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sufue · 08-18-2019, 10:06 AM

Today's (Sunday's) US Kindle Daily Deal is "Up to 80% off on Science Fiction reads on Kindle". I don't read enough science fiction to know which ones are good deals, so here's the link to the Daily Deal page, which shows 86 (!!!) titles: https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=KCdls_b..._i=11552285011

ADD: I do, however, definitely recognize mysteries, and I have no idea what Drawing Conclusions, by Donna Leon, is doing in the list. Excellent book, but not science fiction

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salty-horse · 08-18-2019, 02:16 PM

A few notables (to me) in the Kindle deal:

Hild by Nicola Griffith (more of a historical story, no fantasy. Sequel apparently being written)
An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard
The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (sequel)
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Zero Sum Game by S. L. Huang (action-y technothriller. First in series)
Zeroes by Chuck Wendig (another technothriller)
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss (sequel; historical fantasy featuring many women from Victorian stories)
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

GlenBarrington · 08-18-2019, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by sufue

Today's (Sunday's) US Kindle Daily Deal is "Up to 80% off on Science Fiction reads on Kindle". I don't read enough science fiction to know which ones are good deals, so here's the link to the Daily Deal page, which shows 86 (!!!) titles: https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=KCdls_b..._i=11552285011

ADD: I do, however, definitely recognize mysteries, and I have no idea what Drawing Conclusions, by Donna Leon, is doing in the list. Excellent book, but not science fiction

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The only book I can give a personal recommendation on is Marko Kloos' "Terms of Enlistment". (Animal Farm doesn't count)

It ain't great art, but it is a solid and entertaining military science fiction story. Kloos paints a believable picture of a world that is slowly losing it's livability, it's concept of integrity, honor, and doing the 'right thing' The world isn't in a sudden collapse, so much as it is slowly wearing out physically and spiritually.

And, like a lot of poor boys everywhere, the hero sees the military as a way out of hoplessness and despair. On a scale of 1 -10, I'd say it's around 7. A great read for free, a good read for $2.

lumpynose · 08-18-2019, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by salty-horse

A few notables (to me) in the Kindle deal:

Hild by Nicola Griffith (more of a historical story, no fantasy. Sequel apparently being written)
An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard
The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (sequel)
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Zero Sum Game by S. L. Huang (action-y technothriller. First in series)
Zeroes by Chuck Wendig (another technothriller)
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss (sequel; historical fantasy featuring many women from Victorian stories)
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

I thoroughly enjoyed The Magicians by Lev Grossman, and the others in the series. The third one took quite a while before it became interesting but it was worth it in the end.

Little.Egret · 08-18-2019, 10:23 PM

Free from a weird name press

Anything You Can Do by Randall Garrett

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30742

a 1963 science fiction novel by Randall Garrett, writing as Darrel T. Langart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything_You_Can_Do

https://www.amazon.com/Anything-You-...dp/B0784C6H24/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anything-Yo...dp/B0784C6H24/

https://www.amazon.ca/Anything-You-C...dp/B0784C6H24/

bookmarked · 08-19-2019, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Free from a weird name press

Anything You Can Do by Randall Garrett

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30742

a 1963 science fiction novel by Randall Garrett, writing as Darrel T. Langart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything_You_Can_Do

https://www.amazon.com/Anything-You-...dp/B0784C6H24/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anything-Yo...dp/B0784C6H24/

https://www.amazon.ca/Anything-You-C...dp/B0784C6H24/

Amazon.com shows $1.99 for me.

ZodWallop · 08-19-2019, 12:35 PM

Newly minted Hugo winner for best novelette, If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again by Zen Cho is free at B&N (it's a B&N original). This will be my first B&N 'purchase' in a long, long time. Time to confirm I'm still able to remove DRM.

Quote:

Byam is an imguri, a kind of magical, giant worm, and it wants to become a dragon. It studies The Way, it consults monks, it works very hard, and it keeps trying.

We see three attempts over three thousand years. Things are not going well for Byam.

For its last attempt, the disrupting factor is a human woman, Leslie Han, who looks up, sees it, and says, "An imguri!"

Byam is not inclined to forgive the sabotage. It sets out to find this new, unfamiliar kind of monk, and exact revenge

What follows is unexpected, strange, sweet, and in the end, completely satisfying

lkmiller · 08-19-2019, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Newly minted Hugo winner for best novelette, If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again by Zen Cho is free at B&N (it's a B&N original). This will be my first B&N 'purchase' in a long, long time. Time to confirm I'm still able to remove DRM.

It's an excellent story. I believe the nookbook is DRM-free. Also online here:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/...in-by-zen-cho/

Little.Egret · 08-19-2019, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bookmarked

Amazon.com shows $1.99 for me.

Strange. There are multiple publications so maybe Amazon UK saw one was free.

https://www.ereaderiq.com/search/?q=Anything+You+Can+Do

Otherwise I suggest Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30742

lkmiller · 08-20-2019, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Strange. There are multiple publications so maybe Amazon UK saw one was free.

https://www.ereaderiq.com/search/?q=Anything+You+Can+Do

Otherwise I suggest Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30742

Free Amazon US version: Anything You Can Do by Randall Garrett

Which possibly is the Gutenberg version? As the description says:

Quote:

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

ZodWallop · 08-20-2019, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by lkmiller

It's an excellent story. I believe the nookbook is DRM-free. Also online here:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/...in-by-zen-cho/

Yu're right. The B&N ePub was DRM free. Nice.

maddz · 08-20-2019, 03:06 AM

I was kind of annoyed with the Zen Cho - the B&N blog won’t let non-US customers download freebies. I had to scrape the text and the cover, and merge them in Calibre to end up with an epub. Very annoying in the Hugo packet to get a link instead of an epub file.

salty-horse · 08-20-2019, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by maddz

I was kind of annoyed with the Zen Cho - the B&N blog won’t let non-US customers download freebies. I had to scrape the text and the cover, and merge them in Calibre to end up with an epub. Very annoying in the Hugo packet to get a link instead of an epub file.

Have you tried improving your workflow by using tools such as Pocket? (Note, however, that Pocket has a tendency to strip some important words, such as those marked up with <cite> tags - However those aren't common in fiction.)

All but one of the novelette and short story nominees this year are available online. Why read just one?

BEST NOVELETTE

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again by Zen Cho
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections by Tina Connolly
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth by Daryl Gregory
The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (unavailable. Was free in the past and mentioned in these forums)
The Thing About Ghost Stories by Naomi Kritzer
When We Were Starless by Simone Heller

BEST SHORT STORY

The Court Magician by Sarah Pinsker
The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society by T. Kingfisher
The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by P. Djèlí Clark
STET by Sarah Gailey (must be read on the web page since it has a special design)
The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat by Brooke Bolander
A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies by Alix E. Harrow

lkmiller · 08-20-2019, 12:02 PM

Love using Pocket with my Kobo to read online short fiction. Every once in a great while a Pocket article won't be available on the Kobo. In those cases, I use the send-to-Kindle browser extension and read it on my Kindle instead. If there is unusual formating (like STET linked above), it might get messed up. But I've rarely run into that.

ETA:
@maddz
Yeah, I don't know why on earth B&N didn't provide the epub for the packet. Glad it didn't end up being a disadvantage though!

ZodWallop · 08-20-2019, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maddz

I was kind of annoyed with the Zen Cho - the B&N blog won’t let non-US customers download freebies. I had to scrape the text and the cover, and merge them in Calibre to end up with an epub. Very annoying in the Hugo packet to get a link instead of an epub file.

Why didn't you go to barnesandnoble.com and pick-up the DRM-free ePub there? Here's a link to B&N SFF Originals. All are available free.

Edit: nevermind; I missed the 'non-US customers'

08-18-2019, 10:06 AM	#3016
sufue lost in my e-reader... Posts: 8,147 Karma: 64613820 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: sunny southern California, USA Device: Android phone, Sony T1, Nook ST Glowlight, Galaxy Tab 7 Plus	Today's (Sunday's) US Kindle Daily Deal is "Up to 80% off on Science Fiction reads on Kindle". I don't read enough science fiction to know which ones are good deals, so here's the link to the Daily Deal page, which shows 86 (!!!) titles: https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=KCdls_b..._i=11552285011 ADD: I do, however, definitely recognize mysteries, and I have no idea what Drawing Conclusions, by Donna Leon, is doing in the list. Excellent book, but not science fiction . Last edited by sufue; 08-18-2019 at 10:15 AM.

08-20-2019, 12:02 PM	#3029
lkmiller Laura Posts: 1,540 Karma: 23597272 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: Kobo Sage, Kobo Elipsa, Nook Glowlight 4 Plus, Kindle Oasis 2	Love using Pocket with my Kobo to read online short fiction. Every once in a great while a Pocket article won't be available on the Kobo. In those cases, I use the send-to-Kindle browser extension and read it on my Kindle instead. If there is unusual formating (like STET linked above), it might get messed up. But I've rarely run into that. ETA: @maddz Yeah, I don't know why on earth B&N didn't provide the epub for the packet. Glad it didn't end up being a disadvantage though! Last edited by lkmiller; 08-20-2019 at 12:12 PM.

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salty-horse Wizard Posts: 2,026 Karma: 21000000 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kobo Clara 2E	A few notables (to me) in the Kindle deal: *Hild* by Nicola Griffith (more of a historical story, no fantasy. Sequel apparently being written) *An Unkindness of Magicians* by Kat Howard *The Monster Baru Cormorant* by Seth Dickinson (sequel) *The Magicians* by Lev Grossman *Zero Sum Game* by S. L. Huang (action-y technothriller. First in series) *Zeroes* by Chuck Wendig (another technothriller) *European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman* by Theodora Goss (sequel; historical fantasy featuring many women from Victorian stories) *A Scanner Darkly* by Philip K. Dick

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maddz Wizard Posts: 1,405 Karma: 30039536 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: UK Device: Kobo Forma, Icarus, iPad Mini 2, Kobo Touch, Google Nexus 7	I was kind of annoyed with the Zen Cho - the B&N blog won’t let non-US customers download freebies. I had to scrape the text and the cover, and merge them in Calibre to end up with an epub. Very annoying in the Hugo packet to get a link instead of an epub file.