FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Hammerfall, #1 of Gene Wars (C. J. Cherryh) reduced to £1 https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/hammerfall-4

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Subterranean Press are offering a free story by Adrian Tchaikovsky set in the Tyrant Philosophers world: The Heart of the Reproach
https://subterraneanpress.com/the-he...-the-reproach/

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Subterranean Press are offering a free story by Adrian Tchaikovsky set in the Tyrant Philosophers world: The Heart of the Reproach
https://subterraneanpress.com/the-he...-the-reproach/

Got it!

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https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-pandora-sequence-1
The pandora Sequence All three novels in the New York Times–bestselling science fiction fantasy series about the survival of a human colony in the wake of AI.

From Frank Herbert, the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Dune, in collaboration with Bill Ransom,

£1.99

Discounted on VIP to £1.79

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The Two Lies of Faven Sythe by Megan E. O'Keefe is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Lesbian space pirates. Some reviews complain that the book is too short.

A search for a missing person uncovers a galaxy-spanning conspiracy in this thrilling standalone space opera from award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe.

The Black Celeste is a ghost story. A once-legendary spaceship collecting dust in a cosmic graveyard known as the Clutch. Only famed pirate Bitter Amandine knows better, and she’ll do anything to never go near it again. No matter the cost.

Faven Sythe is crystborn, a member of the near-human species tasked with charting starpaths from station to station. She’s trained to be a navigator her entire life. But when her mentor disappears, leaving behind a mysterious starpath terminating in the Clutch, she is determined to find the truth. And only Amandine has the answers.

What they will find is a conspiracy bigger than either of them. Their quest for the truth will uncover secrets Amandine has long fought to keep buried – secrets about how she survived her last encounter in the Clutch, and what’s really hidden out there amongst the stars...

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Two of Katherine Kurtz's Deryni novels are on offer at £0.99 each at Amazon UK, and at Kobo UK.

The Harrowing of Gwynedd: Amazon UK Kobo UK
King Javan's Year: Amazon UK Kobo UK

[Cactus Chef]

The Godhead Trilogy (The Godhead Trilogy) by James Morrow is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

The award-winning, irreverent, and darkly funny trilogy from "the most provocative satiric voice in science fiction" ( The Washington Post).

The complete Godhead Trilogy from James Morrow, including Towing Jehovah, Blameless in Abaddon, and The Eternal Footman.

In the World Fantasy Award–winning Towing Jehovah, God has died, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas.

Blameless in Abaddon, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, is a "funny, ferocious fantasy" ( Philadelphia Inquirer). God is a comatose, two-mile-long tourist attraction at a Florida theme park—until a conniving judge decides to put Him on trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity.

The Eternal Footman completes Morrow's darkly comic trilogy about God's untimely demise. With God's skull in orbit, competing with the moon, a plague of "death awareness" spreads across the Western hemisphere. As the United States sinks into apocalypse, two people fight to preserve life and sanity. A few highlights: a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites; a theater troupe's stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic; and a debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus. Morrow also gives us his most chilling villain ever: Dr. Adrian Lucido, founder of a new pagan church in Mexico and inventor of a cure worse than any disease.

Never read it. Description sounds entertaining, though.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

The Godhead Trilogy (The Godhead Trilogy) by James Morrow is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)


Never read it. Description sounds entertaining, though.

Purchased it years ago with some bundle pushing Frank Herbert. Just never got around to reading it.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Purchased it years ago with some bundle pushing Frank Herbert. Just never got around to reading it.

Well with that ringing endorsement...!

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Well with that ringing endorsement...!

...but I DO like Frank Herbert. When I had pimples all over my naked...[ahem]... I loved his writing. Thinking I could recapture that same feeling, I simply used my vast checking account (now over $32.81), to purchase the bundle. But, alas, I got caught up in zombies with pimples all over their bare [ahem] and never got around to reading it.

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In The Night Wood by Dale Bailey is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

In this contemporary fantasy, the grieving biographer of a Victorian fantasist finds himself slipping inexorably into the supernatural world that consumed his subject

Failed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles Hayden hopes to put his life back together with a new project: a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children's book, In the Night Wood, and forebear of his wife, Erin. Deep in mourning from the loss of their young daughter, they pack up their American lives, Erin gives up her legal practice, and the couple settles in Hollow's remote Yorkshire mansion.

In the neighboring village, Charles meets a woman he might have loved, a child who could have been his own daughter, and the ghost of a self he hoped to bury. Erin, paralyzed by her grief, immerses herself in pills and painting images of a horned terror in the woods.

In the primeval forest surrounding Caedmon Hollow's ancestral home, an ancient power is stirring, a long-forgotten king who haunts the Haydens' dreams. And every morning the fringe of darkling trees presses closer.

Soon enough, Charles and Erin will venture into the night wood.

Soon enough, they'll learn that the darkness under the trees is but a shadow of the darkness that waits inside us all.

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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

The Godhead Trilogy (The Godhead Trilogy) by James Morrow is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)


Never read it. Description sounds entertaining, though.

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Well with that ringing endorsement...!

I did read the series quite a while back in the 1990s and enjoyed it enough to finish the series.

Oddly while Kobo US shows the omnibus, Kobo Canada has only the books individually though all 4 are available with Kobo Plus Read. One odd item I've noticed before even with the Kobo US page stating that the omnibus is not available in Canada, if I click on the read with Kobo Plus button, the omnibus was added to my books.

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Cross-posted to Horror.
Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

“Do you mind me asking—what kind of help do you need?”

After losing her job and her fiancé and moving back from the city to live with her parents, Shell Pine needs some help. And according to the sign in the window, the florist shop in the mall does too. Shell gets the gig, and the flowers she works with there are just the thing she needs to cheer up. Or maybe it’s Neve, the beautiful shop manager, who is making her days so rosy?

But you have to get your hands dirty if you want your garden to grow—and Neve’s secrets are as dark and dangerous as they come. In the back room of the flower shop, a young sentient orchid actually runs the show, and he is hungry . . . and he has a plan for them all.

When the choices are to either bury yourself in the warmth of someone else’s fertile soil, or face the cold and disappointing world outside—which would you choose? And what if putting down roots came at a cost far higher than just your freedom?

This is a story about desire, dreams, decay—and working retail at the end of the world.

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A bunch of Japanese Honkaku murder mystery translations are on sale in the US and the UK.
By Yukito Ayatsuji (Kobo GB)
By Seishi Yokomizo (Kobo GB)

EDIT: Not SFF. Posted in the wrong forum.

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The Final Solution by Michael Chabon is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Short novel. Mixes Sherlock Holes and the Holocaust.

EDIT: Not SFF. Posted in the wrong forum.