FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[ReadingManiac]

Oh, and the whole Time Shifters series as well! First book free, 99 cents for the others.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/30969

[ReadingManiac]

Almost forgot, I've found an excellent Fantasy author in indieland and her main series is on sale for .99 on Amazon for all three books! I don't know for how long.

The Keeper Chronicles by JA Andrews.

https://www.amazon.com/Keeper-Chroni.../dp/B07QN31TDH

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King is $2.99 at Amazon US.

And now The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King is $2.99 at Amazon US. The first one is also still on sale. Wonder if this is the start of a pattern for the Dark Tower books?

Beginning just less than seven hours after The Gunslinger ends, in the second installment to the thrilling Dark Tower Series, Roland encounters three mysterious doorways on a deserted beach along the Western Sea. Each one enters into a different person’s life in New York—here, he joins forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean, and with the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, to save the Dark Tower.

[sufue]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

I don't think I posted this sale before. This is the first time Fugitive Telemetry is discounted in the US.

Oops, I just noticed that your post was dated the same as mine...my apologies...somehow I misread it as last year when it popped up in the search results...

[salty-horse]

The Employees by Olga Ravn is $2 on Amazon.com
This novella was on my wishlist. Warning: It has an unconventional structure that may put you off.

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.

Olga Ravn’s prose is chilling, crackling, exhilarating, and foreboding. The Employees probes into what makes us human, while delivering a hilariously stinging critique of life governed by the logic of productivity.

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK- Death Warmed Over (Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. Book 1) by Kevin J. Anderson


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Warme...09CFWEWG&psc=1

Spoiler:

Ever since the Big Uneasy unleashed vampires, werewolves, and other undead denizens on the world, it’s been hell being a detective—especially for zombie PI Dan Chambeaux.

Taking on the creepiest of cases in the Unnatural Quarter with a human lawyer for a partner and a ghost for a girlfriend, Chambeaux redefines “dead on arrival.” But just because he was murdered doesn’t mean he’d leave his clients in the lurch. Besides, zombies are so good at lurching.

Now he’s back from the dead and back in business—with a caseload that’s downright unnatural. A resurrected mummy is suing the museum that put him on display. Two witches, victims of a curse gone terribly wrong, seek restitution from a publisher for not using “spell check” on its magical tomes. And he’s got to figure out a very personal question: who killed him?

For Dan Chambeaux, it’s all in a day’s work. (Still, does everybody have to call him “Shamble”?)

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Employees by Olga Ravn is $2 on Amazon.com
This novella was on my wishlist. Warning: It has an unconventional structure that may put you off.

Looks great! Got it. -- Thank you!

This novella was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize.

[salty-horse]

Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer is $3 on Amazon.com
The final book in the Terra Ignota series.

[tch65721]

The Company by K. J. Parker - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002B9MHQ8

[salty-horse]

Last Exit by Max Gladstone is $3 on Amazon.com
This is a very recent release.

Ten years ago, Zelda led a band of merry adventurers whose knacks let them travel to alternate realities and battle the black rot that threatened to unmake each world. Zelda was the warrior; Ish could locate people anywhere; Ramon always knew what path to take; Sarah could turn catastrophe aside. Keeping them all connected: Sal, Zelda’s lover and the group's heart.

Until their final, failed mission, when Sal was lost. When they all fell apart.

Ten years on, Ish, Ramon, and Sarah are happy and successful. Zelda is alone, always traveling, destroying rot throughout the US.

When it boils through the crack in the Liberty Bell, the rot gives Zelda proof that Sal is alive, trapped somewhere in the alts.

Zelda’s getting the band back together—plus Sal’s young cousin June, who has a knack none of them have ever seen before.

As relationships rekindle, the friends begin to believe they can find Sal and heal all the worlds. It’s not going to be easy, but they’ve faced worse before.

But things have changed, out there in the alts. And in everyone's hearts.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Last Exit by Max Gladstone is $3 on Amazon.com
This is a very recent release.

Hey, thanks for that. The synopsis sounds like typical urban fantasy that I have no interest in. But I went to the page anyway and the reviews make it sound much better than I figured.

[Dazrin]

This is a repeat (most recently from February) but Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke is on sale for $1.99. Tarana mentioned the sequels were on sale a couple days ago (maybe still) but from what I've heard the first book is the best. I really enjoyed it when I read it a few years ago.

An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth’s solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. They find an interior stretching over fifty kilometers; a forbidding cylindrical sea; mysterious and inaccessible buildings; and strange machine-animal hybrids, or “biots,” that inhabit the ship. But what they don’t find is an alien presence. So who—and where—are the Ramans?

Often listed as one of Clarke’s finest novels, Rendezvous with Rama won numerous awards, including the Hugo, the Nebula, the Jupiter, and the British Science Fiction Awards. A fast-paced and compelling story of an enigmatic encounter with alien technology, Rendezvous with Rama offers both answers and unsolved mysteries that will continue to fascinate readers for generations.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XD75HGV
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=mVEqAAAAQBAJ
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/rendezvous-with-rama-6

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Hey, thanks for that. The synopsis sounds like typical urban fantasy that I have no interest in. But I went to the page anyway and the reviews make it sound much better than I figured.

Whatever Gladstone writes, I don't think it can be described as typical.
Here's a recent story of his I liked:
https://www.sundaymorningtransport.c...-make-unending

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

...Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke is on sale for $1.99. Tarana mentioned the sequels were on sale... but from what I've heard the first book is the best.

It's a lot more than that. Rendezvous with Rama is a classic of sci-fi. But those sequels with Gentry Lee are about universally hated. I don't know that I have ever seen a positive review on any of them.

I've not read the sequels. But I have read Cradle by Clarke and Lee and remember being disappointed in it.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

It's a lot more than that. Rendezvous with Rama is a classic of sci-fi. But those sequels with Gentry Lee are about universally hated. I don't know that I have ever seen a positive review on any of them.

I've not read the sequels. But I have read Cradle by Clarke and Lee and remember being disappointed in it.

I've read them. I went into them thinking, "Surely they aren't as bad as everyone says they are." Well, I was correct, because they're worse.

The original is set in an optimistic future where humanity has colonized the solar system and sets out to explore Rama when it unexpectedly shows up passing through the Solar system. The sequels start out with all of that gone except the base on the moon, which is still hanging on by a thread. In addition we quickly find out that terrorists nuked Rome between the original and the sequels. As in detonating an actual nuclear weapon. The entire first sequel is devoid of any hope or positivity, focusing more on all the characters being assholes in various ways than on the exploration it's nominally about.

And then it gets worse. Attempted genocide even happens, with humanity doing it, of course. Your reward for suffering through all of this? Well, there isn't one. There is no satisfying ending, Lee's explanation of what Rama is turns out to be really bland.

Save your time and sanity, don't read them. They're truly, horribly awful and the worst books I've read in my entire life. I regret having read them, and they're the only books I can say that about.