FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

You neglected to mention a third choice: Individuals - such as myself - who don't give a [please feel to get creative here], and never ended up spending actual money or regretted picking up the first 9 for free!

Does "gets them for free to add to their library but will never read them" fall under option three, or is it a fourth choice?

Also, I vote for farglenarfle. This thread will soon be the only search result on Google for that term.

[Kieran Seymour]

Originally Posted by Manabi

Does "gets them for free to add to their library but will never read them" fall under option three, or is it a fourth choice?

Buy in haste, ignore... permanently. Hello to all the L Ron Hubbard freebies from 2014

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Hello to all the L Ron Hubbard freebies from 2014

I would think L. Ron Hubbard and freebies are mutually exclusive.

[maddz]

I'll get freebies if they look interesting. If they aren't, well, it's only electrons.

I have a series of 11 mysteries I picked up some years ago: I read the 1st two and stalled on the 3rd because the 'tec was repeating the same mistakes made in the 1st two.

[salty-horse]

Light Chaser by by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell is $3 on Amazon.com

Amahle is a Light Chaser – one of a number of explorers, who travel the universe alone (except for their onboard AI), trading trinkets for life stories.

But when she listens to the stories sent down through the ages she hears the same voice talking directly to her from different times and on different worlds. She comes to understand that something terrible is happening, and only she is in a position to do anything about it.

And it will cost everything to put it right.

[salty-horse]

Jade War by Fonda Lee is $3 on Amazon.com
This is the second book in the completed Green Bone Saga.
(The book was $5 for a while, then went back to full price, and this is the first $3 discount in the US.)

[salty-horse]

The Green Man's Challenge by Juliet E. McKenna is ~$3 on all ebook platforms worldwide. (for convenience: Amazon.com)

This is the 4th book in the Green Man series, which is frequently on sale.

[salty-horse]

Aspects by John M. Ford is $3 on Amazon.com

Enter the halls of Parliament with Varic, Coron of the Corvaric Coast.

Visit Strange House with the Archmage Birch.

Explore the mountains of Lady Longlight alongside the Palion Silvern, Sorcerer.

In the years before his unexpected death, John M. Ford wrote a novel of fantasy and magic unlike any other. Politics and abdicated kings, swords and sorcerous machine guns, divination and ancient empires—finally, Aspects is here.

The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette is $2 on Amazon.com

In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as ‘the Gate’ has risen to power in the aftermath of the ‘Disgraceful Events,’ a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order to take care of even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the Gate never opens, and the queue in front of it grows longer.

Citizens from all walks of life mix and wait in the sun: a revolutionary journalist, a sheikh, a poor woman concerned for her daughter’s health, and even the brother of a security officer killed in clashes with protestors. Among them is Yehia, a man who was shot during the Events and is waiting for permission from the Gate to remove a bullet that remains lodged in his pelvis. Yehia’s health steadily declines, yet at every turn, officials refuse to assist him, actively denying the very existence of the bullet.

Ultimately it is Tarek, the principled doctor tending to Yehia’s case, who must decide whether to follow protocol as he has always done, or to disobey the law and risk his career to operate on Yehia and save his life.

Written with dark, subtle humor, The Queue describes the sinister nature of authoritarianism, and illuminates the way that absolute authority manipulates information, mobilizes others in service to it, and fails to uphold the rights of even those faithful to it.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Jade War by Fonda Lee is $3 on Amazon.com
This is the second book in the completed Green Bone Saga.
(The book was $5 for a while, then went back to full price, and this is the first $3 discount in the US.)

It appears as both 1 & 2 are $2.99 each.

That third one is where the big bucks come in.

[JSWolf]

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[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Green Man's Challenge by Juliet E. McKenna is ~$3 on all ebook platforms worldwide. (for convenience: Amazon.com)

This is the 4th book in the Green Man series, which is frequently on sale.

Amazon.co.uk has this for £0.99.

[salty-horse]

Books 1 and 2 of the The Winnowing Flame trilogy by Jen Williams are $1 each on Amazon.com
Book 3 is $5

These are:
The Ninth Rain
The Bitter Twins
The Poison Song

Here's a summary of the first one:

The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces - talk about a guilt trip. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine.

When eccentric explorer, Lady Vincenza 'Vintage' de Grazon, offers him employment, he sees an easy way out. Even when they are joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the prospect of facing down monsters and retrieving ancient artefacts is preferable to the abomination he left behind.

But not everyone is willing to let the Eboran empire collapse, and the adventurers are quickly drawn into a tangled conspiracy of magic and war. For the Jure'lia are coming, and the Ninth Rain must fall...

[sufue]

But you're in luck if you live in or visit the UK, because The Poison Song is £0.99 right now there...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07BF9YQBH
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07BF9YQBH

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Books 1 and 2 of the The Winnowing Flame trilogy by Jen Williams are $1 each on Amazon.com
Book 3 is $5

These are:
The Ninth Rain
The Bitter Twins
The Poison Song

Here's a summary of the first one:

[sufue]

The House of Binding Thorns is the second in Aliette de Bodard's Dominion of the Fallen series. It's £0.99 at Kindle UK right now, probably as part of the new monthly deal.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01IRM2D3O
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01IRM2D3O

Spoiler:

The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen saga as Paris endures the aftermath of a devastating arcane war . . .

As the city rebuilds from the onslaught of sorcery that nearly destroyed it, the great Houses of Paris, ruled by fallen angels, still contest one another for control over the capital.

House Silverspires was once the most powerful, but just as it sought to rise again, an ancient evil brought it low. Phillippe, an immortal who escaped the carnage, has a singular goal - to resurrect someone he lost. But the cost of such magic might be more than he can bear.

In House Hawthorn, Madeleine the alchemist has had her addiction to angel essence savagely broken. Struggling to live on, she is forced on a perilous diplomatic mission to the underwater dragon kingdom - and finds herself in the midst of intrigues that have already caused one previous emissary to mysteriously disappear . . .

As the Houses seek a peace more devastating than war, those caught between new fears and old hatreds must find strength - or fall prey to a magic that seeks to bind all to its will.

[salty-horse]

The Exile Waiting by Vonda N McIntyre is $2 on Amazon.com
Set in the same world as Dreamsnake, but written earlier.

In post-apocalyptic world in which Center, an enclosed domed city, is run by slave-owning families who control the planet’s resources and are strangling the city’s economy by their decadence, Mischa, a thirteen-year old sneak thief, is struggling to support her drug-addict elder brother Chris, and their predatory uncle who uses their telepathic link with their captive younger sister Gemmi to control them. The alien pseudosibs Subone and Subtwo have come to Earth to take over Center’s resources. Subone is attracted by the decadent living on offer and begins to unlink from his sibling’s conditioning. Subtwo has fallen unexpectedly in love with a slave.

When Mischa defends Chris from Subone’s malice, Subtwo hunts her beneath Center’s foundations, and discovers how terrible Center’s cruelty has been to its inhabitants with genetically distorted bodies and minds. They have to rescue them and leave… but how?