FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2014

[Geralt]

The same P.K.D novels are 1.99$ on amazon, if anyone cares. Also some of the books from the Google sale are also the same price on amazon, for example Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King, or The Martian by Andy Weir.

[ATDrake]

The Philip K. Dick sale novels and other discount titles out from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner Books are also $1.99 at Kobo in the US ($2.99 in Canada, sigh; our petro-dollar hasn't dropped that much ), and couponable to boot (at least in Canada).

Linkage for the HMH imprint sorted by price @ Kobo.

[itisbomb]

A Cruel Wind (Dread Empire)
by Glen Cook

is $1.99 at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/A-Cruel-Wind-D...7175320&sr=1-1

Below is the blurb:
Before there was Black Company, there was the Dread Empire, an omnibus collection the first three Dread Empire novels: A Shadow of All Night's Falling, October's Baby and All Darkness Met.

[ATDrake]

Free from the late author's estate via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot)

The Godmakers by action/adventure genre pioneer and creator of the immensely popular Mack Bolan Executioner series Don Pendleton (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a vintage psychic political conspiracy thriller originally out from Kensington's Pinnacle imprint in 1970 under his Dan Britain pseudonym.

A fantastic adventure into cosmic consciousness and the unknown...

The United States government’s executive intelligence gathering agency, the Inter-agency Intelligence Group, has largely supplanted the clumsy machinery of the CIA as a direct tool of the U.S. President. Patrick Honor, a top member of the Intelligence Group, is the one skilled enough to find answers to mysterious events taking place, in which the number 9 has significance. Members of a top secret psychic investigative team, the PPS, Psychic Power Sources, are in harm’s way, as is the President.

Patrick Honor believes there is a Rogue God. Is he right? Do the answers to the mystery have anything to do with sex being taboo down through the ages? Who is Octavia? Will answers be found in the symbology of the Nines? Can Patrick Honor insure the safety of the President while unraveling the psychic events—all before it is too late for humanity?

There's also a repeat of Time to Time, 6th in his Ashton Ford Psychic Detective series originally out from Popular Library in 1988, a New Age spirituality book originally out from Kensington's Zebra imprint in 1992, and a self-published How to Write book, if you're interested.

Free from the author('s republishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Toxin by Rob Swigart (ISFDB), 2nd in his Chazz Koenig/Thriller in Paradise series of sfnal preventing-bio-disaster thrillers starring the eponymous molecular biologist and his Hawaiian cop buddy, this installment originally out from St. Martin's Press in 1989.

DOES A SATELLITE CRASH ON KAUAI COUNT AS TROUBLE IN PARADISE? HOW ABOUT A SIMULTANEOUS PLANE HIJACKING?

Hawaii police lieutenant Cobb Takamura and molecular biologist Chazz Koenig return in this tale in which the murder of an unpopular real estate developer leads to the inner circles of international defense.

On the same day that Victor Linz is shot during an early morning jog, reports filter in that an out-of-orbit satellite may land on Kauai. A reporter tailing an intelligence officer from the mainland is found near the remote site of the satellite crash; he is comatose and suffering from severe skin and internal ailments. Panic follows when a rumor spreads that the satellite carried a deadly toxin.

Cobb must conduct the murder investigation and maintain calm on the island all while negotiating with one of the murder suspects who is hijacking a commercial airliner. Meanwhile, Koenig races the clock to control the effects of the toxin.

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

City Whitelight by Scottish author John McKenzie (ISFDB), an sfnal near-future urban dystopia adventure-ish thriller originally out from Edinburgh-based Mainstream Publishing in 1986, which the blurb says was adapted as a play for BBC Radio 4's Monday Night Theatre programme.

City Whitelight is an explosive novel set against the process of social breakdown in an archetypal city - a city without any real place in geography or time, in a world which has become accustomed to eruptions of urban discontent. The surreal inner city environment created in the novel has obvious modern connotations.

Centrum, the area at the centre of John McKenzie's nightmare city, has over a period of time become encircled by a band of derelict wasteland, edged with wire and prowled by wild, savage dogs. Within the physical and economic decay of this inner city area, a plague had sprung up causing the ghetto to be completely isolated from the rest of the city .... or so it seems.

Jackie Whitelight becomes the leader of a youth gang in an effort to ease his attempt to flee from the city altogether. But his instinctive need to escape conflicts with his desire to help the Inner City when he discovers, during a foray into the Outer City, that a massive extermination programme is planned. He then encounters Gisler, the grotesque and obese ruler of the Inner City, and the Poison Maker, a dealer in drugs and a man of messianic delusions ...

[GeoffR]

Tor (US) have a publisher sale on 24 ebooks for $2.99 each (One day only: today 29 November.)

Some excellent titles, some of them were on sale at this price earlier this year, but there are also some I haven't seen discounted before.

Edit: I just realized it is 30 November where I am, but the special prices are still up, so maybe we have 'til Monday.)

Edit2: Another one at $2.99 until 2 January:
Stepping Stone / Love machine, by Walter Mosley

[ATDrake]

^

Thanks. I'd seen this earlier as the Amazon Daily Deal and was planning to check it out on Kobo, but I got back late from doing some stuff and by that time thought that the Kobo servers would have switched over since they usually do at midnight EST.

But it turns out that they're still discounted at Kobo for who knows how much longer, so I picked up Steven Brust's Phoenix Guards since I like his writing and want to encourage Tor to put more of his stuff on deep-discount, even if I already own the paperback in two languages, and Jo Walton's The King's Peace (via Google Play, since Kobo is being glitchy with showing the full price for this at checkout, but not the other $2.99 books I tried), since she's been generous enough to give away the prequel to this series as a CC-licensed book which is available for free download on Manybooks (and also, I really liked her Tooth and Claw, as well as her Farthing ebook giveaway when Tor.com first opened, and would buy the rest of that trilogy if they dropped the prices or put it into a money saving omnibus edition at a good price).

I skipped a couple of other things I was thinking of, since there are indeed money-saving omnibus editions for them which worked out to be cheaper even when accounting for the $2.99 1st-in-series price, after you added the non-couponable cost of the sequels.

[386q4966d8v]

The first 6 Fafhrd & Gray Mouser Books are on sale @Amazon for $1.99 each. I read these back in the 80's and I'm grateful to have run across them again!

This link is for the first.. sort by Price under Author for the rest

http://www.amazon.com/Swords-Deviltr...437014&sr=1-16

~Best Regards

[Quelthan]

Larry Correia has released an Audible-only exclusive novella set in the Grimnoir universe. Murder on the Orient Elite is currently free from the author's webpage.

This urban fantasy novella takes place a few years after the end of the third book in the trilogy, Warbound.

Not sure how long this will be available.

Cross posted to Audio Books.

[scottken]

There's a lot of great SF/Fantasy authors on sale as part of Open Road's Cyber Monday. Most prices are $1.99-$2.99. These include selected titles from:
Samuel Delaney
Theodore Sturgeon
Jonathan Carroll
Fritz Leiber
Harlan Ellison
George Alec Effinger
Steve Erickson (not the Malazan one, the literary fantasy one)
Robert Silverberg
Octavia Butler

and more. It's well worth checking out. I know they're on sale at Amazon and would expect to see them at B&N and Kobo as well.

[basschick]

thanks

Originally Posted by Quelthan

Larry Correia has released an Audible-only exclusive novella set in the Grimnoir universe. Murder on the Orient Elite is currently free from the author's webpage.

This urban fantasy novella takes place a few years after the end of the third book in the trilogy, Warbound.

Not sure how long this will be available.

Cross posted to Audio Books.

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot)

Events at Fort Plenitude by Cat Rambo (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a co-editor of Fantasy Magazine and World Fantasy Award-nominee for said editing work, a supernatural fantasy short in her Tales of Tabat series, originally published in Weird Tales Magazine in 2008.

In this short story, an exiled soldier tries to wait out a winter in a fort beleaguered by fox-spirits and winter demons.

Elsewhere, Within, Elsewhen, 4th in her Farther Than Tomorrow series, a science fiction short originally published in Fairwood Press' Beyond the Sun anthology in 2013.

On a distant planet, David struggles to overcome his husband's betrayal, only to find an unlikely sympathizer in the form of one of the planet's native inhabitants. But are its intentions truly benign?

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Whom the Gods Love by Sarah A. Hoyt (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a science fiction novelette originally published in Baen's Transhuman anthology in 2008.

When a "god" arrives amid a group of "primitives" it's a big event. It's a bigger event when the god is really a member of a more advanced human civilization who was dropped in this forsaken place to prevent his finding how others have been exploiting the "primitives." But Alessandro Palermo survives and, with the help of a local woman, just might turn the tables on his would be assassins.

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon (ETA: also in a Spanish translation):

Awake in the Night by Nebula Award-finalist John C. Wright (ISFDB, Wikipedia), who's lately become known in fandom circles for having… interesting views. In any case, his William Hope Hodgson-inspired science fiction/dark fantasy hybrid novella was originally published in Wildside Press' Eternal Love anthology in 2003 and was reprinted in the 21th Annual Year's Best Science Fiction collection edited by Gardner Dozois.

(there is literally no portion of the actual blurb which tells you what the plot of this particular story is actually about and does not in some way plug the author and other of his works)

[crich70]

Gulliver's Travels

Broken into four parts, Gulliver’s Travels marks the progress of a gallant explorer as he sails into the unknown, visiting surreal worlds like Brobdingnag, a realm filled with gigantic men; Lilliput, a diminutive land filled with pint-size people; Laputa, a floating island in the sky; and even the fabled land known as Japan. Along the way, Gulliver solves problems, starts and ends wars, and gets into—and back out of—one hot pot after another.

Just beneath the surface of Jonathan Swift’s dashing novel is a devastating satire of the world in the early eighteenth century, and few institutions escape critique. Swift calls into question the worthiness of human society, where the greedy and the wicked thrive. In the end, however, Gulliver’s Travels remains, at its heart, a dramatic adventure filled with the curiosities and feats of daring that have thrilled readers for centuries. Seldom have audiences enjoyed such a balanced mixture of humor, satire, thrills, and philosophy.

This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Kobo It's free at present at Kobo.

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by crich70

Gulliver's Travels


Kobo It's free at present at Kobo.

This is the Open Road freebie for today, so it's also free at Amazon, Google Play, B&N, and Apple.

[Dngrsone]

Originally Posted by hwlester

This is the Open Road freebie for today, so it's also free at Amazon, Google Play, B&N, and Apple.

I'm pretty sure it's free at Gutenberg Press all the time.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

I'm pretty sure it's free at Gutenberg Press all the time.

Do you mean "Project Gutenberg"? I haven't come across a publisher called "Gutenberg Press".