FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
I'm a fan of the author!

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.

Nor do they have tails.

But they are most assuredly dead.

Nebula and Alex Award winner P. Djèlí Clark introduces a brand-new world and a fantastical city full of gods and assassins.

Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassins—resurrected, deadly, wiped of their memories—have only three unbreakable vows.

First, the contract must be just. That’s above Eveen’s pay grade.

Second, even the most powerful assassin may only kill the contracted. Eveen’s a professional. She’s never missed her mark.

The third and the simplest: once you accept a job, you must carry it out. And if you stray? A final death would be a mercy. When the Festival of the Clockwork King turns the city upside down, Eveen’s newest mission brings her face-to-face with a past she isn’t supposed to remember and a vow she can’t forget.

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The entire Dark Is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper is on sale, $2 per book.

Over Sea, Under Stone
Amazon, Kobo

The Dark is Rising
Amazon, Kobo

Greenwitch
Amazon, Kobo

The Grey King
Amazon, Kobo

Silver on the Tree
Amazon, Kobo

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The Wicked Years Collection by Gregory Maguire - $3.99

Includes Wicked, Son of a Witch, Out of Oz and A Lion Among Men

Buck a book.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FOPTNH2

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Greenteeth by Molly O'Neill is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

From an absolutely unmissable new voice in cozy fantasy comes Greenteeth, "an extraordinary tale about the most unforgettable heroine:" (Sarah Beth Durst) a charismatic lake-dwelling monster named Jenny Greenteeth with a voice unlike any other.

Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle sharp teeth. Hungry and ready to pounce.

Jenny Greenteeth has never spoken to a human before, but when a witch is thrown into her lake, something makes Jenny decide she's worth saving. Temperance doesn't know why her village has suddenly turned against her, only that it has something to do with the malevolent new pastor.

Though they have nothing in common, these two must band together on a magical quest to defeat the evil that threatens Jenny's lake and Temperance's family, as well as the very soul of Britain.

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Originally Posted by tch65721

The Wicked Years Collection by Gregory Maguire - $3.99

Includes Wicked, Son of a Witch, Out of Oz and A Lion Among Men

Buck a book.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FOPTNH2

Just a quick note. The new book Elphie is a prequel. So if anyone is getting this omnibus, you may want to get Elphie and read it first.

The Wicked Years Collection is also $3.99 at Kobo and Google Play Books.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...ete-collection
https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=CXBAAQAAQBAJ

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A Conventional Boy (Laundry Files #13) by Charles Stross is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
This is a standalone Laundry Files and the latest one published.

In this new Laundry Files adventure the fate of the world will literally depend on the roll of dice... twenty-sided dice, that is.

In 1984, Derek Reilly was just another spotty teenage dungeon master growing up in middle England. But then a secret government agency tasked with suppressing magical intrusions received a tip-off – and one midnight raid later, his life was turned upside down by the Satanic D&D Panic.

Decades later Derek, now middle-aged and institutionalized, is a long-term inmate at Camp Sunshine, a center for deprogramming captured Elder God cultists. He’s considered safe enough to edit the camp newsletter, and he even has postal privileges – which he uses to run a play-by-mail game. After 25 years, Derek finally has reason to escape: a nearby D&D convention. While Derek’s D&D games were full of fictional elder gods and world-ending threats, a LARP game at the con is a dread ritual designed to summon a great evil into our world, and it’s up to Derek and his players to stop them.

The fate of the world may depend on the contents of Derek’s magic dice bag.

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The Discord of Gods (A Chorus of Dragons #5) by Jenn Lyons is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

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This month's FREEBIE from Tachyon Publications:

Bigfoot and the Bodhisattva, by James Morrow.

It looks to be a novella.

Available in PDF or epub.

I was notified PERSONALLY by email.

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The Cloak Society by Jeramey Kraatz is $1.99. Middle grade.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007HBT70O...v_ov_lig_dp_it

Masterminds by Gordon Korman is $1.99. Middle grade.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KACD2I0...v_ov_lig_dp_it

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The Sand-Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw is $3 on Amazon (Kobo still full price, but I think it's price-matchable)
This is historical fiction, but reimagines Greece with more advanced tech than it has, so is kind of science fiction.

The Sand-Reckoner from author Gillian Bradshaw is a historical account that reimagines the life of one of ancient Greek's greatest minds.

The young scholar Archimedes has just had the best three years of his life at Ptolemy's Museum at Alexandria. To be able to talk and think all day, every day, sharing ideas and information with the world's greatest minds, is heaven to Archimedes. But heaven must be forsaken when he learns that his father is ailing, and his home city of Syracuse is at war with the Romans.

Reluctant but resigned, Archimedes takes himself home to find a job building catapults as a royal engineer. Though Syracuse is no Alexandria, Archimedes also finds that life at home isn't as boring or confining as he originally thought. He finds fame and loss, love and war, wealth and betrayal-none of which affects him nearly as much as the divine beauty of mathematics.

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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle #5) by Nghi Vo is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a standalone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn.

The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. The bride's party is welcomed with elaborate courtesies and extravagant banquets, but between the frightened servants and the cryptic warnings of the lord's mad son, they quickly realize that something is haunting the shadowed halls.

As Chih and the bride-to-be explore empty rooms and desolate courtyards, they are drawn into the mystery of what became of Lord Guo's previous wives and the dark history of Doi Cao itself. But as the wedding night draws to its close, Chih will learn at their peril that not all monsters are to be found in the shadows; some monsters hide in plain sight.

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The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti #2) by Malka Older is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Lesbian Homles and Watson on Titan.

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Grave Empire (The Great Silence #1) by Richard Swan is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Sequel to the Empire of the Wolf trilogy.

From critically acclaimed author Richard Swan, Grave Empire begins the epic tale of an empire on the verge of industrial revolution, where sorcery and arcane practices are outlawed – and where an ancient prophecy threatens the coming end of days.

Blood once turned the wheels of empire. Now it is money.

A new age of exploration and innovation has dawned, and the Empire of the Wolf stands to take its place as the foremost power in the known world. Glory and riches await.

But dark days are coming. A mysterious plague has broken out in the pagan kingdoms to the north, while in the south, the Empire’s proxy war in the lands of the wolfmen is weeks away from total collapse.

Worse still is the message brought to the Empress by two heretic monks, who claim to have lost contact with the spirits of the afterlife. The monks believe this is the start of an ancient prophecy heralding the end of days—the Great Silence.

It falls to Renata Rainer, a low-ranking ambassador to an enigmatic and vicious race of mermen, to seek answers from those who still practice the arcane arts. But with the road south beset by war and the Empire on the brink of supernatural catastrophe, soon there may not be a world left to save...

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Waterblack (Cities of the Weft #3) by Alex Pheby is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
This is supposed to be an excellent trilogy. Book 2 was on sale a year ago.

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Penguin in the UK has a bunch of dystopian fiction on sale today. Here's some of it:

Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home by James Tiptree Jr. is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Written under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and outlandish tales of Alice B. Sheldon are some of the greatest science fiction short stories of the twentieth century, telling of dystopian chases, alien sex and the loneliness of the universe.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
This one includes a lot of extra material that the US edition that is currently on sale doesn't have.

Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews

Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis

'It is a horrorshow story ...'

Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?

A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'.

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.

The Machine Stops and Other Stories by E M Forster is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

A new selection of E. M. Forster's exquisite short stories, now in the beautifully designed Penguin English Library Series

'We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralyzed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it.'

Like his much-loved novels, E. M. Forster's short stories are rich in irony and alive with sharp observations on the surprises life holds. Telling tales of violent events, discomforting coincidences, and other disruptive happenings, his sharp and vivid prose has the ability to throw the characters', and reader's, perceptions and beliefs off balance.

Selected to appeal to a new generation of readers around the world, this new selection of short stories in the Penguin English Library series celebrates E. M. Forster's unparalleled skill for storytelling, beginning with his masterful work of science fiction, The Machine Stops.