FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2015

[orangekiwi]

A Passage of Stars by Kate Elliott is $2.99 today from Open Road Media

In the crackling first book of Kate Elliott’s Highroad trilogy, strong-spirited Lily Ransome leaves her home planet—and the life she’s always known—to rescue an abducted friend

Willful as well as physically brave, Lily Ransome is dissatisfied by the options available to her on Unruli: She can either join her family’s lucrative mining business or begin procreating. When Heredes, her beloved martial arts instructor, tutor, and father figure, is kidnapped by alien bounty hunters, Lily spurns the expectations of her home planet and ventures into space to find him. Befriending a persecuted minority class of humans called the Ridani, she becomes involved in an intergalactic rebellion and finds love in an unexpected place—as well as true strength within herself.
A Passage of Stars is the first book of the Highroad trilogy, which continues with Revolution’s Shore and The Price of Ransom.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DUOP9C2
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...ssage-of-stars
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-pa...=9781480435278

[Dngrsone]

Originally Posted by orangekiwi

A Passage of Stars by Kate Elliott is $2.99 today from Open Road Media

In the crackling first book of Kate Elliott’s Highroad trilogy, strong-spirited Lily Ransome leaves her home planet—and the life she’s always known—to rescue an abducted friend

Willful as well as physically brave, Lily Ransome is dissatisfied by the options available to her on Unruli: She can either join her family’s lucrative mining business or begin procreating. When Heredes, her beloved martial arts instructor, tutor, and father figure, is kidnapped by alien bounty hunters, Lily spurns the expectations of her home planet and ventures into space to find him. Befriending a persecuted minority class of humans called the Ridani, she becomes involved in an intergalactic rebellion and finds love in an unexpected place—as well as true strength within herself.
A Passage of Stars is the first book of the Highroad trilogy, which continues with Revolution’s Shore and The Price of Ransom.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DUOP9C2
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...ssage-of-stars
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-pa...=9781480435278

Do you recommend this book? Just asking-- I have too many on my TBR as it is, but the plot sounds intriguing... if it is well-implemented.

[orangekiwi]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

Do you recommend this book? Just asking-- I have too many on my TBR as it is, but the plot sounds intriguing... if it is well-implemented.

I haven't read this book, I've just bought it myself, but I really liked her Jaran series and several other books she has written. So although I wasn't as great a fan of her crown of stars series at this price I'm willing to give it a try even though it is one of the first books she wrote.

[Dngrsone]

Originally Posted by orangekiwi

I haven't read this book, I've just bought it myself, but I really liked her Jaran series and several other books she has written. So although I wasn't as great a fan of her crown of stars series at this price I'm willing to give it a try even though it is one of the first books she wrote.

If you happen to read it soon, I would like t hear your take on it...

[tlc]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

Dang! I just realized I already had Cryptonomicon in another format... oh, well, at least it was only two dollars.

I believe the new one will have the first 26 pages of his new book, Seveneves.

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Concentrated Essence of Any Number of Ravens by New Zealand-resident Welsh expat author Chris Bell (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a collection of his mostly sfnal flash fiction stories, with an introduction by fellow New Zealand author Chad Taylor (ISFDB, Wikipedia).

Do you like to read your fiction in small packages? If so, there may be a space in your electronic library for ‘The Concentrated Essence of Any Number of Ravens’.

Did you know that Sara Bernhardt’s right leg enjoyed a brief but successful solo career following amputation? Or that Hermann Göring was reincarnated as a stainless steel saucepan?

These very short stories create a patchwork of intricate and potentially disturbing themes: a disintegrating rock band, public transport, kindness, cars, books, libraries, the fall of the Berlin Wall, crime and punishment, the Arab Spring, digital alienation, misanthropic barmen and matchbox collecting.

Humour, history, magical-surrealism, sci-fi, pastiche, romance, gothic fantasy, social commentary and a cast of offbeat characters who might have escaped with the beat of black wings from the author’s library, ‘The Concentrated Essence of Any Number of Ravens’ is unconventionality at its most readable.

Free again from the author('s republishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Venom by Rob Swigart (ISFDB, Wikipedia FR), 3rd in his Chazz Koenig/Thriller in Paradise series of Hawaii-set bio-medical techno-thrillers starring the eponymous biologist and his Hawaiian detective buddy, originally out from St. Martin's Press in 1991.

EVERY COP'S WORST NIGHTMARE...

As darkness gathers above the gorgeous Hawaiian island of Kauai, a small ship drifts into harbor, unpowered and in danger of running aground. On board are seven bodies. Lieutenant Cobb Takamura soon traces the death ship's route and the cause of death to an exotic venom. As he navigates the tricky waters of international politics, biologist Chazz Koenig tries to isolate the poison. But they can't stop two more women from being brutally murdered. A killer is loose in the island paradise, and as he assumes various guises he moves closer to the families of the men who pursue him.

[bookmarked]

There haven't been many new SF&F titles that I've been interested in for the past several weeks so I'm starting to go through withdrawals. I came across this pre-order from Orbit from a new (to me, at least) author and now that Amazon and Kobo have dropped the pre-order price from $8.99 to $2.99, I went for it. For that price, I'm willing to take a chance.

It appears that it's also discounted to CA$2.99 and £2.99 so I'm guessing that it's a publisher discount and will likely be price-matched elsewhere eventually.

The Lazarus War: Artefact by Jamie Sawyer (The Lazarus War #1)
Orbit (March 24, 2015) $2.99, CA$2.99 and £2.99

Artefact is book one of The Lazarus War - an explosive new space adventure series from one of the brightest new stars in science fiction.

Mankind has spread to the stars, only to become locked in warfare with an insidious alien race. All that stands against the alien menace are the soldiers of the Simulant Operation Program, an elite military team remotely operating avatars in the most dangerous theatres of war.

Captain Conrad Harris has died hundreds of times - running suicide missions in simulant bodies. Known as Lazarus, he is a man addicted to death. So when a secret research station deep in alien territory suddenly goes dark, there is no other man who could possibly lead a rescue mission.

But Harris hasn't been trained for what he's about to find. And this time, he may not be coming back . . .

For fans of The Edge of Tomorrow, Alien and James S. A. Corey's Expanse series comes this brand new action novel set in space that will thrill science fiction fans worldwide.

Jack Campbell, author of the Lost Fleet novels calls it: "a gripping read that moves at warp speed."

[Geralt]

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin 1.99$
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 2.99$
1984 by George Orwell 2.99$
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 2.99$
The Magicians by Lev Grossman, 3.00$
The Fellowship Of The Ring by J. R. R Tolkien 3$
Foundation by Isaac Asimov 3$
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book 1) by Margaret Atwood 3$

www.amazon.com

[AwfulWaffle]

Originally Posted by Geralt

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin 1.99$
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 2.99$
1984 by George Orwell 2.99$
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 2.99$
The Magicians by Lev Grossman, 3.00$
The Fellowship Of The Ring by J. R. R Tolkien 3$
Foundation by Isaac Asimov 3$
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book 1) by Margaret Atwood 3$

www.amazon.com

Some of these are PMed from Google's End of the World Books sale.

https://play.google.com/store/recomm...&c=books&hl=en

[Geralt]

PMed?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Geralt

PMed?

I think this member means 'promoted,' as oposed to 'messaging'.


PM = Private Message


When I read that, I had to cycle through my brain cells before I found something that finally clicked and made any kind of sense.

[TrevorViking]

Originally Posted by Geralt

PMed?

Price matched

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

Price matched

Ahhh, now that's one that hadn't occurred to me.

That makes more sense!

I'll PM you to tell you what you won!

Thanks!

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Unchanting Time by Amber D. Sistla (ISFDB), an sfnal paranormal short in her Break Bites series of quick reads.

Rachana would do anything to win Caleb back, even if it meant stealing him from her younger self.

[AwfulWaffle]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Ahhh, now that's one that hadn't occurred to me.

That makes more sense!

I'll PM you to tell you what you won!

Thanks!

Yea I meant price matched, sorry for the confusion