FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2014

[crich70]

100 Classic Science Fiction Stories Kobo US $2.99 There are over 4,600 pages worth of old science fiction stories by various authors (some of whom I've never heard).

[Geralt]

Dawn (Xenogenesis #1) by Octavia E Butler is 1.99$ on amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Xenogenes.../dp/B008HALOEQ

[ATDrake]

Free from the author @ Amazon (amazingly not KDP Select exclusive-or-else, but it's being price-matched to somewhere I can't see from Canada):

Perfect People by novelist, film director (you may have seen his alien abduction drama Fire in the Sky, and he also directs episodes of Canadian TV shows such as Arctic Air and Republic of Doyle, by the way), long-time Cornell University Faculty of Physics member, etc. etc. Robert H. Lieberman (ISFDB, IMDB, Wikipedia), some kind of post-apocalyptic genetically perfected dystopian adventure involving a futuristic detective living in an underground city, originally out from Dell in 1986.

Best-selling novelist and award-winning film director Robert H. Lieberman takes us to Creatoria— the city below Earth’s devastated surface.

In the eight generations since the last and final war, humankind has moved closer— thanks to genetic engineering— to perfection in every way. That was what Detective Creally Leemling had been taught, even though he was only a Nearly Perfect. And he believed it— until he witnessed things no Perfect could imagine still existed.

A mystery on earth’s surface leads this futuristic detective to a mind-shattering discovery, a beautiful young woman and a desperate plan to escape perfection… and survive.

[Froide]

Phoenix Pick's ebook of the Month—November 2014:

The Mutant Season by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber.

There are mutants living among us. People with golden yellow eyes, extraordinary powers and strange abilities. For centuries they have hidden themselves, fearing persecution. After rising tensions in recent decades, the mutants find new hope in the twenty-first century, with one of their own holding high political office.

But underlying prejudices are hard to eradicate completely. And even as the mutants find greater acceptance in society, a single event threatens to undo everything.

In 2017, the murder of a prominent politician sets off a series of events that will bring the mutants into direct conflict with “normal“ humans, and the world may never again be the same

[HarryT]

I don't know if it counts as "SF" or not, but he's at SF author, at least, so here goes...

Part of today's Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal is Sucker's Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing by Kurt Vonnegut, at the usual 99p price.

Amazon description:

Available to readers for the first time, Sucker’s Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never before published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Short, sardonic, and dark, these six brief fiction stories and one non-fiction piece are consummate Vonnegut with piercing satire and an eye for life’s obscene inanity. Also available for the first time is an unfinished science-fiction short story, included in the appendix.

These stories trace trivial human lives and mundane desires, which is precisely where Vonnegut’s inimitable perspective as a humanist shines, illuminating his alternating hopeful and dismal outlook, although undoubtedly focusing on the latter. Here as in his greatest novels, Vonnegut’s writing takes us to the darkest corners of the human soul and with wit and humor, manages to remind us of our potential to be something greater.

[AnemicOak]

Free (in the US at least) for today only from Open Road...

Patton's Spaceship (The Timeline Wars Book 1) by John Barnes
Amazon.com | Kobo | Google | B&N | iTunes

An unstoppable conspiracy of terror and death threatens a million alternate Earths in the first book of the Timeline Wars science fiction series

There are a million different Earths across an infinite number of timelines—and every one of them is in peril.

Mark Strang became a bodyguard and private investigator when terrorists killed his family; now he spends his days protecting Pittsburgh’s helpless and abused. But while on a mission to save the life of a ten-year-old girl, Strang is inexplicably cast into an alternate reality, transported to a different time on another Earth, where America was defeated in the Second World War and now suffers under the brutal yoke of Nazi oppression. Joining up with the remnants of the Resistance in the Free Zone—and allied with such notable commanders as George Patton and John F. Kennedy—Strang is suddenly a marked man and the last hope in a desperate fight for freedom, not only on this world but on countless others. For a war unlike any other is raging across time and dimensions, threatening every possible Earth, including Strang’s own. And the enemy will not rest until the entire multiverse is in chains.

In his epic and action-packed science fiction saga the Timeline Wars, John Barnes takes alternate-history SF to new heights, ingeniously reinventing and reinvigorating a genre popularized by such acclaimed authors as Harry Turtledove while joining the stellar ranks of Robert Heinlein and Joe Haldeman.

[pdops]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Free (in the US at least) for today only from Open Road...

Free in Canada from Kobo too. Thanks.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Free (in the US at least) for today only from Open Road...

Patton's Spaceship (The Timeline Wars Book 1) by John Barnes
Amazon.com | Kobo | Google | B&N | iTunes

Thanks, I have it and the other two in the series in paper.
Apache

[bookmarked]

This month's Orbital Drop ebook is House of the Rising Sun by Kristen Painter for $1.99.

B&N Google iTunes Kobo

Currently price-matched at Amazon (Orbit is part of Hachette and they aren't playing nicely right now).

Not really my thing, but I thought I'd pass it along.

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ 99 cents from Prime Books as Weightless Books' weekly 1-day sale for Nov 5th (DRM-free, available worldwide, regularly $6.99):

Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter by World Fantasy & Mythopoeic Award finalist Richard Parks (ISFDB), a 1st-in-series folklore-based paranormal fantasy novel set in ancient Japan.

In an ancient Japan where the incursions of gods, ghosts, and demons into the living world is an everyday event, an impoverished nobleman named Yamada no Goji makes his living as a demon hunter for hire. With the occasional assistance of the reprobate exorcist Kenji, whatever the difficulty—ogres, demons, fox-spirits—for a price Yamada will do what needs to be done, even and especially if the solution to the problem isn’t as simple as the edge of a sword. Yet, no matter how many monsters he has to face, or how powerful and terrible they may be, the demons Yamada fears the most are his own.

Bargain @ $2.99 from Sourcebooks's Landmark imprint (couponable @ Kobo, should be available in all the standard stores, price good for Canada & US, possibly also other regions, etc.):

Guinevere, the Legend in Autumn by Persia Woolley (ISFDB, Wikipedia), 3rd in her Guinevere Trilogy of Arthurian fantasy, this one originally out from Poseidon/Pocket in 1991. We've previously received the 1st in series, Child of the Northern Spring, as a freebie several years ago, so if you got that then, you might like to pick this up now while it's on sale for about 1/5th of what the other books regularly cost and the Kobo contest coupons are still working.

Surrounded by traitors, trapped by destiny, Britain's spirited Queen Guinevere sees that the greatest dangers to Arthur's crown may lie within the walls of Camelot. An undeniable spark ignites between Guinevere and Lancelot, but a powerful enemy puts the Queen's loyalty to the ultimate test.

As the heroes of the Round Table undertake the Quest for the Holy Grail, Guinevere's heartbreaking honesty, courage, and integrity will be challenged by those she loves most.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Bargain @ 99 cents from Prime Books as Weightless Books' weekly 1-day sale for Nov 5th (DRM-free, available worldwide, regularly $6.99):

Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter by World Fantasy & Mythopoeic Award finalist Richard Parks (ISFDB), a 1st-in-series folklore-based paranormal fantasy novel set in ancient Japan.

In an ancient Japan where the incursions of gods, ghosts, and demons into the living world is an everyday event, an impoverished nobleman named Yamada no Goji makes his living as a demon hunter for hire. With the occasional assistance of the reprobate exorcist Kenji, whatever the difficulty—ogres, demons, fox-spirits—for a price Yamada will do what needs to be done, even and especially if the solution to the problem isn’t as simple as the edge of a sword. Yet, no matter how many monsters he has to face, or how powerful and terrible they may be, the demons Yamada fears the most are his own.

Bargain @ $2.99 from Sourcebooks's Landmark imprint (couponable @ Kobo, should be available in all the standard stores, price good for Canada & US, possibly also other regions, etc.):

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Thank you, I picked this one up and looks very interesting.
Apache

[Harlock415]

Neptune Rising(The Chaos Chronicles Book 1) by Jeffrey Carver is currently Free at Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Neptune-Crossi...jeffrey+carver

When John Bandicut encounters an alien intelligence on Neptune's moon Triton, his life changes irrevocably. Urged by the alien quarx now sharing his mind, he accepts an audacious mission—to steal a ship and hurtle across the solar system in a desperate bid for Earth's survival. Book 1 of The Chaos Chronicles, by the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End—with a new Afterword by the author.

Appeared in print from Tor Books. DRM-free ebook edition.

The first book in the Star Riggers Universe, Panglor, also by Jeffrey Carver, is only .99 http://www.amazon.com/Panglor-Star-R...5428982&sr=1-8

ON SALE FOR A LIMITED TIME!

Blackmailed! Wrongly discredited as a space pilot, Panglor Balef is doomed to die in space, if sheer luck doesn’t bring him through. But luck has never been in Panglor’s cards. Bad enough to be coerced into a mission of murder and suicide, he must also contend with Alo—a young woman, stowaway, and impossible companion. Neither of them, nor his empathic ou-ralot, could possibly anticipate the journey through space-time they are about to embark on, through a door to an insane reality from which there is almost certainly no return. It could be the discovery of the millennium, but the only way home is to journey even further into the heart of madness.

The stunning prequel to the famed Star Rigger Universe of Jeffrey A. Carver, Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End and The Chaos Chronicles.

[Harlock415]

The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen is currently $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FVW7CVM/

A #1 Indie Next Pick and LibraryReads Selection

Magic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in which a young princess must reclaim her dead mother’s throne, learn to be a ruler—and defeat the Red Queen, a powerful and malevolent sorceress determined to destroy her.

On her nineteenth birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. Plain and serious, a girl who loves books and learning, Kelsea bears little resemblance to her mother, the vain and frivolous Queen Elyssa. But though she may be inexperienced and sheltered, Kelsea is not defenseless: Around her neck hangs the Tearling sapphire, a jewel of immense magical power; and accompanying her is the Queen’s Guard, a cadre of brave knights led by the enigmatic and dedicated Lazarus. Kelsea will need them all to survive a cabal of enemies who will use every weapon—from crimson-caped assassins to the darkest blood magic—to prevent her from wearing the crown.

Despite her royal blood, Kelsea feels like nothing so much as an insecure girl, a child called upon to lead a people and a kingdom about which she knows almost nothing. But what she discovers in the capital will change everything, confronting her with horrors she never imagined. An act of singular daring will throw Kelsea’s kingdom into tumult, unleashing the vengeance of the tyrannical ruler of neighboring Mortmesne: the Red Queen, a sorceress possessed of the darkest magic. Now Kelsea will begin to discover whom among the servants, aristocracy, and her own guard she can trust.

But the quest to save her kingdom and meet her destiny has only just begun—a wondrous journey of self-discovery and a trial by fire that will make her a legend . . . if she can survive.

[Purple Lady]

Free pre-order at Amazon.
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014: A Tor.Com Original. This will be available 01-06-2015. No description or list of authors, but I have 2011, 2012 and 2013 versions and they were good.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P5JNNBE/

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

Free pre-order at Amazon.
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014: A Tor.Com Original. This will be available 01-06-2015. No description or list of authors, but I have 2011, 2012 and 2013 versions and they were good.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P5JNNBE/

Free in Canada
http://www.amazon.ca/Some-Best-Tor-c...dp/B00P5JNNBE/

Not free at Amazon UK, listed at £1.28
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Some-Best-To...dp/B00P5JNNBE/