FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2014

[tlc]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Bargain @ $1.99 for today only (Oct 23rd)
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Bloodchild and Other Stories[/URL] by the late Octavia E. Butler

Still $1.99 today at Amazon.

[din155]

Assassin's Apprentice is free again on Amazon Uk.

[kindlekitten]

Actually apparently I got it for free in 2013

[Geralt]

New book from Sam Sykes
The City Stained Red is 1.99$ on amazon.

[tlc]

Wyatt in Wichita by John Shirley is now on sale for $1.99 on amazon and Barnes & Noble

CRUEL WIND by Glen Cook is now on sale for $1.99 on amazon and Barnes & Noble

[Hampshire Nanny]

Originally Posted by HarryT

They'll download, like any other books. Obviously it'll be a different Amazon account to your "amazon.com" account, though.

But you can't have a single Kindle registered to both accounts, can you?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny

But you can't have a single Kindle registered to both accounts, can you?

Not at any one time, but you can easily switch a Kindle between accounts, and you won't lose anything when you do so.

What I would do personally, of course, if to buy it and then remove the DRM.

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Waiting on a Bus and Other Stories by English fantasy author John Whitbourn (ISFDB, Wikipedia), who incidentally is being reprinted by Orion's Gollancz imprint, a collection of short tales in his Binscombe universe which is some kind of supernatural British thing set in a countryside village.

The title story was originally published in 1987 and appeared in volume 14 of DAW's The Year's Best Fantasy Story series, and the blurb for this collection lists a lot of quoted praise for the author from UK newspapers and other British sfnal authors.

In the quiet English village of Binscombe you will encounter:

• the shopkeeper who’s in a world of his own – literally;
• the car with some devilish backseat drivers;
• the fisherman whose wife is making his life a living hell – even after death;
• and the bus that arrived three decades late.

Explore these and other suburban oddities in the company of baffled new resident Mr Oakley and the wise, enigmatic and somewhat scary Mr Disvan.

[Abtacha]

Brandon Sandersons The Rithmatist is on sale for $1.99 in the USA and Canada and €1.78 in continental Europe according to his site, links to different stores for your country can be found there.

[bookmarked]

A Candle For d'Artagnan by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Orb Books) is on sale for $2.99 at Amazon and elsewhere (publisher sale).

Olivia Atta Clemens, immortal vampire, Roman noblewoman, beloved of the Count Saint-Germain-has come to Paris seeking only peace. But the year is 1637, and there is no peace to be found in the Court of Louis XIII, where Cardinal Richelieu maneuvers to control the throne.

Caught up in the intrigue against her will, Olivia seeks and wins the protection of a young guardsman named d'Artagnan-a man destined to become one of the greatest heroes of all time.

[bookmarked]

Harper-Voyager has a new batch of books on sale "for $1.99 or less" though one or two are repeats.

Titles include:
The Celestial Blues series (The Taken, The Lost, The Given) by Vicki Pettersson
Two titles by Sabrina Benulis (Archon, Covenant)
Ghosts by Gaslight (anthology) by Jack Dann, Jack Dann, Nick Gevers
The Stolen - An American Faerie Tale by Bishop O'Connell
Once Upon a Rhyme Volume I of the Charming Tales by Jack Heckel
The God Hunter A Field Ops Novel by Tim Lees
Soda Pop Soldier by Nick Cole
The Dead Run by Adam Mansbach
Thorn Jack - A Night and Nothing Novel by Katherine Harbour

You can buy directly from Harper or click on the "View More Retailers" link from each title's webpage.

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ 99 cents each for US-only from "HarperCollins e-books":

Auto-search sorted by price and filtered by category @ Kobo, but probably price-matched in your favourite US store and eligible for the OmniLit 50% off Hallowe'en rebate mentioned by GeoffR in his alert thread here.

Some highlights:

• The X-Files tie-in novels if you're feeling nostalgia with the re-mastered Blu-Ray sets due out (these are original-plot ones, not novelizations; out of the ones I've read, the two by Charles Grant are the best, IMHO, though Kevin J. Anderson's Ground Zero is not bad)
• Sheri S. Tepper, (ISFDB, Wikipedia) pioneering feminist science fiction writer
• Sean Williams, (ISFDB, Wikipedia) NYT bestselling Australian sf/fantasy author
• Marc Zicree (ISFDB, Wikipedia), who wrote The Twilight Zone Companion and is always invited to give commentaries/interviews on the DVD/Blu-Ray collections, and co-authored a middling-decent post-apocalyptic fantasy series with one of the volumes in conjunction with my very favourite fantasy/mystery author, Barbara Hambly (ISFDB, Wikipedia), which just happens to be one of the few books of hers I don't already own in paper

Although there's not nearly as many offerings for sf/fantasy as there are for their other sale categories, they've also also some Gregory Benford, Holly Lisle, an Anne McCaffrey co-write, and a lot of Hartwell-edited Year's Best anthologies.

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ $1.99 from Open Road Media, available in multiple stores (couponable @ Kobo, prices good in Canada & US, possibly other regions as well):

Some really nice things in the new lot of sale markdowns:

The Book of Kells by Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Award finalist R. A. MacAvoy (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a time-travel adventure swapping two modern persons into Viking-raided Ireland. According to ISFDB, this originally came out from Bantam Spectra in 1985 placed 2nd in the Locus Year's Best Novel rankings. I bought this years ago during a Fictionwise sale for about $4 and considered it well worth it. YMMV.

The Silent Tower by my very favourite fantasy/mystery author Barbara Hambly (ISFDB, Wikipedia), 1st in the opening duology of her The Windrose Chronicles series, featuring a computer programmer kidnapped to an alternate world for nefarious purposes which must be thwarted to save the world. This is one of my personal favourites, though in fairness I should mention that there's an omnibus edition which may or may not represent better cost savings with the right coupons than getting this one cheap and the rest individually. And you really do need #2, The Silicon Mage to complete the story, although #3 is a self-contained follow-up sequel.

Dawn by the late multiple Hugo & Nebula Award winner Octavia E. Butler (ISFDB, Wikipedia), 1st in her Xenogenesis Trilogy of science fiction involving genetically altered children and gene-manipulating aliens. Again, this has an omnibus edition which may or may not work out to be cheaper than filling the individuals with the right coupons.

The Woman Who Married a Cloud: The Collected Short Stories by British Fantasy Award winner Jonathan Carroll (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a sfnal-flavoured literary fiction author recommended by Dr. Drib upthread.

Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice by pioneering feminist author Erica Jong (ISFDB, Wikipedia) a Shakespeare-remixing time-travel literary fiction novel with romantic elements originally out from Houghton Mifflin in 1987 under the title Serenissima.

There's also a Piers Anthony and a John Norman Gor* book among the $1.99 sale titles as well.

* Huh, actually not a Gor novel, but some sort of sci-fi standalone (containing his usual themes†, mind you). I'm kind of surprised, because I'd gotten the impression he hadn't been writing anything else.

† Obligatory linkage: "Houseplants of Gor"

[Geralt]

For all you Bartimaeus fans

The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co. #1) by Jonathan Stroud is 0.99$
http://www.amazon.com/Lockwood-Co-Sc.../dp/B00CJ05F1S

[ATDrake]

For the UK readers, a couple of sfnal bargains that I searched and didn't find posted before (at least not in this thread). Linkage goes to Kobo, but likely price-matched in your favourite UK store, non-couponable:

For £0.99 from HarperCollins:

• The Serpent Bride by the late Australian fantasy author Sara Douglass (ISFDB, Wikipedia), 1st in her Darkglass Mountain Trilogy of epic fantasy. She's also got some 1st-in-series novels at £1.99, so there's linkage for the lot.
• The Iron King by the late Maurice Druon (Wikipedia), 1st in his Accursed Kings heptology of medieval French backstabbing historical novels (not actually fantasy), which George R. R. Martin† cites as a major influence on his A Song of Ice and Fire series, and for which we also have a discussion thread in the Reading Recs forum. There's apparently an money-saving omnibus edition slated to come out (one already exists for the original French version), but this is a really cheap introductory price to try out the first volume to see if you like the series enough to splurge on the lot.

† And speaking of GRRM, I did mention this briefly upthread, but I think it bears repeating, for £1.99 each @ Kobo UK, you can get both volumes of his Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective collection out from Orion's Gateway containing pretty much all his short stories up until 2003 (when the original Subterrranean Press edition came out). It happens to contain "The Hedge Knight", the 1st in his Dunk & Egg series of novellas which are prequels to A Game of Thrones, which you'd otherwise have to buy the anthology Legends for, or wait for the eventual collected edition they've been promising Real Soon Now for ages.

I checked Amazon UK yesterday and today, and they were still both at £5.99 each, and in US/Canada, the Random House omnibus edition has never dropped below $18.99, nor the individuals under $9.99, according to eReader IQ. So, approximately $7.50 CAD for the lot is a dirt cheap price which you might possibly want to take advantage of before someone decides it's a glitch.