FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[septentrion]

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho is in the monthly sale at amazon.co.uk. The price sale is available at amazon.fr and probably for all Europe. I can't see the price in £ but it's 1.19 € at amazon.fr.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sorcerer-Crown-novels-Book-ebook/dp/B00UXKJ0GM/ref=sr_1_370?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1543641719&sr=1-370

[maddz]

The December Monthly Deals are up at Amazon.co.uk. Of interest are:

Making Money, by Terry Pratchett (Discworld 36) at £1.99
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Mone...647665&sr=1-55

The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern (Vintage Magic 5) at £1.99
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Circu...647688&sr=1-69
(Note that this is a repeat deal)

Win, by Vera Nazerian (The Atlantis Grail 3) at 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Win-Atlanti...647713&sr=1-95

Foundryside, by Robert Jackson Bennett (The Founders 1) at 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Foundryside...47742&sr=1-108

Revenger, by Alistair Reynolds at 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Revenger-Al...47742&sr=1-107

Wildfire, by Ilona Andrews (Hidden Legacy 1) at 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wildfire-Hi...47784&sr=1-114
(Note that this is a repeat deal)

Magic Bites, by Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels 1) at 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Bites...47784&sr=1-120

Magic Bleeds, by Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels 4) at 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Bleed...47839&sr=1-145

Magic Slays, by Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels 5 ) at 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Slays...47865&sr=1-169

Dragonsinger, by Anne McCaffrey (Pern: Harper Hall 2) at £1.99
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dragonsinge...47812&sr=1-134

Acceptance, by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach 3) at £1.99
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Acceptance-...47892&sr=1-187
(I think this is a repeat deal)

Weaveworld, by Clive Barker at 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weaveworld-...47917&sr=1-207
(Note that this is a repeat deal)

Shift, by Hugh Howey (Wool 2) at £1.99
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shift-Wool-...47812&sr=1-131
(I think this is a repeat deal)

Dark Eden, by Chris Beckett at £2.59
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Eden-W...48011&sr=1-245
(I think this is a repeat deal)

American City, by Chris Beckett at £2.59
https://www.amazon.co.uk/America-Cit...48143&sr=1-308
(I think this is a repeat deal)

Sorcerer to the Crown, by Zhen Cho at £1.19
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sorcerer-Cr...48265&sr=1-370

Jade City, by Fonda Lee at 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jade-City-W...in%3AFonda+Lee

[gweeks]

Originally Posted by sufue

Fantastic Fiction calls Youth, by Isaac Asimov, a novella, although by my measure, I'd call it a short story.

Either way, it's free right now at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y982J84

It's in the public domain and is probably from Project Gutenberg.

Greg

[sufue]

This version is Open Road, so probably not from PG. Still good to know it is PD for those in other areas.

Originally Posted by gweeks

It's in the public domain and is probably from Project Gutenberg.

Greg

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by sufue

Fantastic Fiction calls Youth, by Isaac Asimov, a novella, although by my measure, I'd call it a short story.

Either way, it's free right now at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y982J84

Damn! Missed it. Never heard of it but I'd take a free Azimov.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by ReadingManiac

Damn! Missed it. Never heard of it but I'd take a free Azimov.

Its price is still $0.00

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Its price is still $0.00

I don't know for certain, but I think it's always free. Or dirt cheap.

[ZodWallop]

Robert Heinlein's Friday is on sale for $2.99. I shared this before (back in February) but apparently I didn't buy it.

It's published by Phoenix Pick, but to soothe Wolfe's coming (valid) criticism, they say this is a corrected version, uploaded August 2.

Friday is a secret courier and ardent lover. Employed by a man she only knows of as “Boss”, she is given the most awkward and dangerous cases, which take her from New Zealand to Canada, and through the new States of America’s disunion, all the way out into the stars and the new colony of Botany Bay.

Thrust into one calamity after another, she uses her enhanced wits and very many skills to evade, seduce or even kill her way out of any sticky situation she finds herself in. For she is both superior and inferior to the average human.

As an AP—artificial person—the best humanity has to offer has been written into Friday’s DNA. Yet she is often treated like a second class citizen—if she were ever able to claim citizenship. Her mother was the test tube and her father the knife, as the saying goes, so she has less rights than the biologically-born human, and no soul, according to the church.

But in Friday Heinlein has created one of the most enlightened, warm, engaging and humane characters in the science fiction field, gifting us a novel of female empowerment that was well ahead of its time.

[AnemicOak]

Not as big of a discount as we often post in this thread, but still a good deal on a relatively new release.

Uncompromising Honor by David Weber -- $7.49 (reg. $9.99)
Amazon | Google

FIRST NEW HONOR HARRINGTON NOVEL IN FIVE YEARS! New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and international best-selling phenomenon David Weber delivers book #19 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Honor Harrington series, the first new Honor Harrington novel since 2013's Shadow of Freedom.

HONOR'S FINISHING WHAT SHE STARTED

The Solarian League's navy counts its superdreadnoughts by the thousands. Not even its own government knows how enormous its economy truly is. And for hundreds of years, the League has borne the banner of human civilization, been the ideal to which humanity aspires in its diaspora across the galaxy.

But the bureaucrats known as the "Mandarins," who rule today's League, are not the men and women who founded it so long ago. They are corrupt, venal, accountable to no one . . . and they've decided the upstart Star Kingdom of Manticore must be destroyed.

Honor Harrington has worn the Star Kingdom's uniform for half a century and served her monarch and her people well. In the course of those years, the woman the newsies call the Salamander has grown from a tactically brilliant but politically naïve junior officer to supreme fleet command and a seat on the highest military and political councils of the Grand Alliance.

Very few people know war the way Honor Harrington does. Very few have lost as many men and women, as many friends, as much family, as she has. Yet despite that, hers has been a voice of caution. She knows the Mandarins and the Solarian League Navy are growing increasingly desperate as the truth of their technological inferiority sinks home, but she also knows the sheer size of the League. And she knows how its citizens will react if the Grand Alliance takes the war to the League, attacks its star systems, destroys its infrastructure . . . kills its civilians. Today's victory, bought on those terms, can only guarantee a future war of revenge against a resurgent Solarian League and its navy.

Honor knows the Grand Alliance must find a victory that doesn't require incursions deep into Solarian space, doesn't leave a legacy of bottomless hatred, and the strategy she supports has been working.

The League is sliding towards inglorious defeat as it steadily loses ground in the Protectorates and the Verge. As its central government teeters towards bankruptcy and even some of its core systems opt to secede in the face of the Mandarins' corruption. As the Solarian Navy finally realizes it cannot face an Alliance battle fleet and win.

But the Mandarins have embraced a desperate new strategy, and in pursuit of that strategy, the SLN has committed atrocities such as the galaxy has not known in a thousand years. The League have violated its own Eridani Edict against mass civilian casualties, violated the Deneb Accords prohibition on war crimes.

And they have finally killed too many of the people Honor Harrington loves.

Hers is the voice of caution and compromise no longer, and the galaxy is about to see something it has never imagined.

The Salamander is coming for the Solarian League, and Hell is coming in her wake.

At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

[Dngrsone]

Sounds amazing from the writeup. Problem is, I couldn't stomach the last few books enough to get this far...

[Kieran Seymour]

Candy Jar Books have got an Advent Calendar running, and today they're giving away three of their licensed series of Lethbridge-Stewart novels.

Lethbridge-Stewart: A Very Private Haunting - Sharon Bidwell

amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

The Brigadier, from BBC TV's Doctor Who, investigates a gruesome shadow creature.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is not a man who likes to leave things unfinished. He is, therefore, at a loss when forced into taking leave after his recent tussle with a 'shadow creature', a case that has yet to be fully resolved.

Ann Travers is tired of the loss burning in her heart. So when Lethbridge-Stweart is called to Glencross to help the son of an old friend, she insists on going with him.

In Glencross, young Tomas Campbell has gone missing, and his friends band together to uncover the dark secret at the heart of the village. Meanwhile, Arthur Penrose has returned to his ancestral home to find a haunted residence, and a doll with a message.

What connects the doll to the strange sounds that scurry around Penrose Manor, why do the adults of Glencross seem so intent on keeping their children from leaving the village, and what has all this got to do with the 'shadow creature'? It is up to Lethbridge-Stewart and Ann to find out.

Lethbridge-Stewart: The New Unusual - Adrian Sherlock and Andy Frankham-Allen

amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

The Brigadier, from BBC TV's Doctor Who, travels to Australia to track down the mysterious dream egg.

It's the early 1970s, a time of change, a time of turmoil, a time of surrealism, LSD and the Age of Aquarius, a time of fads, Moon landings and wars, and the young people of the world are seeking something new - and unusual!

For Anne Travers, an encounter with a so-called "dream egg" is just the beginning of a long nightmare. Her scientific curiosity aroused, Anne begins to probe the secret underground scene known as "dream-ins" where students and others meet to get involved with a new craze and, perhaps, something far more alien to human experience.

And for Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, who finds himself drawn into Anne's investigations, this probe will lead himand the Fifth Operational Corps to the wilderness of the Australian Outback, to a little opal mining town called Coober Pedy and a search for answers.

Lethbridge-Stewart: The Man from Yesterday - Nick Walters

amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

The Brigadier, from BBC TV's Doctor Who, is reunited with his father, but why has he returned to Earth?

Gordon's alive?

The English Channel, May 1945. Leading his squadron of Hawker Typhoons back to base from a traumatic mission in the Baltic, Wing Commander Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart goes missing – one of the unsolved mysteries of the Second World War.

Cromer, 1970. Doctor Anne Travers and Lieutenant Bill Bishop are investigating a mysterious phenomenon after hearing reports of ‘pink lightning’ seen over the Norfolk coast, while strange elfin creatures are glimpsed by the locals. And in the Red Fort, his new base of operations deep below Norwich, General James Gore is making his plans.

Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart receives a phone call that will change his life. Could it be, after all this time, that his father has come back from yesterday?

[GlennD]

"To Green Angel Tower", book three in Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series, is on sale at Amazon US for $1.99.

[ottdmk]

Originally Posted by GlennD

"To Green Angel Tower", book three in Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series, is on sale at Amazon US for $1.99.

Also on sale @ Kobo Canada which means amazon.ca and probably books.google.com will have it as well...

[ReadingManiac]

Cross posting as this one would appeal to adults too.

Force of Chaos: The Coming of Age of the Antichrist is on .99 at Amazon Kindle US and UK. I've read this one and really enjoyed it! YA about the antichrist at 15, rebelling against the role set out for him. I always wondered why Damian didn't do that in Omen II.

https://www.amazon.com/Force-Chaos-C...dp/B07JN22K88/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Force-Chaos.../dp/B07JN22K88

[pdurrant]

There was a discussion about L. Ron Hubbard's SF Novels. It's now in its own thread.