FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[GlennD]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

An absolutely superb bargain for anyone who doesn't have this trilogy.

Dickensian. Rich. Deep. Entertaining.

I'll bet it'll never be on sale in the US. I haven't met many here who have even heard of it, unfortunately.

Edit: Well shut my mouth. The current price for the trilogy on Amazon US is $11.99 and according to ereaderIQ, that went into place on March 9. It was $19 before that. Not sure if this is a sale or the new normal price, but here's the link regardless.

[maddz]

​The Amazon April Deals are up. Of interest:

Artemis, by Andy Weir is 99p REPEAT
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Artemis-gri...al-text&sr=1-5

Hounded, by Kevin Hearne (The Iron Druid Chronicles 1) is 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hounded-Dru...al-text&sr=1-7

Ravenheart, by David Gemmell (Rigante 3) is 99p (may be a repeat)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ravenheart-...al-text&sr=1-8

Deadhouse Gates, by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen 2) is 99p REPEAT
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadhouse-G...al-text&sr=1-9

Dragonsong, by Anne McCaffrey (Pern 3 / Harperhall 1)is 99p REPEAT
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dragonsong-...l-text&sr=1-10

Tomorrow, by Damian Dibben is 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tomorrow-sp...l-text&sr=1-13

The Science of Discworld, by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Ian Cohen (Science of Discworld 1) is 99p (may be a repeat)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Dis...l-text&sr=1-17

Contact, by Carl Sagan is 99p (reprint edition)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Contact-Car...l-text&sr=1-26

Zoe's Tale, by John Scalzi (Old Man's War 4) is 99p REPEAT
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zoes-Tale-O...l-text&sr=1-33

Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville (New Crobuzon 1) is 99p REPEAT
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perdido-Str...l-text&sr=1-35

Thud!, by Terry Pratchett (Discworld 34) is £1.99
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thud-Discwo...l-text&sr=1-88

The 5 short stories which form the Faraway collection are 99p each:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...eries_rw_dp_sw
I got the Ken Liu and I'll see what it's like before deciding on any of the others; they seem rather expensive for the length, but I guess they are on a par with the price point of the Tor.com shorts. However, they include Audible narration; normally it's an add-on.

Some Melissa F Olsen Old World books are on sale at 99p each:
Born Magic: The Diary of Scarlett Barnard (Disrupted Magic subseries 4)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Magic-...l-text&sr=1-57
The Boundary Magic series (5 books) are all 99p each ALL REPEAT
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/kindle/s...dp_rwt_sb_tkin

The Man Who Fell to Earth, by Walter Tevis is 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Fell-Ea...l-text&sr=1-38

House of Many Ways, by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle 3) is 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Many-...l-text&sr=1-15

[sufue]

On the way to other things, I noticed an anthology of three stories by Aliette de Bodard, set in the world of her book The House of Shattered Wings (which goes on sale pretty often). I've read and really enjoyed her Obsidion and Blood series, but haven't quite made it to reading any of her other books yet. In any case, the anthology, In Morningstar's Shadow, appears to be a long-term freebie in both the US and UK. I'm going to snag it against the day I start reading this series.

Oh yeah, and the three stories are: The Face of Heaven, Paid Debts, and What Has to Be Done.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015HR1LGM
Kinde UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B015HR1LGM

Also, while searching to see if this had been previously posted, I noticed @salty-horse's post about her three free Xuya stories on Patreon. And when I checked, that anthology was still available, so here's a link to that post if you missed it - like I did ...

[kyrilson]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Yep, it's that easy with a mouse, but not with the touchpad. When I doubleclick, it only copies the area between slashes (/thisspot/). On the laptop, I have Windows set to 150% larger. I doubt that is the problem, but it is a different setting than most people have. I don't access mobileread from my Iphone - can't read websites due to the vision problem.

Hmm. A lot of times, with a touchpad, if you click with two fingers (sometimes it's three), it functions as a right click, which will bring up the option to do a number of things, one of them will be Copy. Give that a try, maybe that will give you the option to copy.

[tch65721]

The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz (eBook Bundle) by Gregory Maguire - $3.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FOPTNH2

I have passed on the individual books in the past but a buck a book bundle is tough to resist.

[GlennD]

The bundle of the first four books of Kim Harrison's Hollows series is on sale at Amazon US for $3.99.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by GlennD

The bundle of the first four books of Kim Harrison's Hollows series is on sale at Amazon US for $3.99.

Those are fun!

[itisbomb]

The Baroque Cycle
(3-book bundle of Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World)

by Neal Stephenson

is $2.99 at Kobo U.S.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...cle-collection

[Hollow Man]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

The Baroque Cycle
(3-book bundle of Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World)

by Neal Stephenson

is $2.99 at Kobo U.S.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...cle-collection

Cool! Also at Amazon USA:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KVIBWPI/

-HM

[salty-horse]

The Afterparty by Daryl Gregory is $2.99 on Amazon.com

A science fiction thriller, award-winning author Daryl Gregory's Afterparty features a scientist on a mind-bending and violent chase across Canada and the U.S. to undue the harm her creation has done and save civilization.

It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide.

Lyda Rose, another patient in that detention facility, has a dark secret: she was one of the original scientists who developed the drug. With the help of an ex-government agent and an imaginary, drug-induced doctor, Lyda sets out to find the other three survivors of the five who made the Numinous in a quest to set things right.

The Night Watch Collection: Books 1-3 by Sergei Lukyanenko is $3.99 on Amazon.com
Here's the description of the first book:

Others. They walk among us. Observing.

Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, and street-sorcerers linger in the shadows, Night Watch is the first book of the hyper-imaginative fantasy pentalogy from best-selling Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko.

This epic saga chronicles the eternal war of the “Others,” an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who must swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. The agents of the Dark – the Night Watch – oversee nocturnal activity, while the agents of the Light keep watch over the day. For a thousand years both sides have maintained a precarious balance of power, but an ancient prophecy has decreed that a supreme Other will one day emerge, threatening to tip the scales. Now, that day has arrived. When a mid-level Night Watch agent named Anton stumbles upon a cursed young woman – an uninitiated Other with magnificent potential – both sides prepare for a battle that could lay waste to the entire city, possible the world. With language that throbs like darkly humorous hard-rock lyrics about blood and power, freedom and responsibility, Night Watch is a chilling, cutting-edge thriller, a pulse-pounding ride of fusion fiction that will leave you breathless for the next instalment.

Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey is $2.99 on Amazon.com
This is a romance retelling of The Tempest

Miranda and Caliban is bestselling fantasy author Jacqueline Carey’s gorgeous retelling of The Tempest. With hypnotic prose and a wild imagination, Carey explores the themes of twisted love and unchecked power that lie at the heart of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, while serving up a fresh take on the play's iconic characters.

A lovely girl grows up in isolation where her father, a powerful magus, has spirited them to in order to keep them safe.

We all know the tale of Prospero's quest for revenge, but what of Miranda? Or Caliban, the so-called savage Prospero chained to his will?

In this incredible retelling of the fantastical tale, Jacqueline Carey shows readers the other side of the coin—the dutiful and tenderhearted Miranda, who loves her father but is terribly lonely. And Caliban, the strange and feral boy Prospero has bewitched to serve him. The two find solace and companionship in each other as Prospero weaves his magic and dreams of revenge.

Always under Prospero’s jealous eye, Miranda and Caliban battle the dark, unknowable forces that bind them to the island even as the pangs of adolescence create a new awareness of each other and their doomed relationship.

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor is $1.99 on Amazon.com
Based on the fiction podcast.

Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.

Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels.

Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter. And lately Diane's started to see her son's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it.

Diane's search to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: "KING CITY". It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures...if they can ever find it.

[sufue]

The Novice is the second in the Black Magician series by Trudi Canavan. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MAH7C2
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000MAH7C2
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...gician-trilogy

Spoiler:

"Even if a magician's powers surface of their own accord, he will soon be dead if he does not gain the knowledge of how to control them."

Alone among all the novices in the Magicians' Guild, only Sonea comes from lowly beginnings. Yet she has won powerful allies—including Lord Dannyl, newly promoted to Guild Ambassador. But Dannyl must now depart for the Elyne court, leaving Sonea at the mercy of the lies and malicious rumors her enemies are busy spreading . . . until the High Lord Akkarin steps in. The price of Akkarin's support is dear, however, because Sonea, in turn, must protect his mysteries—and a secret that could lead a young novice mage deep into the darkness.

Meanwhile, Dannyl's first order to resume High Lord Akkarin's long-abandoned research into ancient magical knowledge is setting him on an extraordinary journey fraught with unanticipated peril—as he moves ever-closer to a future both wondrous . . . and terrible.

[mewmartigan]

Originally Posted by Hollow Man

Cool! Also at Amazon USA:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KVIBWPI/

-HM

If those books are your cup of tea, that is a stellar deal. $3 for three massive doorstops. I quite enjoyed them.

[ottdmk]

Thanks for posting this! I read The Magician's Guild a while back, and I've been hoping there'd be a sale on the others someday. :-D The sale also applies @ Kobo Canada.

Sheesh, big day for me. I bought the Harrison bundle, the Stephenson bundle, and The Novice. :-D

[salty-horse]

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse is $4.99 (50% off) on Amazon.com
The first in a new trilogy.

A god will return
When the earth and sky converge
Under the black sun

In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.

Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain.

Crafted with unforgettable characters, Rebecca Roanhorse has created an epic adventure exploring the decadence of power amidst the weight of history and the struggle of individuals swimming against the confines of society and their broken pasts in the most original series debut of the decade.

[GlennD]

Legends of the Riftwar Omnibus, by Raymond Feist, on sale at Amazon for $3.99.

It contains "Honored Enemy", "Murder in LaMut" and "Jimmy the Hand".