FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[lkmiller]

Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise is $1.99.

Amazon US
Kobo US

A lush, feminist re-imagining on what happened to Wendy after Neverland, for fans of Circe and The Mere Wife.

[ottdmk]

Open Road has once again put Dave Duncan's The Seventh Sword on sale. Great series, imho.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by ottdmk

Open Road has once again put Dave Duncan's The Seventh Sword on sale. Great series, imho.

£2.84 in UK

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Seventh-S...dp/B0732L5MND/

[salty-horse]

Dark Breakers by C.S.E. Cooney is $2.99 on Weightless Books
This is a collection of short fiction.

A young human painter and an ageless gentry queen fall in love over spilled wine—at the risk of his life and her immortality. Pulled into the Veil Between Worlds, two feuding neighbors (and a living statue) get swept up in a brutal war of succession. An investigative reporter infiltrates the Seafall City Laundries to write the exposé of a lifetime, and uncovers secrets she never believed possible. Returning to an oak grove to scatter her husband’s ashes, an elderly widow meets an otherworldly friend, who offers her a momentous choice. Two gentry queens of the Valwode plot to hijack a human rocketship and steal the moon out of the sky.

Dark Breakers gathers three new and two previously uncollected tales from World Fantasy Award-winning writer C. S. E. Cooney that expand on the thrice-enfolded worlds first introduced in her Locus and World Fantasy award-nominated novella Desdemona and the Deep. In her introduction to Dark Breakers, Crawford Award-winning author Sharon Shinn advises those who pick up this book to “settle in for a fantastical read” full of “vivid world-building, with layer upon layer of detail; prose so dense and gorgeous you can scoop up the words like handfuls of jewels; a mischievous sense of humor; and a warm and hopeful heart.”

[elaysee]

The SF anthology Made to Order: Robots and Revolution is $0.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US.

Jonathan Strahan is my favorite original anthologist in the field right now. Contributors to this anthology include Brooke Bolander, John Chu, Daryl Gregory, Peter F. Hamilton, Saad Z. Hossain, Rich Larson, Ken Liu, Ian R. MacLeod, Annalee Newitz, Tochi Onyebuchi, Suzanne Palmer, Sarah Pinsker, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Alastair Reynolds, Sofia Samatar, and Peter Watts.

Description:

Spoiler:

100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, “robots” are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games.

They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where hope and optimism shines through.

INCLUDING STORIES BY: BROOKE BOLANDER · JOHN CHU · DARYL GREGORY · PETER F. HAMILTON · SAAD Z. HOSSAIN · RICH LARSON · KEN LIU · IAN R. MACLEOD · ANNALEE NEWITZ · TOCHI ONYEBUCHI · SUZANNE PALMER · SARAH PINSKER · VINA JIE-MIN PRASAD · ALASTAIR REYNOLDS · SOFIA SAMATAR · PETER WATTS

Praise for Jonathan Strahan:
“Breath-taking, staggering, sublime.”
Tor.com

“A stand-out collection that should be of interest to any admirer of short fiction, regardless of genre…”
The Guardian

“Short stories have been the lifeblood of science fiction since HG Wells, and Solaris are maintaining the tradition.”
Financial Times

“Jonathan Strahan’s Infinity books stand with the very best original anthology series ever in the field.”
Locus

[Tarana]

The Soulforge By Margaret Weis $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Fantasy - 1st book in series
Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Soulforge-Rai...5313323&sr=8-1
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-soulforge

Our Friends from Frolix 8 By Philip K Dick $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Scifi
Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Our-Friends-F...s%2C201&sr=8-2
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/our...rom-frolix-8-5

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by elaysee

The SF anthology Made to Order: Robots and Revolution is $0.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US.

Jonathan Strahan is my favorite original anthologist in the field right now. Contributors to this anthology include Brooke Bolander, John Chu, Daryl Gregory, Peter F. Hamilton, Saad Z. Hossain, Rich Larson, Ken Liu, Ian R. MacLeod, Annalee Newitz, Tochi Onyebuchi, Suzanne Palmer, Sarah Pinsker, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Alastair Reynolds, Sofia Samatar, and Peter Watts.

Description:

Spoiler:

100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, “robots” are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games.

They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where hope and optimism shines through.

INCLUDING STORIES BY: BROOKE BOLANDER · JOHN CHU · DARYL GREGORY · PETER F. HAMILTON · SAAD Z. HOSSAIN · RICH LARSON · KEN LIU · IAN R. MACLEOD · ANNALEE NEWITZ · TOCHI ONYEBUCHI · SUZANNE PALMER · SARAH PINSKER · VINA JIE-MIN PRASAD · ALASTAIR REYNOLDS · SOFIA SAMATAR · PETER WATTS

Praise for Jonathan Strahan:
“Breath-taking, staggering, sublime.”
Tor.com

“A stand-out collection that should be of interest to any admirer of short fiction, regardless of genre…”
The Guardian

“Short stories have been the lifeblood of science fiction since HG Wells, and Solaris are maintaining the tradition.”
Financial Times

“Jonathan Strahan’s Infinity books stand with the very best original anthology series ever in the field.”
Locus

£0.99 in IK

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Made-Orde...dp/B083ZHHYP4/

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Tarana

The Soulforge By Margaret Weis $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Fantasy - 1st book in series

Note that this book isn't quite a "first in a series". It provides the backstory of one of the characters in The Dragonlance Chronicles, and you should very much read that first.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by lkmiller

Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise is $1.99.

Amazon US
Kobo US

Is this any good? I've already got it on my Kindle.

[lkmiller]

Re: Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise

I haven't read it yet. It was on the Locus Recommended Reading List for First Novels. I've enjoyed the author's short fiction. The premise sounds interesting.

[Dazrin]

Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson is $1.60 today from Amazon. This is a novella set between Oathbringer (book 3) and Rythm of War (book 4).
https://www.amazon.com/Dawnshard-Sto...dp/B08MXXWYT7/

I assume that means other stores too.

Thanks to phoinix at Slickdeals for this.

[pdurrant]

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is just £0.99 at Amazon UK at the moment.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0038AUYAU/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0038AUYAU/

A wonderful YA set in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

[ZodWallop]

Non-Stop by Brian W. Aldiss is $1.99 at Amazon US.

Non-Stop is Grand Master of Science Fiction and Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Brian W. Aldiss’s debut novel. Written in response to Robert Heinlein’s Orphans of the Sky and published in the late 1950s, it is set in a primitive world, home to tribes of inhabitants who endure their harsh and stunted lives in a maze of corridors. Though legends exist that they’re actually on a ship traveling through the universe, no one really believes it. But that conviction doesn’t stop a group of people from embarking on a mission to find the rumored “Forwards” section and its control room. Through a tangled, hydroponic jungle, they’ll encounter telepathic animals, giants, outcasts, and mutants in an epic race to uncover the truth—and survive . . .

[ZodWallop]

And hey, Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein is also $1.99 at Amazon US.

A fix-up consisting of the novelette "Universe" (1941) and the novella "Common Sense" (1941). First published in 1963.

Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood this was actually allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. Indeed, how could the Ship move, since its miles and miles of metal corridors were all there was of creation? Science knew that the Ship was all the Universe, and as long as the sacred Convertor was fed, the lights would continue to glow and the air would flow, and the Creator's Plan would be fulfilled.

Of course, there were the muties, grotesquely deformed parodies of humans, who lurked in the upper reaches of the Ship where gravity was weaker. Were they evil incarnate, or merely a divine check on the population, keeping humanity from expanding past the capacity of the Ship to support?

Then Hugh was captured by the muties and met their leader (or leaders), Joe-Jim, with two heads on one body. And he learned the true nature of the Ship and its mission between the stars. But could he make his people believe him before it was to late? Could he make them believe that he must be allowed to fly the ship?

[sufue]

And also at Kobo US, where it's discountable with on-again/off-again discount code "partners", good for 40% off, which seems to have decided to be working today .

Note that "partners" is multi-use, but only works on one book per cart...

Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/non-stop-11

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Non-Stop by Brian W. Aldiss is $1.99 at Amazon US.