FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[salty-horse]

Time of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman is $1.99 on Amazon.com
This is the first book of the second Dragonlance trilogy, Legends, focusing on Raislin and Caramon.

Angel Mage by Garth Nix is $1.99 on Amazon.com

More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, fleeing the Fall of Ystara. But she emerges from her magical sleep still beautiful, looking no more than nineteen, and once again renews her single-minded quest to be united with her lover, Palleniel, the archangel of Ystara.

It's a seemingly impossible quest, but Liliath is one of the greatest practitioners of angelic magic to have ever lived, summoning angels and forcing them to do her bidding. Four young people hold her interest: Simeon, a studious doctor-in-training; Henri, a dedicated fortune hunter; Agnez, a glory-seeking musketeer; and Dorotea, icon-maker and scholar of angelic magic.

The four feel a strange kinship from the moment they meet but do not suspect their importance. And none of them know just how Liliath plans to use them, as mere pawns in her plan, no matter the cost to everyone else . . .

Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear is $1.99 on Amazon.com

Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence—with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big—just once—to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human and alien vessels. But when they make a shocking discovery about an alien species that has been long thought dead, it may be the thing that could tip the perilous peace mankind has found into full-out war.

Providence by Max Barry is $1.99 on Amazon.com

The video changed everything. Before that, we could believe that we were safe. Special. Chosen. We thought the universe was a twinkling ocean of opportunity, waiting to be explored.

Afterward, we knew better.

Seven years after first contact, Providence Five launches. It is an enormous and deadly warship, built to protect humanity from its greatest ever threat. On board is a crew of just four--tasked with monitoring the ship and reporting the war's progress to a mesmerized global audience by way of social media.

But while pursuing the enemy across space, Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson confront the unthinkable: their communications are cut, their ship decreasingly trustworthy and effective. To survive, they must win a fight that is suddenly and terrifyingly real.

There are many other repeats today of good books. I recommend checking out the deals page.

[WillAdams]

_Mortality Bridge_ by Steven R. Boyett is on sale on the Amazon Kindle and probably other places --- I remember his _Ariel_ w/ fondness, and _Elegy Beach_ was a thoughtful and thought-provoking read.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J5X5NVE

probably available other places as well.

He's written EDIT: at least one other book, _Fata Morgana_

[Hollow Man]

The two sequels to William Gibson's Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, are on sale for 99 cents and $1.99:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PDYVZM

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009QJMUAY

-HM

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by WillAdams

_Mortality Bridge_ by Steven R. Boyett is on sale on the Amazon Kindle and probably other places --- I remember his _Ariel_ w/ fondness, and _Elegy Beach_ was a thoughtful and thought-provoking read.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J5X5NVE

probably available other places as well.

He's only written one other book, _Fata Morgana_

More titles, possibly:

https://www.steveboy.com/writing.html

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Hollow Man

The two sequels to William Gibson's Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, are on sale for 99 cents and $1.99

Since you're recommending some of the repeat deals, I'll add some more:
* The Area X trilogy, starting with Annihilation.
* Binti (the complete novella trilogy + new short story)
* The Ladies of Grace Adieu - a short anthology of English magic stories.
* I, Robot
* Hyperion
* The beginning of some trilogies: Red Mars, City of Stairs, Half a King.

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

More titles, possibly:

https://www.steveboy.com/writing.html

I'm still hoping for republication of The Architect of Sleep.

[Hollow Man]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Since you're recommending some of the repeat deals, I'll add some more:

I like seeing the repeats...I miss sales from time to time!

-HM

[GlennD]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Time of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman is $1.99 on Amazon.com
This is the first book of the second Dragonlance trilogy, Legends, focusing on Raislin and Caramon.

This amused me - #1 best seller in Historical Christian Romance Fiction! You should crosspost to the Romance thread.

Naturally I grabbed a copy.

[Tarana]

The Damned Trilogy By Alan Dean Foster $2.99 Omnibus of 3 books
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Damned-Trilog...s%2C203&sr=1-3
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-damned-trilogy

Time of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman $1.99
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Time-Twins-Le...al-text&sr=1-1
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/time-of-the-twins

[Fbone]

The Fold by Peter Clines is $1.99.

https://smile.amazon.com/Peter-Cline...7716365&sr=8-2

[Fbone]

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller is $2.99.

https://smile.amazon.com/Dog-Stars-P...s%2C152&sr=8-1

Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.

But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.

[salty-horse]

New Model Army by Adam Roberts is $2.99 on Amazon.com (dropped today from $6.99)

Here's a review by author KJ Charles on Goodreads:

An intriguing near-future read, where 'new model armies' (mercenaries, basically, connected by tech and run as democracies on an ongoing basis) are 'disrupting' the hell out of the UK. The Scottish Parliament has hired a NMA to do their fighting for independence. It's a terrific concept, with lots to say about the nature of true democracy (the armies are literally making mutual decisions about battle plans based on votes as they fight), based on Hobbes' Leviathan, with more than a dash of Wells in there, as we see the Battles for Staines and Reading and even Dorking.

The book is trying to do a lot--there's a fairly problematic MC whose first person narrative breaks down catastrophically as the book goes on--and I'm not sure there was enough story to balance the thinking bits, but it's an impressive piece of work and I found it a compelling read with some really good ideas and haunting images. File under 'flawed but fascinating', definitely worth reading.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

New Model Army by Adam Roberts is $2.99 on Amazon.com (dropped today from $6.99)

Here's a review by author KJ Charles on Goodreads:

Wasn't the New Model Army The Parliamentary Army in the English Civil War?
Apache

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Apache

Wasn't the New Model Army The Parliamentary Army in the English Civil War?

Do you want points for getting the reference?

Anyway, a bunch of other of Roberts' works have been discounted.
Here's his only short story collection for $0.99:
Adam Robots - Link

[Tarana]

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell By Susanna Clarke $1.99 Amazon, Kobo & B&N

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Stra...al-text&sr=1-1
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/jon...and-mr-norrell

[salty-horse]

Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar is FREE to anyone who subscribes to the publisher Tachyon's newsletter.

This is an excellent novel about different visions of a Jewish state.

Tachyon will also be providing free ebooks to subscribers every month for the rest of 2020.