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Old 05-15-2015, 09:18 PM   #511
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Has anyone read them?
I'm a couple of books behind, but I've read more than the first six.

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They are good MilSciFi reads. I enjoyed them. He also has a secondary series with the same characters:The Lost Fleet : Beyond the Frontier. This series has them dealing with aliens.
The third series, Lost Stars, is set in the same Universe but, deals with characters from the Syndicate side in Lost Fleet and how they are attempting to rebuild their worlds and stay free and independent of the old Syndicate. The Lost Stars series is my favorite of the three, but all are good.
I generally agree with that review, but would also point out that "Beyond" and "Lost" run in parallel and overlap at a few points... so it works best if you read them that way. I should probably check Goodreads and make sure the master series list puts them in the correct order.
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The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart

$2.99 Amazon US

This is a funny alternate-history trilogy (all contained in this omnibus) set in ancient China.

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Starred Review. Reading Hughart's endearing historical fantasy trilogy, first published almost 20 years ago, is much like wandering blindfolded through a myth devised by a maniac, in the words of Master Li, the greatest and most frequently intoxicated wise man in a colorful seventh century China that never was. Slow, strong and good-hearted peasant Number Ten Ox initially seeks Master Li's help to cure a bizarre plague and soon becomes his sidekick. Their rollicking adventures pit them against everyone from murderers and thieves to emperors and gods. Numerous Chinese legends, filtered through Ox's simple perspective, blend seamlessly into tales both lighthearted and heartrending. Hughart's many fans will welcome this modest alternative to the 1998 omnibus published by The Stars Our Destination bookstore, which commands high prices when it can be found at all. (Oct.)
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Old 05-18-2015, 04:06 AM   #513
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An excellent book - highly recommended.
It doesn't appear to be available at Amazon UK.
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It doesn't appear to be available at Amazon UK.
That's a shame. I got it in a recent Humble Bundle. Indeed, it's the main reason I got the bundle - I'd been looking for it in ebook format for some time.
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Fire with Fire (Tales of the Terran Republic #1) by Charles E. Gannon is FREE today. Baen 2013. GR 3.74
This eBook is part of the Baen Free Library.

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This eBook is part of the Baen Free Library.

http://www.baenebooks.com/p-1805-fire-with-fire.aspx
I believe it's one of the batch of 3 new books that were added to the Baen Free Library last week, so all three should be permanently free.
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It doesn't appear to be available at Amazon UK.
I had heard it was due to appear as a Fantasy Masterwork fairly soon, but it hasn't been mentioned in recent updates.

I picked up the Subterranean version from the late Books on Board a few years ago, when they didn't bother to check where I was shopping from. Perfectly decent value at full price.
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I had heard it was due to appear as a Fantasy Masterwork fairly soon, but it hasn't been mentioned in recent updates.

I picked up the Subterranean version from the late Books on Board a few years ago, when they didn't bother to check where I was shopping from. Perfectly decent value at full price.
It's planned for next year.
http://www.bookdepository.com/Chroni.../9781473210974

But Gollancz sometimes changes the schedule, so maybe it will come later or sooner. Who knows.
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This eBook is part of the Baen Free Library.

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It was free on Amazon a day or two before it was on Baen. I checked beforehand. The other two were already in the Free Library.
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Dark Expanse: Surviving the Collapse is free at Amazon US and Amazon UK

Dark Expanse: Surviving the Collapse is an anthology of science fiction stories set in the world of the Dark Expanse video game. It contains 18 stories from 12 authors and totals approximately 80,000 words.

DARK EXPANSE: Surviving the Collapse

Edited by Alex Shvartsman and William Snee

Castles in the Sky by Nancy Fulda
Dominoes Falling by Alex Shvartsman
The Ten Suns by Ken Liu
Betrayal, Clear as Kanzai Glass by Deborah Walker
The Price of Escape by David Walton
Hellfire Unleashed by Simon Kewin
Breaking Down by Michael Haynes
They Cannot Scare Me With Their Empty Spaces by Deborah Walker
A Small and Secret Freedom by Matt Mikalatos
Lightspeed Back to You by David Wayne
Escape from Planet Error by Michael Greenhut
Jump by Deborah Walker
Loud for All the Stars to Hear by Alex Kane
To Soar on Winds of War by David Wayne
Fires of Night by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Gorlack the Destroyer's All You Can Eat Adventure by Robert L. Russell
Ghost Ship by Nancy Fulda
The Shadow Conspiracy by Nancy Fulda
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It was free on Amazon a day or two before it was on Baen. I checked beforehand. The other two were already in the Free Library.
The 'Free' is gradually propagating through various Kindle stores across the world.

Baen Support hope all will be complete within 24-48 hours.

Keep an eye on

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fire-Caine-R...dp/B00BVBRMDK/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Monster-Hunt...dp/B00APAH7PQ/


http://www.amazon.de/Fire-Caine-Rior...dp/B00BVBRMDK/

http://www.amazon.de/Monster-Hunter-...dp/B00APAH7PQ/

*** And I edit to note that all the above now show as Free.

I have checked a sampling of the 13 Country Kindle Stores

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Tuesday Wildside Press freebie is for The Charles V. de Vet MINIPACK™, featuring vintage Golden Age pulp space opera adventures from the eponymous author (ISFDB).

For aspiring authors with sfnal leanings, the current StoryBundle The Write Stuff Bundle includes at the $15 top-tier level Hugo/Nebula winner Vonda N. McIntyre's (ISFDB, Wikipedia) Pitfalls of Writing SF & Fantasy, as well as World Fantasy Award-nominee Judith Tarr's (ISFDB, Wikipedia) Writing Horses: The Fine Art of Getting It Right (Tarr has some kind of horse ranch and this book is part-assembled from her columns on the Book View Café blog on what you can and cannot realistically accomplish in a horse-dependent fantasy/history society), and other less genre-focused stuff, including general career advice from Kristine Kathryn Rusch (former editor of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and a notable author in her own right as well).
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