FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

ARC Manor/ Phoenix Pick are planning on a new discount ebook subscription service.

BookBale Club https://www.bookbale.club will be a US$9/month subscription service with a significant difference.

Books listed at bookbale will have a nominal price between $2.99 and $8.99. Every month, members may select up to $60 worth of books from the BookBale Club website. Those books become permanent puchases. Members retain rights to the selected books even after their membership ends.

It will all depend on the content, of course, but if there's a good range it could be a bargain. $60 of books for $9, every month, and one gets to choose the books.

More details in the ARC Manor/Phoenix pick newsletter, and at https://www.bookbale.club/

Sounds very interesting if the books are good enough. Angry Robot publishing used to do a subscription scheme which was excellent - I keep on bugging them about bringing it back.

Andrew

[theducks]

Originally Posted by DNSB

If I recall correctly, the book was originally published as short stories/novelettes in Analog starting in the mid-70's.

You remember correctly. I subscribed for 40Y, starting shortly after graduating.
Analog launched/accelerated many a writers career.

[gbm]

If the JABberwocky Literary Agency is a part of this then it will be worth it for the first year or two just to get thrir books. This is a listing of the authors:

https://awfulagent.com/jabclients/

A lot of names on that list that I read.



bernie

Originally Posted by andyh2000

Sounds very interesting if the books are good enough. Angry Robot publishing used to do a subscription scheme which was excellent - I keep on bugging them about bringing it back.

Andrew

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by gbm

If the JABberwocky Literary Agency is a part of this then it will be worth it for the first year or two just to get thrir books. This is a listing of the authors:

https://awfulagent.com/jabclients/

A lot of names on that list that I read.


bernie

Definitely some I recognise too. Elizabeth Moon is good.

Andrew

[Alastair_S]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Adjacent by Christopher Priest is $1 (Kobo US, Kobo WW, Amazon.com)

I was unaware of Kobo WW, what's its purpose?

Anyway The Adjacent is currently not discounted at Kobo GB, but if you want your Christopher Priest fix there you can get Expect Me Tomorrow for 99p - down from £12.99!

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/expect-me-tomorrow

A petty thief who called himself John Smith was arrested in 1877, for theft through fraudulent behaviour. He was convicted and sent to prison.

In 1852, Adler and Adolf Beck's father died on a glacier, and their lives separated. One became a respected climate scientist; the other a globally renowned opera singer, or so he claimed. They remained in touch, to share details of the mysterious voices only they could hear.

In 2050, Charles Ramsey also has a twin. Greg is a climate journalist. Charles used to be a police profiler, but his redundancy leads to him being sent home with an experimental chip in his head. His brother urges him to explore a little-known aspect of their family history.

All these people are connected, impossibly, inexorably. All their lives will intersect.

And the climate of their world will keep on changing.

[lkmiller]

World Wide...for me in the US it says:

Available in United States

Shop from United States to buy this item.

[isarl]

Originally Posted by Alastair_S

I was unaware of Kobo WW, what's its purpose?

It's “worldwide” and seems not to have any books locked out by region. On the other hand I don't think it's functional as an actual storefront because (I assume) there's no way to set your purchasing country to one with a region code of “ww”. Some of the books have absurd prices, in the tens of thousands of dollars, on the worldwide site, but appear priced properly in the regions in which they're available for sale. It's just kind of a placeholder I suppose; a “default” or “regionless” region so that their catalogue can contain a certain listing without requiring that said listing actually be available for in any real regions.

[isarl]

The Naked Sun (Robots book 3) by Isaac Asimov is currently $2.
Kobo CA, US
Kindle CA, US

As well, The Budayeen Cycle (3-book omnibus) by George Alec Effinger is $4.
Kobo CA, US.
Kindle US (not on sale on Amazon.ca apparently).

The complete Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated cyberpunk trilogy by an author whose work is “wry and black and savage” (George R. R. Martin).

Praised as “a perfect example of how exciting the subgenre can and should be,” George Alec Effinger’s Budayeen Cycle is a towering and timeless science fiction achievement that continues to amaze, shock, and captivate readers (SF Signal).

When Gravity Fails: Set in a high-tech near future featuring an ascendant Muslim world and divided Western superpowers, this cult classic takes readers into a world with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose, brains enhanced by electronic hardware, and surgically altered bodies. Street hustler Marîd Audran has always prided himself on his independence, free from commitments, connections, and even cybernetic modifications. But when a string of brutal murders lands him on the radar of Friedlander Bey, the most powerful and dangerous man in the decadent Arab ghetto, the Budayeen, Audran is forced to change his loner ways, or risk losing his life . . .

[pdurrant]

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes is £0.99 at Amazon UK today.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09R2B8J17

This is Terry's biography by Rob Wilkins.

[Not Science Fiction nor Fantasy, but I think that this thread is where there'd be most interest in this book.)

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by isarl

It's “worldwide” and seems not to have any books locked out by region.

It is its own region, with its own catalog and pricing. If you're not one of the other countries Kobo lists, you're that. I've used it for many years.
However, since Kobo makes it easy to switch countries when you travelling abroad, the distinction is less relevant.)

[salty-horse]

The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan is $3 on Amazon.com

This was covered on the Wizards vs Lesbians podcast, where they describe it as:

What if British colonizers in early 20th century Singapore were literal vampires? And what if they wanted to have sex with you? And what does it say that this bit of ebook erotica is one of the strongest and most structurally creative novels we've read for this podcast?

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes is £0.99 at Amazon UK today.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09R2B8J17

This is Terry's biography by Rob Wilkins.

[Not Science Fiction nor Fantasy, but I think that this thread is where there'd be most interest in this book.)

I'm reading this right now and enjoying it. There are a lot of quotes from the notes that Terry was making toward an autobiography -- so this is the closest we'll get.

[isarl]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes is £0.99 at Amazon UK today.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09R2B8J17

This is Terry's biography by Rob Wilkins.

[Not Science Fiction nor Fantasy, but I think that this thread is where there'd be most interest in this book.)

Thank you for sharing it! That's about $1.60 Canadian, according to the difference in my Kobo store credit after this morning's “travel”.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by isarl

The Naked Sun (Robots book 3) by Isaac Asimov is currently $2.
Kobo CA, US
Kindle CA, US

I was coming to post the same. Is it just me or does the cover make it look like R. Daneel is pretending he's a flasher?

As well, The Budayeen Cycle (3-book omnibus) by George Alec Effinger is $4.
Kobo CA, US.
Kindle US (not on sale on Amazon.ca apparently).

I bought all three individual books a while back. I really need to read them.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I bought all three individual books a while back. I really need to read them.

There was also a video game: Circuit's Edge.