Free/Bargain Science Fiction/Fantasy March 2013

[gbm]

Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is now in the Baen Free Library. Baen Amazon

Spoiler:

Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is home to one of the galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Both Theo's mother, Kamele, and Kamele's onagrata Jen Sar Kiladi, are professors at the university, and they all live comfortably together, just like they have for all of Theo's life, in Jen Sar's house at the outskirts of town.

Suddenly, though, Theo's life changes. Kamele leaves Jen Sar and moves herself and Theo back into faculty housing, which is not what Theo is used to. Once settled back inside the Wall, Kamele becomes embroiled in faculty politics, and is appointed sub-chair of her department. Meanwhile, Theo, who has a notation in her file indicating that she is "physically challenged" has a series of misadventures, including pulling her best friend down on the belt-ride to class, and hurting a team mate during a scavage game.

With notes piling up in her file, Theo only wants to go "home," to the house in the suburbs, and have everything just like it used to be.

Then, Kamele uncovers evidence of possible dishonest scholarship inside of her department. In order to clear the department, she and a team of senior professors must go off-world to perform a forensic document search. Theo hopes this will mean that she'll be left in the care of the man she calls "Father," Professor Kiladi, and is horrified to learn that Kamele means to bring Theo with her!

bernie

[slex]

The International Speculative Fiction 2012 Anthology is available for free from their website in epub, mobi and pdf:

http://internationalsf.wordpress.com/

TOC:

“Siren Songs in Deep Time” by Nas Hedron
“Aliens” by Lavie Tidhar
“The Death of Mr. Teodorescu” by Cristian-Mihail Teodorescu
“59 Beads” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
“Dad Bought a Teleporter” by Attila Sümegi
“Space Oddity” by Regina Catarino
“Metal Can Lanterns” by Joyce Chng
“The Colors of Creation” by Judit Lorinczy
“Digits Are Cold, Numbers Are Warm” by Liviu Radu
“Butterfly, Falling at Dawn” by Aliette de Bodard
“Aphrodisia” by Lavie Tidhar
“Hunt Beneath the Moon” by Marian Truta
“The Ethics of Treason” by Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro
“The Wind-Blown Man” by Aliette de Bodard
“Single-Bit Error” by Ken Liu
Cover art is by Erasmus Brosdau.

Here is what Gardner Dozois and Cat Rambo had to say about the anthology:

“A fascinating and valuable look at what’s happening in other parts of the science fiction world, far outside of the usual American/English genre boundaries, and a book filled with strong new voices.” Gardner Dozois

“This is what science fiction should do: amaze, sometimes alarm, and always entertain, in worlds that manage to be not our own but still reflect our reality.” Cat Rambo

First issue for 2013 is also available as epub and pdf.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by gbm

Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is now in the Baen Free Library. Baen Amazon(As of this post not free on Amazon, yet. Should be free within 24hours.)

Spoiler:

Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is home to one of the galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Both Theo's mother, Kamele, and Kamele's onagrata Jen Sar Kiladi, are professors at the university, and they all live comfortably together, just like they have for all of Theo's life, in Jen Sar's house at the outskirts of town.

Suddenly, though, Theo's life changes. Kamele leaves Jen Sar and moves herself and Theo back into faculty housing, which is not what Theo is used to. Once settled back inside the Wall, Kamele becomes embroiled in faculty politics, and is appointed sub-chair of her department. Meanwhile, Theo, who has a notation in her file indicating that she is "physically challenged" has a series of misadventures, including pulling her best friend down on the belt-ride to class, and hurting a team mate during a scavage game.

With notes piling up in her file, Theo only wants to go "home," to the house in the suburbs, and have everything just like it used to be.

Then, Kamele uncovers evidence of possible dishonest scholarship inside of her department. In order to clear the department, she and a team of senior professors must go off-world to perform a forensic document search. Theo hopes this will mean that she'll be left in the care of the man she calls "Father," Professor Kiladi, and is horrified to learn that Kamele means to bring Theo with her!

bernie

When I try to download it keeps taking me back to the login page, even though I am already logged in.
Apache

[DrNefario]

Worked fine here, and I'm not logged in.

[Werepuppy]

Originally Posted by Apache

When I try to download it keeps taking me back to the login page, even though I am already logged in.
Apache

The unzipped version is taking me to the log-in page, but the zipped version seem to be downloading OK.

[gbm]

Originally Posted by gbm

Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is now in the Baen Free Library. Baen Amazon(As of this post not free on Amazon, yet. Should be free within 24hours.)

bernie

Originally Posted by Apache

When I try to download it keeps taking me back to the login page, even though I am already logged in.
Apache

Try using the zip file download.

Email sent to Baen Tech Support.

bernie

[piperclassique]

Thank you, slex. Some good stuff there

[Apache]

I was trying to dl the epub. I will use the zip.
Apache

[pdurrant]

Today's free Andre Norton: The Jargoon Pard UK US

[Fluribus]

Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine is also up for pre-order at Amazon US. $7.21 (not as good a deal as the other one) and due out April 23.

[gbm]

Originally Posted by gbm

Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is now in the Baen Free Library. Baen Amazon(As of this post not free on Amazon, yet. Should be free within 24hours.)

bernie

Originally Posted by Apache

When I try to download it keeps taking me back to the login page, even though I am already logged in.
Apache

Originally Posted by gbm

Try using the zip file download.

Email sent to Baen Tech Support.

bernie

All links have been fixed per Baen Support.

bernie

[Brendan Moody]

SF anthology The Future is Japanese is $3.99 in the US Kindle store at the moment, down from $7.64: link. Also £2.70 at Amazon UK, though I don't know if that's a new discount. Doesn't seem to be marked down anywhere else.

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

For folks in the UK Amazon has The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss for £1.99
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This book seems to very highly rated, got to get it at this price, thanks :-) £1.99 at B&N (UK), Kobo (UK) and Waterstones too.

[GeoffR]

The Blade Itself, the first in Joe Abercrombie's First Law series, is £1.99 at Amazon (UK), B&N (UK), Waterstones and Kobo (UK).

(But if buying the whole series the boxed set might be a better deal at £9.99)

[pdurrant]

Today's free Andre Norton is Sargasso of Space UK CA US DE