FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by andyh2000

Great author by the way - I'm currently reading his Children of Time trilogy.

I finished the first one last week!

[DrNefario]

Originally Posted by andyh2000

Too many consonants even for his name

Great author by the way - I'm currently reading his Children of Time trilogy.

Andrew

I'm not sure what's up with my typing today. It originally said The Ciry of Last Chances, but I spotted that one.

I read Children of Memory about a month ago, and this is the third of his books that I've bought this year. Still fewer than he's published in the same timespan, I expect.

[ottdmk]

Heroine Complex, first in the series by Sarah Kuhn, is on for $0.99 @ Kobo Canada.

I Am Number Four, first in the Lorien Legacies series by "Pittacus Lore" (a pen name) is on for $1.99 @ Kobo Canada.

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by andyh2000

Too many consonants even for his name

Great author by the way - I'm currently reading his Children of Time trilogy.

Andrew

I've never read him. Where's a good place to start?

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by Fbone

I've never read him. Where's a good place to start?

Dogs of War and Bear Head is a two book series featuring genetically and mechanically engineered animals used in war. The Final Architecture trilogy (Shards of Earth, Eyes of the Void, Lords of Uncreation) is far-future giant spaceships/sentient moons etc space opera (think Neal Asher). The Children of Time trilogy is also far-future but more focussed on biological evolution. Those are the ones I've read and they're all great. Personally I'd start with Dogs of War and Children of Time.

Andrew

[lkmiller]

I enjoyed the novella Elder Race. That would be good for a quicker try.

[Aleron Ives]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

I got the book with the sale price!

At least they're honest enough to honour the sale price, despite their mistake.

[Tarana]

Both books of the Sun Cross series by Barbara Hambly are on sale for $1.99 each. Amazon Kobo and B&N

The Rainbow Abyss
The Magician's of Night

Imago By Octavia E. Butler $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by Critteranne

It's weird, but I think they might offer Amazon Pay as a payment option for everything. Quite a few companies use it just for the convenience (either for themselves or their customers).

They do. I used to use that option when buying bundles from them until I had to add a card for my subscription to their monthly choice games bundle. Think of Amazon Pay as something like PayPal and separate from the Amazon store, because that's how it works. It's just not used as much as PayPal is.

[DrNefario]

The first Skyward spin-off novella by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson has been a monthly deal in the UK for 99p in August. The question is: do I think they're going to cycle through the whole set? - in which case I should buy it while I still can - or is it just an introductory tempter? - in which case the omnibus is better value. Tricky one.

[ZodWallop]

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman is $3 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before published American Gods story, “Black Dog,” written exclusively for this volume.

In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction—stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013—as well “Black Dog,” a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods, exclusive to this collection.

Trigger Warning explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Here is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion. In Adventure Story—a thematic companion to The Ocean at the End of the Lane—Gaiman ponders death and the way people take their stories with them when they die. His social media experience A Calendar of Tales are short takes inspired by replies to fan tweets about the months of the year—stories of pirates and the March winds, an igloo made of books, and a Mother’s Day card that portends disturbances in the universe. Gaiman offers his own ingenious spin on Sherlock Holmes in his award-nominated mystery tale The Case of Death and Honey. And Click-Clack the Rattlebag explains the creaks and clatter we hear when we’re all alone in the darkness.

A sophisticated writer whose creative genius is unparalleled, Gaiman entrances with his literary alchemy, transporting us deep into the realm of imagination, where the fantastical becomes real and the everyday incandescent. Full of wonder and terror, surprises and amusements, Trigger Warning is a treasury of delights that engage the mind, stir the heart, and shake the soul from one of the most unique and popular literary artists of our day.

[Tarana]

Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Anthology of some of his short stories.
Fantasy

Stranger in a Strange Land By Robert A. Heinlein $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Scifi

[SomeSteve]

Two books by Gene Wolfe reduced to $3.99 each at Amazon US and Kobo US. Still not the greatest bargains of all time, but I don't know if they ever get any cheaper.

Nightside the Long Sun, The First Volume of the "Book of the Long Sun,"

https://www.amazon.com/Nightside-Lon...dp/B008YHUNTY/

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/nightside-the-long-sun

and

On Blue's Waters, The First Volume of "The Book of the Short Sun."

https://www.amazon.com/Blues-Waters-...dp/B003J5UI4G/

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/on-blue-s-waters

I read these series a long time ago in paperback, and, unlike with other works by Gene Wolfe, had to force myself not to abandon both. I'm wondering if I should give them another try.

[Gardenman]

The first 2 Horseclans books books by Robert Adams have been republished as ebooks. $2.99 for both.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...oreType=ebooks

[GlennD]

Originally Posted by Gardenman

The first 2 Horseclans books books by Robert Adams have been republished as ebooks. $2.99 for both.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...oreType=ebooks

Amazon tells me that the first book is not currently available.