FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Cactus Chef]

The Last Unicorn, on sale again for $1.99:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-last-unicorn-9

Didn't think I'd become a Peter S. Beagle fan, but his writing really is quite enjoyable.

[conan50]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

The Last Unicorn, on sale again for $1.99:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-last-unicorn-9

Didn't think I'd become a Peter S. Beagle fan, but his writing really is quite enjoyable.

At Amazon US too. Good Book.

[salty-horse]

Neon Hemlock are having a sale. 50% off with coupon UGHFINE.

https://www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks

[salty-horse]

The Door on the Sea (Raven and Eagle #1) by Caskey Russell is 0.99 USD/GBP at Solaris's webstore

When Elān trapped a salmon-stealing raven in his cupboard, he never expected it would hold the key to saving his people from the shapeshifting Koosh invaders plaguing their shores. In exchange for its freedom, the raven offers a secret that can save Elān’s home: the Koosh have lost one of their most powerful weapons, and only the raven knows where it is.

Elān is tasked with captaining a canoe crewed by an unlikely team including a human bear-cousin, a massive wolf, and the endlessly vulgar raven. To retrieve the weapon, they will face stormy seas, cannibal giants and a changing world. But Elān is a storyteller, not a warrior.

As their world continues to fall to the Koosh, and alliances are challenged and broken, Elān must choose his role in his own epic story.

[salty-horse]

Circular Motion by Alex Foster is £1 in the UK (Amazon only, but price-matchable on Kobo)
Review by Abigail Nussbaum in Locus

'Impressive... The work of a writer with real talent' GUARDIAN

The acceleration of Earth's spin begins gradually. At first, days are just a few seconds shorter than normal. Awareness of the mysterious phenomenon hasn't reached Tanner, a young man who flees his Alaskan hometown to work at CWC, a corporation which runs a network of massive aircraft that orbit the Earth, allowing people to visit Paris for an evening or order sushi from Japan. But a wave of social unrest presents challenges for CWC.

That unrest sweeps up Winnie. A high school outcast, she falls in with a group of teen activists who blame the company for the planet's acceleration. As days on Earth quicken to twenty-three hours, then twenty, the sun rising and setting ever faster, causing violent storms and political meltdowns, Tanner and Winnie's stories spiral closer together.

Three-hour days. Two-hour days . . .

A propulsive exploration of capitalism, technology, and our place within a system that dwarfs us, Circular Motion is one of the most ingenious debut novels of our time.

[Quoth]

Hogfather
Reduced from £7 to 99p
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/hogfather-1

Unlike Amazon, you can use any Kobo region as long as that's the country in your payment method. Also, unlike Amazon, they accept PayPal.
Amazon will never take PayPal while it belongs to eBay!

Also unlike Amazon, there is download via browser. The ACSM file is a text ticket to redeem an ebook with Adobe DRM.

[Kieran Seymour]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Hogfather
Reduced from £7 to 99p
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/hogfather-1

Highly recommended for this time of the year. It's the only Discworld book I've read and I had a great time with it a couple of years back.

And a 99p Daily Deal in the UK:
The Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson
Kobo | Amazon UK

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Highly recommended for this time of the year. It's the only Discworld book I've read and I had a great time with it a couple of years back.

And a 99p Daily Deal in the UK:
The Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson
Kobo | Amazon UK

There are other ones with Susan or DEATH!
IMO, all good. These two come to mind.
Mort
Reaper Man

[salty-horse]

The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec is $2 in the US (Amazon only, but price-matchable on Kobo)

The lives of two women—one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to become queen of Norway—intertwine in this spellbinding, powerful Viking Age historical fantasy novel from the acclaimed author of The Witch’s Heart.

Oddny and Gunnhild meet as children in tenth century Norway, and they could not be more different: Oddny hopes for a quiet life, while Gunnhild burns for power and longs to escape her cruel mother. But after a visiting wisewoman makes an ominous prophecy that involves Oddny, her sister Signy, and Gunnhild, the three girls take a blood oath to help one another always.

When Oddny’s farm is destroyed and Signy is kidnapped by Viking raiders, Oddny is set adrift from the life she imagined—but she's determined to save her sister no matter the cost, even as she finds herself irresistibly drawn to one of the raiders who participated in the attack. And in the far north, Gunnhild, who fled her home years ago to learn the ways of a witch, is surprised to find her destiny seems to be linked with that of the formidable King Eirik, heir apparent to the ruler of all Norway.

But the bonds—both enchanted and emotional—that hold the two women together are strong, and when they find their way back to each other, these bonds will be tested in ways they never could have foreseen in this deeply moving novel of magic, history, and sworn sisterhood.

[salty-horse]

The Shattering Peace (Old Man’s War #7) by John Scalzi is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Peace is an illusion . . .After a decade, acclaimed Hugo Award winner and science fiction master John Scalzi returns to the Old Man’s War series with the long-awaited seventh book, The Shattering Peace.

For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space due to agreements between the Colonial Union, Earth and the alien Conclave. But now the most advanced, intelligent species humans have ever met is on the cusp of a species-defining war. Nothing the Consu does, however, is just about them. The Colonial Union, Earth and the Conclave have been unwillingly dragged into their conflict, and in the most surprising of ways.

Gretchen Trujillo is a mid-level bureaucrat in a mundane job within the Colonial Union’s State Department. Until, that is, she’s called to take part in a secret mission that will involve representatives from every powerful faction in space. What she discovers could redefine the destinies of humans and aliens alike . . . or destroy every one of them.

[Cactus Chef]

Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun #1) by Gene Wolfe is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly.

Shadow & Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume:

The Shadow of the Torturer is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession -- showing mercy toward his victim.

Ursula K. Le Guin said, "Magic stuff . . . a masterpiece . . . the best science fiction I've read in years!"

The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic, and learn the truth about his hidden destiny.

"One of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century." -- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Easily one of the best fantasy books I've ever read, and one of the few IMO that rises above the trappings of the pulp/fantasy to become high literature. And it's DRM-free, to boot. What are you waiting for!?!

[Manabi]

Amazon has the Tiffany Aching collection of Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett on sale for $1.99 right now, normal price is $34.99 This includes five novels:

• The Wee Free Men: Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle—aka the Wee Free Men.
• A Hat Full of Sky: Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic—not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this! Indeed, there is...
• Wintersmith: When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to Tiffany Aching, he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever. It will take the young witch's skill and cunning, as well as help from the legendary Granny Weatherwax and the irrepressible Wee Free Men, to survive until Spring.
• I Shall Wear Midnight: As the witch of the Chalk, Tiffany Aching performs the distinctly unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someone—or something—is inciting fear, generating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Tiffany must find the source of unrest and defeat the evil at its root, for if she falls, the whole Chalk falls with her...
• The Shepherd's Crown: Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. There will be a reckoning...

This is an extremely good deal if you don't have the novels already.

[DrNefario]

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh is a Daily Deal for £0.99 on the UK Kindle Store today.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Incandescen.../dp/B0DHYQS5Z1

Also The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch at £0.99, and a not-very-dealy Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky at £2.29 (Is that even reduced? Could be an error), both of which I have read and enjoyed.

[Tarana]

Out of Time by Jodi Taylor (book 6 of Time Police series) is .99 today at Amazon.

[pdurrant]

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett is £0.99 at Amazon UK today. Presumably price-matchable at Kobo UK too.

This is the first book of an epic fantasy trilogy by the author of the wonderful detective fantasies, The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B076H5WGYZ
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/foundryside


"In the city of Tevanne, you either have everything, or nothing. For escaped slave Sancia Grado, eking out a precarious living in the hellhole known as the Commons, nothing is just one misstep away.

So when she is offered a lucrative job to steal an ancient artefact from a heavily guarded warehouse, she leaps at the chance."