Fictionwise 60% off this weekend - May 14

[Blossom]

Thanks so much! I just picked up some of my wishlist and a few more!

Because someone asked. Here's what I got.

The Gathering [A Night Breeds Novel] [MultiFormat] by Lily Graison
Savage Betrayal [MultiFormat] by Theresa Scott
Northern Nights [MultiFormat] by Theresa Scott
Wildcat Bride [MultiFormat] by Lauri Robinson
Nightwing [MultiFormat] by Lynn Michaels

Total $11.20 and paid with PayPal.

[Catlady]

Thanks for the coupon.

I used it for my first-ever purchase at Fictionwise. Now, would someone please be kind enough to tell me what the secret is to get the book to show up in "My Bookshelf" for downloading? I sat staring at the screen saying WTF? for a while, but then I finally found a "bulk download button" and got my book that way, but surely there's an easier way? I even tried logging out and logging in again later and the book still doesn't show up in the bookshelf.

By the way, the book I got is The Murder of My Aunt, by Richard Hull, which was recommended in another thread.

[pdurrant]

I've added Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's four titles at Fictionwise to my list too.

For SF fans, I do recommend Brian Stableford. I read his "The Dragon Man" last year, and liked it a lot. I have his SF/Fantasy on my list.

R A MacAvoy was already on my list.

The Lois McMaster Bujolds that aren't available through webscription.net (where they're mostly available as omnibus volumes for $6, which probably works out cheaper). As a fantasy, I highly rate her "The Spirit Ring".

I've added the longer Marion Zimmer Bradleys that I didn't have, also several of Piers Anthony's SF/Fantasy.

Some Mercedes Lackey - although watch out, some of the title there are still overpriced, even at 60% off.

I've also added in the available editions of LightSpeed Science Fiction magazine ($1.02 each!)

With everything else, I now have a list of 100 books for $217.79. And some more on my wish list to be bought with my micropay rebate.

But since that's about a year's worth of reading matter, I shall give it a little thought overnight. It does seem to be an amazing bargain.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Catlady

By the way, the book I got is The Murder of My Aunt, by Richard Hull, which was recommended in another thread.

Thanks! I have a hard time finding books to buy at Fictionwise since Random House joined the Evil Five and this one sounded good to me.

[Elfwreck]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Thanks for the coupon.

I used it for my first-ever purchase at Fictionwise. Now, would someone please be kind enough to tell me what the secret is to get the book to show up in "My Bookshelf" for downloading?

Secret? No idea. Every time I buy a book, I go to My Bookshelf and there are all my ebooks, 25 per page, with dropdown menus for filetype & rating options.

Screencap attached; does your bookshelf not look anything like that? (If your book is a secure format, it won't have the dropdown, but otherwise should look the same.)

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by Elfwreck

Secret? No idea. Every time I buy a book, I go to My Bookshelf and there are all my ebooks, 25 per page, with dropdown menus for filetype & rating options.

Screencap attached; does your bookshelf not look anything like that? (If your book is a secure format, it won't have the dropdown, but otherwise should look the same.)

I just checked again, and now my book is there. But right after I bought the book, I had the page like the one you showed, but it was empty. And I did spend some time reloading it and logging out and in again, still with nothing showing up. Must have been a glitch.

Now if I could only figure out what the heck Secure eReader books are, I could make further use of that coupon!

[Elfwreck]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Now if I could only figure out what the heck Secure eReader books are, I could make further use of that coupon!

Secure eReader are eReader PDB format, which use a credit card number as the DRM identifier; you have to enter the number the first time you open the book on a given device. The software for it is at ereader.com, which has a list of the devices it works on. (It also worked on the first Nooks before they switched to ePub; I don't know if they disabled eReader support or not.)

The format itself is very similar to mobi: it allows bold, italics, centered & indented text, larger fonts, and limited types of pictures. It can have internal links (like, for a table of contents); it can't have embedded fonts or paragraph formatting beyond alignment (like, can't have double-spaced paragraphs). I used to love the ereader format for my Clie; I'm annoyed that none of the eInk readers besides the Nook support it.

[NightBird]

Wow, great coupon! Thank you, alism!

CatLady - Secure Ereader format works on the regular Jetbook, but not the Jetbook Lite. <sigh>

Some recommendations:

For noir/mystery fans: They still have some of the Rex Stout books by Wonder Ebooks before Random House started grabbing them. There are also some Jim Thompson, if you have read any of him. There are Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen magazines.

For SF/Fantasy, if you like stories there are still quite a few Vera Nazarian, George Zebrowski, Gardner Dozois. There are a couple of stories by George RR Martin I particularly liked, The Sandkings (they made an Outer Limits episode out of that); and The Pear-Shaped Man, a very peculiar fantasy story. There are volumes I and II of Robert Sheckley.

[NightBird]

Oh and for mysteries, the Parnell Hall books. Very funny.

[NightBird]

Originally Posted by AlanE

I've just discovered that this doesn't apply to all titles. The three titles I wanted, all from Samhain publishing, are not discounted.

FW coupons never work on Samhain titles; I assume Samhain doesn't allow it.

[Catlady]

Elfwreck and Night Bird, thanks for the info about the Secure eReader format. Sounds like a pain. Too bad; I searched on the publisher Rosetta (if you got the free Copia books, most of them were from Rosetta) and found a bunch of books I would have ordered (The Southpaw and Bang the Drum Slowly, The World of Henry Orient, 101 Dalmatians, The Wheel Spins), but they were all that Secure eReader format.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by NightBird

For noir/mystery fans: They still have some of the Rex Stout books by Wonder Ebooks before Randomhouse started grabbing them. There are also some Jim Thompson, if you have read any of him. There are Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen magazines.

Thanks for mentioning Wonder--I'd forgotten about them for noir, so I went back to search Wonder at Fictionwise, and found a couple of nurse romances by Peggy Gaddis and Arlene Hale!

[anabolina]

Yay, thanks for posting the coupon. i think im finally going to buy something from fictionwise.

[Critteranne]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Thanks for mentioning Wonder--I'd forgotten about them for noir, so I went back to search Wonder at Fictionwise, and found a couple of nurse romances by Peggy Gaddis and Arlene Hale!

Ooh thanks for the reminder, I am now checking what else they have.

And on that note, I can't resist sharing this from a description of one of their books:
"Peter Chambers is a private richard who has a real affinity for trouble..."

Private richard?! Private richard?!


Someone must have run into software that told them "private dick" was an offensive term.

[NightBird]

found a bunch of books I would have ordered (The Southpaw and Bang the Drum Slowly, The World of Henry Orient, 101 Dalmatians, The Wheel Spins), but they were all that Secure eReader format.
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Thanks for mentioning Wonder--I'd forgotten about them for noir, so I went back to search Wonder at Fictionwise, and found a couple of nurse romances by Peggy Gaddis and Arlene Hale!

Ah too bad about the Rosetta books.

Great about the Wonder! Also try E-Reads.

SF:

This one is funny:

Lingo
-Jim Menick

eBook Category: Science Fiction

eBook Description: Brewster Billings is perhaps a little too wrapped up with his computer. He has given it a pet name, Lingo. He has programmed it with the ability to talk to its owner. In fact, Lingo has begun to respond to Brewster's programming skill surprisingly well. Lingo soon makes the jump from polite conversation to elaborate requests for specific television shows to be left on throughout the day. Eventually, Billings begins to suspect that his computerized friend is surpassing him in knowledge and abilities. By the time his suspicions are confirmed, not only is Brewster Billings in trouble--the rest of the human race is, too. Lingo raises many serious questions about Artificial Intelligence--what differentiates man from computer, and which one will control the other?

https://store.fictionwise.com/ebooks...m-Menick/?si=0

Robert Silverberg:

There used to be a ton of his but not many left now. There is a volume of a few stories:

Science Fiction Grand Master, Robert Silverberg: Volume One, Dangerous Dimensions $4.99/$4.24

eBook Category: Science Fiction Nebula Award(R) Finalist, Hugo Award Nominee, Hugo Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Winner
eBook Description: Hugo and Nebula Award Winning and Nominated Short Fiction from Science Fiction Grand Master, Robert Silverberg. In an Earth far into the future, the human race has reverted to a rigid Guild system where every citizen is classified according to function and mandated to strictly abide by the Guild's set of rules. Those who are Guildless are not considered men; they are at the lowest rung of the social ladder and shunned by all. In this universe of specialized citizens, genetic engineering had been done to those who needed special attributes; Fliers had wings and Watchers had the ability to use their minds to scan the outer space for invaders. When a Flier, a Watcher, and a Guildless man decide to travel together, they witness the end of an era as the invasion of enemies from the stars begins. This Hugo-award winning novella, "Nightwings," is only one of the five award contenders included in this new collection of Robert Silverberg's stories. Full of lyricism and melancholic descriptions of the Earth as it was and the Earth as it had been, "Nightwings" had captivated readers when it was first published in the late 1960s and continues to captivate new readers until the present. Those who have read it could not easily forget the images and the emotions evoked by the characters that Silverberg so expertly created. The other stories in this collection--nominated for a Hugo, a Nebula, and Locus awards--highlight the author's mastery of the language and his capacity to engage the reader fully in worlds of his own making. We get to see the irony of the characters' experiences in "When We Went to See the End of the World," sympathize and feel proud of the time traveler in "House of Bones," and quietly applaud the gumption and cleverness of the young girl in "Amanda and the Alien." Like "Nightwings," the story "Beauty in the Night" also haunts with its brutal portrayal of a child's life at a time when the aliens arrived and took over the Earth. Rich in detail and waxing lyrical at some point, it is a quintessential Silverberg story--full of drama of human failures and yet replete as well with instances of great courage that enable the people in his worlds to transcend their fate.

Nightwings is particularly good.

There is a still a lot of Harlan Ellison.

https://store.fictionwise.com/servlet/mwsearch

My favorite I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Novella included in this book about people trapped inside a sentient computer that hates humanity. Very creepy.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream [MultiFormat]
eBook by Harlan Ellison
Regular Club
You Pay: $9.99 $8.49

eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition. Among Ellison's more famous stories, two consistently noted as among his very best ever are the title story and the volume's concluding one, "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes". Since Ellison himself strongly resists categorization of his work, we won't call them science fiction, or SF, or speculative fiction or horror or anything else except compelling reading experiences that are sui generis. They could only have been written by Harlan Ellison and they are incomparably original.

eBook Publisher: E-Reads/E-Reads, Published: 1967
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2008

https://store.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b68623/I-Have-No-Mouth-and-I-Must-Scream/Harlan-Ellison/?si=0

He also has a couple of books of stories by other people that he has edited.

Dangerous Visions

Regular Club
You Pay: $9.99 $8.49

eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Included in this memorable collection of 33 original stories are 7 winners and 13 nominees for the prestigious Hugo and Nebula Awards. Lester Del Rey / Robert Silverberg / Frederik Pohl / Philip Jose Farmer / Miriam Allen deFord / Robert Bloch / Harlan Ellison / Brian W. Aldiss / Howard Rodman / Philip K. Dick / Larry Niven / Fritz Leiber / Joe L. Hensley / Poul Anderson / David R. Bunch / James Cross m/ Carol Emshwiller / Damon Knight / Theodore Sturgeon / Larry Eisenberg / Henry Slesar / Sonya Dorman / John T. Sladek / Jonathan Brand / Kris Neville / R. A. Lafferty / J. G. Ballard / John Brunner / Keith Laumer / Norman Spinrad / Roger Zelazny / Samuel R. Delany

Contents (From Wikipedia)

Illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon accompany each short story.
Foreword 1 - The Second Revolution by Isaac Asimov
Foreword 2 - Harlan and I by Isaac Asimov
Thirty-Two Soothsayers (introduction) by Harlan Ellison
Evensong by Lester del Rey. This is described by its author as an allegory. It details the capture of a being, identified at the end of the story as God, by Man, which has usurped God's power.
Flies by Robert Silverberg. It was inspired by a quote from King Lear: "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport."
The Day After the Day the Martians Came by Frederik Pohl
Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer (Hugo Award for best novella)
The Malley System by Miriam Allen deFord
A Toy for Juliette by Robert Bloch
The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World by Harlan Ellison
The Night That All Time Broke Out by Brian W. Aldiss
The Man Who Went to the Moon — Twice by Howard Rodman
Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K. Dick
The Jigsaw Man by Larry Niven
Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber (Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novelette)
Lord Randy, My Son by Joe L. Hensley
Eutopia by Poul Anderson
Incident in Moderan and The Escaping by David R. Bunch
The Doll-House by James Cross (pseudonym)
Sex and/or Mr. Morrison by Carol Emshwiller
Shall the Dust Praise Thee? by Damon Knight
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? by Theodore Sturgeon
What Happened to Auguste Clarot? by Larry Eisenberg
Ersatz by Henry Slesar
Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird by Sonya Dorman
The Happy Breed by John Sladek
Encounter with a Hick by Jonathan Brand
From the Government Printing Office by Kris Neville
Land of the Great Horses by R. A. Lafferty
The Recognition by J. G. Ballard
Judas by John Brunner
Test to Destruction by Keith Laumer
Carcinoma Angels by Norman Spinrad
Auto-da-Fé by Roger Zelazny
Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany (Nebula Award for best short story, 1967)

https://store.fictionwise.com/ebooks...-Ellison/?si=0

Again, Dangerous Visions

Regular Club
You Pay: $9.99 $8.49

eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: The classic companion to the most essential science fiction anthology ever published. 46 original stories edited with introductions by Harlan Ellison. Featuring: John Heidenry--Ross Rocklynne--Ursula K. Le Guin--Andrew J. Offutt--Gene Wolfe--Ray Nelson--Ray Bradbury--Chad Oliver--Edward Bryant--Kate Wilhelm--James B. Hemesath--Joanna Russ--Kurt Vonnegut--T. L. Sherred--K. M. O'Donnell (Barry N. Malzberg)--H. H. Hollis--Bernard Wolfe--David Gerrold--Piers Anthony--Lee Hoffman--Gahan Wilson--Joan Bernott--Gregory Benford--Evelyn Lief--James Sallis--Josephine Saxton--Ken McCullough--David Kerr--Burt K. Filer--Richard Hill--Leonard Tushnet--Ben Bova--Dean R. Koontz--James Blish and Judith Ann Lawrence--A. Parra (y Figueredo)--Thomas M. Disch--Richard A. Lupoff--M. John Harrison--Robin Scott--Andrew Weiner--Terry Carr--James Tiptree, Jr.

Contents (from Wikipedia)

"An Assault of New Dreamers" (introduction) by Harlan Ellison
"The Counterpoint of View" by John Heidenry
"Ching Witch!" by Ross Rocklynne
"The Word for World Is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"For Value Received" by Andrew J. Offutt
"Mathoms From the Time Closet" -- "1: Robot's Story", "2: Against The Lafayette Escadrille" and "3: Loco Parentis" by Gene Wolfe
"Time Travel For Pedestrians" by Ray Nelson
"Christ, Old Student in a New School" (poem) by Ray Bradbury
"King of the Hill" by Chad Oliver
"The 10:00 Report Is Brought to You by..." by Edward Bryant
"The Funeral" by Kate Wilhelm
"Harry the Hare" by James B. Hemesath
"When It Changed" by Joanna Russ (Nebula Award for Best Short Story)
"The Big Space Fuck" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Bounty" by T. L. Sherred
"Still-Life" by K. M. O'Donnell (Barry N. Malzberg)
"Stoned Counsel" by H. H. Hollis
"Monitored Dreams & Strategic Cremations" -- 1: "The Bisquit Position" and 2: "The Girl With Rapid Eye Movements" by Bernard Wolfe
"With A Finger in My I" by David Gerrold
"In the Barn" by Piers Anthony
"Soundless Evening" by Lee Hoffman
(the title is an ink blot) by Gahan Wilson
"The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward" by Joan Bernott
"And the Sea Like Mirrors" by Gregory Benford
"Bed Sheets Are White" by Evelyn Lief
"Tissue": "At the Fitting Shop" and "53rd American Dream" by James Sallis
"Elouise And The Doctors of the Planet Pergamon" by Josephine Saxton
"Chuck Berry, Won't You Please Come Home" by Ken McCullough
"Epiphany For Aliens" by David Kerr
"Eye of the Beholder" by Burt K. Filer
"Moth Race" by Richard Hill
"In Re Glover" by Leonard Tushnet
"Zero Gee" by Ben Bova
"A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village" by Dean R. Koontz
"Getting Along" by James Blish and Judith Ann Lawrence
"Totenbuch" by A Parra (Y Figueredo)
"Things Lost" by Thomas M. Disch
"With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" by Richard A. Lupoff
"Lamia Mutable" by M John Harrison
"Last Train to Kankakee" by Robin Scott
"Empire of the Sun" by Andrew Weiner
"Ozymandias" by Terry Carr
"The Milk of Paradise" by James Tiptree, Jr.

https://store.fictionwise.com/ebooks...-Ellison/?si=0