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[SomeSteve]

Greatest Hits, a selection of stories by Harlan Ellison, is $0.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US.

From the cover:

"Love him or hate him, Harlan Ellison was a legend."--NPR

And if Ellison isn't controversial enough for you, there's a foreword by Neil Gaiman!

https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hera.../dp/B0CJ61TYNT

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/greatest-hits-248

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by SomeSteve

Greatest Hits, a selection of stories by Harlan Ellison, is $0.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US.

From the cover:


And if Ellison isn't controversial enough for you, there's a foreword by Neil Gaiman!

https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hera.../dp/B0CJ61TYNT

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/greatest-hits-248

And yet it doesn't include "A Boy and His Dog", arguably his single most famous short-story/novella..

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

And yet it doesn't include "A Boy and His Dog", arguably his single most famous short-story/novella..

And I much preferred the original 1969 novella to the later expansion into a novel in the late 80s.

[Hollow Man]

He has so many stories, thus it's impossible to narrow them down to a few to fit in a "best of" collection, and please everyone. I'm sure more collections will be forthcoming if this book sells well.

[tch65721]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

And yet it doesn't include "A Boy and His Dog", arguably his single most famous short-story/novella..

Is "A Boy and His Dog" even available? I have "Vic and Blood" in digital format but that does not seem to be available any longer.

[Hollow Man]

J. Michael Straczynski is the literary executor of his estate, and is ensuring his works don't disappear. Although it may take time before everything one wants to read is easily available.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by Hollow Man

He has so many stories, thus it's impossible to narrow them down to a few to fit in a "best of" collection, and please everyone. I'm sure more collections will be forthcoming if this book sells well.

Sure, but most "best of" collections are usually understood to mean "most well-known" or "most popular", unless the anthologist has their own specific reasoning for choosing this one or that. If you had a "Greatest Hits" album for a band that was missing its objectively highest-charting single, you would find that a curious omission.

We might charitably assume that J. Michael Straczynski did not include "A Boy and His Dog" in the collection because maybe he can't--that the rights to it are held by some other publisher. But given Ellison's lifelong advocacy for authors' rights, residuals, etc., I would also find that very unusual that his estate didn't own the rights to arguably his most famous work.

I suspect the more likely scenario (as bolstered by the other user's comment that you can't find AB&HD available anywhere at the moment) is that Straczynski is intentionally holding it back because he is planning to release a new edition of The Complete Adventures of a Boy and His Dog, Vic and Blood, or Blood's a Rover soon, and wants the story in that anthology instead.

[Hollow Man]

Here's what JMS had to say on choosing what to include:

It was terribly hard. Some stories like ”’Repent, Harlequin’” and “I Have No Mouth…” are no-brainers…but beyond that it became a matter of finding the most recognized stories that also showed his amazing range… going from speculative fiction, to urban fantasy, to some things that were just two degrees away from mainstream…to show all the different shades of his work. I think we hit the right balance.

[zelda.owns.link]

I know it's a long shot; but really hoping someone can help! This past Saturday kindle had Linsey Miller's Prince series on sale for $1.99 each. I submitted a price match request to Kobo. They took too long and the sale ended. I have no proof of the sale. Did anyone purchase the titles and have their order confirmation I could use?

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by zelda.owns.link

I know it's a long shot; but really hoping someone can help! This past Saturday kindle had Linsey Miller's Prince series on sale for $1.99 each. I submitted a price match request to Kobo. They took too long and the sale ended. I have no proof of the sale. Did anyone purchase the titles and have their order confirmation I could use?

That's a useful reminder for me as someone intending to try out Kobo price match. I will try to remember to take a screen shot of the price at Amazon.

[tch65721]

A Deadly Education: A Novel (The Scholomance Book 1) by Naomi Novik - $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083RZC8KQ

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the first book of the Scholomance trilogy, the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic.

[JSWolf]

Faebound by Saara El-Arifi is the first book in the Faebound series (book two is out). It's on sale in the UK. It £0.99.

DIVIDED BY BLOOD. IMPRISONED BY FATE. BOUND BY DESIRE.

WELCOME TO THE INTOXICATING WORLD OF THE FAE.

Yeeran is a warrior in the elven army and has known nothing but violence her whole life. Her sister, Lettle, is trying to make a living as a diviner, seeking prophecies of a better future.

When a fatal mistake leads to Yeeran’s exile from the Elven lands, they are both forced into the terrifying wilderness beyond their borders. There they encounter the impossible: the fae court.

The fae haven’t been seen for a millennium. But now Yeeran and Lettle are thrust into their seductive world – torn between their loyalty to each other, their elven homeland, and their hearts…

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/fae...aebound-book-1
https://www.ebooks.com/en-gb/book/210894902
https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=9xbJEAAAQBAJ
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Saara...bound/29905898
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C9XND8XW

[BetterRead]

Traitor's Blade (Book One of the Greatcoats Quartet) by Sebastien de Castell is currently on sale for $0.99 at Amazon, Kobo and B&N.

The Three Musketeers meets Joe Abercrombie via Mark Lawrence

The Greatcoats are travelling magistrates bringing justice to all . . . or at least they were, before they watched the Dukes impale their King's head on a spike. Now the land's heroes are reviled as traitors, their Greatcoats in tatters.

Facio, Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as mercenaries, but when they find their employer dead - and are forced to watch as the killer plants evidence framing them for the murder - they realize things are about to get even worse. For the royal conspiracy that began with overthrowing an idealistic young king is spreading to Rijou, the most corrupt city in the land, and the life of a young girl hangs in the balance.

When every noble is a tyrant and every knight is a thug, the only thing you can really trust is a traitor's blade.

[salty-horse]

Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Review by Ian Mond, who lists it as one of the favorites of 2024.

Can the absence of words tell a story? Like a pattern in lace, the holes as important as the threads?

A search. A puzzle. Sixty protagonists—all of whom are dead.

Told entirely through obituaries and ricocheting through time, Remember You Will Die is an innovative, genre-bending epic about the messy tapestry of human history and the threads that connect us, told through the eyes of Peregrine, an AI mother grappling with the unexpected death of her human daughter, Poppy.

And from the newspaper clippings of individual lives emerges something else unexpected: generations entwined through blood and art and the consequences of their actions, betrayals and redemptions that traverse our dying world and beyond.

Spanning continents, centuries, planets, and genres, and centering a diverse mix of human experiences, Remember You Will Die is a provocative exploration of who we are and what we could be.

[pdurrant]

Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay is just £1.99 at Amazon UK this month.

The City Watch and Golems. What's not to like?

I Shall Wear Midnight is just £0.99.


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