FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

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A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld Book 32) by Terry Pratchett - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000R4LGMA

[salty-horse]

Re Forever Peace, the middling reviews are read do not treat it as a sequel, but do have high expectations because they liked the Forever War.

[salty-horse]

The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov is $2 on Amazon.com
One of his earlier works.

His name was Biron Farrill and he was a student at the University of Earth. A native of one of the helpless Nebular Kingdoms, he saw his home world conquered and controlled by the planet Tyrann—a ruthless, barbaric Empire that was building a dynasty of cruelty and domination among the stars.

Farrill’s own father had been executed for trying to resist the Tyrann dictatorship and now someone was trying to kill Biron. But why?

His only hope for survival lay in fleeing Earth and joining the rebellion that was rumored to be forming somewhere in the Kingdoms. But once he cast his lot with the freedom fighters, he would find himself guarding against treachery on every side and facing the most difficult choice of all: to betray either the woman he loved or the revolution that was the last hope for the future.

[sufue]

An omnibus with nine titles (six books and three novellas) in Julie Kagawa's Iron Fey series is available for £7.99 at Kindle UK. That's a pretty good price even if you already have a couple of them. It seems to be kind-of long term at this price, but I just noticed it now...

The titles included are:

• Book #1: The Iron King
• Novella #1: Winter’s Passage
• Book #2: The Iron Daughter
• Book #3: The Iron Queen
• Novella #2: Summer’s Crossing
• Book #4: The Iron Knight
• Novella #3: Iron’s Prophecy
• Book #5: The Lost Prince
• Book #6: The Iron Traitor

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00I0X1S6Y
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00I0X1S6Y

Spoiler:

Welcome to a faery world filled with dangerous adventure and forbidden love…
Meghan Chase has a secret destiny – one she could never have imagined.

Enter the Faery world with Julie Kagawa’s internationally bestselling series, The Iron Fey, now with six novels and three short stories in one special collection!

Praise for Julie Kagawa
‘One killer storyteller.’ MTV

’The Iron King is a must read!’ New York Times bestselling author, Gena Showalter

‘The characters of the series are really what have driven this book from fantasy to fantastical.’ myjournalofbooks.com

Readers have been spellbound
‘I never wanted to leave the beautiful world Julie Kagawa painted.’

‘The Iron King is a breath of fresh air after a string of mediocre novels.’

‘A full five-stars to Julie Kagawa.’

‘Fabulous, thrilling and utterly fascinating.’

‘This series is one of those that just keeps getting better.’

‘I just can’t get enough of this world!’

‘Words cannot, will not, sum up the inexplicable ride that thoroughly consumed me while reading The Iron Fey series.’

[JSWolf]

Is that supposed to be a description of the Iron Fey series or is it supposed to be a bunch of review blurbs?

[sufue]

I agree! It looks more like an ad to me, but that's what's there...

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Is that supposed to be a description of the Iron Fey series or is it supposed to be a bunch of review blurbs?

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by svenlind

It does look tempting. Got it

I finished the first book and really enjoyed it. I'll be reading the others before too long but shuffling with all the other books clamouring for my attention.

[salty-horse]

Austral by Paul McAuley is $/£1 on Amazon.com and Amazon UK

A prescient and chilling climate change thriller set on the harsh landscape of Antarctica

The great geoengineering projects have failed.

The world is still warming, sea levels are still rising, and the Antarctic Peninsula is home to Earth's newest nation, with life quickened by ecopoets spreading across valleys and fjords exposed by the retreat of the ice.
Austral Morales Ferrado, a child of the last generation of ecopoets, is a husky: an edited person adapted to the unforgiving climate of the far south, feared and despised by most of its population. She's been a convict, a corrections officer in a labour camp, and consort to a criminal, and now, out of desperation, she has committed the kidnapping of the century. But before she can collect the ransom and make a new life elsewhere, she must find a place of safety amongst the peninsula's forests and icy plateaus, and evade a criminal gang that has its own plans for the teenage girl she's taken hostage.

Blending the story of Austral's flight with the fractured history of her family and its role in the colonisation of Antarctica, Austral is a vivid portrayal of a treacherous new world created by climate change, and shaped by the betrayals and mistakes of the past.

[ZodWallop]

One of my favorite authors, Stephen Baxter has a bunch of random books on sale.

Titan is $1.99
(Billed as #2 in the Nasa trilogy, but these are three unrelated novels.)

Signs of life have been found on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

A group of visionaries led by NASA’s Paula Benacerraf plan a daring one-way mission that will cost them everything. Taking nearly a decade, the billion-mile voyage includes a ‘slingshot’ transit of Venus, a catastrophic solar storm, and a constant struggle to keep the ship and crew functioning.

But it is on the icy surface of Titan itself that the true adventure begins. In the orange methane slush the astronauts will discover the secrets of life’s origins and reach for a human destiny beyond their wildest dreams.

Manifold: Time is $2.99

The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world’s governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. That man, Reid Malenfant, has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the exploration and colonization of space. Now Malenfant gambles the very existence of time on a single desperate throw of the dice. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, as apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, he builds a spacecraft and launches it into deep space. The odds are a trillion to one against him. Or are they?

Stone Spring is $2.99

Ten thousand years ago, a vast and fertile plain existed that linked the British Isles to Europe. Home to a tribe of simple hunter-gatherers, Northland teems with nature’s bounty, but is also subject to its whims.

Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland home, but her world is changing. The air is warming, the ice is melting, and the seas are rising. One day Ana meets a traveler from a far-distant city called Jericho—a town that is protected by a wall. And she starts to imagine the impossible....

Emperor is $2.99

It is The Prophecy. Inscribed in Latin, the ancient scroll has resided in the hands of a single family for generations, revealing secrets about the world that is to come, and guiding them to wealth and power. It begins when a Celtic noble betrays his people at the behest of his mother’s belief in The Prophecy—and sides with the conquering Roman legions.

For the next 400 years, Britannia thrives, as does the family while Rome rules over the island. But loyalties are torn when Constantine, most powerful Emperor of them all, comes to Britannia.

And even as the sun begins to set on the Roman Empire, the Prophecy is renewed—a message from an unknowable future promising the world to those who can decipher its cryptic words...

[ZodWallop]

Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga Book 1) by Raymond E. Feist is $1.99 at Amazon US.

A worthy pupil . . . A dangerous quest

To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry.

Yet Pug's strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by sufue

I agree! It looks more like an ad to me, but that's what's there...

If I knew nothing about the Iron Fey series, I'd see the review blurbs in place of a proper blurb and pass them by.

[ZodWallop]

Another Stephen Baxter book is on sale. I almost didn't click on it as I thought it was a Spanish translation.

Galaxias by Stephen Baxter is $0.99 at Amazon US.

What would happen to the world if the sun went out?

New epic sci-fi from Stephen Baxter, the award-winning author whose credits include co-authorship of the Long Earth series with Terry Pratchett.

By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has managed to overcome a series of catastrophic events and maintain some sense of stability. Space exploration has begun again. Science has led the way.

But then one day, the sun goes out. Solar panels are useless, and the world begins to freeze

Earth begins to fall out of its orbit.

The end is nigh.

Someone has sent us a sign.

[Fbone]

Sentenced to Prism (Humanx Commonwealth) by Alan Dean Foster is $2.99

https://www.amazon.com/Sentenced-Pri...ps%2C92&sr=8-1

Some people are convinced they can do anything; Evan Orgell is one of them. So when his company president sends him off-world to investigate a breakdown in communications from a small research station on a newly discovered planet, he’s all in. The planet’s resources could mean massive profits for the company—and a successful mission could mean massive advancement for Evan. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Clad in a Mobile Hostile World suit, Evan has no doubts about his safety—until he lands on the world of Prism. Though he’s already dealt with thousands of theoretical extraterrestrial problems, nothing prepares him for what he finds there. Hungry, invading lifeforms are everywhere. Over two dozen highly trained people have been overwhelmed and killed, some with their bones eaten from the inside out. It’s utter devastation. Then, while Evan searches for survivors, his indestructible suit meets its match—and he must face the bloodthirsty predators of Prism alone, unprotected, with only his wits to rely on . . .

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga Book 1) by Raymond E. Feist is $1.99 at Amazon US.

The complete Magician (author's preferred edition) by Raymond E. Feist can be had at eBooks.com UK for £2.99. You can travel to the UK and use PayPal to pay for it.

https://www.ebooks.com/en-gb/book/1232540

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The complete Magician (author's preferred edition) by Raymond E. Feist can be had at eBooks.com UK for £2.99. You can travel to the UK and use PayPal to pay for it.

https://www.ebooks.com/en-gb/book/1232540

Aside from the book being split in half, do you know if there are any differences in the two editions of Magician?