FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[salty-horse]

Broken Light by Joanne Harris is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Have you ever felt invisible?

Bernie Moon has given her life to other people: her husband, her son, her friends (who are these days, mostly online). At nineteen she was full of dreams and ambitions; now almost fifty, and going through the menopause, she's fading, fast. Heartbroken and hormonal, she often feels like she's losing her mind.

But when a young woman is murdered in a local park, it sparks a series of childhood memories in Bernie and with them, a talent that has lain dormant most of her adult life.

She promised herself she'd never think of it again. When she was a teenager, it almost destroyed her. But now she's older, could it be the power she's been missing?

Could it be the chance to, finally, make them look?Have you ever felt invisible?

Bernie Moon has given her life to other people: her husband, her son, her friends (who are these days, mostly online). At nineteen she was full of dreams and ambitions; now almost fifty, and going through the menopause, she's fading, fast. Heartbroken and hormonal, she often feels like she's losing her mind.

But when a young woman is murdered in a local park, it sparks a series of childhood memories in Bernie and with them, a talent that has lain dormant most of her adult life.

She promised herself she'd never think of it again. When she was a teenager, it almost destroyed her. But now she's older, could it be the power she's been missing?

Could it be the chance to, finally, make them look?

[cc_in_oh]

Sounds like a good deal - any problems reading Kobo books on a Kindle?

Originally Posted by salty-horse

No-one posted the Tad Williams Humble Bundle, so I will.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/t...d-beyond-books

$18 for 21 books, redeemable @ Kobo.
Includes most of his novels, including the most recent trilogy The Last King of Osten Ard trilogy which was a followup to Memory, Sorrow & Thorn.

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by cc_in_oh

Sounds like a good deal - any problems reading Kobo books on a Kindle?

You'd need to remove DRM and convert, but that's very doable.

This is a great deal. Tad Williams is very good and it's relatively rare to see his books on sale.

[salty-horse]

Hopeland by Ian McDonald is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
This is a recent release

Hopeland is not a nation. It is not a cult. It is not a religion.

Hopeland is a community. It is a culture. It is a family.

When Raisa Hopeland, determined to win her race to become the next electromancer of London, bumps into Amon Brightbourne - tweed-suited, otherworldly, guided by the Grace - in the middle of a London riot, she sets in motion a series of events which will span decades, continents and a series of events which will change the world.

Amon falls in love in that moment of chaos, but being loved by him can have a cost. And while Raisa has Hopeland, Amon has a family of his own, and they have their own secrets.

From rioting London to geothermal Iceland to the climate-struck islands of Polynesia, from birth to life to death, from tranquillity to terror to joy, Raisa's journey will encompass the world. But one thing will always be true.

Hopeland is family.

[Aleron Ives]

The Humble Bundle support page says that you should use the Kobo mobile app to redeem your purchase; is it possible to use the Kobo website to enter the download code?

[maddz]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

The Humble Bundle support page says that you should use the Kobo mobile app to redeem your purchase; is it possible to use the Kobo website to enter the download code?

You must have a Kobo account set up. Using your browser, log into that, then go to the Humble Bundle redemption page in a new tab. Copy the code for the 1st tier, click on the link for the tier, then select the books you want to add to your Kobo library, enter the code in the box then click the confirmation box. Repeat for each tier you purchased.

Then go to your Kobo account, and go to your books, and you should see all the titles you just redeemed. What you then do depends on how you manage your library: if you read on a Kobo device directly, you can sync as normal.

If you manage your library via Calibre or read on a non-Kobo device, you need to download the books. Under each book cover in your library, you should see 3 dots; click on those, and select download (towards the bottom of the list). If the book has DRM, it will download an ADE ascm link which you import into ADE (or directly into Calibre with the appropriate plug-in). Once in Calibre, manage as you like.

[svenlind]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

No-one posted the Tad Williams Humble Bundle, so I will.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/t...d-beyond-books

I became interested and went to Amazon to read about some of the books.
I got the response shown below. I am a little impressed.

[salty-horse]

The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler is 2 units of local currency worldwide (Kobo US, Kobo WW, Kobo GB, Amazon.com)
Novella. Was on my wishlist.

Plagued by the creeping loss of her memory, diplomat Bréone Hemmerli continues to negotiate peace in an increasingly climate-devastated world. The Necessity of Stars brings the alien Tura to Bréone's Normandy garden, a place removed from the world's ruin. Within the garden's shadows, Tura will show Bréone a way forward, even if she can't remember it.

[salty-horse]

These Prisoning Hills by Christopher Rowe is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Novella. Was on my wishlist. Part of a sequence of "post-apocalyptic Appalachian weird fiction" stories by the author, but no previous familiarity is required.

Deallocate all implications,
Fortran harrows all the nations.

In a long-ago war, the all-powerful A.I. ruler of the Voluntary State of Tennessee—Athena Parthenus, Queen of Reason—invaded and decimated the American Southeast. Possessing the ability to infect and corrupt the surrounding environment with nanotechnology, she transformed flora, fauna, and the very ground itself into bio-mechanical weapons of war.

Marcia, a former captain from Kentucky, experienced first-hand the terrifying, mind-twisting capabilities of Athena’s creatures. Now back in the Commonwealth, her retirement is cut short by the arrival of federal troops in her tiny, isolated town. One of Athena’s most powerful weapons may still be buried nearby. And they need Marcia’s help to find it.

[Cactus Chef]

Soldier of the Mist (Latro Book 1) by Gene Wolfe is $3.99 today. It's a little higher than our normal cap for this thread, but it rarely goes on sale, and this is as cheap as it's ever been.

The first volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape.


At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009E6VSBG
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/soldier-of-the-mist

[GlennD]

The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, is on sale for $3.99 at Amazon. I checked ereaderiq, that's the lowest price they've tracked it at, it's usually $6.99

[Desertway]

Originally Posted by GlennD

The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, is on sale for $3.99 at Amazon. I checked ereaderiq, that's the lowest price they've tracked it at, it's usually $6.99

I'm all over this one.

[Desertway]

Originally Posted by GlennD

The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, is on sale for $3.99 at Amazon. I checked ereaderiq, that's the lowest price they've tracked it at, it's usually $6.99

Just noticed that you can add Audible narration to this for $1.99.

[salty-horse]

The Sleepless by Victor Manibo is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

In a hyper-capitalist near future, a grieving journalist investigates his mentor’s death—while grappling with unintended consequences of biohacking that just might implicate him in it. A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world to permanently lose the ability to sleep—without any apparent health implications. The outbreak creates a new class of people who are both feared and ostracized, most of whom optimize their extra hours to earn more money.

Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he can’t sleep, nor does he need to. When his boss dies on the eve of a controversial corporate takeover, Jamie doesn’t buy the too-convenient explanation of suicide, and launches an investigation of his own.

But everything goes awry when Jamie discovers that he was the last person who saw Simon alive. Not only do the police suspect him, Jamie himself has no memory of that night. Alarmingly, his memory loss may have to do with how he became Sleepless: not naturally, like other Sleepless people, but through a risky and illegal biohacking process.

As Jamie delves deeper into Simon’s final days, he tangles with extremist organizations and powerful corporate interests, all while confronting past traumas and unforeseen consequences of his medical experimentation. But Jamie soon faces the most dangerous decision of all as he uncovers a terrifying truth about Sleeplessness that imperils him—and all of humanity.

[salty-horse]

We Who Are About To . . . by Joanna Russ is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

One woman resists the demands of her fellow stranded survivors on an inhospitable planet in this “elegant and electric . . . tour-de-force” (Samuel R. Delany).

In this stunning and boldly imagined novel, an explosion leaves the passengers of a starship marooned on a barren alien planet. Despite only a slim chance for survival, most of the strangers are determined to colonize their new home. But the civilization they hoped for rapidly descends into a harsh microcosm of a male-dominated society, with the females in the group relegated to the subservient position of baby-makers.

One holdout wants to accept her fate realistically and prepare for death. But her desperate fellow survivors have no intention of honoring her individual right to choose. They’re prepared to force her to submit to their plan for reproduction—which will prove to be a grave mistake . . .