FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[salty-horse]

Sorcerer's Legacy by Janny Wurts is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

The debut fantasy adventure novel by the author of the Wars of Light and Shadow series is "a wonderful breath of fresh air. . . . Just plain fun" ( Fantasy Literature).

With her husband, the Duke of Trathmere, slain in battle, Elienne becomes a captive of the loathsome Prime Inquisitor of the conquering army. Her home is now a prize of war, and Elienne swept aside in the wreckage as chattel—until the Inquisitor vows to bed her as punishment for her defiance.

Locked in a dank cell awaiting her fate, Elienne is visited by a sorcerer, powerful beyond her imagining. Ielond seeks a bride for his prince, a man condemned to death by a council that has deemed him unfit for succession since he cannot father an heir. When Ielond tells Elienne she is carrying her husband's child, the recent conception offers hope to salvage the throne. To escape the Inquisitor's cruelty, Elienne agrees to pose her son as the royal heir. But in a battle to thwart black magic and intrigue, her bold heart will remain her own, self‑reliant invention her solitary salvation as malevolent factions coalesce against her . . .

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Imaro (Imaro #1) by Charles R. Saunders is £4 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)


The Quest for Cush (Imaro #2) by Charles R. Saunders is £4 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Hey, been hoping these would come back into print! I just may have to travel to get these, since they aren't available stateside.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Hey, been hoping these would come back into print! I just may have to travel to get these, since they aren't available stateside.

I hear you!

Too bad you can't travel back in time, as well, when they were bargain-priced!

Maybe the attachment below will help convince you. (If you can get the image of that newer, crappy cover out of your mind.)

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I hear you!

Too bad you can't travel back in time, as well, when they were bargain-priced!

Maybe the attachment below will help convince you. (If you can get the image of that newer, crappy cover out of your mind.)

Yeah, the new covers are pretty bland compared to the older ones. I always wind up changing those in calibre.

There were a couple of more recent editions that had pretty good covers:

[salty-horse]

Arkhangelsk by Elizabeth H Bonesteel is £2 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Head peace officer Anya Savelova believed her people, living on a hostile planet in the ice-bound city of Novayarkha, were the last of humanity.

Until the day she learned they weren't.

When a starship from an Earth thought long dead appears in orbit over her world, Anya imagines an explosion of possible futures, offering her people the freedom to transcend the limiting environment of the planet they'd thought was their last refuge. In the starship's crew, Anya finds creativity, diversity, innovation-all things the colony has had to inhibit to survive.

Seeing her world through the eyes of the starship crew makes Anya look closer at her city's inconsistencies, oddities she's always been told to ignore. But the harder she pushes at the pieces that don't fit, the more her government perceives the strangers as a threat. There are secrets in Novayarkha the strangers can't possibly understand-and Anya's drive to uncover them risks shredding the fragile web holding together everything she's ever known and loved.