FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

An Oral History of Atlantis by Ed Park is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

My type of book.

Got it.

Thank you!

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Dot Slash Magic by Liz Shipton is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

...and £0.73 [equals 98 cents US] for non VIP members at Kobo.UK

[salty-horse]

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse is $2 in the US (Amazon only, price-matchable on Kobo)
Note that there are other editions for $1, but this is considered the best English translation. The other editio

The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is the author's last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. Setting the story in the distant postapocalyptic future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals who play an elaborate game that uses all the cultural and scientific knowledge of the Ages. The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.

This edition features a Foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski that places the book in the full context of Hesse's thought.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse is $2 in the US (Amazon only, price-matchable on Kobo)
Note that there are other editions for $1, but this is considered the best English translation. The other editio

I"m showing $12.99 on the Kindle edition from Amazon.com [U.S.]. (Clicking on the link above.)

Do you know if the sale is already over?

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I"m showing $12.99 on the Kindle edition from Amazon.com [U.S.]. (Clicking on the link above.)

Do you know if the sale is already over?

It's over. My price match will probably be rejected now
eReaderIQ still shows the discounted price:
https://www.ereaderiq.com/dp/B00ANI9...r-ludi-a-novel

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I"m showing $12.99 on the Kindle edition from Amazon.com [U.S.]. (Clicking on the link above.)

Do you know if the sale is already over?

Over at Kobo UK, The Glass Bead Game by by Hermann Hesse is ££0.73 or £5.99

£0.73 - https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-glass-bead-game-5
£5.99 - https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-glass-bead-game-2

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Over at Kobo UK, The Glass Bead Game by by Hermann Hesse is ££0.73 or £5.99

£0.73 - https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-glass-bead-game-5
£5.99 - https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-glass-bead-game-2

I think the cheap one is the earlier translation, which I suspect is public domain. That's the $1 edition available on the US store.

Anyway, my price match request was approved

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

I think the cheap one is the earlier translation, which I suspect is public domain. That's the $1 edition available on the US store.

Anyway, my price match request was approved

salty-horse:
Glad they price-matched it for you.

I'm trying to get the one found in the (Signet? Bantam?) edition from my college years, about 50 years ago. That's when I 'devoured' Hesse's work. All (?) of those covers had the artwork surrounded by a lot of white space, with no actual borders. This was my introduction to Hermann Hesse.

Here's a link I just now found concerning those covers:
https://baos.pub/the-mystery-artist-...s-70fcac696a3e


Jon:
Thanks for those links to Kobo UK. I guess I'll go ahead and buy it, although I don't know if that is the edition I mentioned (above). Also, I see there are a lot of his other titles available at discount.

[Quoth]

The PD version, if it's PD was originally titled "Magister Ludi" (Latin for Master's Game). I don't know if the 73p is the 1945 translation.
He also wrote "Steppenwolf", which may be on Gutenberg. I didn't fancy it,

[Cactus Chef]

All three books in the Fallen Gods trilogy are on sale for $1.99 each:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/series/fallen-gods-3

Godkiller (Fallen Gods #1) by Hannah Kaner is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

INSTANT#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

“An epic fantasy odyssey begins.” — Entertainment Weekly

"A richly rendered world . . . Kaner writes action that's both fun and intelligible . . . If "The Last of Us" didn't slake your thirst for stories of a grizzled fighter taking a tough kid on the road, then Godkiller should be your jam.” — Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post

Enter a land of gods and monsters, soldiers and mercenaries, secrets and wishes—the explosive #1 internationally bestselling fantasy debut in a new trilogy for fans of The Witcher and Gideon the Ninth

Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world—but after a great war, the new king outlawed them and now pays “godkillers” to destroy any who try to rise from the shadows.

As a child, Kissen saw her family murdered by a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing them and enjoys it. But all this changes when Kissen is tasked with helping a young noble girl with a god problem. The child’s soul is bonded to a tiny god of white lies, and Kissen can’t kill it without ending the girl’s life too.

Joined by a disillusioned knight on a secret quest, the unlikely group must travel to the ruined city of Blenraden, where the last of the wild gods reside, to each beg a favor. Pursued by assassins and demons, and in the midst of burgeoning civil war, they will all face a reckoning. Something is rotting at the heart of their world, and they are the only ones who can stop it.

“Godkiller will have you in its grasp from the first pages. . . An extraordinary journey.” — Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

"Beautifully imagined and intensely felt . . . Godkiller is a bone-rattling fantasy thriller that flies by in a breathtaking rush." — Joe Hill,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Locke & Key

"Epic and intimate, tender and sharp, Godkiller is a triumph of storytelling." — Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf

I've been trying to figure out whether they're any good or not...a recommendation from "Booktok" doesn't mean much to me, and is almost an anti-rec, since the kind of stuff I see recommended on #BookTok seems to be shallow dribble.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Quoth

The PD version, if it's PD was originally titled "Magister Ludi" (Latin for Master's Game).

Master of the Game

[ZodWallop]

Hearthspace by Stephen Baxter is $1 at Amazon and Kobo US

Thousands of years ago, a massive colony ship arrived at the Hearth - the celestial birthplace of millions of planets, ranging from habitable earth-like worlds to unimaginable hellscapes of pressure and heat. Using lightsails to navigate, humanity has spread itself across dozens of these worlds. But they have also forgotten their beginnings, where they came from... and a terrible secret is about to be unveiled.

For Commander Ulla Breen, on her first tour of duty aboard a patrol sail-ship, the universe is about to change around her. Attacked by an unknown and unthought-of enemy, she and her fellow crewmembers will face slavery, punishment and death - and so will their home planets. Because someone else has seen the richness of the inner Hearth, and plans to take it for themselves. A new enemy, but one who seems disturbingly familiar. And perhaps knows more about the history of the Hearth than even Ulla and her crew.

Faced with a complete upheaval of all she thought she knew, Ulla must survive long enough to come up with a plan - one which will unite all the disparate elements of the Hearth, and perhaps discover the reason why humanity came to Hearthspace in the first place...

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by issybird

Master of the Game

Thanks. I only did 3 years Latin and I'd be embarrassed to say how long ago.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Thanks. I only did 3 years Latin and I'd be embarrassed to say how long ago.

I was obnoxious; I couldn't resist. Thanks for taking it in good part.

[WillAdams]

Bummed I missed _The Glass Bead Game_ --- it is my favourite Hesse novel, and I'm feeling somewhat like a person out of time that so few folks have heard of it, let alone have read it.