FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Not only did I give up after the first one, I bought the ebook trilogy back in 2020 when the list price was still $15, before $2.99 became the new base price.

A wonderful classic at a GREAT price!

[WillAdams]

Heinlein's _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ is $2.99 at Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Harsh-Mi.../dp/B07CWGBZ4R

A quaint/vintage look at A.I./computer self-awareness, it's a classic story, which arguably can still speak to current political situations.

[Quoth]

A classic and the AI is really not important, a maguffin really. One of his really good ones.

[ZodWallop]

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

Beautiful cover and the book looks like a lot of fun.

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own legend.

Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural.

But when she’s tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she’s offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade’s kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family’s future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God’s will.

Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there’s more to this job, and the girl’s disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there’s always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power…and the price might be your very soul.

[salty-horse]

High-Rise by J. G. Ballard is $2 on Amazon.com
Kobo is still full price.

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.

[salty-horse]

Air by Geoff Ryman is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
An expansion of the short story Have Not Have

Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology is Air. An initial testing of Air goes disastrously wrong and people are killed from the shock. Not to be stopped Air is arriving with or without the blessing of Mae's village. Mae is the only one who knows how to harness Air and ready her people for it's arrival, but will they listen before it's too late?

[salty-horse]

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovich is $2 on Amazon.com
First in a popular urban fantasy series.

Restored to its original British title Rivers of London, this Author’s Preferred Edition includes revised text never before seen by US readers and a new introduction by the author.

My name is Peter Grant and until recently I was just another probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right thinking people as the Metropolitan Police and by everyone else as the filth. My only concerns in life were avoiding a transfer to the Case Progression Unit – We do paperwork so other coppers don’t have to – and where to get a hot coffee while on late shift. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from a man who was dead, but disturbingly voluble and that brought me to the attention Chief Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in Britain.

And that, as they say, is where the story really starts.

Now I’m in plain clothes and the first apprentice wizard in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated. Now I’m dealing with nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the River Thames and digging up graves in Covent Garden – and that’s just the routine stuff.

Because there’s something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious, vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair.

The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it’s fallen to me to bring order out of chaos – or die trying. Which, I don’t mind telling you, would involve a hell of a lot of paperwork.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovich is $2 on Amazon.com
First in a popular urban fantasy series.

It's a very good book.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

Beautiful cover and the book looks like a lot of fun.

Got it!

A nice, FAT fantasy and apparently there are more books by this gal/guy. Who the hell is he/she? Where did she/he come from all of a sudden? Why haven't I heard about /her/him? HUH?

THANK YOU!

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Got it!

A nice, FAT fantasy and apparently there are more books by this gal/guy. Who the hell is he/she? Where did she/he come from all of a sudden? Why haven't I heard about /her/him? HUH?

The author uses she/her pronouns, and is quite well known. https://www.sachakraborty.com/
This novel comes after her success with the Daevabad trilogy (starting with City of Brass), which were mentioned in these forums in the past, as they were on sale.
And Amina is up for several awards this year.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The author uses she/her pronouns, and is quite well known. https://www.sachakraborty.com/
This novel comes after her success with the Daevabad trilogy (starting with City of Brass), which were mentioned in these forums in the past, as they were on sale.
And Amina is up for several awards this year.

Thanks for the info. I'll keep my eyes open for anything else from this author that goes on sale.

[maddz]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Thanks for the info. I'll keep my eyes open for anything else from this author that goes on sale.

You may want to check Amazon or Kobo then: City of Brass is in the May Monthly Deal on the UK sites. I can't answer for the other country sites.

We've had that one for a while - at least since the Dublin Worldcon. I've read it, and to be honest I thought it weak, so I've not read the others (which himself got as they appeared in monthly deals). I've read Amina Al-Sirafy, and preferred that (but still don't think it a brilliant novel even though it's on the Hugo shortlist).

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by maddz

You may want to check Amazon or Kobo then: City of Brass is in the May Monthly Deal on the UK sites. I can't answer for the other country sites.

We've had that one for a while - at least since the Dublin Worldcon. I've read it, and to be honest I thought it weak, so I've not read the others (which himself got as they appeared in monthly deals). I've read Amina Al-Sirafy, and preferred that (but still don't think it a brilliant novel even though it's on the Hugo shortlist).

Just bought The City of Brass [Kobo; UK] for £0.99

THANK YOU!

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Just bought The City of Brass [Kobo; UK] for £0.99

THANK YOU!

€1.47 on Kobo Ireland, not too bad.

[maddz]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Just bought The City of Brass [Kobo; UK] for £0.99

THANK YOU!

You're welcome.

I'd be interested to know what you think of it when you finish, and how you think it compares to Amina Al-Sirafy. Incidentally, I came across this title when I was poking around on Kobo - https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/acc...hina-and-india - so I guess that's where the inspiration for that one comes from.