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X-link to the DRM-free thread for a new StoryBundle:
The Military SF Megabundle curated by Kevin J. Anderson contains backlist and newer works from his own WordFire Press and others, including 4 books from the current Baen catalogue. Most of the authors will be familiar to modern milSF aficionados, and there are also some old school “classics” of the subgenre, such as the late Robert Asprin's humorous Phule's Company series, and a long out of print title by Jody Lynn Nye from the sadly imploded Meisha Merlin imprint. |
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Bargain @ $2.99 from Orbit's Redhook imprint, possibly for today only (May 18th; sometimes Orbit does 1-day flash sales and this may or may not be one of them) in Canada & the US (non-couponable; prices should be the same in all the usual stores):
The Tourist by British author Robert Dickinson (ISFDB), a standalone time-travel thriller novel, apparently written in a somewhat literary style (one of the review quotes from the newsletter mentions “literary prose”, YMMV), which looks interesting. Apparently whoever does the marketing blurbs decided incorporate some of the reviews as an integral part of the product description, which I'm leaving in, since the actual text doesn't really tell you much. ETA: some of the Amazon customer reviews tell you possibly more than you want to know going in, given that this is marketed as one of those enigmatic mysteries of what's really going on sorts of tales, and might spoil the intended twists. "A rare treat: a time travel tale that brings something new to the subgenre....A wry social commentary and an uneasy tale of escalating paranoia." Guardian THE FUTURE IS ALREADY WRITTEN. "As fresh and compelling as it is high concept....Immensely enjoyable." SFX**** THE FUTURE HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. "Welcome to the 21st Century. Please don't feed the natives....Echoes of Bradbury and Orwell, in the service of a crackerjack conspiracy plot; a seductively intriguing work of speculative fiction." Kirkus TIME TRAVEL IS CONFUSING. "Leaps of time, identity, and chronology create a dark, chillingly claustrophobic atmosphere." Publishers Weekly PROCEED WITH CAUTION. WHO WILL SOLVE THE PUZZLE OF THE TOURIST? Last edited by ATDrake; 05-18-2017 at 03:05 PM. |
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I'm glad I'm not the only one to feel this way. I read the first of the Harry Dresden books, and found it only so-so. I gave it to a teenaged nephew, who might be a far better target audience.
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It takes a bit, but as the books more along I found that as Dresden becomes a whole lot more complex a character, and the universe he lives in has more depth, I think it becomes a lot more interesting. Looking back, the first stories make the troubles and dangers he faced then seem like child's play. But I think that keeping it simple at first was a good idea. Otherwise, we couldn't have handled the info dump we'd have needed to jump right into the deep end. |
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I've also recorded the TV half-season to watch sometime - Hulu I think but maybe not still there. Before this the last SF series I read was Expanse, which I thought was better written and far more original. Fans of SYFY's The Magicians also recommend those books, so that may be my next project... |
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Various in the first in series sale on Amazon.co.uk:
Charles Stross: The Atrocity Archives (THe Laundry Files 1) at £1.49 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Atrocity-Ar...5175074&sr=1-9 Steven Erikson Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen 1) at £1.99 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gardens-Moo...5175074&sr=1-4 Hugh Howey Wool (Wool Trilogy 1) at £1.99 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wool-Trilog...175165&sr=1-14 Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter The Long Earth £1.99 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Earth-...175259&sr=1-33 Bernard Cornwell Harlequin (The Grail Quest 1) at £1.49 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Harlequin-G...175165&sr=1-16 (cross-posted to the Historical thread) |
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The Atrocity Archives is also on sale in Canada on Kobo at $1.99
https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the...ity-archives-1 |
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This sounds interesting. I've downloaded a Kindle sample so if it's good, hopefully they'll do a price drop there.
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"The Song Rising" by Samantha Shannon, book #3 in The Bone Season series, is today's US Kindle Daily Deal for $1.99: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GOOZXUM/
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Today only, Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley is $2.99
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Sunshine by Robin McKinley is currently $1.99 in the US
https://www.amazon.com/Sunshine-Robi.../dp/B00OGWASCI https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sunshine-23 |
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Several good fantasy & scifi titles in today's U.S. Kindle Daily Deal, some being pricematched on Kobo. Some titles of note:
Uprooted by Naomi Novik (2015 Nebula Award winner for Best Novel) - $2.99 / Kobo The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne Valente - $1.99 / Kobo The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins - $2.99 / Kobo Armada by Ernest Cline - $2.99 / Kobo Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (young adult heist fantasy) - $2.99 / Kobo |
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Uprooted by Naomi Novik is currently on sale
$2.99 in the US (published by Del Rey) but a different edition is on sale in Germany (Macmillan) so check your local stores and different editions if available to you. This won a bunch of awards in 2016, Nebula Award for Best Novel Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel as well as being nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Award https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/uprooted-9 https://www.amazon.com/Uprooted-Naom...dp/B00KUQIU7O/ https://www.amazon.de/Uprooted-Engli.../dp/B00SN93700 “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.” Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her. But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose. |
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