FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[salty-horse]

Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer is $4 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
This is a new edition of VanderMeer's first novel.

A journey to a labyrinthine city of tunnels, and the dangers lurking behind each turn.

In a dark and decadent far future, the city of Veniss persists beside a dead ocean. Earth has become a desert wasteland ravaged by climate change. Veniss endures on the strength of its innovative tech of almost Boschian intensity, but at what cost? Where does the line between “made creature” and “person” lie?

Against this backdrop, Veniss Underground spins the tale of Nicholas, an aspiring, struggling Artist; his twin sister, Nicola; and Shadrach, Nicola’s former lover. A fateful trip by Nicholas to the maverick biotech Quin will have far-reaching consequences for all three—and for the fate of Veniss itself, as insurrection stirs and the oppressed begin to revolt.

Veniss Underground is Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel, a spectacular surreal foray into a world as influenced by Alejandro Jodorowsky as by Ursula K. Le Guin. Readers of VanderMeer’s later work will be enchanted and horrified by the marvels within, including the author’s signature fascination with the nonhuman and the environment. By turns beautiful and powerful, Veniss Underground explores the limits of love, memory, and obsession against a backdrop of betrayal and biological mutation.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The omnibus Tales of the Dying Earth (4 novels) by Jack Vance is $3 in the US (Kobo, Kindle)

Very weird that this exists, as Jack Vance's estate (Spatterlight Press) is selling its own ebook edition (for $20), which isn't available elsewhere. Maybe support them instead, if you can. (I already have that edition.)

I assume this is a matter of publication rights. When I go to Spatterlight Press I get a notice that they can't sell this title in my country (US).

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by cromag

I assume this is a matter of publication rights. When I go to Spatterlight Press I get a notice that they can't sell this title in my country (US).

Funny, when I got it from them years back, I had to pretend I was in the US.

EDIT:
They confirm their Dying Earth titles are not available in the US: https://www.jackvance.com/ebooks/availability/

[maddz]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Funny, when I got it from them years back, I had to pretend I was in the US.

EDIT:
They confirm their Dying Earth titles are not available in the US: https://www.jackvance.com/ebooks/availability/

Interesting, it looks like they won't sell to you if you are in the US or UK. I'm not surprised about the UK as the 4 separate books are sold by Gateway at £3.99 each which works out marginally cheaper at todays exchange rate.

Well, if Gateway reduce the titles in one of their sales we may go for them. Himself got most of (all?) Demon Princes that way.

[Dr. Drib]

Why not just buy this, for $2.99:

Tales of the Dying Earth: The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, Rhialto the Marvellous

https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Dying-E...s%2C181&sr=8-1

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Why not just buy this, for $2.99

I offered the other edition (in addition to the one you linked) for those who wish to more directly support the author's estate, if one wishes to. But it's not available in the US, so it's irrelevant.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

A Kindle 4? Like, this one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon...rth_generation

I have a similarly old model, and I can't download and transfer via USB any ebook that is considered a comic book/graphic novel. Amazon tells me it's not compatible with my device.

Apologies. I see it's a Kindle Touch on my account, not a Kindle 4.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by jhowell

Amazon can deliver comics in varying resolutions and compression levels depending on the target device. I took at look at the Volume 10 from that series (The Wake). Here is a summary of what I saw.

Download and Transfer via USB targeting a Kindle: AZW3, 1248x1920, largest image 250KB

Download using Kindle for PC 2.0.1: AZW3 (.azw) + AZW6 (.azw.res), 1248x1920, largest image 1.8MB

Download using Kindle for Android 8.88: KFX, 1988x3056, largest image 1.5MB

Hmm.. that might make it worth following the Kindle for Android route. Thanks.

[GA Russell]

The Early Stories of Philip K. Dick

49 cents

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CMWDJRN

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Early Stories of Philip K. Dick

49 cents

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CMWDJRN

Like the previous collection you posted, which was free, these stories are in the public domain.
Here's the Standard Ebooks version, which is free: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ph.../short-fiction

Let's stop posting these "cheap" versions of public domain stories.

[salty-horse]

The Children of Gods and Fighting Men by Shawna Lawless is $2 on Amazon.com
First in a series. Second book just came out.
Historical fantasy series that intertwines Irish mythology with real-life history.

They think they've killed the last of us...

981 AD. The Viking King of Dublin is dead. His young widow, Gormflaith, has ambitions for her son – and herself – but Ireland is a dangerous place and kings tend not to stay kings for long. Gormflaith also has a secret. She is one of the Fomorians, an immortal race who can do fire-magic. She has kept her powers hidden at all costs, for there are other immortals in this world – like the Tuatha Dé Danann, a race of warriors who are sworn to kill Fomorians.

Fódla is one of the Tuatha Dé Danann with the gift of healing. Her kind dwell hidden in a fortress, forbidden to live amongst the mortals. Fódla agrees to help her kin by going to spy on Brian Boru, a powerful man who aims to be High King of Ireland. She finds a land on the brink of war – a war she is desperate to stop. However, preventing the loss of mortal lives is not easy with Ireland in turmoil and the Fomorians now on the rise...

The Change by Kirsten Miller is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

A gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers—putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town.

In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment…

After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the former nurse begins to hear voices. It doesn’t take long for Nessa to realize that the voices calling out to her belong to the dead—a gift she’s inherited from her grandmother, which comes with special responsibilities.

On the cusp of 50, suave advertising director Harriett Osborne has just witnessed the implosion of her lucrative career and her marriage. She hasn’t left her house in months, and from the outside, it appears as if she and her garden have both gone to seed. But Harriett’s life is far from over—in fact, she’s undergone a stunning and very welcome metamorphosis.

Ambitious former executive Jo Levison has spent thirty long years at war with her body. The free-floating rage and hot flashes that arrive with the beginning of menopause feel like the very last straw—until she realizes she has the ability to channel them, and finally comes into her power.

Guided by voices only Nessa can hear, the trio of women discover a teenage girl whose body was abandoned beside a remote beach. The police have written the victim off as a drug-addicted sex worker, but the women refuse to buy into the official narrative. Their investigation into the girl’s murder leads to more bodies, and to the town’s most exclusive and isolated enclave, a world of stupendous wealth where the rules don’t apply. With their newfound powers, Jo, Nessa, and Harriett will take matters into their own hands…

[salty-horse]

Windhaven by George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

A timeless tale that brilliantly renders the struggle between the ironbound world of tradition and a rebellious soul seeking to prove the power of a dream.

Among the scattered islands that make up the water world of Windhaven, no one holds more prestige than the silver-winged flyers, romantic figures who cross treacherous oceans, braving shifting winds and sudden storms, to bring news, gossip, songs, and stories to a waiting populace. Maris of Amberly, a fisherman’s daughter, wants nothing more than to soar on the currents high above Windhaven. So she challenges tradition, demanding that flyers be chosen by merit rather than inheritance. But even after winning that bitter battle, Maris finds that her troubles are only beginning. Now a revolution threatens to destroy the world she fought so hard to join—and force her to make the ultimate sacrifice.

[salty-horse]

Solaris books has a sale on their web store.

It has a bunch of brand new books (all of their 2023 releases) for $1, so hop on it.
https://rebellionpublishing.com/sale/

Once more, regional restrictions apply. (Some of the books aren't available in my region, including The Pomegranate Gate .)

The Ten Percent Thief and The Water Outlaws are brand new and were on my wishlist, as well as their 2023 novellas.

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Solaris books has a sale on their web store.

It has a bunch of brand new books (all of their 2023 releases) for $1, so hop on it.
https://rebellionpublishing.com/sale/

Once more, regional restrictions apply. (Some of the books aren't available in my region, including The Pomegranate Gate .)

The Ten Percent Thief and The Water Outlaws are brand new and were on my wishlist, as well as their 2023 novellas.

They wouldn't accept my American credit card.

[GA Russell]

Thrilling Wonder Stories Magazine

December, 1948, issue

including works by...

Murray Leinster
L. Ron Hubbard
Ray Bradbury
John D. MacDonald
Fredric Brown

$1.99

https://www.radioarchives.com/Thrill...8_p/re1087.htm