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The Death of Dulgath (the Third Installment of The Riyria Chronicles)
by Michael Sullivan is $0.99 at Kobo (and other stores) https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...ath-of-dulgath Below is the blurb: Three times they tried to kill her. Then a professional was hired. So was Riyria. When the last member of the oldest noble family in Avryn is targeted for assassination, Riyria is hired to foil the plot. Three years have passed since the war-weary mercenary Hadrian and the cynical ex-assassin Royce joined forces to start life as rogues-for-hire. Things have gone well enough until they're asked to help prevent a murder. Now they must venture into an ancient corner of the world to save a mysterious woman who knows more about Royce than is safe and cares less about herself than is sane. From the best-selling author of The Riyria Revelations comes the third installment of The Riyria Chronicles. Although part of a series, it's designed to thrill both new readers looking for fun, fast-paced fantasy and Riyria veterans wishing to reunite with old friends. For those who do wish to experience the entire Riyria saga, two reading options exist: Order of Publication: Theft of Swords | Rise of Empire | Heir of Novron | The Crown Tower | The Rose and the Thorn | The Death of Dulgath Chronological Order: The Crown Tower | The Rose and the Thorn | The Death of Dulgath | Theft of Swords | Rise of Empire | Heir of Novron |
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Robert Bevan's "Caverns and Creatures" series is available on the cheap for the next few days... specifically, as I write this, the deals below have four days and 17 hours left to go. I'm guessing this is a promotion leading up to the release of a new volume in the series.
Volume I collects the first four novels, and it's on sale for 99 cents. I already own the first three, but I bought this because it was cheaper than paying the regular price of five bucks just for Book Four. In addition to the novels, there are four short-fiction collections so far, each of which includes six stories. d6, 2d6, 3d6, and 4d6 are also on sale for a buck each. These short stories aren't especially connected to the novels, but they involve the same main characters going on what are usually ill-fated adventures. I'd advise reading them after the second novel and approaching them as off-screen adventures that happen after they settle into their new home base. It's not a perfect fit - I didn't get the sense that Book Two left them in that situation long enough to have so many adventures - but reading the novels up to that point gives you the proper background as to who they are and how they got there. And where is that? If you know the reference, it's Guardians of the Flame done as potty humor. A roleplaying game group mocks their new GM to the point that he uses magic dice to send them into their game world, where they arrive as the characters they were playing. The author gets way too much mileage (IMO) out of the half-orc's extremely low Charisma score, which manifests primarily as "ugly, smelly, and can't control his bowels." With that in mind, some of the ways the arbitrary game mechanics come into play are pretty neat. They show up with copies of their character sheets, which update in real time - so when one of them gets kidnapped, the rest pull his character sheet out to see if he's okay. This isn't a "someone made a game based on a fantasy realm" concept, but the reverse: the realm is defined by the game, even to the point of defying physics and common sense. That's a solid part of the humor. (Those poor horses...) For five bucks, I recommend the series to anyone who's ever tried to bend D&D's game rules to do something appalling and/or gross, but not to people put off by toilet humor. |
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X-link to the DRM-free thread for a Wildside Press freebie:
Discover A New Author: Joseph Green contains a science fiction short, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1982, as promo for the author's recent story collection out from Wildside. |
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Barbara Hambly's The Darwath Series: The Time of the Dark, The Walls of Air, and The Armies of Daylight from Open Road is currently $2.99 in the US. This is a great deal for 3 books for less than the price of each individual one from a good author.
https://www.amazon.com/Darwath-Time-.../dp/B0090WTL90 https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...darwath-series 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. In The Time of the Dark, Gil dismisses the dreams until a wizard appears in her apartment. He has crossed into her dimension, passing through the fraying fabric of the universe, to ask her help. For mankind to survive he must protect an infant prince, whom he plans to hide in Gil's world. She is about to get much closer to evil than she ever imagined. In The Walls of Air and The Armies of Daylight, Gil and Rudy know the world is no longer safe and there is nowhere to hide from the Dark. Since the Dark Ones returned, the world has been laid to waste. The land’s wizards have been slaughtered, its cities destroyed, and its people scattered in terror. Few have witnessed more of the destruction than Gil and Rudy, and both of them will need all their strength to survive this final challenge. Ingold, the master wizard, has devised a spell to hide the user from the deathly stare of the Dark, and he intends to use it to strike at their very heart. Finally, Gil, Rudy, and the rest of mankind’s survivors will take the offensive, bringing an end to this terrible war, for better or for worse. |
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Cross posted from FREE/BARGAIN - Children's, YA - 2016 as it may be of interest to some here. I at least enjoyed the series when I first read them and have re-read them since.
Sabriel by Garth Nix (Old Kingdom Book 1) is currently $1.99 in the US and is also discounted in some other countries. https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/sabriel-1 https://www.amazon.com/Sabriel-Old-K.../dp/B000FC13MM Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Abhorson, is missing, and Sabriel must cross into that world to find him. With Mogget, whose feline form hides a powerful, perhaps malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage, Sabriel travels deep into the Old Kingdom. There she confronts an evil that threatens much more than her life and comes face-to-face with her own hidden destiny. . . . |
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Wesley Chu's Tao series - $2.99
Campbell award winner Wesley Chu's The Lives of Tao series is on sale today for $2.99 in advance of the release of a new book in the series on Tuesday.
The gist of the series is that the Quasing, a group of aliens crash landed on Earth many millennia ago, they're gaseous entities who can only survive in our atmosphere by getting absorbed in the bodies of animals (including humans), and they can only migrate to new hosts when their current hosts dies. Eventually they discovered humans made the best hosts because they can communicate with their human hosts and we can do things for them. In our time, there are two groups of aliens. Spoiler:
Tao is an alien of the second group, whose host has just been killed, and Roen Tan is a drunk twenty-something in the wrong place at the wrong time. Tao enters Roen and co-opts him in the fight between the alien groups. There's aliens, martial arts, and I enjoyed the series a lot.
Amazon B&N Kobo There's also a novella from Subterranean Press that's not on sale, but it's couponable at Kobo. The new release, Rise of Io will be focusing on a new Quasing and human host. |
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I don't know why or for how long, but both of Seanan McGuire's Indexing ebooks are half-price ($2 instead of $3.99) at Amazon. I liked the first, so I just snatched up the second.
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Heart of Gold: An Urban Fantasy Novel Free today on Kindle
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