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[itisbomb]

Tooth and Claw
by Jo Walton

is $2.99 at US stores

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tooth-Claw-Jo...l-text&sr=1-23

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tooth-and-claw-1

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

Tooth and Claw
by Jo Walton

is $2.99 at US stores

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tooth-Claw-Jo-Walton-ebook/dp/B002MV2Z1C/ref=sr_1_23?qid=1562584816&s=digital-text&sr=1-23

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tooth-and-claw-1

Highly recommended to those who like Fantasy and Jane Austen.

[salty-horse]

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson is $2.99 on Amazon.com

It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival--until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime.

Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree. Here monstrous creatures from folklore are real, and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds. Tan-Tan must reach into the heart of myth and become the Robber Queen herself. For only the Robber Queen's legendary powers can save her life . . . and set her free.

Nisi Shawl writing about the book on Tor.com

The Knight by Gene Wolfe is $2.99 on Amazon.com
First part of the Wizard Knight duology.

A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Able and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero. Inside, however, Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive the dangers and delights that lie ahead in encounters with giants, elves, wizards, and dragons. His adventure will conclude next year in the second volume of The Wizard Knight, The Wizard. Gene Wolfe is one of the most widely praised masters of SF and fantasy. He is the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Nebula Award, twice, the World Fantasy Award, twice, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and France's Prix Apollo. His popular successes include the four-volume classic The Book of the New Sun. With this new series, Wolfe not only surpasses all the most popular genre writers of the last three decades, he takes on the legends of the past century, in a work that will be favorably compared with the best of J. R. R. Tolkien, E. R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake, and T. H. White. This is a book---and a series---for the ages, from perhaps the greatest living writer in (or outside) the fantasy genre.

[sufue]

So...

I typically don't read too much science fiction or fantasy, but I do dip my toes in from time to time. And I find I'm dipping a bit more based on some of the recommendations in this thread...so thanks to everyone for the discussions and the deals!



I'm now actually starting to pick up enough books in these genres that I might like to organize them, and learn a bit more perhaps about the authors and their other books. In the area of mysteries, which is most of the fiction that I read, I rely heavily on the Stop, You're Killing Me website, which has lots of good info: author info, recommendations, indexes, book and author links, etc. But it's only for mysteries. I am aware of Fantastic Fiction, which has some nice lists, but (to me, at least) isn't quite as full-featured, and also of Goodreads, but what I'm really wondering is if there is something like SYKM, but specific just for science fiction/fantasy?

Thanks in advance

[lkmiller]

If you have a specific author in mind, you can look them up on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

http://www.isfdb.org/

For lists of notable books, there's Worlds Without End.

https://worldswithoutend.com/

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Knight by Gene Wolfe is $2.99 on Amazon.com
First part of the Wizard Knight duology.

Gene Wolfe is an author I always meant to try and the Wizard Knight books sound accessible.

Would they be a good place to start?

(Just to hold off a slew of recommendations, I know a bit about Wolfe and Book of the New Sun and the Mists series and so forth. I'm just wondering if Wizard Knight is worth a read, I guess and how it compares to his other work.)

[maddz]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Highly recommended to those who like Fantasy and Jane Austen.

Jane Austen? I always thought it was more Trollope's novels.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by maddz

Jane Austen? I always thought it was more Trollope's novels.

"The Pride and Prejudice of the dragon world" -- Jane Yolen.

But I agree that Jo Walton herself mentions Trollope as an inspiration for the book.

It's certainly wonderful.

[sufue]

Oooh, both of those look like exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. Thank you so much!!!

Originally Posted by lkmiller

If you have a specific author in mind, you can look them up on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

http://www.isfdb.org/

For lists of notable books, there's Worlds Without End.

https://worldswithoutend.com/

[curtw]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Gene Wolfe is an author I always meant to try and the Wizard Knight books sound accessible.

Would they be a good place to start?

(Just to hold off a slew of recommendations, I know a bit about Wolfe and Book of the New Sun and the Mists series and so forth. I'm just wondering if Wizard Knight is worth a read, I guess and how it compares to his other work.)

I get the impression that this was Wolfe's attempt to pick up some YA audience. So, it may be a little too easy.

I always recommend new adult readers of Wolfe start with The Fifth Head of Cerberus. It's three interrelated novellas, and Wolfe was really at the peak of his sneakiness for Cerberus.

[pstjmack]

Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison is heavily discounted at Amazon.

However you feel about Ellison as a personality, this is an indispensable collection for following the New Wave science fiction of the 1960s and 70s.

[itisbomb]

The Hydrogen Sonata (A Culture Novel Book 10)
by Iain M. Banks

is $2.99 at U.S. stores (likely today only)

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hydrogen-Sona...931062&sr=1-12

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-hydrogen-sonata

[DNSB]

The Worlds Trilogy by Joe Haldeman

Kobo has the omnibus of Worlds, Worlds Apart, and Worlds Enough and Time on sale for $3.99

A repeat offer but for those who don't have the books, another chance to pick them up.

Kobo: The Worlds Trilogy

[itisbomb]

Timeless: A Drizzt Novel (Generations Book 1)
by R. A. Salvatore

is 1.99 at U.S. stores

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Driz...t%2C410&sr=1-1

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/timeless-61

Below is the blurb:
At long last, New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore returns with one of fantasy's most beloved and enduring icons, the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden, in an all-new trilogy full of swordplay, danger, and imaginative thrills,

Centuries ago, in the city of Menzoberranzan, the City of Spiders, the City of Drow, nestled deep in the unmerciful Underdark of Toril, a young weapon master earned a reputation far above his station or that of his poor house.

The greater nobles watched him, and one matron, in particular, decided to take him as her own. She connived with rival great houses to secure her prize, but that prize was caught for her by another, who came to quite enjoy the weapon master.

This was the beginning of the friendship between Zaknafein and Jarlaxle, and the coupling of Matron Malice and the weapon master who would sire Drizzt Do’Urden.

R. A. Salvatore reveals the Underdark anew through the eyes of Zaknafein and Jarlaxle—an introduction to the darkness that offers a fresh view of the opportunities to be found in the shadows and an intriguing prelude to the intriguing escapes that lie ahead in the modern-day Forgotten Realms. Here, a father and his son are reunited and embark on adventures that parallel the trials of centuries long past as the friends of old are joined by Drizzt, Hero of the North, trained by Grandmaster Kane in the ways of the monk.

But the scourge of the dangerous Lolth’s ambitions remain, and demons have been foisted on the unwitting of the surface. The resulting chaos and war will prove to be the greatest challenge for all three.

[itisbomb]

The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency Book 2)
by John Scalzi

is $2.99 at U.S. stores (probably today only)

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Consuming-Fir...d_i=1000677541

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-consuming-fire-2