FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[cromag]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
His first published novel.

Thanks for posting this! I read this one back in the '60s, when I was in high school, and loved it! When I went looking for it a few years ago I had to settle for a used paperback -- but still enjoyed it. It will be good to have this in my library.

[salty-horse]

Night's Master (Flat Earth #1) by Tanith Lee is $1 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Rediscover master fantasist and World Fantasy Award winner Tanith Lee’s classic dark fantasy series, Tales from the Flat Earth, where demons and gods grant wonders and wreak havoc. Visit the Upperearth, where dwell the gods; the Underearth, the realm of nightmarish demons; the Innerearth, domain of the dead; and the Flat Earth itself, the home of mortals.

Supreme amongst them all is the demon god Azhrarn, Night’s Master, whose deadly whims could change the lives of those in the Flat Earth. Azhrarn holds in his heart a mystery which could alter the very existence of the Flat Earth forever.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Night's Master (Flat Earth #1) by Tanith Lee is $1 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Beautiful, brooding, dark cover art.

Night's Master is a wonderful phantasmagorical fantasy. It's hard to believe that I read this incredible book almost 50 years ago.

There are five books in the Flat Earth Series, by the way.

Time for a re-read.

[svenlind]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Night's Master (Flat Earth #1) by Tanith Lee is $1 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Sounds very tempting. Bought it.

[Cactus Chef]

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin is currently on sale for $1.99 on Amazon only. Price on Kobo and elsewhere remains $4.99.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC11GA

Synopsis

One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle

'A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again' THE TIMES

**'The book I wish I had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin' Roddy Doyle

'**Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER

'There was a wall. It did not look important - even a child could climb it. But the idea was real. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on...'

Shevek is brilliant scientist who is attempting to find a new theory of time - but there are those who are jealous of his work, and will do anything to block him. So he leaves his homeland, hoping to find a place of more liberty and tolerance. Initially feted, Shevek soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game.

With powerful themes of freedom, society and the natural world's influence on competition and co-operation, THE DISPOSSESSED is a true classic of the 20th century.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin is currently on sale for $1.99 on Amazon only. Price on Kobo and elsewhere remains $4.99.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC11GA

That was one of the titles in the bargain Humble Bundle. Do those repeat?

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by Quoth

That was one of the titles in the bargain Humble Bundle. Do those repeat?

I've seen a few HB deals repeat in the past, but it's not guaranteed.

[salty-horse]

Fanatical has a bundle with all of(?) Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's novels for $5.
They are published by Dark Horse. DRM-free.
https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/...-novels-bundle

[BetterRead]

Titus Groan (Book One of The Gormenghast Trilogy) by Mervyn Peake is currently $1.99 at Amazon and Kobo.

“Mervyn Peake’s gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, begins with the superlative Titus Groan, a darkly humorous, stunningly complex tale of the first two years in the life of the heir to an ancient, rambling castle... This true classic is a feast of words unlike anything else in the world of fantasy. Those who explore Gormenghast castle will be richly rewarded.” —SFF Book Reviews

[maddz]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Fanatical has a bundle with all of(?) Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's novels for $5.
They are published by Dark Horse. DRM-free.
https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/...-novels-bundle

That's an interesting-looking site. It looks like a UK-based Humble Bundle without the charitable component. Do they do mainstream book bundles, I wonder, and how are books delivered.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by maddz

That's an interesting-looking site. It looks like a UK-based Humble Bundle without the charitable component. Do they do mainstream book bundles, I wonder, and how are books delivered.

I've bought Game bundles from them in the past. Not had a problem with them.

[bookmarked]

The short story collection Burning Chrome by William Gibson is on sale for $1.99.

[bookmarked]

The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs is on sale for $1.99.

A fantasy classic by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls—basis for the Jack Black movie—and “a writer who knows what wizardry is all about” (Ursula K. Le Guin).

A richly imaginative story of wizards stymied by a power beyond their control, A Face in the Frost combines the thrills of a horror novel with the inventiveness of fairy tale–inspired fantasy.

Prospero, a tall, skinny misfit of a wizard, lives in the South Kingdom—a patchwork of feuding duchies and small manors, all loosely loyal to one figurehead king. Along with his necromancer friend Roger Bacon, who has been on a quest to find a mysterious book, Prospero must flee his home to escape ominous pursuers. Thus begins an adventure that will lead him to a grove where his old rival, Melichus, is falsely rumored to be buried and to a less-than-hospitable inn in the town of Five Dials—and ultimately into a dangerous battle with origins in a magical glass paperweight.

Lin Carter called The Face in the Frost one of “the best fantasy novels to appear since The Lord of the Rings . . . Absolutely first class.” With a unique blend of humor and darkness, it remains one of the most beloved tales by the Edgar Award–nominated author also known for the long-running Lewis Barnavelt series.

Cross-posted in FREE/BARGAIN - Children's, YA

[curtw]

Originally Posted by ratinox

The Laundry Files series is part Ian Fleming, part H.P. Lovecraft, part Dilbert.

Pre-2016 Dilbert, or post?

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by curtw

Pre-2016 Dilbert, or post?

Pre-2010 if only because I haven't followed the strip since around then.