FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Gardenman]

Originally Posted by cromag

I like the convenience of buying at Amazon, but this looks like it would be affected by their currently unbreakable DRM. I picked it up at Kobo.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-the-history-1

Just bought it from amazon - the Down load, transfer and calibre method works fine

[Fbone]

Dragonsbane (Winterlands Book 1) by Barbara Hambly is $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004TC149G...v_ov_lig_dp_it

[Tarana]

Originally Posted by cromag

I like the convenience of buying at Amazon, but this looks like it would be affected by their currently unbreakable DRM. I picked it up at Kobo.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-the-history-1

It converted fine. When I posted, Kobo had not yet changed the price.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by cromag

I like the convenience of buying at Amazon, but this looks like it would be affected by their currently unbreakable DRM. I picked it up at Kobo.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-the-history-1

The Good, The Bad and the History is also $0.99 from eBooks.com US.

[tch65721]

Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels Book 7) by Ilona Andrews - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G3L6JV4

Finally! Last I needed in the series.

[ottdmk]

Originally Posted by tch65721

Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels Book 7) by Ilona Andrews - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G3L6JV4

Finally! Last I needed in the series.

Thanks for the heads-up! Kobo had 7 & 8 on sale, so I picked up both. Still need #2, 4 & 5 though.

[ottdmk]

Priestess of the White, Book One of Trudi Canavan's Age of the Five series, is on sale for $1.99 at Kobo Canada... $1.79 if you're a VIP member.

I haven't read this series, but overall I'm a fan of Canavan's having enjoyed other books from her.

[GA Russell]

Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine

December, 1947, issue

$1.99

includes

The Irritated People — Short Story
by Ray Bradbury

https://www.radioarchives.com/Thrill...7_p/re1086.htm

[sufue]

I'm the same - haven't read this series, but have liked others of hers.

Priestess of the White is also $1.99 in the US, and also discountable at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000N2HCWY
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/pri...of-the-white-4

And, somewhat oddly, the second book in the series, Last of the Wilds, is also $1.99 at Kindle US, but not at Kobo US. I've included the Kobo US link just for a price check - maybe that will change.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000N2HCTM
Kobo US (price-check): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/last-of-the-wilds-3

And does it strike anyone else as just kind of funny that there are only three books in a series called "Age of the Five" ?

Originally Posted by ottdmk

Priestess of the White, Book One of Trudi Canavan's Age of the Five series, is on sale for $1.99 at Kobo Canada... $1.79 if you're a VIP member.

I haven't read this series, but overall I'm a fan of Canavan's having enjoyed other books from her.

[salty-horse]

The Will of the Many by James Islington is £0.99 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
First in a new series.

At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets.

AUDI. VIDE. TACE.

The Catenan Republic—the Hierarchy—may rule the world now, but they do not know everything.

I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I will gladly join the rest of civilised society in allowing my strength, my drive and my focus—what they call Will—to be leeched away and added to the power of those above me, as millions already do. As all must eventually do.

I tell them that I belong, and they believe me.

But the truth is that I have been sent to the Academy to find answers. To solve a murder. To search for an ancient weapon. To uncover secrets that may tear the Republic apart.

And that I will never, ever cede my Will to the empire that executed my family.

To survive, though, I will still have to rise through the Academy’s ranks. I will have to smile, and make friends, and pretend to be one of them and win. Because if I cannot, then those who want to control me, who know my real name, will no longer have any use for me.

And if the Hierarchy finds out who I truly am, they will kill me.

[ZodWallop]

Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

In this classic novel by the Science Fiction Grand Master, a writer searching for explanations uncovers the existence of mutants and multiple Earths: “First-rate Simak” (The New York Times).

Author Jay Vickers would like nothing more than to be left alone so he can finish his next book. But “there’s something strange going on,” as his peculiar neighbor, Horton Flanders, says. For instance, the market is filling with new inventions that supposedly last forever—cars, razors, cigarette lighters, and more. Individuals and whole families are disappearing. Soon, even Mr. Flanders vanishes—but not before leaving Vickers a note.

Following Flanders’s advice, Vickers travels to his childhood home, where he makes a fantastic discovery. It is a mere child’s toy, a brightly colored whistling top. But for Jay Vickers, it leads to other worlds and answers all his questions. What happened to all the vanished people? Who is behind these helpful inventions? And what sort of being would want to stop them. . . ?

[Kieran Seymour]

Stephen King's Wizard and Glass is a 99p Daily Deal at amazon.co.uk today.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003BVFZ50/

[salty-horse]

Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is $1 on Amazon.com
This is the new translation by Olena Bormashenko.
It's not available on Kobo US.

It tells the story of Don Rumata, who is sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to influence, but never to directly interfere. Masquerading as an arrogant nobleman, a dueler and a brawler, Don Rumata is never defeated but can never kill. With his doubt and compassion, and his deep love for a local girl named Kira, Rumata wants to save the kingdom from the machinations of Don Reba, the First Minister to the king. But given his orders, what role can he play?

[ZodWallop]

Voyage by Stephen Baxter is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US. It's called a part of the NASA Trilogy, but these are actually just three unrelated books (Voyage, Titan and Moonseed) that center on NASA. There are no recurring characters or storylines.

Voyage is an alternate history about Kennedy surviving, but the focus on the story is where the American space program would be if we didn't take our eye off the ball.

In this sci-fi alternate history, JFK’s planned mission to Mars embarks on an intrepid journey—“a wonderful, patriotic tale of lost possibility” (Kirkus).

In Voyage, Stephen Baxter imagines how, if President Kennedy had lived, America might have gone on to send a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Created from true lives and real events, this richly detailed novel returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket. Historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan are interwoven with unforgettable characters who embody the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall.

This sprawling tale tells the story of Gregory Dana, a Nazi camp survivor who achieves the dream of his hated masters; Gershon, the Vietnam fighter jock determined to be the first African-American to land on another planet; and Natalie York, the brilliant geologist/astronaut who risks love and career for the chance to run her fingers through the soil of another world.

[kyrilson]

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. FREE at kobo. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/jon...and-mr-norrell