FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Jo Walton's murder mystery/alternate history, Farthing, is on sale for £0.99 at Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GHK71NG/

It's also £0.99 at Kobo UK:
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/farthing-3

A splendid murder mystery in an alternate post-war Britain.

Cross-posted to Crime/Thrillers thread.

That sounds really interesting - thanks.

[salty-horse]

Shorefall (The Founders #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett is £1 in the UK (Amazon only but I got a Kobo price match)

[salty-horse]

Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction by John Crowley is $2 in the US (Amazon only, "digital list price" discount)
Not all of this is fantastical.
Contents

A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York Times Notable Book, The Translator. Now, for the first time, all of his short fiction has been collected in one volume, demonstrating the scope, the vision, and the wonder of one of America's greatest storytellers. Courage and achievement are celebrated and questioned, paradoxes examined, and human frailty appreciated in fifteen tales, at once lyrical and provocative, ranging fromthe fantastic to the achingly real. Be it a tale of an expulsion from Eden, a journey through time, the dreams of a failed writer, ora dead woman's ambiguous legacy, each story in Novelties & Souvenirs is a glorious reading experience, offering delights to be savored ... and remembered.

[salty-horse]

The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
Set in the world of White Space.

Dr. Sunyata Song must travel across the Milky Way to learn to communicate with the greatest discovery of her century: an artificial intelligence the size of a stellar system, in Hugo Award-winning author Bear's next science fiction epic.

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to vanish without a trace.

Sunya Song's job is to stop that from happening.

She's an archinformist: a specialist historian whose job usually involves sitting at a console at her university job near the Galactic Core, sorting ancient documents and restoring corrupted files. But now, the research opportunity of a lifetime has sent her - and her family - halfway across the galaxy to save the archaeological find of the century: an ancient alien artificial intelligence called the Baomind.

As vast as a stellar system, the Baomind orbits a dying red giant, and the star's time has nearly ended.

The remote research station and its small fleet of ships come under attack by fanatic Freeport pirates who believe that artificial intelligence is an abomination that must be destroyed, putting the lives of Sunya and her family at risk.

Tens of thousands of light years from home, isolated from all help, Sunya is the only one who can save them all.

Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Shesheshen has made a fatal mistake for a monster: she's fallen in love.

Shesheshen is a shapeshifter - one who is perfectly content to stay as an amorphous lump in her swamp unless impolite monster hunters invade intent on murdering her. Then, she meets warm-hearted Homily, who mistakes Shesheshen for a human like her.

But just as Shesheshen is about to confess her true identity, Homily reveals she's hunting the shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Shesheshen didn't curse anyone, but to give them both a chance at happiness, she must figure out why Homily's family thinks she did - while surviving her toxic in-laws long enough to build a life with the woman she loves.

A glorious, funny, occasionally slightly violent love story which asks us to examine - and re-examine - the meaning of legacy, family and love.

[salty-horse]

The Etched City by K. J. Bishop is $5 in the US (Amazon only, but Kobo should be price-matchable)
The self-published UK edition is a bit cheaper cheaper, but it's only available on Amazon.
Adrian Tchaikovsky and Emma Newman discussed it on their podcast.

Gwynn and Raule are rebels on the run, with little in common except being on the losing side of a hard-fought war. Gwynn is a gunslinger from the north, a loner, a survivor . . . a killer. Raule is a wandering surgeon, a healer who still believes in just—and lost—causes. Bound by a desire to escape the ghosts of the past, together they flee to the teeming city of Ashamoil, where Raule plies her trade among the desperate and destitute, and Gwynn becomes bodyguard and assassin for the household of a corrupt magnate. There, in the saving and taking of lives, they find themselves immersed in a world where art infects life, dream and waking fuse, and splendid and frightening miracles begin to bloom . . .