FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2016

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by orangekiwi

Oath of Fealty by Elizabeth Moon is $2.99 in the US (Legend of Paksenarrion Book 1)

https://www.amazon.com/Oath-Fealty-L.../dp/B0030DHPAC
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...th-of-fealty-1

I loved her original Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy and while I liked this somewhat less as it had a much larger cast of main characters would still recommend both series

That's Book 1 of 5 in Legend of Paksenarrion (5 Book Series)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ies_rw_dp_labf

Published in UK in pb and ebook by Orbit 2010-2014 as Paladin's Legacy (5 Book Series)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...ies_rw_dp_labf

[murg]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

The correct way to read Discworld is to do what I did -- don't read it

Sorry to disagree with you monkey, but the correct way to read Discworld is backwards.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by murg

Sorry to disagree with you monkey, but the correct way to read Discworld is backwards.

Not backwards, upside down.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by murg

Sorry to disagree with you monkey, but the correct way to read Discworld is backwards.

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Not backwards, upside down.

[cromag]

I just go round and round.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by cromag

I just go round and round.

Good plan. You don't want to fall off the edge.

[Dngrsone]

Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth Book 1) is a Daily deal at Amazon.com today for $1.99

[orangekiwi]

The Darwath Series: The Time of the Dark, The Walls of Air, and The Armies of Daylight by Barbara Hambly is $4.99 in the US, this is one of Open Road's daily deals so get this fast.
The first book has previously been discounted but for this price its still worth it for the other two

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...darwath-series
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0090WTL90

Barbara Hambly’s celebrated trilogy about a murderous force that threatens a far-off magical world and the two ordinary Californians who are drawn into the battle to save mankind

As a student of medieval history, Gil Patterson is a woman familiar with dark stories. She knows the Crusades, the Black Death, and the other horrors of the Middle Ages all too well, but it is another kind of atrocity that has begun to haunt her dreams. She sees forces of evil assaulting a beleaguered kingdom, whose kind people are on the brink of annihilation, and awakes each morning in a cold sweat.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by orangekiwi

The Darwath Series: The Time of the Dark, The Walls of Air, and The Armies of Daylight by Barbara Hambly is $4.99 in the US, this is one of Open Road's daily deals so get this fast.
The first book has previously been discounted but for this price its still worth it for the other two

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...darwath-series
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0090WTL90

Barbara Hambly’s celebrated trilogy about a murderous force that threatens a far-off magical world and the two ordinary Californians who are drawn into the battle to save mankind

As a student of medieval history, Gil Patterson is a woman familiar with dark stories. She knows the Crusades, the Black Death, and the other horrors of the Middle Ages all too well, but it is another kind of atrocity that has begun to haunt her dreams. She sees forces of evil assaulting a beleaguered kingdom, whose kind people are on the brink of annihilation, and awakes each morning in a cold sweat.

And in UK it's £3.82, perhaps Open Road have turned over a new leaf.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0090WTL90/

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

And in UK it's £3.82, perhaps Open Road have turned over a new leaf.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0090WTL90/

Amazon tells me that I did even better and bought it for £3.49 on 26th Dec 2014. That's when Amazon were only charging 3% VAT, though.

[ekbell]

Originally Posted by murg

Sorry to disagree with you monkey, but the correct way to read Discworld is backwards.

After years of hearing me talk about it my husband is finally starting to read the 1632/Ring of Fire series. As an ever-helpful spouse I have thoughtfully printed out the reading flow chart Eric Flint produced for those who want such things.

It has nine different colors, alternate reading paths, books on the side and does n't include the Grantville Gazette e-zines or books published by the Ring of Fire Press. It is definitely not in published order as the book in 8th (11th?) place (1635: A Parcel of Rogues ) hadn't been published yet when the chart was created but it is invaluable in keeping the various book 'threads' straight.

It would be nice to have a similar chart for the Disc World Series regardless of preferred reading order.

[murg]

Originally Posted by ekbell

After years of hearing me talk about it my husband is finally starting to read the 1632/Ring of Fire series. As an ever-helpful spouse I have thoughtfully printed out the reading flow chart Eric Flint produced for those who want such things.

It has nine different colors, alternate reading paths, books on the side and does n't include the Grantville Gazette e-zines or books published by the Ring of Fire Press. It is definitely not in published order as the book in 8th (11th?) place (1635: A Parcel of Rogues ) hadn't been published yet when the chart was created but it is invaluable in keeping the various book 'threads' straight.

It would be nice to have a similar chart for the Disc World Series regardless of preferred reading order.

I'm reading the Ring of Fire series also.

I've thought that, since we now have ebooks, that a possible alternative form for these long, intertwined series (Ring of Fire, Honorverse) would be to build a single massive ebook with the chapters from the various books in chronological order.

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

The very fate of the universe - NAY! - the fate of the cosmos is dependent upon a correct reading order!

So sayeth I.

I'd be happy if someone simply explained what they got out the Discworld series. I couldn't get past the first half of the 1st book (or was it the 6th?), and I was a lot less picky back then.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GlenBarrington

I'd be happy if someone simply explained what they got out the Discworld series. I couldn't get past the first half of the 1st book (or was it the 6th?), and I was a lot less picky back then.

The Colour of Magic ?

As with the first book of Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey–Maturin series, Master and Commander, it's not recommended as a starter

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by murg

Sorry to disagree with you monkey, but the correct way to read Discworld is backwards.

So, widdershins?

Originally Posted by ekbell

It would be nice to have a similar chart for the Disc World Series regardless of preferred reading order.

Not author-produced, but here's the one made by fans. That's missing two books:

• The Shepard's Crown, the final book he wrote. It goes after I Shall Wear Midnight, and should have a solid line connecting them.
• Raising Steam. It goes after Making Money, and should have a solid line connecting them.

The chart's easy to use, you pick a starting point (Rincewind/Death/The Watch/etc.) and read the books in order from left to right following the solid lines. The industrial revolution ones are only loosely connected until you get to Going Postal. That and the two following ones star Moist von Lipwig. The previous ones have different lead characters in each one.

Originally Posted by GlenBarrington

I'd be happy if someone simply explained what they got out the Discworld series. I couldn't get past the first half of the 1st book (or was it the 6th?), and I was a lot less picky back then.

The first book is by far the worst one, so it's not a good introduction to the series. What I got out of it was how much fun it is. The stories are good, and there's a lot of humor. The world is really fun too, especially the parallels to the real world. (For example, eventually Discworld gets the clacks, a parallel to the Internet, only done with a network of semaphore towers. Technically it's closer to the telegraph, but the way it's used is closer to the Internet.)

Then as you read more of the books, you start getting more out of it by catching the cameos of characters from other books. (For example, the City Watch characters will show up in non-watch novels.) It's great how all of it builds on itself. Events in previous books are part of the world for all following books. While every novel is self-contained, the world is much, much richer if you've read the previous ones.