FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

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The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison is $0.99 on Amazon.com

Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctor's daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age fourteen.

It's not ideal, but it's a life. Or it would be if Shaw hadn't got himself involved in a conspiracy theory that, on dark nights by the river, seems less and less theoretical . . .

Meanwhile, Victoria is up in the Midlands, renovating her dead mother's house, trying to make new friends. But what, exactly, happened to her mother? Why has the local waitress disappeared into a shallow pool in a field behind the house? And why is the town so obsessed with that old Victorian morality tale, The Water Babies?

As Shaw and Victoria struggle to maintain their relationship, the sunken lands are rising up again, unnoticed in the shadows around them.

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The Legends of the Riftwar Omnibus from Raymond E. Feist is also on sale @ Kobo Canada & Amazon.ca for the same price in CDN $ ($3.99).

The Dragonback Series Books 4-6 collection by Timothy Zahn is on sale @ Kobo Canada & Amazon.ca for $2.99 CDN. You'll also get your VIP discount @ Kobo.

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Purgatory Mount by Adam Roberts is $0.99 on Amazon.com
This is a brand new novel that was just released a few days ago.

An interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage. Its destination is V538 Aurigae ?, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height that its summit is high above the atmosphere. The ship's crew of five hope to discover how the long-departed builders made such a colossal thing, and why: a space elevator? a temple? a work of art? Its resemblance to the mountain of purgatory lead the crew to call this world Dante.

In our near future, the United States is falling apart. A neurotoxin has interfered with the memory function of many of the population, leaving them reliant on their phones as makeshift memory prostheses. But life goes on. For Ottoline Barragão, a regular kid juggling school and her friends and her beehives in the back garden, things are about to get very dangerous, chased across the north-east by competing groups, each willing to do whatever it takes to get inside Ottoline's private network and recover the secret inside.

Purgatory Mount, Adam Roberts's first SF novel for three years, combines wry space opera and a fast-paced thriller in equal measure. It is a novel about memory and atonement, about exploration and passion, and like all of Roberts's novels it's not quite like anything else.

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Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen is $2.99 on Amazon.com

Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter.

But his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from over a century in the future.

Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, until one afternoon, his “rescue” team arrives—eighteen years too late.

Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he’s been gone only weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him. A family he can’t remember.

Torn between two lives, Kin’s desperate efforts to stay connected to both will threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself. With his daughter’s very existence at risk, he will have to take one final trip to save her—even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process.

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The 3 novels in Karin Lowachee's Warchild series are on sale on Amazon.com for $2.99 each:
Warchild
Burndive (an older edition is also available for $1.99 - but it doesn't contain the fixes in the newer edition, and the author doesn't get anything from it. Please avoid.)
Cagebird

Reviews include a content warning about child abuse and rape, especially in the second and third books.

Here's the description of Warchild:

The merchant ship Mukudori encompasses the whole of eight-year-old Jos's world, until a notorious pirate destroys the ship, slaughters the adults, and enslaves the children. Thus begins a desperate odyssey of terror and escape that takes Jos beyond known space to the homeworld of the strits, Earth's alien enemies. To survive, the boy must become a living weapon and a master spy. But no training will protect Jos in a war where every hope might be a deadly lie, and every friendship might hide a lethal betrayal. And all the while he will face the most grueling trial of his lifebecoming his own man.

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Providence by Max Barry, $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/Providence-Ma.../dp/B07V526L7X

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Repost from the Horror forum:

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark is $2.99 on Amazon.com

IN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS.

In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.

Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan's demons straight to Hell. But something awful's brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up.

Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?

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Spinning Silver

by Naomi Novik

is $2.99 at Kobo U.S.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/spinning-silver

Below is the blurb:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the year’s strongest fantasy novels” (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted.

NEBULA AND HUGO AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Time • Tordotcom • Popsugar • Vox • Vulture • Paste • Bustle • Library Journal

With the Nebula Award–winning Uprooted, Naomi Novik opened a brilliant new chapter in an already acclaimed career, delving into the magic of fairy tales to craft a love story that was both timeless and utterly of the now. Spinning Silver draws readers deeper into this glittering realm of fantasy, where the boundary between wonder and terror is thinner than a breath, and safety can be stolen as quickly as a kiss.

Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty—until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. When an ill-advised boast draws the attention of the king of the Staryk—grim fey creatures who seem more ice than flesh—Miryem’s fate, and that of two kingdoms, will be forever altered. She will face an impossible challenge and, along with two unlikely allies, uncover a secret that threatens to consume the lands of humans and Staryk alike.

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Andy Weir's The Martian is £0.99 at Amazon UK today.

Fun SF on Mars.

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Spinning Silver is also on sale @ Kobo Canada for $2.99 CDN. In addition, the previous "fairy tale" novel from Novik, Uprooted, is also on sale for $3.99. Sold!

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Most Issues of the newletter of the Tolkien Society are now freely downloadable (as scanned PDFs) at their website.

https://journals.tolkiensociety.org/.../issue/archive

(The most recent two years are only available to members. The first issue is from 1970.)

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Hawksbill Station By Robert Silverberg $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

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The Science of Discworld II: The Globe by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett is just £1.99 at Amazon UK at the moment.

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Blood of the Fold By Terry Goodkind $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

Bloodchild By Octavia E. Butler $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

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Kim Harrison Bundle #1 By Kim Harrison $3.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

This bundle includes Dead Witch Walking, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead, Every Which Way But Dead, and A Fistful of Charms. Books 1-4 of Hollows series.