FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The non-split version of Magician is £2.99 at eBooks.com UK. You can travel to the UK and use PayPal to pay for it. It will be cheaper then the US split eBooks even with the first 1/2 on sale.

Yeah. But I already bought the first half book.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Manabi

I prefer scifi over fantasy...

Me too. I've been trying to read more fantasy this year.

...but I enjoyed those books quite a lot.

Good to know. The only Feist book I've read was the horror-ish novel Faerie Tale.

[salty-horse]

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson is $3 on Amazon.com
Kind of a sequel to Reamde.

In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia.

One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings, Dodge’s family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud, until it can eventually be revived.

In the coming years, technology allows Dodge’s brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife—the Bitworld—is created, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls.

But this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem . . .

Fall, or Dodge in Hell is pure, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in one grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age.

[tch65721]

Station Eleven: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J1IQUYM

National Book Award Finalist • PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Buzzfeed, and Entertainment Weekly, Time, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Minnesota Public Radio, The Huffington Post, BookPage, Time Out, BookRiot

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Yeah. But I already bought the first half book.

It's still cheaper to buy the full book than to buy just the second half.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It's still cheaper to buy the full book then to buy just the second half.

Why buy the second half after buying the full book?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Why buy the second half after buying the full book?

In the US, the book Magician was split into two pBooks. The eBooks are also split in two. In the UK, Magician is not split into two. It's one eBook.

@ZodWallop bought the first US eBook on sale. But the cost of the 2nd eBook is more expensive to buy in the US then to take a trip via eBooks.com to the UK and buy the complete eBook. I was suggesting that the complete eBook be purchased because it's cheaper then buying the 2nd half.

2nd half of Magician is $8.99 in the US
The complete Magician is £2.99 in the UK.

That makes buying the complete eBook cheaper then buying just the 2nd half.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It's still cheaper to buy the full book then to buy just the second half.

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Why buy the second half after buying the full book?

Originally Posted by JSWolf

In the US, the book Magician was split into two pBooks. The eBooks are also split in two. In the UK, Magician is not split into two. It's one eBook.

@ZodWallop bought the first US eBook on sale. But the cost of the 2nd eBook is more expensive to buy in the US then to take a trip via eBooks.com to the UK and buy the complete eBook. I was suggesting that the complete eBook be purchased because it's cheaper then buying the 2nd half.

2nd half of Magician is $8.99 in the US
The complete Magician is £2.99 in the UK.

That makes buying the complete eBook cheaper then buying just the 2nd half.

Still does not make sense.

"It's still cheaper to buy the full book than to buy just the second half." would make sense.
You are still advising to buy the full book first and to buy the second half second.

[DuskyRose]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Still does not make sense.

"It's still cheaper to buy the full book than to buy just the second half." would make sense.

You are still advising to buy the full book first and to buy the second half second.

I think you're missing the fact that the first book is -already- owned.

They can then buy the second book, (completing the story), OR buy the FULL book (parts one and two) for a cheaper price than what the second book would cost.

He's saying don't pay for the second book when you can get -both- at a cheaper price, even if you already own the first book.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by DuskyRose

I think you're missing the fact that the first book is -already- owned.

They can then buy the second book, (completing the story), OR buy the FULL book (parts one and two) for a cheaper price than what the second book would cost.

He's saying don't pay for the second book when you can get -both- at a cheaper price, even if you already own the first book.

That might be what he meant, but what he wrote does not mean that.

[Dazrin]

Do we really need to have an argument about "then" vs "than" when one it is obvious on which one is intended after the follow-up?

[FourOhFour]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

That might be what he meant, but what he wrote does not mean that.

If my eyes rolled any harder I'd have to chase them across the floor.

(then vs than, if I have figured out what j.p.s is talking about correctly)

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by FourOhFour

If my eyes rolled any harder I'd have to chase them across the floor.

I have to agree. What's coming up next? Ontological arguments along the lines how many angels can dance on the head of a pin or similar?

Though Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman did settle that argument since only one angel knows how to dance—if you still consider the gavotte a dance, see Good Omens. Though that did contradict Terry Pratchett in Carpe Jugulum where Granny Weatherwax gave 16 as the answer (maybe Discworld angels are into dancing?).

[salty-horse]

Little, Big by John Crowley is $2 on Amazon.com
A classic, was on my wishlist.

John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss; of impossible things and unshakable destinies; and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DuskyRose

I think you're missing the fact that the first book is -already- owned.

They can then buy the second book, (completing the story), OR buy the FULL book (parts one and two) for a cheaper price than what the second book would cost.

He's saying don't pay for the second book when you can get -both- at a cheaper price, even if you already own the first book.

Exactly. Thank you for helping to clarify.