FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Cactus Chef]

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard by J. G. Ballard is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

**Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle

A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard.**

With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius. Whether writing about musical orchids, human cannibalism, or the secret history of World War III, Ballard's Complete Stories evokes the hallucinations of Kafka and Borges in its ability to render modern paranoia and fantastical creations on the page.

Includes the story "The Garden of Time," the inspiration for the 2024 Met Gala Dress code.

Somehow even cheaper than the $3.99 I paid back in May for it!

[Cactus Chef]

The novels of Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw seem to be on sale for $3.99 each on Kobo and Amazon US.


https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mog...f-4498f57d8108
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wil...f-4498f57d8108
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wil...f-4498f57d8108
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/jam...f-4498f57d8108
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dif...f-4498f57d8108
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/exi...f-4498f57d8108

I've only read Will Save the Galaxy for Food. It wasn't bad.

[piperclassique]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

The novels of Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw seem to be on sale for $3.99 each on Kobo and Amazon US.


https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mog...f-4498f57d8108
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wil...f-4498f57d8108
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wil...f-4498f57d8108
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/jam...f-4498f57d8108
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dif...f-4498f57d8108
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/exi...f-4498f57d8108

I've only read Will Save the Galaxy for Food. It wasn't bad.

How fortunate that we all have different tastes in literature. I thought it was a waste of time.

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[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Meanwhile the sale price at the US store is more than the UK's listing price, despite both being from the same publisher!

Just reinforces my belief that publishers really rake US consumers over the coals on ebook prices.

I bought my copy for $7 over a year ago. That's just over £5. I don't feel so raked.

[Cactus Chef]

Not sure if this fits "fantasy" in the sense we think of it, but, why not:

A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes #1) by Jin Yong is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

The epic Chinese classic and phenomenon published in the US for the first time!

Featured in iO9's 2019 Fall Preview.

Set in ancient China, in a world where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power and the battle to become the ultimate kung fu master unfolds, an unlikely hero is born… in the first book in the epic Legends of the Condor Heroes by the critically acclaimed master of the genre, Jin Yong.

After his father—a devoted Song patriot—is murdered by the Jin empire, Guo Jing and his mother flee to the plains of Ghengis Khan and his people for refuge. For one day he must face his mortal enemy in battle in the Garden of the Drunken Immortals. Under the tutelage of Genghis Khan and The Seven Heroes of the South, Guo Jing hones his kung fu skills. Humble, loyal and perhaps not always wise, Guo Jing faces a destiny both great and terrible.

However, in a land divided—and a future largely unknown—Guo Jing must navigate love and war, honor and betrayal before he can face his own fate and become the hero he’s meant to be.

Legends of the Condor Heroes
A Hero Born
A Bond Undone
A Snake Lies Waiting
A Heart Divided

Read it via Libby about a year ago and quite enjoyed it. Glad to pick up my own copy now. Don't expect to be able to find the sequels cheaply, though--from what I have seen they never go on sale.

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Not sure if this fits "fantasy" in the sense we think of it, but, why not:

A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes #1) by Jin Yong is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)


Read it via Libby about a year ago and quite enjoyed it. Glad to pick up my own copy now. Don't expect to be able to find the sequels cheaply, though--from what I have seen they never go on sale.

I can second this, it was quite enjoyable. I haven't read the sequels yet though either. For me, reading this as an audiobook really helped. I have a hard time with names and hearing things spoken helped me.

[salty-horse]

The Uploaded by Ferrett Steinmetz is $1 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

LIFE SUCKS AND THEN YOU DIE: A wildly inventive cyberpunk family drama set in a dystopian world run by the afterlife, from a Nebula Award finalist.

In the near future, the minds of the deceased are uploaded into the computer network, where they control the world from the afterlife. For those still on Earth, living is just waiting to die—and maintaining the vast servers which support digital Heaven.

For one orphan that just isn't enough. He wants more for himself and his sister than a life of slaving away for the dead. And it turns out he’s not the only one who wants to reset the world...

[salty-horse]

The Edge of Yesterday by Rita Woods is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

The Edge of Yesterday is a haunting contemporary speculative novel about time travel and finding yourself from award-winning author Rita Woods.

Greer Coffey is a principal dancer with a renowned Harlem company. Sebastian Coffey is an architect with a prestigious Midtown firm. The Coffey’s are the ultimate dream couple — until their world completely unravels. After Greer develops a career ending neurologic disorder, she finds herself back in her hometown of Detroit. Angry, lonely, her marriage buckling under the strain, she takes to aimlessly wandering the city streets. One night, she stumbles through a vortex, a portal through time that transports her back into 1925 Detroit, where she meets a handsome, charming doctor.

Dr. Montgomery Gray is a member of Detroit’s Black Aristocracy, wealthy and connected to some of the most powerful Black families in the country. Detroit in 1925 is the beating heart of an industrial nation, but it is also a tinderbox of poor immigrants, Prohibition driven gang wars, and the Klan. As a member of the Talented Tenth, Monty is expected to be the tip of the spear in the fight for the Race, no matter the cost. Exhausted, frustrated, and longing to break free of expectations, he is stunned to find a woman from the future roaming Detroit’s Black Bottom.

Initially cautious, Monty and Greer slowly grow increasingly exhilarated with the visits. For Greer, 1925 offers an escape from the sorrow of her "real life," and for Monty, the future that Greer lays before him is irresistible. But 2025 becomes gradually less and less recognizable, as each visit back through time causes increasing rips in the timeline. Ultimately, Greer finds herself trapped in 1925 and Monty is forced into a deadly confrontation that changes the trajectory of his life.

[salty-horse]

Once Was Willem by M. R. Carey is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Eleven hundred and some years after the death of Christ, in the kingdom that had but recently begun to call itself England, I, Once Was Willem, rose from the dead to defeat a great evil facing the humble village of Cosham. The words enclosed herein are true.

I speak of monsters and magic, battle and bloodletting, and the crimes of desperate men. I speak also of secret things, of that which lies beneath us and that which impends above. By the time you come to the end of this account you will know the truth of your own life and death, the path laid out for your immortal soul, your origin and your inevitable end.

You will not thank me.

Private Rites by Julia Armfield is £1 on Amazon UK (Kobo is still full price but can be price matched)

From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.

There’s no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded

It’s been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice.

Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway.

As the sisters come together to clear the grand glass house that is the pinnacle of his legacy, they begin to sense that the magnetic influence of their father lives on through it. Something sinister seems to be unfolding, something related to their mother’s long-ago disappearance and the strangers who have always been unusually interested in their lives. Soon, it becomes clear that the sisters have been chosen for a very particular purpose, one with shattering implications for their family and their imperilled world.

[salty-horse]

The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s by Brian W. Aldiss is $2 on Amazon.com (Only. This is a "digital list price" discount.)
This is a recent Open Road Media reissue.
Contents

A retrospective of classic science fiction tales from the first decade in the long-running career of the Hugo Award–winning author of Non-Stop.
"A writer of imagination and power." —Frederick Pohl
Science Fiction Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss had a career spanning sixty years. Although he is a well-known author of the 1960s and '70s British New Wave style of science fiction, Aldiss's career as a science fiction writer began in the 1950s.
The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s offers the full catalog of Aldiss's stories from his first decade as an author. This volume starts off with his first professional sale, "A Book in Time"—about a bookseller chasing a thief one hundred years into the future—and finishes off with a group of strangers forming a peculiar bond in "Three's a Cloud." By the end of the decade, Aldiss had established himself as a major new voice in science fiction. Together the fifty-eight stories in this retrospective collection offer a look at the burgeoning writer before he became a literary legend.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s by Brian W. Aldiss is $2 on Amazon.com (Only. This is a "digital list price" discount.)
This is a recent Open Road Media reissue.
Contents

In a bit of a humorous twist, the book is available in the USA but not in Canada. OTOH, if you are from Canada and have Kobo Plus, going to the the US site will allow to to add the book to your books.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...es-the-1950s-1

[salty-horse]

The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Literary fiction, about a genre fiction / magical realism writer.

The mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New Orleans

In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript.

Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather’s home when he discovers a mysterious manuscript written by none other than Adana Moreau. With the help of his friend Javier, Saul tracks down an address for Adana’s son in New Orleans, but as Hurricane Katrina strikes they must head to the storm-ravaged city for answers.

What results is a brilliantly layered masterpiece—an ode to home, storytelling and the possibility of parallel worlds.

[Alastair_S]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s by Brian W. Aldiss is $2 on Amazon.com (Only. This is a "digital list price" discount.)
This is a recent Open Road Media reissue.
Contents

99p at Kobo UK for the HarperCollins release. Are there any differences between the two versions?

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the...ries-the-1950s