FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Cactus Chef]

Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn trilogy is on sale on Amazon and Kobo for $2.99 per volume:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0841Y32FC...rwt_sb_pc_tkin

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...yGfpvxP&cPos=1
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...yGfpvxP&cPos=3
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...yGfpvxP&cPos=2

The Reality Dysfunction is a modern classic of science fiction from Peter F. Hamilton, an extraordinary feat of storytelling on a truly epic scale.

"A space opera that is big, boisterous, and has something for everyone." —Science Fiction Weekly

Space is not the only void. . .

In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth created by the industrialization of entire star systems. And throughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace. A true golden age is within our grasp.

But on a primitive colony planet, a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an utterly alien entity unleashes the most primal of humanity’s fears. An extinct race which inhabited the galaxy aeons ago called it "The Reality Dysfunction." It is the nightmare which has prowled beside us since the beginning of history.


The Night’s Dawn Trilogy
The Reality Dysfunction
The Neutronium Alchemist
The Naked God

Never read any Peter F. Hamilton before. This is the first time I've seen all three volumes of this trilogy go on sale at the same time. I might pick them up for that reason alone.

[ZodWallop]

Azure Bonds: Finder's Stone Trilogy, Book 1 by Kate Novak and Jeff Grub is $1 at Amazon and Kobo.

Yes, it's a D&D book, but it is a good one:

Alias is a sell-sword, a warrior-for-hire, and an adventuress—and she’s in big trouble—in this epic fantasy novel set in Dungeons & Dragons’ Forgotten Realms!

When Alias wakes with a series of twisting, magical blue sigils inscribed on her arms, she has no memory of how she got them.

Determined to learn the nature of the mysterious tattoo, Alias joins forces with an unlikely group of companions: the halfling bard, Ruskettle; the southern mage, Akabar; and the oddly silent lizard-man, Dragonbait. With their help, she discovers the symbols hold the key to her very existence.

But those responsible for the sigils aren’t keen on Alias’s continued good health... And if the five evil masters find her first, she may discover all too soon their hideous secret.

[salty-horse]

Heart-Beast by Tanith Lee is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

A shapeshifter prowls England's countryside, driven by its primal killing instincts and desire for a woman, in this dark fantasy horror.

World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award–winning author

After committing a crime of passion, Daniel Vehmund fled his English family farm to disappear into the Far East, wracked with guilt for abandoning his mother in the wake of his violence. Then, one day in a marketplace, Daniel is mesmerized by a street peddler's diamond. Teardrop-shaped and tinted green, the jewel—known as "The Wolf"—features the silhouette of a beast within its facets. Although it carries a curse, Daniel cannot resist its powerful allure, or the impulse to possess it.

Now bound to the diamond, Daniel becomes a bestial wolf-like monster at the full moon, ravishing and slaughtering everyone he encounters. When he resumes his human form, he has no memory of the beast's atrocities, but revels in the power seething within him. Daniel divests himself of the jewel after carrying it across the sea back home, but the curse is not done with him, or with an unhappily married woman who waits there.

Disdained by her family who treated her like a servant, Laura Wheelwright found refuge with a wealthy man. Adored for her beauty and lavished with luxuries, she is grateful to have been rescued from a life of drudgery, but feels no love for her husband. His latest gift to her is just another expensive trinket, but it is one that has brought the mysterious, enthralling Daniel Vehmund into her life.

Now, as a ravenous creature preys upon the villagers, Laura is pursued by Daniel. His presence disarms her, compelling her into a dangerous affair with a man unafraid to unleash his inner demon . . .

[maddz]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Heart-Beast by Tanith Lee is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Also £1.99 in the UK