FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[svenlind]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Left Hand of Darkness, classic Ursula Le Guin 85p Amazon UK today https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01NCU4VNT/

Also on offer at Amazon.com Link

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by svenlind

Also on offer at Amazon.com Link

Interesting: The Sample has a different cover than the one shown.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Interesting: The Sample has a different cover than the one shown.

When I look at the link, it shows a book cover from the S F Masterworks edition (asin:B01NCU4VNT) with the publisher listed as Gateway while when I click on the Kindle button, it shows a 50th anniversary cover (asin:B00YBA7PGW) with the publisher listed as Ace. Same behaviour on Amazon.ca. The Amazon.ca link shows a someshat expected "This title is not currently available for purchase" for the Gateway edition.

[salty-horse]

These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
First in a trilogy. Just won the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award award given for paperback originals.
Wizards vs Lesbians podcast review (begins with a non-spoiler section.)

A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones of a genocide. A carefully hidden secret that could collapse worlds, hunted by three women with secrets of their own. All the while, someone hunts them in return. This is an explosive space opera debut from one of the most powerful new voices in science fiction.

On a dusty backwater planet, occasional thief Jun Ironway has gotten her hands on the score of a lifetime: a secret that could raze the Kindom, the ruling power of the galaxy.

A star system away, preternaturally stoic Chono and brilliant hothead Esek— the two most brutal clerics of the Kindom—are tasked with hunting Jun down.

And tracking all three across the stars is a ghost from their shared past known only as Six. But what Six wants is anyone’s guess. It’s a game of manipulation and betrayal that could destroy them all. And they have no choice but to see it through.

[WillAdams]

Feet of Clay: A Discworld Novel Kindle Edition
by Terry Pratchett (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TU16OU

[ZodWallop]

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies.

Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released.

The city is gripped by an alien terror. The fate of millions lies with a clutch of renegades. A reckoning is due at the city’s heart, in the vast edifice of brick and wood and steel under the vaults of Perdido Street Station.

It is too late to escape.

[ZodWallop]

Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and foreboding roles. The time has come to end the staged madness . . . but can it really be stopped? Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones serves up twists and turns, introduces Querida, Derk, Blade, and Shona and a remarkable cast of wizards, soldiers, kings, dragons, and griffins, and mixes in a lively dash of humor. With all the ingredients of high fantasy, this unforgettable novel will delight fans old and new.

[rrrlakin]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

The Amazon link is to "The Autumnal"

rrrlakin

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by rrrlakin

The Amazon link is to "The Autumnal"

Fixed now.

The Autumnal is another book I shared.

[salty-horse]

Mulengro: A Romany Tale by Charles de Lint is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

The Gypsies live in the shadows of the city, blending in with Canadian society but never adapting to it, cling to the traditional Romany ways.

Now a series of bizarre murders have baffled the police - each death somehow connected with the city's elusive Gypsy community. The police are looking for a human murderer. The Romany know better. They know the name of the darkness that hunts them down, one by one. He Who Walks With Ghosts - Mulengro.

[salty-horse]

The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson are $3 each in the US (Kobo US, Kobo WW, Amazon)
These are part of the thematically-connected Three Californias Triptych.

The Gold Coast - set in an alternative future of ecological collapse.

2027: Southern California is a developer's dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young man lost in a world of fast cars, casual sex, and designer drugs. But his descent in to the shadowy underground of industrial terrorism brings him into a shattering confrontation with his family, his goals, and his ideals.

Pacific Edge:
2065: In a world that has rediscovered harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, is an ecotopia in the making. Kevin Claiborne, a young builder who has grown up in this "green" world, now finds himself caught up in the struggle to preserve his community's idyllic way of life from the resurgent forces of greed and exploitation.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by WillAdams

Feet of Clay: A Discworld Novel Kindle Edition
by Terry Pratchett (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TU16OU

$1.99

[salty-horse]

Books 1 and 2 in the Virga series by Karl Schroeder are $3 each in the US (Kobo US, Kobo WW, Amazon)
These are Sun of Suns and Queen of Candesce

It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity.

Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances...

[ZodWallop]

Voyage by Stephen Baxter is $2 at Amazon US.

It is billed as part of the NASA trilogy, but there is no continuity between any of the books. They just all involve NASA in some way.

In this sci-fi alternate history, JFK’s planned mission to Mars embarks on an intrepid journey—“a wonderful, patriotic tale of lost possibility” (Kirkus).

In Voyage, Stephen Baxter imagines how, if President Kennedy had lived, America might have gone on to send a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Created from true lives and real events, this richly detailed novel returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket. Historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan are interwoven with unforgettable characters who embody the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall.

This sprawling tale tells the story of Gregory Dana, a Nazi camp survivor who achieves the dream of his hated masters; Gershon, the Vietnam fighter jock determined to be the first African-American to land on another planet; and Natalie York, the brilliant geologist/astronaut who risks love and career for the chance to run her fingers through the soil of another world.

[DrNefario]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Voyage by Stephen Baxter is $2 at Amazon US.

It is billed as part of the NASA trilogy, but there is no continuity between any of the books. They just all involve NASA in some way.

I’m a bit of a sucker for an alt-history space program (see also For All Mankind on TV and the Lady Astronaut book series), but I really loved this book.