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.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

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

$2 in the US, which is cheaper (Kobo, Amazon)

[Quoth]

£1.79 on UK Kobo VIP.

[salty-horse]

Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

An NPR Books We Love Pick | A Library Journal Best Book of 2025 Pick | A Locus Magazine Books We Loved Pick | A The Lineup Best Horror Book of 2025 Pick**!**

Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Eden Royce pens a Southern Gothic historical fantasy story of a contentious funeral.

"A tale of loss and hope and how the present can give way to new futures."—Kirkus Reviews

Phee St. Margaret is a daughter of the Reconstruction, born to a family of free Black business owners in New Charleston. Coddled to within an inch of her life by a mother who refuses to let her daughter live a life other than the one she dictates, Phee yearns to demonstrate she's capable of more than simply marrying well.

When word arrives that her Aunt Cleo, long estranged from the family, has passed away, Phee risks her mother's wrath to step up and accept the role of pomp—the highly honored duty of planning the funeral service. Traveling alone to the town of Horizon and her aunt's unsettling home, Phee soon discovers that visions and shadows beckon from every reflective surface, and that some secrets transcend the borders of life and death.

[salty-horse]

The Rising by Mira Grant is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
The original Newsflesh trilogy that wasn't in the recent Humble Bundle.

Now, for the first time, Mira Grant's complete New York Times bestselling NEWSFLESH trilogy is available in a single volume.

"Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. My name is Georgia Mason, and I am begging you. Rise up while you can."

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.

Now, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives —the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.

Sounds like they took the premise of the 2007 I Am Legend film adaption.

[Cactus Chef]

The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition by Ursula K. Le Guin is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

'The greatest American writer of her generation' Michael Chabon

'Le Guin's words are magical. Drink this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it.' David Mitchell

Contains the hard to find stories 'The Daughter of Odren', and 'Firelight'.

Now for the first time ever, all together in one volume, The Books of Earthsea, contains the early short stories, Le Guin's 'Earthsea Revisioned' Oxford lecture, and new Earthsea stories, never before printed. With a new introduction by Le Guin herself, this essential edition also includes illustrations by renowned artist Charles Vess, specially commissioned and selected by Le Guin, to bring her refined vision of Earthsea and its people to life in a totally new way.

Stories include: 'A Wizard of Earthsea', 'The Tombs of Atuan', 'The Farthest Shore', 'Tehanu', 'Tales From Earthsea', 'The Other Wind', 'The Rule of Names', 'The Word of Unbinding', 'The Daughter of Odren', and 'Earthsea Revisioned: A Lecture at Oxford University'

[Cactus Chef]

The Great Dune Trilogy by Frank Herbert is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Three of the greatest SF novels in the world in one bumper omnibus, and the inspiration for the spectacular cinematic events Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two.

'An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POST
'I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings' Arthur C Clarke

Herbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions.

Arrakis is the source of spice, a mind-enhancing drug which makes interstellar travel possible; it is the most valuable substance in the galaxy. When Duke Atreides and his family take up court there, they fall into a trap set by the Duke's bitter rival, Baron Harkonnen. The Duke is poisoned, but his wife and her son Paul escape to the vast and arid deserts of Arrakis, which have given the planet its nickname of Dune.

Paul and his mother join the Fremen, the Arrakis natives, who have learnt to live in this harsh and complex ecosystem. But learning to survive is not enough - Paul's destiny was mapped out long ago and his mother is committed to seeing it fulfilled.

Read the books which inspired the Academy Award-winning and jaw-dropping cinematic events Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), starring Timothee Chalomet, Florence Pugh, Jessica Ferguson and Austin Butler. A science fiction spectacular like no other, this is a deeply climate conscious novel, and a compelling family saga for the ages.

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'This is - quite simply - the most magnificent Sci-Fi epic ever written . . . The scope of Asimov's Foundation, the attention to detail and context of Tolkien's LotR, coupled with an unmatched visionary socio-ecological messianic narrative that is scarily relevant today ' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Frank Herbert's immortal space opera that created many of the tropes we take for granted inside them is a book that doesn't need my endorsement . . . the nobility is some of the most decadent and depraved in fiction . . . It's a fantastic book, amazing story' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'The blend of science-aversion, exploitation of the naive by systematic manipulation of religion and witchcraft, and the harsh realities of life in a barren and mineral depleted desert is astounding. I love these books!' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Herbert succeeds at juxtaposing so many different elements: ecology, religion, consciousness, feudalism, space travel... gawsh, I could go on! . . . It is a mainly character-driven plot, with the three books in this trilogy focusing on the Atreides family on Dune . . . I think everyone should delve into this world, let themselves be absorbed by it. It makes you question your reality, your choices, your relationships and the impact you have on the world, or the impact the world has on you' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Dune perhaps epitomises science-fiction. The willingness to embrace big ideas and show them playing out on a broad canvas . . . You have to read it to believe it' Goodreads reviewer

[JSWolf]

Do we really need all that review junk? It does make your posts rather off-putting.