FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[wandalynn]

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of TIme is $2.99 at Kobo, Amazon, and probably B&N 'for a limited time'. I've had this on my wishlist for a while and this is the first discount I've seen for it.

[tch65721]

Originally Posted by sufue

Martha Wells' Witch King is on sale right now in the US for $2.99. I had an advance review copy of this and loved it, although it took a while to get the hang of the dual timelines, which are one of my least favorite plot devices anyway. But once I did, I was hooked, and am really hoping she does a sequel, although Witch King has been marketed as a stand-alone.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9KVV7JH
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/witch-king-3


If you want to read my full review, the URL for my blog is in my signature...

On sale again for a buck less ($1.99). Links still good.

[DNSB]

Twelve Tomorrows edited by Wade Roush $1.99 special on Kobo, Amazon (both CA and US) and likely elsewhere.

Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/twelve-tomorrows-1
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Tomorr.../dp/B08BT2BSWZ

Spoiler:

Discover frightening—and sometimes hilarious—visions of the future in this science fiction anthology featuring 12 short stories by Nebula and Hugo Award winners!

New and established voices in science fiction offer original stories of the future. Tales from Who Fears Death’s Nnedi Okorafor, The Three-Body Problem’s Cixin Liu, and others reveal metal-melting viruses, vegetable-based heart transplants, search-and-rescue drones, and semi-automated sailing ships. Inside you’ll also find:

• Ken Liu writes about a virtual currency that hijacks our empathy.
• Elizabeth Bear shows us a smart home tricked into kidnapping its owner.
• Clifford V. Johnson writes of a computer scientist seeing a new side of the artificial intelligence she invented.
• J. M. Ledgard describes a 28,000-year-old AI who meditates on the nature of loneliness.

Contributors
Elizabeth Bear, SL Huang, Clifford V. Johnson, J. M. Ledgard, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Nnedi Okorafor, Malka Older, Sarah Pinsker, Alastair Reynolds

[sufue]

And I now note that on its Kindle and Kobo webpages, Witch King is now said to be "The Rising World Book 1". Which kind of implies there may be a Book 2 someday, although I don't see it listed at either Kindle or Kobo US. So maybe I'll get my wish for a sequel...

Originally Posted by tch65721

On sale again for a buck less ($1.99). Links still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

Martha Wells' Witch King is on sale right now in the US for $2.99. I had an advance review copy of this and loved it, although it took a while to get the hang of the dual timelines, which are one of my least favorite plot devices anyway. But once I did, I was hooked, and am really hoping she does a sequel, although Witch King has been marketed as a stand-alone.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9KVV7JH
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/witch-king-3


If you want to read my full review, the URL for my blog is in my signature...

[salty-horse]

Witch King has such a weird structure, and plot progression. I didn't think it was great, but I appreciated it doing something different.

The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed is $2 in the North America (Kobo US, Amazon.com)
Novella. Was on my wishlist.

A world-weary woman races against the clock to survive a deadly forest in this dark, otherworldly fairytale.

At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic.

Veris Thorn—the only one to ever enter the forest and survive—is forced to go back inside to retrieve the tyrant's missing children. Inside await traps and trickery, ancient monsters, and hauntings of the past.

One day is all Veris is afforded. One misstep will cost everything.

[ballfresno]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Twelve Tomorrows edited by Wade Roush $1.99 special on Kobo, Amazon (both CA and US) and likely elsewhere.

Got it (£0.99 on the Kobo UK site)! Thank you. I like all of the authors represented so a good collection for me.

[salty-horse]

This is the 2018 anthology of Twelve Tomorrows. There's a new one almost every year.
Note that some of the stories have appeared in later author collections.
Table of contents: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?659620

[Martinoptic]

It is currently £0.79 Amazon uk (kindle)

[Cactus Chef]

The Budayeen Cycle is again on sale, this time below $5, as predicted:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-budayeen-cycle
https://www.amazon.com/Budayeen-Cycl...dp/B0741QZVZ7/

I've finished the first since posting the deal a couple months back, and am about halfway through the second title. Whether you've paid $4 or $5 for it, I'd say it's worth it.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

The Budayeen Cycle is again on sale, this time below $5, as predicted:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-budayeen-cycle
https://www.amazon.com/Budayeen-Cycl...dp/B0741QZVZ7/

I've finished the first since posting the deal a couple months back, and am about halfway through the second title. Whether you've paid $4 or $5 for it, I'd say it's worth it.

For those who have Kobo Plus, this title is included.

I had read the first book years back and worth it to check out the rest of the series.

[sufue]

Yeah, that's why I had to try really hard to get into it. If I hadn't had a review copy, and "owed" the review, I might even have given up. Or if I hadn't liked the Murderbot books so much, so was willing to persist a bit more than if I hadn't had experience with Wells. But once I figured it out, mostly about the structure/two timelines, and how to know which one I was in, I really really liked it. And I loved the finely-tuned snark, and the found family.

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Witch King has such a weird structure, and plot progression. I didn't think it was great, but I appreciated it doing something different.

{edited other stuff}

[salty-horse]

Chess with a Dragon by David Gerrold is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
This is a new Open Road Media edition.

The human race has been played for a fool. Though welcomed into the galactic community and given access to the combined knowledge of thousands of intelligent species, humans are largely regarded as an evolutionary mistake. Reptilian, insectoid, and other unclassifiable species are the dominant forms of intelligence. If it hadn’t been for that annoying comet, the dinosaurs would have continued their evolutionary journey to sentience. Instead the ridiculous mammalians survived. And they want to be treated as equals.

Now the humans find out that the Galactic Encyclopedia has a user fee—and they are overdrawn! If the debt can’t be paid, humanity will be sold as slaves . . . or food. Asst. Liaison Officer Yake Singh Browne feels personally betrayed. He comes up with a strategy: If humanity can’t win playing by the rules of the game, he’ll just have to change the rules.

Game on!

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Book of Love by Kelly Link is £2 on Amazon UK (Still full price on Kobo)
Link's highly anticipated first novel (and there's another one in the works!)

Now £1 (I still haven't read it!)

[drofgnal]

Is there anybody who browses amazon’s ‘deal of the day’ in ebooks? I have for years. I’ve picked up some great books for 1.99. Typically they always had great books on Sunday and Tuesday, but you could pick up great reads on almost any day. I once got Sarah J Maas’ Throne of Glass omnibus series for 5.99. But lately it’s been garbage. They’ve recently changed their format one, and two the selection. No more are the 4 and 5 digit number of reviews that are ‘deals of the day’. Mostly 2 and even single digit numbers of review books. They even try to slip in a public domain book at 1 or 2.99, like that is some sort of deal. Today they had David Copperfield for 2.99 as a deal of the day. Hey, do they think I’m stupid?

[salty-horse]

I don't know how it was 5 years ago before I started looking, but the daily deals always had some crap public domain stuff, including from shady publishers, and lower-quality ebooks.
It's better when there are themed deals organized by the publishers, like when Tor had discounts on books 2 and 3 of trilogies, which were never on sale before.
Still worth a glance for the one worthwhile new release on sale, and it's a source for many of the stuff I post here.