FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[maddz]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Gloriana: Or, The Unfulfill'd Queen by Michael Moorcock is $1 on Amazon.com)
AFAICT, this particular edition is not available on Kobo.

The Gateway edition is £2.99 on Kobo UK (discounted from £4.99):

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/glo...ulfill-d-queen

Which isn't a bad price, but then I paid £1.25 for the 1978 edition paperback. (At a guess, it was purchased new in the early '80s when I lived in London.)

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Gloriana: Or, The Unfulfill'd Queen by Michael Moorcock is $1 on Amazon.com)
AFAICT, this particular edition is not available on Kobo.

I was curious about this, too. Then I noticed on Amazon that it's available on Kindle Unlimited. I'm willing to bet that's our problem right there.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

I was curious about this, too. Then I noticed on Amazon that it's available on Kindle Unlimited. I'm willing to bet that's our problem right there.

I thought so too. But Moorcock is a big enough author I wouldn't think he would be locked in to exclusivity. And Saga Press is an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I thought so too. But Moorcock is a big enough author I wouldn't think he would be locked in to exclusivity. And Saga Press is an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

I don't know how much Gloriana is selling these days, given that it was published in '78. Maybe someone presented him the estimate of getting so much $$$ a month based on number of people likely to read it in KU, and he decided that sounded better than the amount it was currently generating via standalone sales.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

I was curious about this, too. Then I noticed on Amazon that it's available on Kindle Unlimited. I'm willing to bet that's our problem right there.

It's not KU on UK Marketplace, and there it's a higher price than Kobo.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gloriana-Un...dp/B00QFLKNHI/ £3.42
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gateway (22 Dec. 2014)

Edit:
Maybe not. It's €3.99 on Kobo Ireland (and Kobo travelling seems to have stopped working). They seem to be the only place not offering the SAME titles on UK and Ireland!
https://www.kobo.com/ie/en/ebook/glo...ulfill-d-queen

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

It's not KU on UK Marketplace, and there it's a higher price than Kobo.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gloriana-Un...dp/B00QFLKNHI/ £3.42
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gateway (22 Dec. 2014)

Edit:
Maybe not. It's €3.99 on Kobo Ireland (and Kobo travelling seems to have stopped working). They seem to be the only place not offering the SAME titles on UK and Ireland!
https://www.kobo.com/ie/en/ebook/glo...ulfill-d-queen

Using Kobo airlines I was able to travel to India to buy an eBook on April 3, 2024. NO problem buying the eBook.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Using Kobo airlines I was able to travel to India to buy an eBook on April 3, 2024. NO problem buying the eBook.

I've noticed I very rarely use the Kobo travel agency, even for a really good deal. The only books I tend to travel for are those that are completely unavailable here in 'Murica.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Using Kobo airlines I was able to travel to India to buy an eBook on April 3, 2024. NO problem buying the eBook.

WARNING! OFF TOPIC!

Hmmm....I use the JSWolf Airlines. They serve a huge bowl of beans to everyone for a wonderful lunch serving, in addition to high engery protein bars. Unfortunately, their air filtration system died half-way to England.

[salty-horse]

Zima Blue by Alastair Reynolds is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Collection. contents

[ZodWallop]

The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller is $3 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

The better half read this as a library book a few months ago and loved it. Enough that when I mentioned it is on sale, I was told to buy it.

Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at Orchard House, and the secrets of their marrow.

Charm is a prisoner, and a survivor. Charm tends the trees and their clattering fruit for the sake of her children, painstakingly grown and regrown with its fruit: Shame, Justice, Desire, Pride, and Pain.

Charm is a whore, and a madam. The wealthy and powerful of Borenguard come to her house to buy time with the girls who aren't real.

Except on Tuesdays, which is when the Emperor himself lays claim to his mistress, Charm herself.

But now—Charm is also the only person who can keep an empire together, as the Emperor summons her to his deathbed, and charges her with choosing which of his awful, faithless sons will carry on the empire—by discovering which one is responsible for his own murder.

If she does this last thing, she will finally have what has been denied her since the fall of Inshil—her freedom. But she will also be betraying the ghosts past and present that live on within her heart.

Charm must choose. Her dead Emperor’s will or the whispers of her own ghosts. Justice for the empire or her own revenge.

[ZodWallop]

Clive Barker's Abarat 1&2 are on sale:

Abarat is $3 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

A journey beyond imagination is about to unfold...

It begins in Chickentown, USA. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold.

When the answer comes, it’s not one she expects.

Welcome to the Abarat, a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day. Candy has a place in this extraordinary land: She is here to help save the Abarat from the dark forces that are stirring at its heart—forces older than Time itself, and more evil than anything Candy has ever encountered. She’s a strange heroine, she knows. But this is a strange world.

And in the Abarat, all things are possible.

Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

A young hero discovers her secret past as warlike tensions mount in this YA fantasy series written and illustrated by the author of The Thief of Always.

In the archipelago of Abarat, each island is governed by a different hour of the day. But the Lord of Midnight is determined to rule them all. Ever since Candy Quackenbush arrived here from Chickentown, Minnesota, she’s been caught up in his devious schemes. But Candy’s adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour.

Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar?

Candy and her companions must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands. A final war is about to begin...

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The better half read this as a library book a few months ago and loved it. Enough that when I mentioned it is on sale, I was told to buy it.

Somehow, that sounds very familiar. When SWMBO asks for a book, the only acceptable answer is 'Immediately'.

Happy wife, happy life!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Somehow, that sounds very familiar. When SWMBO asks for a book, the only acceptable answer is 'Immediately'.

Happy wife, happy life!

The impressive part of the story is that they never met a penny they couldn't pinch. So when I am told to lay out funds on a book that has already been read for free, well brother, that says something for that book*

Apparently it leans to the literary and is not an easy read. But is worth the time.

*Whereas with me, if a synopsis sounds half way interesting and it's three bucks, hey, I'll take it!

[salty-horse]

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam #2) by Margaret Atwood is $2 in the US/WW (Kobo US, Kobo WW, Amazon.com)

[salty-horse]

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio is £3 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
Gramazio is mostly known for working in the games space. This is her debut novel.
Magic realism comedy...?

You wait ages for The One . . . then 203 come along at once

One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence – from photos to electricity bills – suggests he’s right.

Lauren’s attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her.

There’s the one who pretends to play music on her toes.
The one who’s too hot (there must be a catch).
The one who makes a great breakfast sandwich.
The one who turns everything into double entendres (‘I’ll weed your garden’).
And the one who can calm her unruly thoughts with a single touch.

But when you can change husbands as easily as changing a lightbulb, how do you know whether the one you have now is the good-enough one, or the wrong one, or the best one? And how long should you keep trying to find out?