FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Gardenman]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Reprint of a 1977 fantasy anthology. Should be free everywhere.

Swords Against Darkness ed. Andrew J Offutt
amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

Contents at isfdb.org

Thanks I picked it up

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

^

Highly recommended if you like sword & sorcery. These are Robert E. Howard-'ish' novelettes.

I have to wonder who Richard E. Howard is?

Praise for Richard E. Howard:

"Howard's writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks." - Stephen King
"For stark, living fear... what other writer is even in the running." - H. P. Lovecraft

[tch65721]

The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga Book 3) by David Brin - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B091Y4Z8BM
Won the HUGO and LOCUS awards (1988).

[salty-horse]

The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie is $2.99 on Amazon.com

A standalone novel set in the First Law world. 5th in publication order after the original trilogy, and another standalone.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I have to wonder who Richard E. Howard is?

He's most famous for Conan the Barbarian, and basically created that whole genre.

Spoiler:

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.

Howard was born and raised in Texas. He spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains, with some time spent in nearby Brownwood. A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing. From the age of nine he dreamed of becoming a writer of adventure fiction but did not have real success until he was 23. Thereafter, until his death by suicide at age 30, Howard's writings were published in a wide selection of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and he became proficient in several subgenres. His greatest success occurred after his death.

Although a Conan novel was nearly published in 1934, Howard's stories were never collected during his lifetime. The main outlet for his stories was Weird Tales, where Howard created Conan the Barbarian. With Conan and his other heroes, Howard helped fashion the genre now known as sword and sorcery, spawning many imitators and giving him a large influence in the fantasy field. Howard remains a highly read author, with his best works still reprinted, and is one of the best-selling fantasy writers of all time.

Howard's suicide and the circumstances surrounding it have led to speculation about his mental health. His mother had been ill with tuberculosis her entire life, and upon learning she had entered a coma from which she was not expected to wake, he walked out to his car and shot himself in the head.

Source

[Apache]

I think DNSB was pointing out that the name was listed as Richard E. Howard not Robert E. Howard.
Apache

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by Manabi

He's most famous for Conan the Barbarian, and basically created that whole genre.

Spoiler:

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.

Howard was born and raised in Texas. He spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains, with some time spent in nearby Brownwood. A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing. From the age of nine he dreamed of becoming a writer of adventure fiction but did not have real success until he was 23. Thereafter, until his death by suicide at age 30, Howard's writings were published in a wide selection of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and he became proficient in several subgenres. His greatest success occurred after his death.

Although a Conan novel was nearly published in 1934, Howard's stories were never collected during his lifetime. The main outlet for his stories was Weird Tales, where Howard created Conan the Barbarian. With Conan and his other heroes, Howard helped fashion the genre now known as sword and sorcery, spawning many imitators and giving him a large influence in the fantasy field. Howard remains a highly read author, with his best works still reprinted, and is one of the best-selling fantasy writers of all time.

Howard's suicide and the circumstances surrounding it have led to speculation about his mental health. His mother had been ill with tuberculosis her entire life, and upon learning she had entered a coma from which she was not expected to wake, he walked out to his car and shot himself in the head.

Source

That's Robert E. Howard. DNSB is asking about Richard E. Howard.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Manabi

He's most famous for Conan the Barbarian, and basically created that whole genre.

As pointed out a couple of times, Amazon has an error on their website. I mentioned it to them and now comes the fun of wondering when/if the error will be corrected.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by DNSB

As pointed out a couple of times, Amazon has an error on their website. I mentioned it to them and now comes the fun of wondering when/if the error will be corrected.

Ahh, I see, I missed that.

My bet on when is never.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Manabi

Ahh, I see, I missed that.

My bet on when is never.

My dear fellow pessimist, I already took that slot in the pool.

[sufue]

I follow Wildside Press mostly for their mysteries, but they also publish some science fiction as well. They seem to mostly publish out-of-print works for which they manage to obtain the rights, and also collections of public domain works. (For example, publisher John Betancourt mentioned in his email that he has recently acquired the rights to most of E.C. Tubb's non-Dumarest titles...)

Anyway, if you're interested, WP has a couple of coupons for Father's Day that would presumably work on science fiction just as well. And here's a cross-post to my post in the Mystery thread that has the info: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4131347

(And they are offering a free mystery too...)

[GlennD]

The second uplift trilogy omnibus ("The Uplift Storm") by David Brin is on sale at Amazon US for $3.99. Is there a new uplift book coming out? Seems like several of these have gone on sale recently.

[Tarana]

The Black Prism - Brent Weeks $2.99 Amazon and Kobo
Book 1 of the Lightbringer

[gbm]

In my email today.

19 ebooks for $7.99. Delivery through Bookfunnel. The books will stay in your Bookfunnel library forever, and once you downloaded them, they're yours.

https://20bookpacks.com/SpaceAdventure?

DRM FREE

No one knows what waits for us beyond the void of interstellar space. Fantastic landscapes and wondrous peoples. Doing. Living. Just like us but completely different.

Explore those realms with us, places where multiple dimensions exist simultaneously and travel between them takes only a well-disciplined mind. The search for more war by mercenary armies. And so much more...

Spoiler:

Smuggler's Moon C.P. MacDonald
High Mountain Hunters William Alan Webb
Warrior: Integration David Hallquist
Storm Divers Terry Mixon
Rediscovery Lisa Silverthorne
Ambassador 1, 1A, 2 Omnibus Patty Jansen
Safe Passage Rachel Ford
Ravages of Honor:Conquest Monalisa Foster
Sticks and Stones: A Trek Novel Robert Jeschonek
The Cauldron Jean Rabe
The One: A Cruise Through the Solar System Eric Klein
The Chara Talisman Alastair Mayer
It Ain't Over... Robert M. Kerns
The Chiral Conspiracy L. L. Richman
Assassin Kacey Ezell
Dekker's Dozen: The Armageddon Seeds Christopher Schmitz
Slice of Entropy Lawrence M. Schoen
The Starchild Compact Robert Williscroft

Plus an added bonus

Dragon Invasion Craig Martelle & Valerie Emerson

Ends July 4.
bernie

[brouer]

Originally Posted by gbm

In my email today.

19 ebooks for $7.99. Delivery through Bookfunnel. The books will stay in your Bookfunnel library forever, and once you downloaded them, they're yours.

https://20bookpacks.com/SpaceAdventure?

DRM FREE


Ends July 4.
bernie

Love that cover on “Slice of Entropy”.