FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[LJJohnson]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

My second favorite Roger Zelazny work, Jack of Shadows, is only 99 cents at Amazon, or $1.99 (or 90 cents if price matching at Kobo) at Kobo and B&N.

Thank you sir. While Zelazny isn't one of my favorite SF, I do enjoy a dip in the wild side from time to time.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Let's pay our own way.
I think she should have given back the cost of her ticket if anything.

I was teasing about the dating.

'Though you might have been teasing about the dating, Cinisajoy, I can't imagine any woman (even aficionadas of the genre) who'd want to date such a petty guy. While we Americans have a deserved reputation for being litigious, suing a date for texting during a film is waaay over the top.

YouTube url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqWPmpMB5n0

[Apache]

If your date is disappointing in any way you just don't ask for a second date. This would probably make both parties happy.
Apache

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Froide

'Though you might have been teasing about the dating, Cinisajoy, I can't imagine any woman (even aficionadas of the genre) who'd want to date such a petty guy. While we Americans have a deserved reputation for being litigious, suing a date for texting during a film is waaay over the top.

There's one very important fact here. The guy is a Texan. That says a lot. Texas is like another planet.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

There's one very important fact here. The guy is a Texan. That says a lot. Texas is like another planet.

Texas is like a whole other country not planet.
He told her to take it to the lobby and she did.

Well now everything is bigger in Texas including (oh someone else fill in the word.)

[Difflugia]

A three-book bundle of Sabrina Flynn's The Legends of Fyrsta indie fantasy series is $1.99 (normally $19 without discounts). I enjoyed the series myself, having got the first book free and then bought the other two at full price without being disappointed. I think this is a terrific bargain.

Character development and introspection is more important than in typical swords-and-sorcery and an erotic relationship between two of the main characters is an important plot device. The style is more like Mercedes Lackey or Roberta Gellis and less like David Weber or Terry Brooks.

I think the series is intended to be complete, but I'm not sure. It reads to me like the author wrote the third book with the intention of completing the series, but left things open enough to write another book if she wants.

Finally, since indies are hit-or-miss, the editing is excellent in terms of grammar and narrative flow as well as more mundane things like spelling.

Kobo
B&N
Amazon

[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free thread for a new StoryBundle:

The LGBT+ Bundle curated by John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award-winning author Melissa Scott, which includes quite a number of fantasy/paranormal works, including two from Scott herself (a 1995 Tor backlist title and a 2013 Lambda Literary Award winner), as well a YA novel from Steve Berman which was nominated for the Andre Norton Award, and novels and story collections from many other sfnal authors.

Also, a reminder that their Military SF Megabundle which contains four recent Baen frontlist titles is expiring soon in case you were on the fence about that.

[specficwriter]

Echoes of the Fourth Magic (Chronicles of Ynis Aielle)

https://smile.amazon.com/Echoes-Four.../dp/B00477477O

$1.99 US.

[JSWolf]

Are Amazon smile links allowed to be posted?

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Are Amazon smile links allowed to be posted?

Why wouldn't they be? They are not self-promotion because smile automatically will be directed to whoever (whomever?) the person who clicked the link has selected (if anyone) not the choice of whoever posted the link.

[HarryT]

The link doesn't work for me. Takes me to a page saying "website temporarily unavailable".

[Hollow Man]

Here it is without the Smile based URL:

https://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Fourth.../dp/B00477477O

-HM

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by Difflugia

A three-book bundle of Sabrina Flynn's The Legends of Fyrsta indie fantasy series is $1.99 (normally $19 without discounts). I enjoyed the series myself, having got the first book free and then bought the other two at full price without being disappointed. I think this is a terrific bargain.

Character development and introspection is more important than in typical swords-and-sorcery and an erotic relationship between two of the main characters is an important plot device. The style is more like Mercedes Lackey or Roberta Gellis and less like David Weber or Terry Brooks.

I think the series is intended to be complete, but I'm not sure. It reads to me like the author wrote the third book with the intention of completing the series, but left things open enough to write another book if she wants.

Finally, since indies are hit-or-miss, the editing is excellent in terms of grammar and narrative flow as well as more mundane things like spelling.
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Amazon

£1.99 in UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Legends-Fyr...dp/B01N6QM6US/

CDN$ 1.99 in Canada
https://www.amazon.ca/Legends-Fyrsta...dp/B01N6QM6US/

[cromag]

Originally Posted by HarryT

The link doesn't work for me. Takes me to a page saying "website temporarily unavailable".

Perhaps the "Smile" program is US only. The link worked for me.

[LJJohnson]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Texas is like a whole other country not planet.
He told her to take it to the lobby and she did.

Well now everything is bigger in Texas including (oh someone else fill in the word.)

Gov.-elect Greg Abbott on Thursday singled out local ordinances on single-use plastic bags, tree cutting and fracking as tantamount to turning the Lone Star State into California.

Our governor has initiated a battle with the city of Austin (or arguably, the other way around). He has called Austin the "People's Republic of Austin".

Understand that the city of Austin would probably be more comfortable in California, and that the city's unofficial slogan of "keep Austin weird" is faithfully practiced.

However, it is the city where my daughter and her wife lives, and which I love in spite of and because of it's weirdness. It is somewhere between a bad sheep and a galvanizing force.

So, for now, I am sitting back to enjoy the battle. Remember, Texas was the state that sent the Texas Rangers to arrest democatic congressmen who left to state to stop bills that they didn't have enough votes to stop (lack of quorum). Just gotta smile sometimes.