FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2016

[specficwriter]

Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente $1.99 from various sellers:

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/palimpsest

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by specficwriter

Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente $1.99 from various sellers:

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/palimpsest

Thanks, bought, £1.50 in UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Palimpsest-...dp/B001NLKXDE/

[LJJohnson]

Hunter by Mercedes Lackey
$0.99 at Amazon US
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V6YWGEM...-20#nav-subnav

Centuries ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were slashed open allowing hideous fantastical monsters to wreak havoc; destroying entire cities in their wake. Now, people must live in enclosed communities, behind walls that keep them safe from the evil creatures constantly trying to break in. Only the corps of teen Hunters with lightning reflexes and magical abilities can protect the populace from the daily attacks. Joyeaux Charmand is a mountain girl from a close knit village who comes to the big city to join the Hunters. Joy thinks she is only there to perform her civic duty and protect the capitol Cits, or civilians, but as cameras follow her every move, she soon learns that the more successful she is in her hunts, the more famous she becomes. With millions of fans watching her on reality TV, Joy begins to realize that Apex is not all it seems. She is forced to question everything she grew up believing about the legendary Hunters and the very world she lives in. Soon she finds that her fame may be part of a deep conspiracy that threatens to upend the protective structure built to keep dark magic out. The monsters are getting in and it is up to Joy to find out why.

Now updated to include an excerpt from the second book in the series, Elite!

[Difflugia]

Originally Posted by LJJohnson

Hunter by Mercedes Lackey
$0.99 at Amazon US
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V6YWGEM...-20#nav-subnav

I'm a huge Mercedes Lackey fan. Thanks.

B&N
Kobo

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by LJJohnson

Now updated to include an excerpt from the second book in the series, Elite!

Bonus material.

[orangekiwi]

Inda by Sherwood Smith (Inda Book 1) published by DAW is currently $1.99 in the US

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/inda
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00256Z2DW

SYNOPSIS

Acclaimed Inda series within Sherwood Smith's epic fantasy Sartorias-deles universe • Military fantasy woven with courtly politics, vast worldbuilding, and diverse characters

Indevan-Dal is the second son of the Prince and Princess of Choraed Elgaer, destined to become his elder brother Tanrid's Shield Arm-his military champion. Like all second sons, he is to be privately trained at home by Tanrid, the brother whose lands he will one day protect.

When the King's Voice comes to summon Inda to the Military Academy, he might well feel foreboding, or even fear-war is imminent-yet youthful Inda feels only excitement. But there are things that Tanrid hadn't prepared him for, and Inda will soon learn that the greatest threats to his safety will not come from foreign enemies, but from supposed allies within his own country.

[jselby]

Free at Amazon US
Called (Southern Watch Book 1) by Robert J. Crane

https://www.amazon.com/Called-Southe...VQY#nav-subnav

Archibald "Arch" Stan was a local cop in Midian, Tennessee that was good at his job, good at being a husband, and exceptionally good at hiding his disappointment at not being able to figure out what was missing in his life that made it all seem so empty.

Lafayette Hendricks looked like a drifter, a broken-down hitchhiker blown through Midian on the prevailing winds. When Arch catches him in a fight on the town square, though, things start to get weird, fast, because the guy he's fighting doesn't die when he gets shot. And Hendricks is carrying a sword.

Pretty soon, Arch's whole life is turned upside down by Hendricks's revelation that there's a secret world operating under the one he's been living in his whole life - one filled with demons, chaos, and unspeakable evils, one of which is already in town, stirring trouble. And if the two men don't band together to keep watch on the darkness falling on Midian, then this small town might just get swallowed up by the forces of evil - with the rest of the world to follow shortly behind.

WARNING: Contains violence, coarse language and sexual situations.

[orangekiwi]

Dreamwalker by C.S. Friedman is $1.99 in the US

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DMCJP0O
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/dreamwalker-8

SYNOPSIS

All her life Jessica Drake has dreamed of other worlds, some of them similar to her own, others disturbingly alien. She never shares the details with anyone, save her younger brother Tommy, a compulsive gamer who incorporates some aspects of Jessica’s dreams into his games. But now someone is asking about those dreams...and about her. A strange woman has been watching her house. A visitor to her school attempts to take possession of her dream-inspired artwork.

Why?

As she begins to search for answers it becomes clear that whoever is watching her does not want her to learn the truth. One night her house catches on fire, and when the smoke clears she discovers that her brother has been kidnapped. She must figure out what is going on, and quickly, if she and her family are to be safe.

Following clues left behind on Tommy's computer, determined to find her brother and bring him home safely, Jessica and two of her friends are about to embark on a journey that will test their spirits and their courage to the breaking point, as they must leave their own world behind and confront the source of Earth's darkest legends – as well as the terrifying truth of their own secret heritage.

[Little.Egret]

UK Daily Deal has a couple of Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series Today, Sunday

Lirael (The Old Kingdom Book 2) (5 Jun 2014) by Garth Nix
£1.39 (includes tax)

"I want a book with a librarian hero"

Abhorsen (The Old Kingdom Book 3) (5 Jun 2014) by Garth Nix
£1.39 (includes tax)


See all https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...ies_rw_dp_labf

And scheduled for 4 Oct 2016 at £6.02 (preorder)
Goldenhand (The Old Kingdom) by Garth Nix

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goldenhand-...dp/B01ELL5DIM/

[scottken]

Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison is an Open Road deal of the day today for $1.99 at Amazon US and probably other outlets as well.

This is probably my favorite Ellison collection and is really worth picking up.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by scottken

Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison is an Open Road deal of the day today for $1.99 at Amazon US and probably other outlets as well.

This is probably my favorite Ellison collection and is really worth picking up.

£1.50 in UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00JVCHFFQ/

CDN$ 2.57 in Canada

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00JVCHFFQ/

[Purple Lady]

Hunger $1.99 by Jeremiah Knight aka Jeremy Robinson

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XWSK0F2/

Desperate to solve a global food shortage, ExoGen scientist Dr. Ella Masse oversees the creation and release of RC-714, a gene that unlocks millions of years of adaptation and evolution, allowing crops to use long dormant junk DNA to rapidly adapt to any environment. The world’s food supply grows aggressively, occupying every inch of earth, no matter how inhospitable. World hunger is averted. Humanity flourishes. RC-714 is digested, absorbed and passed on.

The Change affects small, fast breeding mammals first. They multiply with the same aggressive speed as the ExoGen plants, but a new, insatiable hunger drives them to violence. War between species breaks out. And then RC-714 reaches humanity, along with every other large creature on the planet. Civilization implodes, as every living thing that consumed the ExoGen crops begins to adapt to a world full of predators, accessing genes dating back to the beginning of life itself.

Peter Crane and his son Jakob survive the Change, living in their family farmhouse and eating non-ExoGen food from a biodome, one of many provided by Ella Masse, who discovered the ramifications of her breakthrough too late. The pair ekes out a living in a world full of monsters, surviving until Ella shows up on their doorstep with her daughter, pursued by desperate predators and men alike.

As the farmhouse falls under attack, Crane learns that the end of humanity, of life on Earth, can still be averted: if Ella Masse and her daughter survive, and if they make it to the other side of the country without being captured...or consumed.

Jeremiah Knight merges the science of Michael Crichton with the horror of Stephen King in this fresh take on the post-apocalypse, creating a true worst-case scenario for GMO crops that will have people reading labels before eating their next pepper, tomato or kernel of corn.

[orangekiwi]

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler is another of Open Roads daily deals $1.99 in the US

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/dawn-28
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HALOEQ

Rescued from Earth’s destruction, one woman is called upon to revive mankind

Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali—who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before.

The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly.

[LJJohnson]

Temple of the Winds (Sword of Truth Book 4) Kindle Edition
by Terry Goodkind (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 770 customer reviews
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UNZQWDQ...1DP#nav-subnav
(NOTE: #1 in the series is also free now)

Jagang, Emperor of the Imperial Order, has invoked a bound fork prophecy binding Richard and Kahlan to a fate of pain, betrayal, and a path to the Underworld. At Jagang’s behest a Sister of the Dark gains access into the fabled Temple of the Winds and has unleashed a plague that sweeps across the lands like a firestorm consuming lives at an alarming rate. To stop the plague Richard and Kahlan are forced to sacrifice everything they have between them.

About the Book

"Terry Goodkind is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sword of Truth series, Richard and Kahlan stories, author of The Law of Nines, foundational novel The First Confessor: The Legend of Magda Searus, as-well-as collaborator for Legend of the Seeker, the Sam Raimi produced, Disney ABC television series based on The Sword of Truth books.

Goodkind was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, where he also attended art school, one of his many interests on the way to becoming a writer. Besides a career in wildlife art, he has been a cabinet maker and violin maker, and he has done restoration work on rare and exotic artifacts from around the world — each with its own story to tell, he says.

While continuing to maintain the northeastern home he built with his own hands, in recent years he and his wife, Jeri, have created a second home in the desert Southwest, where he now spends the majority of his time.

[murg]

Originally Posted by LJJohnson

Temple of the Winds (Sword of Truth Book 4) Kindle Edition
by Terry Goodkind (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 770 customer reviews
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UNZQWDQ...1DP#nav-subnav
[B](NOTE: #1 in the series is also free now)

This is free...