FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[salty-horse]

Solaris are having a sale again. Availability of titles depends on your region.
I'm getting Rakesfall.
https://rebellionpublishing.com/sale/

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

XX by Rian Hughes is $5 on Amazon.com
The author is a graphic designer, and the book has a really unique presentation (similar to House of Leaves), like this example where the text is formatted to show a door in negative space. I don't know how well it's adapted in ebook form. The Kindle sample has a lot of images and computer screenshots, so they're certainly trying.

More images here: Rian Hughes uses type and layout as part of the narrative in XX: A Novel, Graphic
I think I'll avoid the ebook edition.

Daily deal for $2. Kobo is full price, and since Amazon lists it as discount from the "digital list price", it's not eligible for a price-match.match

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Daily deal for $2. Kobo is full price, and since Amazon lists it as discount from the "digital list price", it's not eligible for a price-match.match

For me, when I click on your Kobo link, it shows $12.14

I see now: That's exactly what you are saying!

COFFFEE!, PLEASE. STRONG!!!

[JSWolf]

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey is $1.99 at Kobo, eBooks.com, and Amazon. It's a book in the Dragon Riders of Pern series. It is the first written book in the series.

On a beautiful world called Pern, Lessa is an outcast survivor—her parents murdered, her birthright stolen—a fierce young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge. That is, until an ambitious young dragonrider, F’lar, offers her something even greater: the chance to lead Pern at his side by Impressing a golden dragon with whom she will share a telepathic bond more intimate than any human connection. Although there is also her intense relationship with F’lar himself.

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dragonflight
eBooks.com: https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/191912
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBFOCI

[salty-horse]

The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Jonathan Thornton for Reactor: Strange Magic: Diana Wynne Jones’ Most Brilliant (and Often Overlooked) Books

There's been an accident!
Something's wrong!

She doesn't know who she is, and doesn't know why she's invisibly floating through the buildings and grounds of a half-remembered boarding school. Then, to her horror, she encounters the ancient evil that four peculiar sisters have unwittingly woken -- and learns she is their only hope against a deadly danger.

A ghost, uncertain of her identity, watches the four Melford sisters hatch a plan to get their parents' attention and slowly becomes aware of the danger from a supernatural power unleashed by the girls and their friends from the boys boarding school run by the Melfords.

[salty-horse]

Witch Queen of Redwinter (The Redwinter Chronicles #3) by Ed McDonald is £3 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

[salty-horse]

Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee is £3 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

A work place novel. A love story. A dream you can’t wake from…

Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt.

When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks he’s found his big break. Hired as a dream auditor, he finds himself entering the dreams of white-collar workers to flag their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day. If Abernathy can at least appear competent, might he have a chance at a new life?

As Abernathy tries to find his footing in this new gig, reality and morality begin to warp around him. Soon, the lines between life and work, right and wrong, and even sleep and consciousness, have blurred and Abernathy begins to wonder just what he might have signed away…

Wildly imaginative, laced with black humour and full of close-to-the-bone truths, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is the cult workplace novel that’s like nothing else you've read before.

[salty-horse]

The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

[salty-horse]

The Foot on the Crown by Christopher Fowler is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
Fowler's last novel.

It is said a legend is just a beautiful lie...

In the second half of the first millennium, the legends say that London disappeared for over four hundred years. We know almost nothing about what happened during that time. But if we could shine a light on the city's ruined walls, we would be in for a shock.

The Romans are long forgotten. It is now King Scarabold who rules what little remains of the city, together with his over-entitled daughter Giniva, her effete brother Leperdandy and their wayward, lunatic relatives - all squabbling and fighting amongst themselves for the future of their corrupted dynasty while trying to hide their most terrible secret.

And ranged against Scarabold is a horde of bitter enemies from both without and within his dysfunctional household - the eerie Sheathwing, Lord Carapace Earl of Beetles, the warlike nuns of Étranges Cadeaux, a primate called M'Lin, Orobus the serpent, the terrifying Mater Moribund and the sinister child-spies Spackle and Peut - united in their desire to bring king's troubled reign to a bloody end.

But the arrival of a mysterious outsider into the midst of the beleaguered Scarabold's snake-pit of a court that seems to offer a semblance of hope. The stranger's name is Watborn and he is a birdcatcher - strong, silent, he will infiltrate the royal family for a purpose that is all of his own . . .

As fiendishly-armed warriors gather beneath the walls, the battle for London, its body and its soul as much as its bricks and mortar, is about to begin - and who will be left unscathed at the field's end?

[brudigia]

Hello, I am looking at the book from the subject author called “This island Earth”. Apparently I cannot find it either on Amazon or Kobo or Google. I might have written something wrong, but I I am stuck.
Anybody has a suggestion ?

[lkmiller]

I'm only seeing print editions of This Island Earth by Raymond F. Jones.

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by brudigia

Hello, I am looking at the book from the subject author called “This island Earth”. Apparently I cannot find it either on Amazon or Kobo or Google. I might have written something wrong, but I I am stuck.
Anybody has a suggestion ?

Search for the author: Raymond F. Jones. Otherwise you're going to get the film.
To the best of my knowledge there is no official digital version.

[brudigia]

Originally Posted by ratinox

Search for the author: Raymond F. Jones. Otherwise you're going to get the film.
To the best of my knowledge there is no official digital version.

Yeah, that's what I saw, and I wondered if I was looking correctly. A pity, though.

[Dr. Drib]

This Island Earth (Raymond F. Jones) was at one time available from Thunderchild Publishing, around 2019, and available from Amazon. The publisher, due to age and health issues, sold his publishing company to Wildside Press. It looks like that publisher may have 'retired' that title or has lost the copyright.

The novelettes were originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, listed below:

The Alien Machine
Thrilling Wonder Stories
June 1949
Volume XXXIV, No. 2

The Shroud of Secrecy
Thrilling Wonder Stories
December, 1949
Volume XXXV, No. 2

The Greater Conflict
Thrilling Wonder Stories
February, 1950
Volume XXXV, No. 3

You may wish to check Archive.org for those issues. It's possible they may have them (in PDF).

The novelettes were later collected and published by Shasta Press in 1952.

[brudigia]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

This Island Earth (Raymond F. Jones) was at one time available from Thunderchild Publishing, around 2019, and available from Amazon. The publisher, due to age and health issues, sold his publishing company to Wildside Press. It looks like that publisher may have 'retired' that title or has lost the copyright.

The novelettes were originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, listed below:

The Alien Machine
Thrilling Wonder Stories
June 1949
Volume XXXIV, No. 2

The Shroud of Secrecy
Thrilling Wonder Stories
December, 1949
Volume XXXV, No. 2

The Greater Conflict
Thrilling Wonder Stories
February, 1950
Volume XXXV, No. 3

You may wish to check Archive.org for those issues. It's possible they may have them (in PDF).

The novelettes were later collected and published by Shasta Press in 1952.

Thanks for the info. I might check with Wildside and John Betancourt then!
I'll also look into Archive.org. I saw a number of Jones' books in the Gutenberg library, but I am not sure it is out of copyright.
Thanks again!