FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2016

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Don't own any of those particular titles, but Graphic Audio does a good job if you like full cast production audio with sound effect and stuff. Be aware that they aren't like straight unabridged audiobooks and GA does edit/abridge titles a bit (not as bad as an abridged audiobook).

You can find samples of some of their titles at...
https://soundcloud.com/graphicaudio

Try this:

https://soundcloud.com/graphicaudio/demon0101sample-mp3

[mewmartigan]

This has been posted before so I am not sure if the price has stayed this way or if its back on sale now but The Lies of Locke Lamora is on sale at Amazon US for $1.99.

Great book.

http://www.amazon.com/Lies-Locke-Lam...s=locke+lamora

[orangekiwi]

A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason is the Open Road Science Fiction Daily Deal $1.99 in the US.
I haven't read this but it won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and seems to have several positive reviews. Has anyone read anything by this author?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J48FCHU
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...-iron-people-1

From award-winning author Eleanor Arnason comes a well-drawn first-contact novel about a team of anthropologists exploring Star Sigma Draconis, an alien world where human interaction may have unexpected impact on the culture of the Iron People who call it their home.
Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the Star Sigma Draconis which they have begun exploring. But the factions on the mother ship hovering above the planet may create an unintended chaos for both the life on the planet and the humans exploring it. As the anger increases on the ship, the ground crew becomes more and more affected by the conflict and begins to rely on their instincts to keep the project moving forward. Unexpected danger plagues the mission as Lixia is determined to expand her knowledge.

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by orangekiwi

I haven't read this but it won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and seems to have several positive reviews. Has anyone read anything by this author?

I read a novella of Arnason's in one of last year's issues of Lightspeed Magazine and was very impressed. Enough so that I was planning to make it one of my Hugo nominations, only to find out that it was a reprint that had already been some sort of previous award finalist.

Anyway, I ended up intending to look up more of her stuff, and if I hadn't already gotten A Woman of the Iron People from Fictionwise back before Open Road acquired the old e-Reads catalogue, I'd likely be buying this now, FWIW.

[Dngrsone]

I'll try it... though it may be a while before I read it... my TBR is towering.

[Brendan Moody]

Arnason is very good, anthropological and character-driven SF in the manner of Le Guin. I have a print copy of A Woman of the Iron People, but I'm grabbing the e-book as well.

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Anyway, I ended up intending to look up more of her stuff, and if I hadn't already gotten A Woman of the Iron People from Fictionwise back before Open Road acquired the old e-Reads catalogue, I'd likely be buying this now, FWIW.

If you still buy from B&N (which I do), all the old E-Reads catalogue from Fictionwise have been replaced by new ISBNs from Open Road, and B&N will happily let you buy them again. I accidentally did that the other day, but B&N refunded my money.

[maddz]

Chris Beckett Dark Eden is 99p on Amazon.co.uk today:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Eden-Ch...0695293&sr=1-1

[orangekiwi]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

I read a novella of Arnason's in one of last year's issues of Lightspeed Magazine and was very impressed. Enough so that I was planning to make it one of my Hugo nominations, only to find out that it was a reprint that had already been some sort of previous award finalist.

Anyway, I ended up intending to look up more of her stuff, and if I hadn't already gotten A Woman of the Iron People from Fictionwise back before Open Road acquired the old e-Reads catalogue, I'd likely be buying this now, FWIW.

Originally Posted by Brendan Moody

Arnason is very good, anthropological and character-driven SF in the manner of Le Guin. I have a print copy of A Woman of the Iron People, but I'm grabbing the e-book as well.

Thanks to both of you, I've bought it and look forward to reading it.

[odo]

Originally Posted by maddz

Chris Beckett Dark Eden is 99p on Amazon.co.uk today:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Eden-Ch...0695293&sr=1-1

Excellent novel. Highly recommended.

[orangekiwi]

Several deals today
Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein US$2.99 but also cheap in Germany check your local stores
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...ayne-of-mars-4

The Dragon and the Djinn (The Dragon Knight Series Book 6) by Gordon R. Dickson US$1.99
http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Djinn-K.../dp/B00H90L7U6

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler US$2.99
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HALO4Q

[GlennD]

Podkayne of Mars is also on sale at Amazon for $2.99.
http://www.amazon.com/Podkayne-Mars-...dkayne+of+mars

[GreenMonkey]

Originally Posted by mewmartigan

This has been posted before so I am not sure if the price has stayed this way or if its back on sale now but The Lies of Locke Lamora is on sale at Amazon US for $1.99.

Great book.

http://www.amazon.com/Lies-Locke-Lam...s=locke+lamora

Thanks.

Bought this through B&N before ages ago and stripped for my Calibre, but I'm always willing to tip the author a buck or two for a Kindle version lately. Makes up for his other books I just...um...borrowed (Library or otherwise).

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by GlennD

Podkayne of Mars is also on sale at Amazon for $2.99.
http://www.amazon.com/Podkayne-Mars-...dkayne+of+mars

I think I'm going to avoid this edition. I have a Baen edition with Heinlein's original ending and the modified ending. While I will admit that RAH had the right to write the story as he wanted, I first read the story when it was serialized in 1962-63. At the age I was then -- PoM was supposed to be a juvenile -- dealing with the death of a major character was not something I would have handled well. After all, to quote Oscar Wilde, “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I think I'm going to avoid this edition. I have a Baen edition with Heinlein's original ending and the modified ending. While I will admit that RAH had the right to write the story as he wanted, I first read the story when it was serialized in 1962-63. At the age I was then -- PoM was supposed to be a juvenile -- dealing with the death of a major character was not something I would have handled well. After all, to quote Oscar Wilde, “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”

I first read Podkayne from the library in an edition that had both endings. I didn't care for the book overall, but the original ending was much, much better. Heinlein's original ending was just so freaking depressing.