FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Manabi

It's not quite as bad as it was then. The RIAA stopped suing filesharers, most of the really notorious copyright trolls have had their extortion-suing train derailed (or ended up in jail like Prenda Law), and as ratinox noted, copyright duration wasn't extended yet again. Still plenty of it going on, but at least most people don't have to worry about being sued over it now.

I guess. The lawsuits against the filesharers gave the RIAA huge black eyes, which has more to do with why those lawsuits slowed down than any other change.

[isarl]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman is currently £1 (down from £5) on Kobo GB. I didn't check Amazon.co.uk.

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by Manabi

It's not quite as bad as it was then. The RIAA stopped suing filesharers, most of the really notorious copyright trolls have had their extortion-suing train derailed (or ended up in jail like Prenda Law), and as ratinox noted, copyright duration wasn't extended yet again. Still plenty of it going on, but at least most people don't have to worry about being sued over it now.

These days mostly its swindling YouTube creators and Twitch streamers. Big Content discovered that there is a massively better return on investment by sending a few lawyers after Google and Amazon and ISPs, threatening them with lawsuits unless the platforms and providers comply with their demands, than trying to track down innumerable individuals and suing each of them individually.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

This really belongs in Mystery, but fits both genres. And the Mystery thread was closed?

The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything by John D. MacDonald is $4.99 at Amazon, Kobo and B&N US. $5 is pricey for a deal, but I've not seen it drop any lower.

I don't know the book, but the movie is quite good.

[gbm]

The Seafort Saga Books 4–7
Fisherman's Hope, Voices of Hope, Patriarch's Hope, and Children of Hope

by David Feintuch

series The Seafort Saga

From the John W. Campbell Award–winning author: The final four novels chronicling the military science fiction adventures of Nicholas Seafort.

In a “splendid homage to the grand tradition of the old seafarer’s tale,” the Seafort Saga tells the story of an intergalactic captain’s journey through the galaxy (Roger MacBride Allen).

Fisherman’s Hope: After he saved the Hope Nation colony from alien attack, Nick Seafort returned to Earth expecting a court martial, but instead his exploits have earned him a dignified position as an instructor at the United Nations Naval Academy. But when the fishlike aliens mount an attack, it’s up to Seafort to teach them a lesson.

“Feintuch has constructed a fascinating story . . . highly entertaining.” —Science Fiction Chronicle

Spoiler:

Voices of Hope: Everyone knows Nick Seafort as “the Fisherman”—the hero who stopped the merciless, fishlike aliens when they attacked Earth. Decades have passed and he’s retired as the secretary general of the United Nations. But when his son, Philip, encounters the transpop culture—desperate people who live in the dangerous lower levels of New York City in a powder keg situation ready to blow—Seafort must save him.

“This is the finest action tale in the series to date.” —Booklist

Patriarch’s Hope: The Transpop Rebellion ended ten years ago with now–Secretary General Nicholas Seafort as a hero. But now an explosive disaster forces Nick to reexamine his life, his family, and his future as adversaries align against him. To save the planet from itself, he will need cunning, allies, and a large helping of luck.

“Top-notch sci-fi political intrigue with a strong military flavor.” —Library Journal

Children of Hope: Nicholas Seafort is the hero who saved the planet of Hope Nation from civil war and the fishlike aliens. But Randy Carr, son of Seafort’s old friend Derek, blames him for his father’s death. As a religious group called the Patriarchs fight to gain political control of Earth, and the aliens suddenly reappear, claiming they have peaceful intentions, Randy and Seafort become unlikely allies in a final fight for the planet’s future.

“Amid the nonstop action, Feintuch skillfully pushes all the emotional buttons.” —Publishers Weekly

Is on sale for $3.99 today.

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bernie

[curtw]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Relic By Alan Dean Foster $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Sci fi

This is actually the only original Foster I've read ("original" meaning not a movie novelization), and I found it very entertaining. Very tight. Today's writers would have dragged it out to be an 8-book saga.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by gbm

The Seafort Saga Books 4–7
Fisherman's Hope, Voices of Hope, Patriarch's Hope, and Children of Hope

by David Feintuch

series The Seafort Saga



Is on sale for $3.99 today.

Kobo
Amazon
google

bernie

I have all 7 in dead tree, the 8th never made it to publication after his death.
A good series

[pdurrant]

Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson, the 4th book in his Stormlight Archive series, is just £0.99 at Amazon UK today: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B082L4SZ4J

usual price £12.99!

[salty-horse]

Diane Duane's web store has a bundle of its entire catalog for $44. (I think the UK is excluded)
It includes books by other authors as well.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Diane Duane's web store has a bundle of its entire catalog for $44. (I think the UK is excluded)
It includes books by other authors as well.

Interesting: I'm showing $55 for the package deal.

[salty-horse]

Looks like the price has changed. But it's still a big discount, and I think it will only last for 1 more day.

[salty-horse]

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell is $5 on Kobo, Amazon.com

Following a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.

For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics—and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves—even the ones who are not yet born.

A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting on the war in Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list—all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.

Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writer The Washington Post calls “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction.”

An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist, David Mitchell has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit and sheer storytelling pleasure—it is fiction at its most spellbinding.

[Alastair_S]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Interesting: I'm showing $55 for the package deal.

EBD "Get Our Whole Store For $44" Gift Card

https://ebooks.direct/products/ebd-g...r-44-gift-card

This gift card can be used to purchase the "Give Me Everything You've Got" ebook package at the special $44 discount price.

This may be a time limited offer.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Interesting: I'm showing $55 for the package deal.

The $55 will change to $44 at checkout.

https://ebooks.direct/pages/for-sain...e-store-for-44

[salty-horse]

Oh, I think I started my browsing from that gift card, and then went to the actual product page. Sorry, and thanks!