FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Dazrin]

Amazon / Penguin has Frank Herbert's classic Dune on sale for $1.99 today. As usual this may apply to other vendors as well since this is sold by the publisher so you might want to check if you prefer someone other than Amazon.

Amazon also has The Forever War by Joe Haldeman on sale for $1.99, which is also a good read.

Dune: https://smile.amazon.com/Dune-Frank-...dp/B00B7NPRY8/
The Forever War: https://smile.amazon.com/Forever-War...dp/B00PI184XG/

[LJJohnson]

Originally Posted by gbm

All I can suggest is to keep an eye out for more works from Phoenix Pick.

bernie

Right, that's that patience thing my wife keeps talking to me about,

[LJJohnson]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Phoenix Pick, the worst publisher in existence because they make eBooks worse than anyone else. Take a very messy Mobi, make that into an ePub with the mess in tact. That's what their ePub look like under the hood. Sometimes you won't be able to change the font, line-height, margins, or use night mode.

If it bothers me enough:

• export to text
• import into word
• Clean up any egregious issue, too many CrLfs, etc, with broad strokes
• apply simple formatting
• bring into Calibre, convert to epub, mobi, whatever

That usually brings it into MRC (Minimal Reading Compliance), at least for me. But on the other hand, I'm not usually really picky about small errors. The converting to text gets rid of most of nasty formatting, and the rest (too many CrLf, etc) can be cleaned up with Word S&R. If I did it often enuf, I'd create some macros for that).

I am very picky about many, many things, just not this.

[Avice]

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy is $1.99 at US Kindle and Kobo.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Z9KFBC/
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wom...e-edge-of-time

Spoiler:

Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before.

Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity—and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow.

[Conan46]

Thanks for posting about Dune!

[Keslynn]

The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton is on sale at Amazon US for $0.99. The companion audiobook is $2.99 if you purchase the ebook.

[PandathePanda]

Originally Posted by LJJohnson

Speaking of Cordwainer Smith,

Spoiler:

has anyone heard any rumors about when the rest of Cordwainer Smith's stories might be ePublished? Yes, I know many of them are available as a DTB, but with my eyes, reading is decidedly uncomfortable with paper books, even with a 150-watt light shining on it. And both of the Baen books with his stories are unavailable.

The two current ebook compilations I'm aware of are Norstrilia (with the prequel, The Ballad of Lost C'Mell) and The Best of Cordwainer Smith. I have both, and have read them a few (10+) times. Depending on how you count the renamings and recombinations of stories, that accounts for 11 short stories and a short novel. According to the Cordwainer Smith site (http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/all-...-the-books.htm), that leaves 30+ short stories. I don't care if some of the stories are incomplete are not as good as his others. I think anything he wrote would be of value.

If you are in a life+50 copyright country, Gutenberg Canada do have a few of his stories available to download, since copyright have expired on them in these territories

[mewmartigan]

Originally Posted by Keslynn

The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton is on sale at Amazon US for $0.99. The companion audiobook is $2.99 if you purchase the ebook.

Thanks! picked this up as I enjoyed the Commonwealth Saga.

[LJJohnson]

Originally Posted by PandathePanda

If you are in a life+50 copyright country, Gutenberg Canada do have a few of his stories available to download, since copyright have expired on them in these territories

Sigh... I can't see living in any other country than Texas.

BTW, I heard on one of the late shows last night that a man in Texas has sued his date for texting during Guardians of the Galaxy 2. While I understand the sentiment, I fear his legal possibilities are the judicial equivalent of chum.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by LJJohnson

Sigh... I can't see living in any other country than Texas.

BTW, I heard on one of the late shows last night that a man in Texas has sued his date for texting during Guardians of the Galaxy 2. While I understand the sentiment, I fear his legal possibilities are the judicial equivalent of chum.

I don't think he will be getting a second date.
Or if it went viral, any date.

[GlennD]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

I don't think he will be getting a second date.
Or if it went viral, any date.

She may not get any dates either.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

I don't think he will be getting a second date.
Or if it went viral, any date.

Yeah. It was for the princely sum of $17.31 as I recall.

[bgalbrecht]

My second favorite Roger Zelazny work, Jack of Shadows, is only 99 cents at Amazon, or $1.99 (or 90 cents if price matching at Kobo) at Kobo and B&N.

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

I don't think he will be getting a second date.
Or if it went viral, any date.

It actually happened during opening weekend several weeks ago, and it not only went viral, I think some syndicated TV news show arranged to have them meet on camera and I think she gave him his $17.31 back so that he would drop the small claims court lawsuit.

I doubt that it will ever prevent either one of them from dating again, but depending on how early in the dating game their potential partners do web searches on their names, they might find that they don't get much past the first date, if that.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

It actually happened during opening weekend several weeks ago, and it not only went viral, I think some syndicated TV news show arranged to have them meet on camera and I think she gave him his $17.31 back so that he would drop the small claims court lawsuit.

I doubt that it will ever prevent either one of them from dating again, but depending on how early in the dating game their potential partners do web searches on their names, they might find that they don't get much past the first date, if that.

Let's pay our own way.
I think she should have given back the cost of her ticket if anything.

I was teasing about the dating.