FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Kieran Seymour]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Then you must absolutely and wholeheartedly, with a mind both decisive and unwavering, stay clear of this book: [Not on sale, I might add]:

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-weird

That was my big read for the Halloween season last year. It generally dips down to a couple of pounds at least once a year and it's a hell of bargain. That said, you might want your money back when you get to the one that's written in the style of an academic paper - it's unreadable.

[isarl]

Books 2 and 3 of David Brian's Uplift saga, Startide Rising and The Uplift War, are currently on sale for $2 via Kobo Canada (and likely others).

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke is also on sale through Kobo Canada (and likely others).

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

That was my big read for the Halloween season last year. It generally dips down to a couple of pounds at least once a year and it's a hell of bargain. That said, you might want your money back when you get to the one that's written in the style of an academic paper - it's unreadable.

I have this ebook, and I love it.

I've had it for about a year, I think.

[curtw]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Ivory By Mike Resnick $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Scifi. Big fan of the late Mike Resnick but I have not read this book.

If you haven't picked it up yet, I highly recommend. Top tier Resnick.

[Ashartus]

Originally Posted by isarl

Books 2 and 3 of David Brian's Uplift saga, Startide Rising and The Uplift War, are currently on sale for $2 via Kobo Canada (and likely others).

While they are books 2 and 3, there is no need to read book 1. The first trilogy are all basically stand-alone books with different characters/locations, though the events in the Uplift War are caused by what happens in Startide Rising.

Personally I think those 2 are the best books David Brin wrote.

[ZodWallop]

Starfire by Paul Preuss is $1.99 at Amazon US. This is a reprint of an older book from 1989.

A hero astronaut flies too close to the sun in this science fiction adventure from the author of Human Error, “a writer of real intelligence” (The Washington Post).

After a solar flare accident in orbit, Travis is a hero: the first astronaut to bail out of a spacecraft and live. NASA, however, had advised against the bailout—and as punishment for violating orders, Travis is grounded on earth, never to fly again.

Then comes Starfire, an experimental spacecraft that could be capable of interstellar flight. Travis fights a desperate political battle to become a crewmember, and his go-it-alone attitude makes for some rough going. Starfire’s planned maiden voyage is to land on an asteroid that is heading toward a close loop around the sun, stay long enough to explore, then return to Earth by way of a gravity boost around Venus.

But during the mission, disaster strikes again: The ship is hit by a huge solar flare and must take shelter in the shadow of the asteroid, even while falling ever closer to the sun. The aim of the mission now becomes one of desperate survival...

[Hollow Man]

2061 by Arthur C. Clarke is $1.99 at Amazon USA (maybe someday I'll understand why these versions of the Space Odyssey books aren't the same as the ones I bought years ago even though they look exactly the same).

[SomeSteve]

Originally Posted by isarl

Books 2 and 3 of David Brian's Uplift saga, Startide Rising and The Uplift War, are currently on sale for $2 via Kobo Canada (and likely others).

At the moment, Uplift: The Complete Original Trilogy (Uplift Omnibus Book 1) is available on various European Amazon and Kobo sites for around €5.50.

[Tarana]

Time of the Twins By Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Fantasy - sword and sorcery.
I've never read this but my brother and late sister were fans.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by maddz

Not available as an ebook on either Amazon.co.uk nor Kobo UK.

Go to Kobo UK and "travel" to Kobo US and buy it.

You can do the same thing at eBooks.com.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Go to Kobo UK and "travel" to Kobo US and buy it.

You can do the same thing at eBooks.com.

Doesn't work here for eBooks or Kobo. They geolocate your IP.

Or by "travel" do you mean a paid VPN with outlet in a desired country? I'd not touch with a barge poll. I'd only use VPN in a public place to connect to my home ISP, for security.

[Aleron Ives]

There are people here who claim it's easy to "travel" with Kobo. Don't enter a street address or a credit card (which would be linked to a street address for billing), change your country, and set your postal code to a valid number from the desired country, and then you'll be able to buy books using your gift card balance. The balance will be converted to the currency of whichever country you travel to. I've yet to try it myself, but this is my understanding of how you do it.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

There are people here who claim it's easy to "travel" with Kobo. Don't enter a street address or a credit card (which would be linked to a street address for billing), change your country, and set your postal code to a valid number from the desired country, and then you'll be able to buy books using your gift card balance. The balance will be converted to the currency of whichever country you travel to. I've yet to try it myself, but this is my understanding of how you do it.

Either doing so is kind of grandfathered into older accounts, or Kobo's gradually rolling out additional checks to prevent people doing it. I followed a link to a book on Kobo UK and immediately got a popup telling me I couldn't buy it because I was in the US, along with a link to change to the US site. I wasn't logged in, and haven't visited Kobo in quite a while.

Edit: To add to the confusion, I tried it just now and this time got the following message at the bottom of the page instead of a popup:

This is our United Kingdom store.

Looks like you're in United States. You need a United Kingdom address to shop on our United Kingdom store. Go to our United States store to continue.

Seems they're at least testing geolocating IP addresses instead of only relying on addresses.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Doesn't work here for eBooks or Kobo. They geolocate your IP.

I don't know about eBooks, but Kobo definitely does not. I buy British ebooks from Kobo right here in Texas. Just did it today. No VPN.

[isarl]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

There are people here who claim it's easy to "travel" with Kobo. Don't enter a street address or a credit card (which would be linked to a street address for billing), change your country, and set your postal code to a valid number from the desired country, and then you'll be able to buy books using your gift card balance. The balance will be converted to the currency of whichever country you travel to. I've yet to try it myself, but this is my understanding of how you do it.

All of this is overcomplicating things. Literally the only thing they check is the country you have set in your payment information. The rest of the address need not be a valid address in that country. They may check more specifically than the country for calculating taxes but even then you can travel to whichever subdivision (province/state/whatever) without worrying about using an extant address.

YMMV but that has been my experience. I traveled home again immediately afterwards and have not suffered any ill effects. I even recently bought myself a gift card addressed to my own account's email address and got the bonus $10.