FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[maddz]

Originally Posted by isarl

Goooood question; I haven't used Chirp before myself. From their website:

So I saw. As I only listen to audio on an old iPod, that rules them out. Pity, there were a handful of bundles I was interested in: Mary Stewart, CJ Cherryh, Charles de Lint, SM Stirling, and Lois McMaster Bujold.

Sadly, not on sale at Libro.fm.

[isarl]

Originally Posted by maddz

So I saw. As I only listen to audio on an old iPod, that rules them out. Pity, there were a handful of bundles I was interested in: Mary Stewart, CJ Cherryh, Charles de Lint, SM Stirling, and Lois McMaster Bujold.

Yes, it is a pity, and I am very grateful that you prompted me to learn the answer to that question before I spent any money! Thank you!

[Tarana]

Not sure this is the right place for it but Stephen King's Fairy Tale is on sale for $4.99 at Amazon and Kobo. It's listed as magical realism and YA.

[isarl]

Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake series appears to be on sale as a bundle for $7, all three books.

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-maddaddam-trilogy

I was not able to find this bundle for sale from Amazon.

[salty-horse]

The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison is £2.6 in the UK (Amazon only, but price-matchable on Kobo)
New edition of a 1992 novel, first time in ebook form.

The cult classic novel from the author of Climbers and The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

With an introduction by bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield

On a hot May night, three Cambridge students carry out a ritualistic act that changes their lives. Decades later, none of the participants can remember what transpired; but their clouded memories bind them together. Unable to move on, Pam Stuyvesant has epilepsy and is plagued by sensual visions. Her husband Lucas believes that a dwarfish creature is stalking him, and invents histories to soothe Pam's fears. Self-styled Sorcerer Yaxley becomes obsessed with a terrifyingly transcendent reality. The narrator is seemingly the least effected participant in the ritual: he is haunted by the smell of roses, and his guilt as he attempts to help his friends escape the torment that has engulfed their lives.

Strange, dreamlike and moving, The Course of the Heart is an examination of the edges of humanity where we lie, hide, hurt and heal.

'A spare textual elegance and closure-denying restraint that impresses and fulfils' IAIN BANKS

[salty-horse]

The Summer War by Naomi Novik is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

In this enchanting, poignant novella from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Spinning Silver and the Scholomance trilogy, a young witch who has inadvertently cursed her brother to live a life without love must find a way to undo her spell.

Celia discovers her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother Argent leaves home. Furious at being left behind, she lashes out, not realising her childish, angry words will suddenly become imbued with the power of prophecy, dooming him to a life without love.

While Argent wanders the world, forced to seek only fame and glory instead of the love and belonging he truly desires, Celia attempts to undo the curse. Yet she cannot find the solution – until she learns the truth about the centuries-old war between her people and the summerlings, the immortal beings holding a relentless grudge against their mortal neighbours.

With the aid of her unwanted middle brother, Celia may be able to undo her eldest brother’s curse and heal the lands so long torn apart by the Summer War. But what price will she have to pay?

[Cactus Chef]

1Q84 (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A tremendous accomplishment. It does every last blessed thing a masterpiece is supposed to—and a few things we never even knew to expect.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Brilliant . . . an irresistibly engaging literary fantasy.”—The Washington Post

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.

As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is a striking feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

Whoever holds the publishing rights to Murakami's stuff in the US has reissued most of his books with new covers. I'm not always fond of efforts to harmonize an author's book covers and make them all look the same...but in this case I do think it's an improvement over the cover on the edition I already bought:

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/com...R1200,630_.jpg

[Cactus Chef]

Kafka on the Shore joins the list.

Kafka on the Shore (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man.

Now with a new introduction by the author.**

Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey.

“As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a strikingexperience in consciousness expansion.”—Chicago Tribune

[pdurrant]

There's currently a UK Kobo VIP 70% off sale (code: VIPREAD)

In the SF/Fantasy list I noticed these two (I already have both).

The Damiano Trilogy by R A MacAvoy for £4.29 with discount

Primary Inversion by Catharine Asaro for £1.56 with discount

[salty-horse]

Angry Robot has a sale with 40% off everything (physical and ebooks) using the coupon BLACKFRIDAY40

Store page

Announcement on BlueSky

[salty-horse]

In the Shadow of the Ship (Xuya Universe) by Aliette de Bodard is £2 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
The latest Xuya novella. These are standalones.

When she was sixteen, Khuyên left behind her family, the decaying sentient spaceship Nightjar, and the Tribute—the regular disappearances of children offered to Nightjar. She’s never once looked back.

But now, her grandmother has passed away and duty dictates that Khuyên the adult, Khuyên the magistrate, must return to Nightjar for the funeral. Yet it’s also a return to the past: children are still disappearing, and worst of all, after making cryptic statements, her cousin Anh vanishes.

Accompanied by Thảo, an alluring and mysterious woman who seems to know too much about her and Nightjar, Khuyên sets out to save Anh. But saving Anh requires Khuyên to do what she could not in the past: she will have make her own stand against Nightjar. And only when Khuyên can find her own strength will she be able to build a future—one that might well include Thảo.

Praise for Aliette de Bodard:

“Incredible ... This is a world of dizzying tech, gorgeous illusions and twisty political thrills.” — The New York Times

“Beautifully written and deeply imagined... highly recommended.” — Kate Elliott, New York Times bestselling author

“[In The Shadow of the Ship] is a dense and emotionally complex piece, carrying grief and hope, pain and potential, in equal measure. The ashes of the past meeting the chance to build something different for the future. I always enjoy de Bodard’s work, and In the Shadow of the Ship is no exception: a sharp-edged and glittering science-fictional gem.” — Liz Bourke, Locus

[salty-horse]

Children of God (The Sparrow Series #2) by Mary Doria Russell is $2 in the US (Amazon only, but price-matchable on Kobo)