FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[sufue]

Note this was a Tor freebie-of-the-month back in May 2020, so check before you buy...

Originally Posted by Tarana

Tooth and Claw By Jo Walton $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
My late sister had a lot of books by this author, so clearly enjoyed her books. Loved the blurb on it.

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Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks is $1.99 on Amazon.com
This is not a Culture novel.

Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith's apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.

Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself.

[REPEAT]
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl is 0.99 on Amazon.com
Includes stories by Kathleen Alcala, Minsoo Kang, Anil Menon, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Alex Jennings, Alberto Yanez, Steven Barnes, Jaymee Goh, Karin Lowachee, E. Lily Yu, Andrea Hairston, Tobias Buckell, Hiromi Goto, Rebecca Roanhorse, Indrapramit Das, Chinelo Onwualu and Darcie Little Badger.

[Tarana]

Originally Posted by sufue

Note this was a Tor freebie-of-the-month back in May 2020, so check before you buy...

Thanks for posting that. I did already have it so returned this one.

[Tarana]

The Starless Sea By Erin Morgenstern $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
From author of The Night Circus.

[sufue]

Now $1.99 in the US...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00351DSHI
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00351DSHI
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...ador-s-mission

Originally Posted by sufue

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Finally, if you travel from time to time, the first title in the Traitor Spy trilogy, The Ambassador's Mission, is on sale for £0.99, as part of the UK Kindle Monthy Deal. Info in @maddz's post here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3971204

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The Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis is on sale for ~$2.99 for each book on Amazon.com
This is about a steampunk robot uprising.

[Tarana]

The Night Raven By Sarah Painter $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Haven't read this author but I'm a sucker for a magical investigator. Blame it on Dresden.

Fearless By Allen Stroud $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
This is part of the Fiction without Borders collection from Simon and Shuster (81 books). Each is a standalone. This book is billed as hard SF space opera.

[Tarana]

The Companions By R.A. Salvatore $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

While Drizzt reflects on his lost companions, Bruenor, Catti-brie, Regis, and Wulfgar are given the chance to be reborn and return to the world they left behind. But as these friends embark on epic journeys to reunite with one another, chaos stirs on the horizon… First in a series!

[salty-horse]

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds is $2.99 on Amazon.com

2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it.
The Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R & R, when startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed. As layers of camouflage fall away, it becomes clear that Janus was never a moon in the first place. It's some kind of machine -- and it is now headed toward a fuzzily glimpsed artifact 260 light-years away.
The Rockhopper is the only ship anywhere near Janus, and Bella Lind is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach. In accepting this mission, she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny -- for Janus has more surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome.

[Kieran Seymour]

John Wyndham's Trouble with Lichen is currently down to 99p in the UK.

amazon.co.uk | Kobo

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

John Wyndham's Trouble with Lichen is currently down to 99p in the UK.

amazon.co.uk | Kobo

Sounds interesting! Ordered a sample.

[salty-horse]

The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem is $2.99 on Amazon.com

A post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car.

The Arrest isn’t post-apocalypse. It isn’t a dystopia. It isn’t a utopia. It’s just what happens when much of what we take for granted—cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters—quits working. . . .

Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn’t hurt.

Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was. Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers the food grown by his sister, Maddy, at her organic farm. But then Todbaum shows up in an extraordinary vehicle: a retrofitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. Todbaum has spent the Arrest smashing his way across a fragmented and phantasmagorical United States, trailing enmities all the way. Plopping back into the siblings’ life with his usual odious panache, his motives are entirely unclear. Can it be that Todbaum wants to produce one more extravaganza? Whatever he’s up to, it may fall to Journeyman to stop him.

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Relic by Alan Dean Foster is $2.99 on Amazon.com

Once Homo sapiens reigned supreme, spreading from star system to star system in an empire that encountered no alien life and thus knew no enemy . . . save itself. As had happened many times before, the basest, most primal human instincts rose up, only this time armed with the advanced scientific knowledge to create a genetically engineered smart virus that quickly wiped out humanity to the last man.

That man is Ruslan, the sole known surviving human being in the universe. Rescued from the charnel house of his home planet by the Myssari—an intelligent alien race—Ruslan spends his days as something of a cross between a research subject and a zoo attraction. Though the Myssari are determined to resurrect the human race, using Ruslan’s genetic material, all he wants for himself and his species is oblivion. But then the Myssari make Ruslan an extraordinary offer: In exchange for his cooperation, they will do everything in their considerable power to find the lost home world of his species—an all-but-mythical place called Earth—and, perhaps, another living human.

Thus begins an epic journey of adventure, danger, heartbreak, and hope, as Ruslan sets out in search of a place that may no longer exist—drawn by the slimmest yet most enduring hope.

[Tarana]

Time and Again By Clifford D. Simak $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

A sci-fi classic from a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author: Decades ago, Asher Sutton vanished into deep space. Now he’s back — but is he still human?

Justice Calling By Annie Bellet FREE Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Fantasy. Author was a Hugo nominee. Audiobook companion is $1.99 at Amazon.

Gamer. Nerd. Sorceress.

Jade Crow lives a quiet life running her comic book and game store in Wylde, Idaho. After twenty-five years fleeing from a powerful sorcerer who wants to eat her heart and take her powers, quiet suits her just fine. Surrounded by friends who are even less human than she is, Jade figures she’s finally safe.

As long as she doesn’t use her magic.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Justice Calling By Annie Bellet FREE Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Fantasy. Author was a Hugo nominee.

Goodnight Stars was on the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies nomination slates, and the author has withdrawn her story from nomination.