FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[nana77]

Originally Posted by Quoth

mix of sans and serif "chapters".

The mix I guess is deliberate, as some are reports from a protagonist, some are descriptions, some are "files" as police printed document's reports..

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by nana77

This seems fun, "The Space Monster Anti-Survival Guide", by
Russell Holly: @0,89$ on Amazon; or @ 0$ on Google Play Books.

On Google Play Books, this is only available as PDF. Not worth the cost.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by nana77

The mix I guess is deliberate, as some are reports from a protagonist, some are descriptions, some are "files" as police printed document's reports..

I get that.
It's not as bad as different fonts for each person in dialogue.

It's self-published unless some publisher has gone mad.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

I get that.
It's not as bad as different fonts for each person in dialogue.

It's self-published unless some publisher has gone mad.

It's very poorly published. I am not speaking of the story as I've not read it. But PDF is rubbish when there is no need. I cannot say how the formatting is, but from what I'm reading, it doesn't sound good.

[DNSB]

Jon, if you haven't read the book, why the <expletive deleted> are you commenting on it.

[salty-horse]

Mariel of Redwall (Redwall #4) by Brian Jacques is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

When the mouse-ship carrying Joseph the Bellmaker and his daughter Mariel runs afoul of a pirate rat king, they are mercilessly tossed overboard. Washed ashore and certain that her father is dead, Mariel vows revenge.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Jon, if you haven't read the book, why the <expletive deleted> are you commenting on it.

Because it's a book that should have an ePub version but instead only has a PDF version. This is on Google Play Books.

I did add it to my library on Google. I was planning to read it.

[nana77]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Because it's a book that should have an ePub version but instead only has a PDF version. This is on Kobo.

I did add it to my library on Kobo. I was planning to read it.

I haven't found it on Kobo store.

[Dr. Drib]

Now that we have hopefully exhausted discussion of a book that does not belong in this Forum in the first place (unless someone has actually read this self-published title and wants to recommend it), what other books are there in the area of Science Fiction & Fantasy that one can recommend THAT ARE ON SALE?

I have $15 burning a hole in my shoe - that's where I keep my vast fortune - and I want to buy something.

[nana77]

"Out of the Sun", @ 2,59$ (-89%), by Ben Bova on Amazon; and the first book of his trilogy "Voyagers", also @ 2,59$, on Amazon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bova
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bova_bibliography

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by nana77

"Out of the Sun", @ 2,59$ (-89%), by Ben Bova on Amazon; and the first book of his trilogy "Voyagers", also @ 2,59$, on Amazon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bova
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bova_bibliography

I seem to have vol. 4 (and have not read it), but am lacking those first three books. Do you know if that trilogy has ever been released as a single volume?

Over the years, I've enjoyed what little I've read from him, but I wasn't reading that much hard science fiction during his years as editor of Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact.

Thanks.

[Cactus Chef]

The Winnowing Flame Trilogy (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy) by Jen Williams is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Join the heroes of the THE WINNOWING FLAME TRILOGY as they battle a terrible and ancient evil, in the complete collection from the two-time British Fantasy Award-winning author Jen Williams. Perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky, Brandon Sanderson and Scott Lynch.

'Diverse, different and intriguing . . . this is fantasy at its very best' STARBURST
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THE NINTH RAIN

The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves.

Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die - and when eccentric explorer, Lady Vincenza 'Vintage' de Grazon, offers him employment, he sees an easy way out.

Joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the adventurers are quickly drawn into a tangled conspiracy of magic and war.

For the Jure'lia are coming, and the Ninth Rain must fall...

THE BITTER TWINS

The Ninth Rain has fallen. The Jure'lia are awake.

Tormalin the Oathless and the fell-witch Noon must rally the first war-beasts to be born in Ebora for three centuries - hatched too soon and with no memory of their past incarnations, these winged creature are unprepared to face an ancient enemy who grow stronger each day.

Vintage believes the key to uniting the war-beasts may lie on a distant and mysterious island.
A perilous journey lies ahead, while new monsters lie in wait for those left behind.

THE POISON SONG

The war is far from over.

In Ebora, all is chaos, all is confusion. The connection that Tormalin, Noon and Vintage share with their war-beasts has kept them alive so far, but with Tor's sister Hestillion hell-bent on bringing ruthless order to the next enemy attack - the people of Sarn will need all the help they can get.

Noon knows just where to recruit a new - and powerful - army.
But even she underestimates the epic quest that is to come: a reckoning that will change Sarn forever.
_______________

⭐ READERS LOVE THE WINNOWING FLAMES TRILOGY ⭐

'One of my FAVOURITE epic fantasies. . . takes all the old favourite conventions and tropes, and changes them, for the better'

'Jen William's takes world building to a different level entirely'

'A fantastic unique world, wonderful characters, plenty of snark and humour, weird and wonderful monsters, and some brutal plot twists'

'One of my favourite fantasy series in years. I could not put my Kindle down'

'One of the best combinations of stunning world-building, epic storytelling and memorable characters I've ever read!'

'The kind of inventive, diverse, and emotional fantasy writing the genre really needs . . . so creative, so vibrant and refreshingly different'

'Quite simply one of the best fantasy novel trilogies I have read in a long time'

'The kind of fantasy that makes you feel really, really good. It gives you hope. It feeds your soul'

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Because it's a book that should have an ePub version but instead only has a PDF version. This is on Kobo.

I did add it to my library on Kobo. I was planning to read it.

It's not in the Kobo store. They don't have pdfs anymore.

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds $2

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0819VSLF9
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/house-of-suns-4

Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and fall of countless human empires. Since then, every two hundred thousand years, they gather to exchange news and memories of their travels.

Only there is no Gathering. Someone is eliminating the Gentian line. And now Campion and Purslane—two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences—must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence ...

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Because it's a book that should have an ePub version but instead only has a PDF version. This is on Kobo.

I did add it to my library on Kobo. I was planning to read it.

Out of curiosity, where did you find this book on Kobo? It does not seem to appear on either their Canadian, American or UK sites.

Given that the book was originally published in August 2014, I'm not really surprised that it is in PDF. My copy of it from over a decade ago came as an AZW4 which I unwrapped to extract the .PDF file.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Out of curiosity, where did you find this book on Kobo? It does not seem to appear on either their Canadian, American or UK sites.

Given that the book was originally published in August 2014, I'm not really surprised that it is in PDF. My copy of it from over a decade ago came as an AZW4 which I unwrapped to extract the .PDF file.

My mistake. I meant Google Play Books.