FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[salty-horse]

Artemis by Andy Weir is $3 on Amazon.com

Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.

Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich enough to pay off a debt she’s owed for a long time.

So when a chance at a huge score finally comes her way, Jazz can’t say no. Sure, it requires her to graduate from small-time smuggler to full-on criminal mastermind. And it calls for a particular combination of cunning, technical skills, and large explosions—not to mention sheer brazen swagger. But Jazz has never run into a challenge her intellect can’t handle, and she figures she’s got the ‘swagger’ part down.

The trouble is, engineering the perfect crime is just the start of Jazz’s problems. Because her little heist is about to land her in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself.

Trapped between competing forces, pursued by a killer and the law alike, even Jazz has to admit she’s in way over her head. She’ll have to hatch a truly spectacular scheme to have a chance at staying alive and saving her city.

Jazz is no hero, but she is a very good criminal.

That’ll have to do.

The Bloodline Feud: A Merchant Princes Omnibus: The Family Trade & The Hidden Family by Charles Stross is $3 on Amazon.com
This is the beginning of the "remastered" version of the Merchant Princes portal fantasy series.

The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes. They are a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between their world and ours makes them rich in both.

Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovers her alternate-world relatives with explosive results that shake three worlds. Now, as the prodigal Countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth, she finds herself ensnared in schemes and plots centuries in the making. She is surrounded by unlikely allies, lethal contraband, and—most dangerous of all—her family.

To avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam must build a power base of her own—with unexpected consequences for three different time lines, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family.

[salty-horse]

Chaos on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer is $3 on Amazon.com
The sequel to Catfishing on CatNet.

[ZodWallop]

On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality Book 1) by Piers Anthony is $2.99 at Amazon US.

Not sure if this is a sale or perma-price. I just happened to look the book up for other reasons. The rest in the series are standard Big 5 ebook prices.

Also, wouldn't be surprised if Piers were cancelled. I was never a big follower, so don't know.

Anyway, I enjoyed this book.

In this first novel of the Incarnations of Immortality, Piers Anthony combines a gripping story of romance and conflicting loyalties with a deeply moving examination of the meaning of life and death. This is a novel that will long linger in the reader's mind.

Shooting Death was a mistake, as Zane soon discovered. For the man who killed the Incarnation of Death was immediately forced to assume the vacant position! Thereafter, he must speed over the world, riding his pale horse, and ending the lives of others.

Zane was forced to accept his unwelcome task, despite the rules that seemed woefully unfair. But then he found himself being drawn into an evil plot of Satan. Already the prince of Evil was forging a trap in which Zane must act to destroy Luna, the woman he loved.

He could see only one possible way to defeat the Father of Lies. It was unthinkable—but he had no other solution!

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Not sure if this is a sale or perma-price.

$3 is the regular price since August 2016.
It was $1 for one day in 2018

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

$3 is the regular price since August 2016.
It was $1 for one day in 2018

Thanks man. I don't remember what else I was doing that I didn't check the ereaderIQ history.

Still, $2.99 ain't bad for what I remember as a neat and quirky book.

Wonder what the rights issues are for these. The initial five are all still available, but he wrote an additional three with different publishers and none of those are available.

[salty-horse]

The complete Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman is $3 on Amazon.com
Sort of a deconstructionist modern take on the "portal fantasy" and "magic school" genres...? Reviews are divisive.
Here's a description of the first book:

Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams may have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined . . .

[tch65721]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The complete Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman is $3 on Amazon.com
Sort of a deconstructionist modern take on the "portal fantasy" and "magic school" genres...? Reviews are divisive.
Here's a description of the first book:

Whoa! Great price. I'd jump on that if I didn't already have them.
This was also a SYFI TV series that ran 5 seasons.

[salty-horse]

The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker is $3 on Amazon.com and other US retailers.
Retelling of Norse history, book 1 in trilogy.
I'm reading that it has just a smidge of the fantastical, so maybe it doesn't fit here.

The omnibus of the complete trilogy is $7 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TS3FH6C

An exhilarating saga of the Vikings that conjures a brutal, superstitious, and thrilling ninth-century world and the birth of a kingdom.

Centuries ago, in a blood-soaked land ruled by legendary gods and warring men, a prophecy foretold of a high king who would come to reign over all of the north. . . .

Ragnvald Eysteinsson, the son and grandson of kings, grew up believing that he would one day take his dead father’s place as chief of his family’s lands. But, sailing home from a raiding trip to Ireland, the young warrior is betrayed and left for dead by men in the pay of his greedy stepfather, Olaf. Rescued by a fisherman, Ragnvald is determined to have revenge for his stepfather’s betrayal, claim his birthright and the woman he loves, and rescue his beloved sister Svanhild. Opportunity may lie with Harald of Vestfold, the strong young Norse warrior rumored to be the prophesied king. Ragnvald pledges his sword to King Harald, a choice that will hold enormous consequence in the years to come.

While Ragnvald’s duty is to fight—and even die—for his honor, Svanhild must make an advantageous marriage, though her adventurous spirit yearns to see the world. Her stepfather, Olaf, has arranged a husband for her—a hard old man she neither loves nor desires. When the chance to escape Olaf’s cruelty comes at the hands of her brother’s arch rival, the shrewd young woman is forced to make a heartbreaking choice: family or freedom.

Set in a mystical and violent world defined by honor, loyalty, deceit, passion, and courage, The Half-Drowned King is an electrifying adventure that breathtakingly illuminates the Viking world and the birth of Scandinavia.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The complete Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman is $3 on Amazon.com
Sort of a deconstructionist modern take on the "portal fantasy" and "magic school" genres...? Reviews are divisive.
Here's a description of the first book:

I've not read the books, but I have seen the TV series and it's an odd TV series.

[itisbomb]

The Alloy of Law (book 4 of Mistborn Saga)

Shadows of Self (book 5 of Mistborn Saga)

The Bands of Mourning (book 6 of Mistborn Saga)

are $2.99 each

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-alloy-of-law-1

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/shadows-of-self-2

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-bands-of-mourning

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

The Alloy of Law (book 4 of Mistborn Saga)
Shadows of Self (book 5 of Mistborn Saga)
The Bands of Mourning (book 6 of Mistborn Saga)

If you missed the first two when they were free in the past two months, and you're not in a hurry to read the last one, maybe wait up, in case Tor offers it for free next month.

[salty-horse]

Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin is $2 on Amazon.com and other US and worldwide retailers. (Such as Kobo US, WW, where you can use coupon PARTNERS22 for an extra discount)
This was on my wishlist.
"A moonlit tale of feuding vampire clans, death, and debauchery in the bayou!"

Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something’s amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. The hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated fleet; nor does he care that he won’t earn back his investment in a decade. York’s reasons for traversing the powerful Mississippi are to be none of Marsh’s concern—no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious York’s actions may prove. Not until the maiden voyage of Fevre Dream does Marsh realize that he has joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare—and humankind’s most impossible dream.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

If you missed the first two when they were free in the past two months, and you're not in a hurry to read the last one, maybe wait up, in case Tor offers it for free next month.

But if it's not offered for free, then you miss the sale.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

But if it's not offered for free, then you miss the sale.

If you're not in a hurry to read it, you're not risking much. Anyway, it's up to the hypothetical reader to make that choice

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin is $2...

Thanks man!