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[Cactus Chef]

The Big Book of Science Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

**Quite possibly the GREATEST science-fiction collection of ALL TIME—past, present, and FUTURE!

What if life was never-ending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the Pope was a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers. Within its pages, find beloved worlds of space opera, hard SF, cyberpunk, the new wave, and more. Learn the secret history of science fiction, from literary icons who wrote SF to authors from over 25 countries, some never before translated into English. In THE BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION, literary power couple Ann and Jeff VanderMeer transport readers from Mars to Mechanopolis, planet Earth to parts unknown. Read the genre that predicted electric cars, travel to the moon, and the modern smart phone. We’ve got the worlds if you’ve got the time.

[maddz]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Is this downloaded through Kobo, as was the previous bundle?

No, it's a direct download.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

The Big Book of Science Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer

Edited by both Ann and Jeff.

It's good, but the first stories feel dated, and are partly there for historical context.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by maddz

No, it's a direct download.

Ok, thank you.

[Cactus Chef]

The Godhead Trilogy (The Godhead Trilogy) by James Morrow is $4 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

The award-winning, irreverent, and darkly funny trilogy from "the most provocative satiric voice in science fiction" ( The Washington Post).

The complete Godhead Trilogy from James Morrow, including Towing Jehovah, Blameless in Abaddon, and The Eternal Footman.

In the World Fantasy Award–winning Towing Jehovah, God has died, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas.

Blameless in Abaddon, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, is a "funny, ferocious fantasy" ( Philadelphia Inquirer). God is a comatose, two-mile-long tourist attraction at a Florida theme park—until a conniving judge decides to put Him on trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity.

The Eternal Footman completes Morrow's darkly comic trilogy about God's untimely demise. With God's skull in orbit, competing with the moon, a plague of "death awareness" spreads across the Western hemisphere. As the United States sinks into apocalypse, two people fight to preserve life and sanity. A few highlights: a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites; a theater troupe's stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic; and a debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus. Morrow also gives us his most chilling villain ever: Dr. Adrian Lucido, founder of a new pagan church in Mexico and inventor of a cure worse than any disease.

[salty-horse]

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy (Mammoth Books #170) by Mike Ashley is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Contents: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?530293

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy (Mammoth Books #170) by Mike Ashley is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Contents: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?530293

EXTREME

Well, poo. I was all prepared to dismiss this collection, but there's an Elric story in there that I don't think I have, so I may have to grab it...

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

EXTREME

RADICAL! FAR OUT!

[salty-horse]

Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman is £1 in the UK (Amazon only, but price-matchable on Kobo)

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BECOME YOUR PLANET’S FINAL BOSS?

THIS IS THE EPIC AND FAST-PACED NOVEL FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SMASH-HIT DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL.
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All New Sonoran colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do is run the family ranch and keep their aging fleet of intelligent agriculture bots ticking.

But now the colossal Apex Corporation has been hired to commence an “eviction action” – exterminate all life on New Sonora in preparation for a reboot. And they charge bored Earthers for the opportunity to design their own war machines, remotely pilot them, and make it a game.

The game is called Operation Bounce House . . .

And New Sonora is its playing field.

Determined to defend the only home he’s ever known, Oliver and his friends find themselves fighting for their lives against these machines.

To earth it’s a game, but to Oliver, it's war.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman is £1 in the UK (Amazon only, but price-matchable on Kobo)

Now reduced on Kobo UK

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[salty-horse]

Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Reynolds' latest. A rare US-before-UK discount.

A private investigator is hired to look into a mysterious, high-profile death aboard the starship Halcyon in this fresh new science fiction masterpiece from the "mastersinger of space opera" (The Times) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Space universe. Strap in for a gripping murder mystery.

Yuri Gagarin is a private investigator who picks up small cases from his local community, runs into trouble with the local police, and generally ekes out a living as best he can. He's aboard the Halcyon - a starship, hurtling through space, carrying thousands of passengers with thousands more sleeping the journey away.

Only his usual investigative work - catching cheating spouses, and small time con artists - is about to take a turn. He's hired by a mysterious woman called Ruby Red to look into a death in one of Halcyon's most elite families . . . and then warned off the case again by a second mysterious woman called Ruby Blue. Caught between the two, he's about to be embroiled in a murder mystery in which - at any moment - he could be the latest victim.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Horizons by Mary Rosenblum is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Now $0.5, Amazon only. ("Digital list price" discount)