FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2015

[bfisher]

Thanks, the Steerswoman books are also on sale at Amazon Canada.

[Diruuo]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein is available for $0.99.



The book is DRM-free, and available on many retailers.

• Amazon
• iBooks
• Smashwords
• Kobo
• B&N (doesn't have the discount yet, but will later this week, according to the author)

• Details on the author's blog
• Glowing review of the series by Jo Walton at Tor.com

The other books in the series have also had a slight discount.
Not sure how long this will last.

Thank you for the detailed information and all the links! Picked it up, will be reading it after I finish my current read (Blood of Requiem by Daniel Arenson).

[orangekiwi]

Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark is currently on sale in the US for $1.99.
This is a great book and I really liked it and would recommend it

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eb...peed-of-dark-2
www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1B2Y


Tenth anniversary edition • With a new Introduction by the author

In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning autistic adult, is a member of the lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the rewards of medical science. He lives a low-key, independent life. But then he is offered a chance to try a brand-new experimental “cure” for his condition. With this treatment Lou would think and act and be just like everyone else. But if he was suddenly free of autism, would he still be himself? Would he still love the same classical music—with its complications and resolutions? Would he still see the same colors and patterns in the world—shades and hues that others cannot see? Most important, would he still love Marjory, a woman who may never be able to reciprocate his feelings? Now Lou must decide if he should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he views the world . . . and the very essence of who he is.

Thoughtful, provocative, poignant, unforgettable, The Speed of Dark is a gripping journey into the mind of an autistic person as he struggles with profound questions of humanity and matters of the heart.

[GeoffR]

Another Gene Wolfe special from Tor, The Sorcerer's House is $2.99 in US and $3.99 in Aus/NZ.

[Diruuo]

Originally Posted by orangekiwi

Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark is currently on sale in the US for $1.99.
This is a great book and I really liked it and would recommend it

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eb...peed-of-dark-2
www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1B2Y

Tenth anniversary edition • With a new Introduction by the author

In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning autistic adult, is a member of the lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the rewards of medical science. He lives a low-key, independent life. But then he is offered a chance to try a brand-new experimental “cure” for his condition. With this treatment Lou would think and act and be just like everyone else. But if he was suddenly free of autism, would he still be himself? Would he still love the same classical music—with its complications and resolutions? Would he still see the same colors and patterns in the world—shades and hues that others cannot see? Most important, would he still love Marjory, a woman who may never be able to reciprocate his feelings? Now Lou must decide if he should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he views the world . . . and the very essence of who he is.

Thoughtful, provocative, poignant, unforgettable, The Speed of Dark is a gripping journey into the mind of an autistic person as he struggles with profound questions of humanity and matters of the heart.

Shows 12.99 on the Kobo store. I'm from Bulgaria.

[orangekiwi]

Originally Posted by orangekiwi

Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark is currently on sale in the US for $1.99.
This is a great book and I really liked it and would recommend it

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eb...peed-of-dark-2
www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1B2Y


Tenth anniversary edition • With a new Introduction by the author

In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning autistic adult, is a member of the lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the rewards of medical science. He lives a low-key, independent life. But then he is offered a chance to try a brand-new experimental “cure” for his condition. With this treatment Lou would think and act and be just like everyone else. But if he was suddenly free of autism, would he still be himself? Would he still love the same classical music—with its complications and resolutions? Would he still see the same colors and patterns in the world—shades and hues that others cannot see? Most important, would he still love Marjory, a woman who may never be able to reciprocate his feelings? Now Lou must decide if he should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he views the world . . . and the very essence of who he is.

Thoughtful, provocative, poignant, unforgettable, The Speed of Dark is a gripping journey into the mind of an autistic person as he struggles with profound questions of humanity and matters of the heart.

Originally Posted by Diruuo

Shows 12.99 on the Kobo store. I'm from Bulgaria.

The deal is only available in the US as far as I am aware. You will need to 'travel'.

[GtrsRGr8]

Removed because self-published.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by koland

Please don't post any self-published books [unless] you have read them yourself, think they are excellent, and you're not connected to the author in any way.

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I am not a fictionista, so I'm not familiar with him . . . or her.

As it says in the first post, please don't post self-published books unless you've read them yourself. There are too many of them, and of highly variable quality.

[Dngrsone]

Originally Posted by orangekiwi

Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark is currently on sale in the US for $1.99.
This is a great book and I really liked it and would recommend it

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eb...peed-of-dark-2
www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1B2Y
.

Got it, thanks. This will my second or third version (I have the paperback somewhere); and I agree that it is a very good book, and gives one some little insight into the differenceness of the autistic mind (not defective, just different).

[AnemicOak]

Dragonsong (Pern: Harper Hall series) by Anne McCaffrey - $1.99
Amazon US

Every two hundred years or so, shimmering Threads fall from space, raining death and black ruin on Pern. The great dragons of Pern hurl themselves through the beleagured skies, flaming tongues of fire to destroy deadly Thread and save the Planet. But it was not Threadfall that made young Menolly unhappy. It was her father who betrayed her ambition to be a Harper, who thwarted her love of music. Menolly had no choice but to run away. When, suddenly, she came upon a group of fire lizards, wild and smaller relatives of the fire-breathing dragons, she let her music swirl around them. She taught nine of them to sing. Suddenly Menolly was no longer alone -- she was Mistress of Music and Ward of the dazzling fire dragons.

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Dragonsong (Pern: Harper Hall series) by Anne McCaffrey - $1.99
Amazon US

Also on Kindle Unlimited. It doesn't look legitimate to me. No copyright information anywhere to be found in the book.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Dragonsong (Pern: Harper Hall series) by Anne McCaffrey - $1.99
Amazon US

There is not legit. The Harper Hall series has not been published in the US as eBooks. So any copy you see on Amazon US for sale is bogus.

[HarryT]

Can you report it to Amazon? Better coming from someone in the U.S.

[brudigia]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

There is not legit. The Harper Hall series has not been published in the US as eBooks. So any copy you see on Amazon US for sale is bogus.

Out of curiosity, why are you so sure? I had a look and the publication date is of a few weeks ago, and there is the whole trilogy as well. Is is possible that Amazon would not check ? They are quite careful in the past.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by brudigia

Out of curiosity, why are you so sure? I had a look and the publication date is of a few weeks ago, and there is the whole trilogy as well. Is is possible that Amazon would not check ? They are quite careful in the past.

Amazon careful? They don't check what's self-published. If they did, Dragonsong would not be there. It's not on any other site in ePub. It's not published exclusively in the UK. So it cannot be exclusive to Amazon US.