FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by LJJohnson

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.

I think the next town over has a contract to sell their waste water to a fracking company.
Just don't tell my mom that. I don't want to hear the fracking lecture again.

Austin also has Willie.
Hey wanna meet in Luckenbach for a Lone Star?
*For those not in Texas or Oklahoma, fracking is a type of drilling for oil that uses water.

[issybird]

Conversation is well and good but let's remember that this is the Deals forum and try not to stray too far afield. A discussion can always be pursued elsewhere.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by issybird

Conversation is well and good but let's remember that this is the Deals forum and try not to stray too far afield. A discussion can always be pursued elsewhere.

This book looks like a good deal.
https://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Nev...dp/B01E8ZYFOE/


It is a Russell Blake, and only $3.99.

[LJJohnson]

I did a quick search, and didn't see this posted, but I have had fails in searching here before....

Each Monday, Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a free short story of hers for our reading pleasure, and it is only available for one week. I have read quite a few of them over the last couple of years, and most of them are SFF. I have also thoroughly enjoyed 90% of them.

You can always go to her site to read the story each week, but there is an easier way. If you subscribe , you will automagically get the current story delivered via RSS feed.

Note, she also sends other articles (not a lot, maybe 2 - 4 a week) about making a living writing. Most I just skip, but I read the occasional one, and to my untrained eye (never tried to make a living writing), what she says makes sense, and is fairly interesting. There may be a way to stop the "extra" articles, but I haven't tried since I sometimes read them. Actually, since the titles of the short stories all start with "Free Fiction Monday:", it would be simple to write a write a macro to delete any posts that don't start with these words.

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Oh, BTW, I actually drilled one of the very early (1988) experimental, very long (2500' plus horizontally) wells in far south Texas in the Austin chalk there. And at the end, we fracked it, although it was a relatively small job by today standards.

[ReadingManiac]

The Wake of the Dragon is back on sale this weekend! Airship pirates, mechanoids, all the adventure of Steampunk. https://www.amazon.com/Wake-Dragon-S.../dp/B0080UVQIW

[maddz]

Adam Roberts The History of Science Fiction is 99p in today's Daily Deal:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01...d_i=5400977031

[rchiang]

Furies of Calderon, the first book in Jim Butcher's Codex Alera dropped to $1.99 today.

[HarryT]

Cross-posted from the non-fiction deals thread:

"The History of Science Fiction", by Adam Roberts, is on sale at 99p today as part of Amazon UK's Kindle Daily Deal:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01JRE54PU

[rguion]

Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny, a "rediscovered classic" is on sale today for $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F7T7R5O...ng=UTF8&btkr=1

[tch65721]

Old Man's War by John Scalzi is Tor.com's free ebook of the month. available for download 15- 21 June. http://ebookclub.tor.com/

Naturally, you have to join to get the book.

[Deskisamess]

Originally Posted by GlenBarrington

Most of them are also on Kindle Unlimited and I recall borrowing SOME of them,
and enjoying them very much (There's more books in the series than I recall!) But KU doesn't remember which books you've borrowed the way it remembers which you've bought! Now I've got to figure out which I've already read!

KU books you've borrowed and returned are listed at MYCAD. Change the Sort to see them.

[Keslynn]

Originally Posted by tch65721

Old Man's War by John Scalzi is Tor.com's free ebook of the month. available for download 15- 21 June. http://ebookclub.tor.com/

Naturally, you have to join to get the book.

I love this book, and I recommend it, especially for the unbeatable price of free.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Keslynn

I love this book, and I recommend it, especially for the unbeatable price of free.

I agree it's well worth reading.

[Dngrsone]

I third that. Can't find the heart to pay for the next book in the series, though, heh.

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

I third that. Can't find the heart to pay for the next book in the series, though, heh.

Just wait for it to go on sale. I have several of Scalzi's books, and I don't think I've paid more than $3 for any of them.