FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by GlenBarrington

I read that many years ago in paper format, I found it quit enjoyable.

Are you sure you are thinking of the same book? This one was published in August 2014, so only a couple years old. Maybe you were thinking of the first book, Assassin's Apprentice, which has many of the same characters but is 2 to 4 trilogies before than this one (depending on how you count the Rain Wild and Liveship Traders books). I loved the first trilogy but haven't finished the others yet.

[ATDrake]

Kobo Canada's Series of the Month, on sale through July 31st, is:

The Imager Portfolio series by L. E. Modesitt Jr. (ISFDB, Wikipedia, SFE), centuries-spanning epic fantasy published by Tor Books. From the looks of it, this promo is not available in the States, and only #6 is discounted there, the rest are $7.99+ USD. ETA: apparently this is a promo to boost the expected #11, which is released later this month.

Up to #9 is part of the sale. All individuals are just $2.99 CAD each, and if you don't already have any (#1 & #4 have been discounted earlier this year), the cheapest way to get the lot is with the omnibus editions for #1-3 ($7) and then #4-8 ($12), and then get #9 on its own.

Also, there's some nice sfnal stuff in Kobo Canada's Canada Day sale (expiring on July 4th), and their Get Hooked on a New Series sale (expiring on July 5th; seems to also have an equivalent promo in the US with slightly different titles).

For $2.99 from Canadian authors in the Canada Day sale, there are Tor titles by Jo Walton and Madeline Ashby, Orbit titles, previously DAW backlist from Tanya Huff, Nalo Hopkinson (under Literary Fiction; may not be one of her sfnal works), etc. Some is probably matched elsewhere but the Kobo stuff in the Canada Day sale gets 5x Bonus Points, if that's an extra enticement. Kobo US is also having a 4th of July sale, with a different selection and 4x Bonus Points, with titles including an Octavia E. Butler graphic novel adaptation and some Brian Froud fantasy artbooks.

The New Series sale adds discounted reprinted works under $4 CAD (couponable/VIP-eligible) by the late Randall Garrett, James P. Blaylock, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, and more.

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

Are you sure you are thinking of the same book? This one was published in August 2014, so only a couple years old. Maybe you were thinking of the first book, Assassin's Apprentice, which has many of the same characters but is 2 to 4 trilogies before than this one (depending on how you count the Rain Wild and Liveship Traders books). I loved the first trilogy but haven't finished the others yet.

Hmmm! Maybe!

[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free thread for a new StoryBundle:

The Aurora Award Bundle 2 curated by award alumnus Douglas Smith, contains titles by finalists and winners of the titular top Canadian speculative fiction prize. There are 3 backlist novels and 2 small press collections of award-winning short stories among the offerings, including fellow MR member author Robert J. Sawyer's excellent locked room spaceship murder mystery, which I highly recommend.

[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free thread for a new Humble Bundle:

Humble Book Bundle Stranger Creatures supporting The Jane Goodall Institute presented by Brick Tower Press contains a mix of speculative fiction titles about imaginary creatures, and non-fiction books about real wildlife. The sfnal offerings include backlist from Esther Friesner, Tanith Lee, Bruce Coville, Alfred Bester, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Silverberg, and more, and the lot can be gotten at the $15 upper-middle tier. There's a few repeats from previous Brick Tower/ibooks bundles, but plenty of new stuff.

For $20, you also get the non-sfnal wildlife books, and for $25, you can sponsor a chimpanzee and get a plushie (shipping & handling not included), with all proceeds from the higher pledge level going straight to the charity.

[orangekiwi]

A number of deals on at the moment

Damia by Anne McCaffrey (A Tower and Hive Novel #2) $1.99
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/damia-1

Heir to the Shadows by Anne Bishop (Black Jewels #2) $1.99
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/heir-to-the-shadows-1
Note there are several other Anne Bishop novels with reduced prices

Mindtouch By M.C.A. Hogarth (The Dreamhealers Duology, #1) 99c (this deal seems to be available in multiple countries
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/min...dreamhealers-1

[orangekiwi]

Hellfire by Jean Johnson (Theirs Not to Reason Why #3) is currently $1.99 in the US
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/hellfire-9
https://www.amazon.com/Hellfire-Thei.../dp/B009RYS0PW

This is a middle book in the series and I would recommend starting with the first book but otherwise I would recommend this book and the whole series

Her story began in the national bestsellers A Soldier’s Duty and An Officer’s Duty. Now Ia is captain and commander at the helm of Hellfire, where she is finally free to chart the course for the fulfillment of her destiny…

As captain, Ia must now assemble a crew that can rise to the ultimate challenge of saving the galaxy. The hardest part will be getting them to believe her, to trust in her prophecies. If they don’t, her own crew will end up being the biggest obstacle in her race against time.

The Salik are breaking through the Blockade, plunging the known galaxy into war. Ia cannot stop it this time, nor does she want to. This is the terrible price she has seen all along—that some must pay with their lives so that others might live. Now only time itself can prove whether each member of her crew is merely a soldier or truly one of Ia’s Damned.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

The New Series sale adds discounted reprinted works under $4 CAD (couponable/VIP-eligible) by the late Randall Garrett, James P. Blaylock, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, and more.

I was looking at the Randall Garrett ebooks on the Kobo and Amazon.ca sites and noted that they had 3 Lord Darcy ebooks at $9.99 Cdn each. I took a quick look at Baen's site where I purchased a single volume with the same contents as the three volumes plus an additional short story (The Spell of War where Lieutenant Darcy and Sergeant O'Lochlainn are involved in a battle against the Polish) for $4.00 US. Sadly, the Baen edition is only available for download if previously purchased.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I was looking at the Randall Garrett ebooks on the Kobo and Amazon.ca sites and noted that they had 3 Lord Darcy ebooks at $9.99 Cdn each. I took a quick look at Baen's site where I purchased a single volume with the same contents as the three volumes plus an additional short story (The Spell of War where Lieutenant Darcy and Sergeant O'Lochlainn are involved in a battle against the Polish) for $4.00 US. Sadly, the Baen edition is only available for download if previously purchased.

In UK Gateway has Lord Darcy (FANTASY MASTERWORKS) £4.49

"This omnibus contains all of the Lord Darcy stories as well as the only Lord Darcy novel, TOO MANY MAGICIANS, and has a new introduction by Michael Dirda."


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Darcy-FANTA...dp/B00J3795QQ/

Introduction by Michael Dirda

The Eyes Have It
A Case of Identity
The Muddle of the Woad
Too Many Magicians
A Stretch of the Imagination
A Matter of Gravity
The Bitter End
The Ipswich Phial
The Sixteen Keys
The Napoli Express
The Spell of War

The same as the unavailable Baen collection

Note that there also exists Michael Kurland's Lord Darcy novels

[Manabi]

Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward has dropped to 99 cents, possibly for today only.

In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms—the cheela—living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers . . .

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Manabi

Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward has dropped to 99 cents, possibly for today only.

Highly recommended if you like hard SF in unusual environments.

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by Manabi

Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward has dropped to 99 cents, possibly for today only.

This is a great book, and nice to see the discount is widespread for a change: retailers in AU, CA, GB, IE, NZ, US, ZA all have the special price.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

This is a great book, and nice to see the discount is widespread for a change: retailers in AU, CA, GB, IE, NZ, US, ZA all have the special price.

Not in the UK. £11.75 in the UK.

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Not in the UK. £11.75 in the UK.

So not all retailers, but it is £0.95 at Kobo UK and £0.49 at Apple UK.

[pdurrant]

Thanks! I've submitted the lower prices at Amazon. But I'll get it at Kobo if it hasn't dropped by the end of today. (I won't buy from Apple - the DRM's too hard to remove.)