FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2014

[Kieran Seymour]

Three Rod Serling collections going free at Amazon UK:

Night Gallery
Novelisations of: 'Lone Survivor', 'Make Me Laugh', 'Pamela's Voice', 'Clean Kills and Other Trophies', 'They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar', and 'Does the Name Grimsby Do Anything To You?' which is based on one of his early submissions for the series.

Night Gallery 2
Novelisations of: 'Rare Objects', 'The Messiah on Mott Street', 'The Different Ones', 'Lindemann's Catch', and 'Finnegan's Flight'.

The Season To Be Wary
Contains 'The Escape Route', 'Color Scheme' and 'Eyes'. Depending on what source you read, the first and last are either original stories Serling later adapted for the Night Gallery pilot, or novelisations of two of the scripts in his Three Nightmares proposal which was eventualy revamped as the Night Gallery pilot.

And yes, I know they're more supernatural than sci-fi, but they're not quite out-and-out horror either, so I've put them where any Twilight Zone fans might spot them.

For the sake of argument, let's call them science fantasy

[Demingy]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Three Rod Serling collections going free at Amazon UK:

Night Gallery
Novelisations of: 'Lone Survivor', 'Make Me Laugh', 'Pamela's Voice', 'Clean Kills and Other Trophies', 'They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar', and 'Does the Name Grimsby Do Anything To You?' which is based on one of his early submissions for the series.

Night Gallery 2
Novelisations of: 'Rare Objects', 'The Messiah on Mott Street', 'The Different Ones', 'Lindemann's Catch', and 'Finnegan's Flight'.

The Season To Be Wary
Contains 'The Escape Route', 'Color Scheme' and 'Eyes'. Depending on what source you read, the first and last are either original stories Serling later adapted for the Night Gallery pilot, or novelisations of two of the scripts in his Three Nightmares proposal which was eventualy revamped as the Night Gallery pilot.

And yes, I know they're more supernatural than sci-fi, but they're not quite out-and-out horror either, so I've put them where any Twilight Zone fans might spot them.

For the sake of argument, let's call them science fantasy

Also in the main Amazon store.

Thanks!

[mewmartigan]

Amazon US has the first two books in the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss on sale for $2.25 and $2.50 respectively. I have been waiting for a sale on these and waiting on book 3 before I read.

book 1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...f_rd_i=desktop


book 2

http://www.amazon.com/Wise-Mans-Fear...FXCXDW5QQN2GC0

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by mewmartigan

Amazon US has the first two books in the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss on sale for $2.25 and $2.50 respectively. I have been waiting for a sale on these and waiting on book 3 before I read.

book 1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...f_rd_i=desktop


book 2

http://www.amazon.com/Wise-Mans-Fear...FXCXDW5QQN2GC0

Even better. Same prices at Google Play in ePub.

The Name of the Wind $2.25
https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=TG5DXNXv2tAC

The Wise Man's Fear $2.50
https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=dLo_GyEykjQC

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by Demingy

Also in the main Amazon store.

Thanks!

Thanks... Was a bit envious of the UK folks for a moment there.

[pdurrant]

Highlights (as I see them!) of the UK 12 Days of Kindle:

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett £1.99
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five by Douglas Adams £2.89
The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett £1.99
A Kingdom Besieged by Raymond E. Feist £1.49
Temeraire by Naomi Novik £0.99
The Darwath Series by Barbara Hambley £3.49

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlepig by Tad Williams (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a festive novella that's chronologically 4th in his Bobby Dollar series of angels-and-demons urban fantasy novels currently out from DAW.

"Oh, ho, ho!" the demon Chickenleg said, sounding like your drunk uncle trying to get you to laugh at a dirty joke. "Oh, ho! You'll love this one, Dollar!"

Bobby Dollar, Advocate Angel and perpetual thorn in the side of Heaven, is about to save the holidays for a very special someone. Or somewolf. Or maybe even some pig… Bobby is summoned on Christmas Eve to do his part in the heavenly judgement of a man who is not prepared to go lightly. You see, the family of the gentleman in question are victims of Nazi war crimes, and the crimes are still occurring — in fact, the worst is yet to come. With special dispensation from an Angelic Judge named Ambriel, Bobby Dollar has until Christmas Morning to right some serious wrongs and bring some justice (and a little seasonal cheer) into a rotten world…

Also, Book View Café is having a Boxing Week Sale with 50% off selected titles viewable on their dedicated sale page here, no coupons required, auto-discount in checkout.

NB: a few of the books have been cheaper than 50% off as part of various Monthly Specials, especially recently with Irene Radford's Steampunk Voyages collection, which was just 99 cents as part of the December specials which would have lasted until the end of the month, had this sale pre-empted not pre-empted the originally intended bargain price to the more expensive $1.99 this very morning, when I finally remembered to check that I didn't have it already* before going to buy it, which is how I found out about the current sale.

So if there's anything you don't urgently need from authors who regularly rotate their sale offerings, you'd probably get much better prices eventually by holding out and waiting, which is what I mostly intend to do. Or via Kobo, where they're couponable if you've managed to score the good coupons and don't have anything costlier you want to use them upon.

That said, a few BVC authors very rarely participate in sales at all, and you can get some good bargains from authors like Judith Tarr and Ursula K. Le Guin. I myself will be picking up Music and Poetry of the Kesh, which is the multimedia tie-in to her future post-apocalyptic anthropology survey novel Always Coming Home (Wikipedia), which is one of my personal favourites and some excellently-imaginative world-building.

* This is why I don't like their newer account-less checkout procedure which only gives you one format and re-downloads via a link in your email and doesn't keep track of your previous purchases, unlike the old account-based multi-format readily redownloadable system on the old site.

[ATDrake]

Weightless Books are having a Boxing Day special on 6 issues of On Spec magazine (Wikipedia, this is Canada's premier sf/fantasy/speculative publication outlet, which mixes new and reprint stories from beginning and more established prominent Canadian sfnal authors, as well as art) for just $4.99 (regularly $18 if you add up the individual back issue cost, choice of DRM-free formats available worldwide).

On Spec Boxing Day 2014 Bundle: it's a selection of 5 Winter Issues and 1 Summer issue from between 2009-2014, and needless to say, I'll be snapping this up.

ETA: they've got a freebie issue you can try as a sampler to see if you like the magazine, available here: On Spec Magazine – Spring 2012 #88 vol 24 no 1

[itisbomb]

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy Book 1)
by N. K. Jemisin

is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Thousa...usand+kingdoms

Below is the blurb:
In this brilliantly original debut fantasy, a young woman becomes entangled in a power struggle of mythic proportions.

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.

With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate - and gods and mortals - are bound inseparably together.

[Manabi]

Amazon's got some of Kurt Vonnegut's sci-fi novels on sale today for $1.99 each:

• Slaughterhouse Five
• Timequake
• Slapstick

[itisbomb]

Storm Front: The Dresden Files Book One
by Jim Butcher

is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Front-Dr...ds=storm+front

Below is the blurb:
Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in.

Harry is the best at what he does - and not just because he's the only one who does it. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal capabilities, they look to him for answers. There's just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks.

So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. And that's when things start to get . . . interesting.

Magic - it can get a guy killed.

[itisbomb]

The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)
by Justin Cronin

is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Passage-Novel-...ds=the+passage

Below is the blurb:
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND LIBRARY JOURNAL—AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Esquire • U.S. News & World Report • NPR/On Point • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BookPage

An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

Storm Front: The Dresden Files Book One
by Jim Butcher

is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Front-Dr...ds=storm+front

Below is the blurb:
Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in.

Harry is the best at what he does - and not just because he's the only one who does it. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal capabilities, they look to him for answers. There's just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks.

So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. And that's when things start to get . . . interesting.

Magic - it can get a guy killed.

Even better.. Google Play has it in ePub for $1.99.

https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=K1-LL9vlxZcC

[koland]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Even better.. Google Play has it in ePub for $1.99.

https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=K1-LL9vlxZcC

Especially since it shows as $7.99 at Amazon (US).

[sinoue]

The Big Time
by Fritz Leiber

is free on iTunes. Hugo award winner in 1958.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the...ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Below is the blurb:
Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War.

It's been going on for a billion years and it will last another billion or so. Up and down the timeline, the two sides--"Spiders" and "Snakes"--battle endlessly to change the future and the past. Our lives, our memories, are their battleground. And in the midst of the war is the Place, outside space and time, where Greta Forzane and the other Entertainers provide solace and r-&-r for tired time warriors.

Edit:
I found it on manybooks.net also where there are lots of formats to choose from:
http://manybooks.net/titles/leiberf3225632256-8.html