FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[mewmartigan]

Originally Posted by Hollow Man

I've read the first two. I have the third, but just couldn't bring myself to read it. I wanted to like the books, but I personally found them childish.

I think this paranormal/alien/supernatural genre isn't really my cup of tea, so that could be part of it.

-HM

Thanks for the info. Amazon says the author was in the military and has a physics degree so I was hoping for something more than "childish", haha.

[Hollow Man]

Originally Posted by mewmartigan

Thanks for the info. Amazon says the author was in the military and has a physics degree so I was hoping for something more than "childish", haha.

It's definitely in the Young Adult camp. I also just didn't find the writing that great, thus that's at least partly responsible for my "childish" comment.

-HM

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by mewmartigan

Thanks for the info. Amazon says the author was in the military and has a physics degree so I was hoping for something more than "childish", haha.

Small correction. Amazon did not say that. Either the author or his publisher wrote that. So take it with a grain of salt.

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Small correction. Amazon did not say that. Either the author or his publisher wrote that. So take it with a grain of salt.

Probably him. His publisher is Amazon. 47North is one of their imprints.

[elaysee]

Free Audible exclusive Peter Grant story from Ben Aaronovitch, linked in the Audiobooks thread, assuming I get my crosslink right.

[GreenMonkey]

Brandon Sanderson's Ally of Law is on sale for $3.

https://smile.amazon.com/Alloy-Law-M...dp/B00540QR7Q/

Also at B&N:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/allo...9780765368546/

[orangekiwi]

Dragonsbane (Winterlands #1) by Barbara Hambly is $1.99 in the US at the moment. Originally published by Del Rey and Ballentine. ebook on sale by Open Road so it may be a daily deal.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dragonsbane
https://www.amazon.com/Dragonsbane-W.../dp/B004TC149G

An idealistic young prince convinces an aging warrior and a struggling witch to help him kill the dragon that is terrorizing his kingdom

As a vicious dragon stalks the Southlands, Crown Prince Gareth ventures to the forbidding North in search of the only man who can kill it. He is Lord Aversin, the Dragonsbane, whose dragon-slaying days have won him renown across the land. But when Gareth finds Lord Aversin, he discovers the mighty hero is squat and bespectacled, the ruler of a mud-village who admits that he killed the dragon not with a lance, but with ignoble poison. Still, he’ll have to do.

Gareth and Aversin set off in company with Jenny Waynest, a witch with great ambitions but disappointingly puny powers—a ragtag crew destined to become legendary, or die in the attempt.

[Kieran Seymour]

A number of individual titles in Ben Bova's Grand Tour series are now down to just 99p at Amazon UK. Some of them only appear to have dropped in the last day or so - cheapest prices to date according to eReaderIQ.

Mars
Return to Mars
Saturn
Mercury
Titan
Venus
The Precipice: Asteroid Wars I
The Rock Rats: The Asteroid Wars II

The omnibus of Mars, Moonrise, Moonwar, and Return to Mars is still available for £1.93, as per the details in the separate thread.

[Rev. Bob]

Originally Posted by mewmartigan

The three books in The Rho Agenda by Richard Phillips are $2 each at Amazon US. Anybody read these? For this price, I may take a chance. Reviews on amazon (over 2000 for first book) seem mostly positive.

It's worth noting that there's a 10% discount for buying all three at once. (Click the series link to see the bundle-discount option.) That said, I haven't yet decided whether I'll do so myself.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

If you're cheap, you can get Peter Watts' Blindsight for free at his website.

You can get Blindsight and the three books in his "Rifters" trilogy for free over at Feedbooks as well.

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by crich70

You can get Blindsight and the three books in his "Rifters" trilogy for free over at Feedbooks as well.

You can also get all of the novels and a bunch of short stories at Watt's website, and there's even a handy Paypal link should you want to give him a donation.

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ $1.50 each from Amazon's AmazonCrossing exclusive translation/international imprint (last day, these were monthly deals):

• Pathological by award-winning Chinese author Jinkang Wang (ISFDB, SFE; he has one of China's Nebula equivalents), a biological technothriller which Hugo & Nebula Award-winning author Nancy Kress praises in the editorial reviews section.
• The Oddfits by American-Australian author Tiffany Tsao (ISFDB), 1st in her Oddfits series, this one a metaphysical urban fantasy about a misfit boy who discovers that he belongs to a hidden group of people who can access another world, and also that there are the obligatory forces that oppose that sort of thing.

Also, at $1.99 from AmazonCrossing:

The Original Dream by award-winning Indonesian writer Nukila Amal (ISFDB), a metaphysical literary fiction journey of self-discovery novel with magical realism elements that ISFDB thinks is close enough to sfnal to include.

[LJJohnson]

The Fall of Neskaya: The Clingfire Trilogy, Volume I by Marion Zimmer Bradley
On sale for $2.99 at Amazon US.

This is one of the better of her later, co-written novels. It is the lowest price since eReaderIQ has been tracking it in 2012

The Fall of Neskaya, Book One of the Clingfire Trilogy, marks the legendary author's final return to Darkover before her death. Set in the tumultuous era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a terrible time of strife and war, this unique fantasy world is divided into a mutlitude of small belligerent domains vying for power and land. One ambitious and corrupt tyrant will stop at nothing to control Darkover-even wield the terrifying weapons of the matrix.

Many of Bradley's books, and a large number of the short stories, are set at the tail end of the Ages of Chaos, in a period she called the Hundred Kingdoms. By this era, the laran breeding programs had been abandoned, and the many small principalities were beginning to consolidate into the seven domains that survived into Darkover's modern era. Bradley's innovation, the adoption of "The Compact," is a turning point in the development of Darkover's social order. "The Compact" bans all weapons that can be used without bringing the user into equal danger, effectively banning laran weapons, but allowing swords and knives. The Hundred Kingdoms may be read as commentary on the use of weapons of mass destruction in Earth's own endless conflicts.

[LJJohnson]

The Dragon King Collection: In the Hall of the Dragon King, The Warlords of Nin, and The Sword and the Flame (The Dragon King Trilogy) by Stephen Lawhead.

It is $2.99 at Amazon US -- lowest price since it was started tracking in 2014. We're talking less than $1.00/book (for 877 pages)

Bestselling author Stephen R. Lawhead’s Dragon King Trilogy—now available in one volume.

In the Hall of the Dragon King

Carrying a sealed message from the war-hero Dragon King to the queen, Quentin and his outlaw companion, Theido, plunge headlong into a fantastic odyssey and mystic quest. In his valiant efforts to save the kingdom and fulfill his unique destiny, he will cross strange and wondrous lands filled withbrave knights, beautiful maidens, a mysterious hermit, and a deadly, giant serpent.

The Warlords of Nin

It has been ten years since Quentin helped the Dragon King battle the monstrous sorcerer Nimrood. Since then, there has been peace in the land of Mensandor. But everything changes when an urgent message summons Quentin to the dying king. The brightening Wolf Star is an omen of impending evil that might just herald the beginning of the end of mankind.

The Sword and the Flame

The Dragon King who now rules the land of Mensandor is none other than Quentin, whose courage and heroism have slowly transformed him from an orphaned servant into a war hero, respected leader, and a fierce man of faith. Shattered by the death of a dear and trusted friend, the abduction of his beloved son, and the loss of his enchanted sword, Quentin finds his faith tested like never before

[bgalbrecht]

The Song of Albion collection by Stephen Lawhead is also on sale for $2.99 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo, but for some reason the Dragon King Collection is only on sale at Amazon and B&N. Maybe another opportunity for a Price match and 30 cent discount at Kobo.