careful. There are some very negative comments.

Thanks! I didn't even think to check for that. I can't see their commission listed. Even their terms and conditions page doesn't include it. Wow.

[Dr. Drib]

If you LOVE sword and sorcery, as I do, then you might want to check out this FREE first issue of Whetstone (The Amateur Magazine of Sword and Sorcery).

I got the info from DMR Books, a publisher that specializes in sword and sorcery.

Here's the link to the FREE PDF of the magazine:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oYO...-342797Oh/view

(I have no affiliation with DMR Books.)

[salty-horse]

Deals I found on Kobo ("international" region) by publisher Head of Zeus.
Since I don't know of a price tracker for this site, I'm not sure since when these are the prices, but I got the same edition of By Force Alone for $5.39 when it was published.
Many of their books are listed for about $4 which is odd.

Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky is $1.06 Link
Just got shortlisted for the 2020 Clarke Award.

The Sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, surviving on the debris of its long-dead progenitors, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity.

Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new, is Stefan Advani, rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will treat with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?

By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar is $2.46 - Link
"A retelling of Arthurian myth for the age of Brexit and Trump"

The Romans have gone. While their libraries smoulder, roads decay and cities crumble, men with swords pick over civilisation's carcass, slaughtering and being slaughtered in turn.

This is the story of just such a man. Like the others, he had a sword. He slew until slain. Unlike the others, we remember him. We remember King Arthur.

This is the story of a land neither green nor pleasant. An eldritch isle of deep forest and dark fell haunted by swaithes, boggarts and tod-lowries, Robin-Goodfellows and Jenny Greenteeths, and predators of rarer appetite yet.

This is the story of a legend forged from a pack of self-serving, turd-gilding, weasel-worded lies told to justify foul deeds and ill-gotten gains.

This is the story – viscerally entertaining, ominously subversive and poetically profane – of a Dark Age myth that shaped a nation.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

^ This book has gotten some horrible reviews, but I may go ahead and purchase it. I used to be a big fan of Robert A. Heinlein, having read almost everything he's written.

And Twilight got hundreds of glowing reviews. Nuff said.

[rrrlakin]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Deals I found on Kobo ("international" region) by publisher Head of Zeus.
Since I don't know of a price tracker for this site, I'm not sure since when these are the prices, but I got the same edition of By Force Alone for $5.39 when it was published.
Many of their books are listed for about $4 which is odd.

Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky is $1.06 Link
Just got shortlisted for the 2020 Clarke Award.


By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar is $2.46 - Link
"A retelling of Arthurian myth for the age of Brexit and Trump"

Free at Amazon under title By Force Alone Sneak Peek

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by rrrlakin

Free at Amazon under title By Force Alone Sneak Peek

That's just a sample...

[rrrlakin]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

That's just a sample...

Not true.
At least not on my Kindle.
16 chapters, all there.

[rrrlakin]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

That's just a sample...

The whole book.
I checked.

[Dr. Drib]

Kindle People:

It's an Extended Preview (and it has this on the cover) of a whole book that is supposed to be over 400 pages.

The Extended Preview is only 117 pages. And the Extended Preview is free.

I know.

I downloaded it.

The actual full book will be released in the U.S.A. FROM AMAZON on August 11, 2020.