12-02-2012, 07:51 AM | #1 | |
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Free and Bargain Scifi/Fantasy for December 2012
I'll start it up again. Feel free to share your Scifi/Fantasy bargains for the month. And watch out for the affiliate links in your posts!
This month's free ebook from Phoenix Pick is L. Neil Smith's The Venus Belt, sequel to The Probability Breach, a previous freebie. (Link is to the monthly Phoenix Pick newsletter, which has the download code and instructions. I invite all Scifi fans to sign up, because they give away good Scifi every month). Quote:
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12-02-2012, 09:50 AM | #2 |
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Michelle Sagara West's The Sundered series are discounted to 0.99-2.99 at Amazon.
Oh, and Harlequin offers 50 % off on all e-books, including titles from their Luna imprint. ( Today only) Last edited by mikaelalind; 12-02-2012 at 09:54 AM. |
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Do Harlequin publish SF/Fantasy? I'd always associated them more with romance.
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12-02-2012, 02:26 PM | #4 | |
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It looks like Romance combined with Sci Fi and Fantasy.
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Interesting - thanks .
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12-03-2012, 07:18 PM | #7 | |
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Seven Princes by John R. Fultz from Orbit is $2.99. B&N Kobo
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Passages [Sharing Knife #3] for $3.99
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Last month The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells was $1.99. Now the sequel, The Serpent Sea is $1.99. From Night Shade Books.
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12-04-2012, 04:32 AM | #11 | |
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Free - The Future, Imperfect: Six Dystopian Short Stories by Ruth Nestvold.
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12-04-2012, 05:48 PM | #12 |
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I've read two of the Luna titles. They were Harlequin "romance" with a teeny bit of bad sci-fi/fantasy wrapped around it. But hey, now I know to stay away from Luna!
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Michelle Sagara (West) has an urban fantasy series under the LUNA imprint, and there's almost no romance in it. In some ways, I see it as a cross between "regular" fantasy and urban fantasy - the setting reminds me of the typical "medieval" tone that a lot of fantasies have (swords, horses, ladies in long gowns, etc.) It's just different enough that I really like it. I've also liked at least one of the Maria V. Snyder series from LUNA and didn't feel it was romance 'dressed loosely in fantasy'. But, I do enjoy romance, so I've even liked the Robin Owens series' from LUNA, and they've definitely included romances as an important part of the story. I've probably named 90% of the LUNA books I've read in this post - like I said, fantasy isn't my first choice of genres. I think LUNA suffers from what other Harlequin "non-romance" lines suffer from - people expect it to have romance because HQN owns it. Books don't sell well because the romance readers complain there isn't enough romance, most x-genre readers ignore them because they assume they're only romance. So HQN slides to the safer side and tends to include more books that please the romance readers, which makes it less likely that x-genre readers will touch them....and so on. x-genre = they have at least a couple non-romance lines, but have had others that didn't do well and were cancelled (LUNA, MIRA - ongoing, Bombshell - cancelled) Last edited by FizzyWater; 12-04-2012 at 11:28 PM. Reason: added def. for x-genre |
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Repeat freebie (from last year) from Angry Robot - The Nemesis Worm, novella/short story by Guy Haley.
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