FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[maddz]

US only Humble Bundle: Terry Pratchett's Discworld

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/t...026_bookbundle

Note it's only 39 books; it doesn't include The Last Hero or Raising Steam.

Also it's redeem through Kobo.com.

[WillAdams]

Two Harry Harrison books are on sale on Amazon:

_The Stainless Steel Rat_

https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Ste...dp/B08R3Z5F72/

and

_The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World_

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008KP427O

[DNSB]

For those who have Kobo Plus, the two books are in it.

The Stainless Steel Rat - https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...s-steel-rat-13

The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World - https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...es-the-world-2

[salty-horse]

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow is £1 in the UK (Amazon only ATM, but price-matchable on Kobo)
This has been getting a lot of praise, and was on my wishlist, but please read this negative review by Stewart Hotston calling out its racism.

A lady-knight whose legend built a nation meets a retiring historian in awe of her fame. He’s sent back through time to make sure she plays her part . . . even if it breaks his heart.

Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters – but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten.

Centuries later, Owen Mallory – failed soldier, struggling scholar – falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives, and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs. But that story always ends the same way.

If they want to rewrite Una’s legend, and finally tell a different story, they’ll have to rewrite history itself – and change their lives in the process . . .

[DNSB]

IMHO, Stewart Hotston wrote less of a review and more of a rant.

[salty-horse]

The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps, where two lost souls living in different centuries meet and discover if a second chance awaits them behind its doors.

“Have you travelled a long way?” she asked carefully..
A smile twitched at the corner of his mouth. “Well, yes,” he said slowly. “Yes, you could say that. But it was worth the wait.”

London, 2015. When reclusive art appraiser Eve Shaw shakes the hand of a silver-haired gentleman in her office, the warmth of his palm sends a spark through her.

His name is Max Everly—curiously, the same name as Eve’s favorite composer, born one hundred sixteen years prior. And she has the sudden feeling that she’s held his hand before . . . but where, and when?

The White Octopus Hotel, 1935. In this belle époque building high in the snowy mountains, Eve and a young Max wander the winding halls, lost in time.

Each of them has been through the trenches—Eve through a family accident and Max on the battlefields of the Great War—but for an impossible moment, love and healing are just a room away . . . if only they have the courage to step through the door.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Poor dead Jack Finney and Stefan Zweig are both rising from their graves! And they're not happy!

[salty-horse]

Singularity Sky (Eschaton #1) by Charles Stross is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
An early Stross series (2 books), about which he said: "due to internal consistency issues I won't be writing any more of these."

In a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross.

In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years of time and a thousand parsecs of space—are beginning to rediscover their origins.

The New Republic is one such colony. It has existed for centuries in self-imposed isolation, rejecting all but the most basic technology. Now, under attack by a devastating information plague, the colony must reach out to Earth for help. A battle fleet is dispatched, streaking across the stars to the rescue. But things are not what they seem—secret agendas and ulterior motives abound, both aboard the ship and on the ground. And watching over it all is the Eschaton, which has its own very definite ideas about the outcome...

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Blame the publisher for shoving it into the Synopsis. I'm just using salty's bookmarklet to generate the body. I didn't see all the extra crap on preview.

So why not edit the posts and do it manually? All that crap makes your posts unreadable.

[DrNefario]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

So why not edit the posts and do it manually? All that crap makes your posts unreadable.

Not really. It's easy to ignore/skim the quoted synopsis. Just like it is on the actual store page.

I'd rather have the posts with the extra stuff than not have them at all.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

So why not edit the posts and do it manually? All that crap makes your posts unreadable.

Purely to spite you, Jon.

[curtw]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Singularity Sky (Eschaton #1) by Charles Stross is $2 in the US

Mixed reviews, but as long as nobody's comparing it favorably to the works of Peter Watts, I'm in.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by maddz

US only Humble Bundle: Terry Pratchett's Discworld

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/t...026_bookbundle

Note it's only 39 books; it doesn't include The Last Hero or Raising Steam.

Also it's redeem through Kobo.com.

This is a great deal for anyone wanting most of the Discworld eBooks.

[maddz]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

This is a great deal for anyone wanting most of the Discworld eBooks.

Yeah, I got it. We only had 8 in ebook (mostly City Watch) and most in print. So getting the ebooks was a no-brainer despite the faffing around.

[salty-horse]

Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter is £3 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake?

Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia.