FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[kg3]

Cross-posted in the Romance Thread, but these are actually more Fantasy/Science Fiction (this author has been recommended/read by people on mobileread):

Originally Posted by kg3

FREE at Smashwords with coupon SEY75 (through Jan. 1, 2024):

(1) Chains Of Honor: The Complete Series (Includes 3 Prequel Novellas and 4 Novels) - Lindsay Buroker

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1465878

(2) Star Kingdom Box Set (Books 1-3) - Lindsay Buroker

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1403967

(3) The Dragon Blood Collection (Books 1-3) - Lindsay Buroker

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1401395

(4) Other books/series by Lindsay Buroker are 75% off with the same coupon (SEY75) thru Jan. 1, 2024 at this Smashwords link:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Lindsay_Buroker

[gbm]

Thanks for this, I all ready had The Dragon Blood Collection and part of Star Kingdom series. I do recommend Lindsay Buroker


bernie

Originally Posted by kg3

Cross-posted in the Romance Thread,Lindsay Buroker but these are actually more Fantasy/Science Fiction (this author has been recommended/read by people on mobileread):

Spoiler:

[ZodWallop]

We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

A man enters the android-making business and falls in love with a mysterious woman in this novel from the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick intertwines the story of a toxic love affair with one about sentient robots, and unflinchingly views it all through the prism of mental illness—which spares neither human nor robot. The end result is one of Dick’s most quietly powerful works.

When Louis Rosen’s electronic organ company builds a pitch-perfect robotic replica of Abraham Lincoln, they are pulled into the orbit of a shady businessman, who is looking to use Lincoln for his own profit. Meanwhile, Rosen seeks Lincoln’s advice as he woos a woman incapable of understanding human emotions—someone who may be even more robotic than Lincoln’s replica.

[salty-horse]

Labyrinths by Borges was $2 a few hours ago, but now it's gone. Will be quicker next time.

[SomeSteve]

Poor Things by Alasdair Gray is $2.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US.

It won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1992.

Now a major motion picture!, as they say.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/poor-things-3

https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Things-N.../dp/B0CJ9SBY4V

[sufue]

Four fairly random Trudi Canavan books are $1.99 each in the US right now…

The Ambassador’s Mission, Traitor Spy #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00351DSHI
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...ador-s-mission

The Traitor Queen, Traitor Spy #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007WUW72K
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-traitor-queen

Last of the Wilds, Age of the Five, #2 – not on sale at Kobo US but giving the link just for price check
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000N2HCTM
Kobo US (price-check): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/last-of-the-wilds-3

Maker’s Curse, Millennium’s Rule #4
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X9PW5FQ
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/maker-s-curse-1

[pdurrant]

The 30th Anniversary Editions 1-11 and the three specials of Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels are on offer at £1.49/£1.59 at Amazon UK:

(Sandman 30th Anniversary at Amazon UK).

Note that this link includes two volumes that aren't part of the 30th Anniversary editions.

I missed volume 8 by waiting to long last time they were on offer, so I'm delighted to have filled in the gap now!

[Dr. Drib]

^

Appears to be back up to 22.87 (I'm not signed in at Amazon.UK, so maybe that's the issue.)

Just now checked AGAIN, and the price is as you listed. (Or you corrected the link.)

[maddz]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The 30th Anniversary Editions 1-11 and the three specials of Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels are on offer at £1.49/£1.59 at Amazon UK:

(Sandman 30th Anniversary at Amazon UK).

Note that this link includes two volumes that aren't part of the 30th Anniversary editions.

I miss volume 8 by waiting to long last time they were on offer, so I'm delighted to have filled in the gap now!

Note the non-30th Anniversary volumes were published this year so won't be downloadable if you've still got an old version of the K4PC/Mac apps. The other volumes are much older.

[Tarana]

Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North $1.99 at Amazon and Kobo
Fantasy/paranormal

[ZodWallop]

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler is $4 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future.

The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them. She travels to the islands to join DIANIMA’s team: a battle-scarred securityagent and the world’s first (and possibly last) android.

The octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. As Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves.

But no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. Or what they might do about it.

A near-future thriller, a meditation on the nature of consciousness, and an eco-logical call to arms, Ray Nayler’s dazzling literary debut The Mountain in the Sea is a mind-blowing dive into the treasure and wreckage of humankind’s legacy.

[salty-horse]

The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Very highly critically acclaimed.

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant.

Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy.

He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soaked childhood, Fetter escaped his rural hometown for the big city, and fell into a broader world where divine destinies are a dime a dozen.

Everything in Luriat is more than it seems. Group therapy is recruitment for a revolutionary cadre. Junk email hints at the arrival of a god. Every door is laden with potential, and once closed may never open again. The city is scattered with Bright Doors, looming portals through which a cold wind blows. In this unknowable metropolis, Fetter will discover what kind of man he is, and his discovery will rewrite the world.

[salty-horse]

Cross-posted to mystery.
Grave Expectations by Alice Bell is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
Paranormal murder mystery. Review by K. J. Charles

A fast-paced and hilarious debut crime novel, in which a burnt-out Millennial medium must utilize her ability to see ghosts and team-up with a band of oddball investigators to figure out which member(s) of a posh English family are guilty of murder.

Almost-authentic medium Claire and her best friend, Sophie, agree to take on a seemingly simple job at a crumbling old manor in the English performing a seance for the family matriarch's 80th birthday. The pair have been friends since before Sophie went missing when they were seventeen. Everyone else is convinced Sophie simply ran away, but Claire knows the truth. Claire knows Sophie was murdered because Sophie has been haunting her ever since.

Despite this traumatic past, Claire and Sophie are still unprepared for what they encounter when they arrive: a ghost, tragic and unrecognizable, and clearly the spirit of someone killed in a rage at the previous year's party. Given her obsession with crime shows—not to mention Sophie's ability to walk through walls—Claire decides they're the best people to solve the case. And with the help of the only obviously not-guilty members of their host family—sexy ex-policeman Sebastian and far-too-cool non-binary teen Alex—they launch an investigation into which of last year's guests never escaped the manor's grounds.

What follows is somewhat irregular detective work involving stealing a priest's cassock, getting too drunk to remember to question your suspect, and of course, Chekhov's sparkly purple dildo. As Claire desperately tries to keep a lid on the shameful secret that would definitely alienate her new friends, the gang must race against their own incompetence to find the murderer before the murderer finds them.

[salty-horse]

Mythic Delirium is having a sale on 20 titles, including new ones. They're $1 each. You can get them on the usual ebook stores individually, or from them in a single purchase.
https://mythicdelirium.com/9427

I got The Twice Drowned Saint by C. S. E. Cooney and the Theodora Goss collection.

[salty-horse]

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
First time it's on sale. Continues the Locked Tomb series started with Gideon/Harrow the Ninth. The last book Alecto the Ninth is expected next year.