FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2015

[koland]

Originally Posted by crich70

Thanks. Looks like an interesting read. Calibre & Sigil are your friends as far as converting the txt file to something more easily readable. I wonder why he made it so easily available when it's so easy to do so and save the .99 for the paid version.

Because it's been free a long time and re-edited and published by HarperCollins (the 99 cent sale version) for shorter than that (10 years newer on the copyright date, for example).

What's amazing is that HarperCollins didn't insist he remove the free version....

Of course, the paid version is 160 pages in print. the free version says it is "an article"

[crich70]

Originally Posted by koland

Because it's been free a long time and re-edited and published by HarperCollins (the 99 cent sale version) for shorter than that (10 years newer on the copyright date, for example).

What's amazing is that HarperCollins didn't insist he remove the free version....

Of course, the paid version is 160 pages in print. the free version says it is "an article"

In kindle format on my old copy of mobipocket reader it comes out at over 500 pages. A pretty long article.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by koland

[...]

What's amazing is that HarperCollins didn't insist he remove the free version....

Of course, the paid version is 160 pages in print. the free version says it is "an article"

Even if removed from the internet the free version would still be available from the Wayback Machine.

[itisbomb]

The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials #1
by Philip Pullman

is $2.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Compass...golden+compass

Below is the blurb:
Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.
Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.
But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other. . . .

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Beyond the Waters of the World by Nebula-finalist Ruth Nestvold (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a recently-written follow-up to her Asimov's SF-published gender-bending science fiction novella "Looking Through Lace" which was a multiple Tiptree & Sturgeon & Asimov's Reader's Choice Award nominee back in the day (also previously offered free to us).

The Allied Interstellar Community first contact team on the planet Kailazh is faced with even more challenges than most. But dealing with an alien culture is not only difficult for those who arrive on a foreign world. What of the inhabitants of the planet, who now have to deal with realities so strange to their way of thinking, it will have an impact on everything they believe?

Kislan is a factor in his family's shipping company, a man who has seen many ships arrive at the docks of Edaru from many different cities, who deals with foreign goods from all over the known world. But the ship that arrives from the stars brings more than exotic innovations, it brings ideas that will change his life.

And it brings the beautiful ambassador from the stars, Toni Donato.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials #1
by Philip Pullman

is $2.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Compass...golden+compass

Below is the blurb:
Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.
Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.
But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other. . . .

Even better, $2.99 at Google Play in ePub.

https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=7ynQ-7h6wNkC

[Geralt]

The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
All three kindle books 2.99$
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/...ull_B00K79IRPO

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Geralt

The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
All three kindle books 2.99$
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/...ull_B00K79IRPO

Yet again an awesome deal. The same books available at Google Play in epUb for $2.99.

Annihilation - https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=qUo0AQAAQBAJ

Acceptance - https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=BXpzAwAAQBAJ

Authority - https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=q2B-AgAAQBAJ

[crich70]

Strange Stories by Pu Songling

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio or Liaozhai Zhiyi (also Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio or Strange Tales of Liaozhai, is a collection of nearly 500 mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling in Classical Chinese during the early Qing Dynasty.
The stories differ broadly in length, with the shortest under a page long. Many are classified as Chuanqi, or Zhiguai, sometimes translated as "marvel tales," that is, stories written in classical Chinese starting in the Tang dynasty. Pu borrows from a tradition of oral storytelling where the boundary between reality and the odd or fantastic is blurred. The stories are filled with magical foxes, ghosts, scholars, jiangshi, court officials, Taoist exorcists and beasts.

Book I
Tales 1-10

Book II
Tales 11-20

Book III
Tales 21-30
Each book is .99 so for around $2.97 you can get 30 tales.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by crich70

Strange Stories by Pu Songling

Book I
Tales 1-10

Book II
Tales 11-20

Book III
Tales 21-30
Each book is .99 so for around $2.97 you can get 30 tales.

Thanks for finding these, crich70! They sound interesting!



For anyone who is really not sure about these, the stories appear to be available individually, and the first four are free. Follow the link and cursor down.

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/StrangeStories

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by cromag

Thanks for finding these, crich70! They sound interesting!



For anyone who is really not sure about these, the stories appear to be available individually, and the first four are free. Follow the link and cursor down.

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/StrangeStories

I just downloaded the FREE version right here at Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43629

The epub version (the only one I downloaded) is great, with full links and notes.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by cromag

Thanks for finding these, crich70! They sound interesting!



For anyone who is really not sure about these, the stories appear to be available individually, and the first four are free. Follow the link and cursor down.

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/StrangeStories

Also free in this series, at Smashwords.com:

Story 22: The Boon Companion
Series: Sample Titles from Pu Songling, Book 17
By Pu Songling

Story 31: A Dwarf
Series: Sample Titles from Pu Songling, Book 20
By Pu Songling

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I just downloaded the FREE version right here at Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43629

The epub version (the only one I downloaded) is great, with full links and notes.

Also free at Gutenberg:

Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures
by Songling Pu

[p_a_smith]

Post-Human Series: Books 1–4
By David Simpson
As humanity speeds toward an uncertain future with wild new technology, will artificial intelligence be the death or savior of mankind? A thought-provoking sci-fi saga with over 530 five-star reviews on Amazon

free on Amazon (the link is .ca but it is free on .com)
http://www.amazon.ca/Post-Human-Book...&_bbtype=email (amazon.ca link)

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Future, Imperfect: Six Dystopian Short Stories by Nebula-finalist Ruth Nestvold (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a mini-collection of Exactly What It Says In The Title, mostly originally published in Asimov's SF magazine and other outlets, with one story also reprinted in the 2007 volume of Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction, according to the blurb.

"The Future, Imperfect" is a collection of near future, dystopian short stories by Ruth Nestvold. Environmental changes -- slow in some regions, catastrophic in others -- have had a major effect on our world, not for the better. While water wars and pandemics have devastated the Mediterranean region, and a major earthquake and the resulting destruction of nuclear power plants and sensitive research facilities have made much of California a wasteland, corporate-sponsored enclaves defend themselves from the have-nots. What can any one individual do to make a difference is such a world? These are the stories both of those who tried and those who failed.