FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[salty-horse]

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon is $2.99 on Amazon.com

Vern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised—flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.

But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes.

To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future—outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it.

[salty-horse]

A bunch of SFF on sale today. I'll highlight a few:
The Actual Star by Monica Byrne is $1.99 on Amazon.com

The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents —telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart, all of them converging in the same cave in the Belizean jungle.

Braided together are the stories of a pair of teenage twins who ascend the throne of a Maya kingdom; a young American woman on a trip of self-discovery in Belize; and two dangerous charismatics vying for the leadership of a new religion and racing toward a confrontation that will determine the fate of the few humans left on Earth after massive climate change.

In each era, a reincarnated trinity of souls navigates the entanglements of tradition and progress, sister and stranger, and love and hate—until all of their age-old questions about the nature of existence converge deep underground, where only in complete darkness can they truly see.

The Actual Star is a feast of ideas about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we’re going—and how, in every age, the same forces that drive us apart also bind us together.

The Last Watch by J. S. Dewes is $2.99 on Amazon.com
First in a series.

The Divide.

It’s the edge of the universe.

Now it’s collapsing—and taking everyone and everything with it.

The only ones who can stop it are the Sentinels—the recruits, exiles, and court-martialed dregs of the military.

At the Divide, Adequin Rake commands the Argus. She has no resources, no comms—nothing, except for the soldiers that no one wanted. Her ace in the hole could be Cavalon Mercer--genius, asshole, and exiled prince who nuked his grandfather's genetic facility for “reasons.”

She knows they’re humanity's last chance.

The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman is $2.99 on Amazon.com
First in a series.

Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler that crosses his path.

But today, Kinch Na Shannack has picked the wrong mark.

Galva is a knight, a survivor of the brutal goblin wars, and handmaiden of the goddess of death. She is searching for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants.

Unsuccessful in his robbery and lucky to escape with his life, Kinch now finds his fate entangled with Galva's. Common enemies and uncommon dangers force thief and knight on an epic journey where goblins hunger for human flesh, krakens hunt in dark waters, and honor is a luxury few can afford.

[ZodWallop]

Ancient Shores by Jack McDevitt is $1.99 at Amazon US.

Something very strange has turned up in Tom Lasker's wheat field: a ten-thousand-year-old sailboat made of an unknown substance. And then there's the Roundhouse, apparently a doorway to another world, sitting squarely on Sioux reservation land. How did they get there, and what do they signify for the people embroiled in their discovery? This is sci-fi on a grand scale by the author of The Engines of God.

[salty-horse]

No Man's Land by A.J. Fitzwater is $0.99 on Amazon.com

No Man’s Land is a historical fantasy and a love story set in the golden plains of North Otago, in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Dorothea ‘Tea’ Gray joins the Land Service and is sent to work on a remote farm, one of many young women who filled the empty shoes left by fathers and brothers serving in the Second World War.

But Tea finds more than hard work and hot sun in the dusty North Otago nowhere—she finds a magic inside herself she never could have imagined, a way to save her brother in a distant land she never thought she could reach, and a love she never knew existed.

Inspired by feminist and LGBTQ+ history and family wartime memories, AJ Fitzwater has turned a piece of forgotten women’s history into a tapestry of furious pride and love that crosses cultures, countries and decades.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by ReadingManiac

My favourite Fantasy trilogy, The Goblin Trilogy by Jaq D. Hawkins is on sale for 2.99!

US https://www.amazon.com/Goblin-Trilog.../dp/B00MGIAXE2
UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goblin-Tril.../dp/B00MGIAXE2

"Dance of the Goblins

The goblins lived unseen by man for many generations and were forgotten, consigned to legend, but a fluke sighting when a man wanders into the entrance of a forgotten underground transportation system revives an ancient war between the species, originated by misunderstanding and prejudice of a species which appears alien to the superstitious humans.


Demoniac Dance

A young girl running away from an unwanted marriage finds a new life among the mysterious magicians in the land across the river. What she didn’t bargain for is the presence of the goblins who have befriended her benefactors.


Power of the Dance

Khemael is a creature of beauty and grace with a mostly human appearance. His love of stretching his leather-like wings and flying freely in the world of men brings far too much attention to the existence of the goblins. Haghuf knows that the inevitable responsibility will fall to him to destroy Khemael who, in the world of the humans, would be called his grandson."

Just found out this sale goes to the end of December!

[Hollow Man]

Ready Player Two is on sale for $4.99 at Amazon. Not uber cheap, but cheap-ish.

-HM

[sufue]

Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is all seven Narnia books, by CS Lewis, for £0.99 each. Titles include: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Horse and his Boy, The Magician's Nephew, and The Last Battle.

Link to the webpage: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=s9_ac...d_i=4725112031

[ZodWallop]

Burning Chrome by William Gibson is $1.99 at Amazon US.

Known for his seminal science fiction novel Neuromancer, and for the acclaimed books Pattern Recognition, The Peripheral, and Agency, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 short stories, including some written with Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, and Michael Swanwick, and with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson’s characters and intensely realized worlds at their absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of “Johnny Mnemonic” to the street-tech melancholy of “Burning Chrome.”

[Kieran Seymour]

Robert A Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a 99p Daily Deal in the UK.

Amazon | Kobo

[maddz]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Robert A Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a 99p Daily Deal in the UK.

Amazon | Kobo

IIRC the last time it was in a deal, you couldn't purchase it because the file contains enough typos that Amazon sent it back to the publisher... Which was a pity because it's one of the few Heinleins I'm after.

[Hollow Man]

Originally Posted by maddz

IIRC the last time it was in a deal, you couldn't purchase it because the file contains enough typos that Amazon sent it back to the publisher... Which was a pity because it's one of the few Heinleins I'm after.

I bought and read it in 2020, on sale, and it was perfectly fine.

-HM

[ZodWallop]

Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton is $3.99 at Amazon US. $4 is higher than what I would usually consider a deal. But it is the cheapest Fallen Dragon has gone. A rare standalone from Peter Hamilton.

In the distant future, corporations have become sustainable communities with their own militaries, and corporate goals have essentially replaced political ideology. On a youthful, rebellious impulse, Lawrence joined the military of a corporation that he now recognizes to be ruthless and exploitative. His only hope for escape is to earn enough money to buy his place in a better corporation.

When his platoon is sent to a distant colony to quell a local resistance effort, it seems like a stroke of amazing fortune, and Lawrence plans to rob the colony of their fabled gemstone, the Fallen Dragon, to get the money he needs. However, he soon discovers that the Fallen Dragon is not a gemstone at all, but an alien life form that the local colonists have been protecting since it crashed in their area.

Now, Lawrence must decide if he will steal the alien to exploit the use of its inherent biotechnical processes — which far exceed anything humans are capable of — or if he will help the Resistance get the alien home.

[LDB]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Robert A Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a 99p Daily Deal in the UK.

Amazon | Kobo

Unfortunately, $12.99 in the U.S.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton is $3.99 at Amazon US. $4 is higher than what I would usually consider a deal. But it is the cheapest Fallen Dragon has gone. A rare standalone from Peter Hamilton.

This is quite good and isn't nearly as thick as some of Hamilton's novels can be. (For example his Night's Dawn trilogy. Original paperback printing in the US split books two & three into two each because they were too thick for regular paperbacks. Subsequent printings used trade paperback format which works better. The UK paperback is the largest paperback book I've ever seen in my life.)

Hamilton's an author that's much better suited to ebooks, just based on the sheer length of his novels.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by Manabi

This is quite good and isn't nearly as thick as some of Hamilton's novels can be. (For example his Night's Dawn trilogy. Original paperback printing in the US split books two & three into two each because they were too thick for regular paperbacks. Subsequent printings used trade paperback format which works better. The UK paperback is the largest paperback book I've ever seen in my life.)

Hamilton's an author that's much better suited to ebooks, just based on the sheer length of his novels.

Fallen Dragon 820 pp try A Suitable Boy at @1500