FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[salty-horse]

The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2019 edited by Carmen Maria Machado, John Joseph Adams is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Contents: https://www.johnjosephadams.com/proj...e-of-contents/

[SomeSteve]

Some of J.R.R. Tolkien's books are reduced in the US at Amazon and Kobo:

The Lord of the Rings (complete in one volume) is $2.99.

https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-On.../dp/B007978OY6

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...f-the-rings-14

The Silmarillion is $1.99.

https://www.amazon.com/Silmarillion-.../dp/B007978PGI

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-silmarillion-10

The Hobbit (75th Anniversary Edition) is $1.99. The Kindle edition includes audio and video, however that works. Don't know if the Kobo edition is the same.

https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-75th-A.../dp/B007978NU6

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-hobbit-35

There's also an illustrated edition of The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again for $1.99.

https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-J-R-R-.../dp/B009VN1Q00

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-hobbit-34

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by SomeSteve

Some of J.R.R. Tolkien's books are reduced in the US at Amazon and Kobo:

The Lord of the Rings (complete in one volume) is $2.99.

https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-On.../dp/B007978OY6

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...f-the-rings-14

The Silmarillion is $1.99.

https://www.amazon.com/Silmarillion-.../dp/B007978PGI

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-silmarillion-10

The Hobbit (75th Anniversary Edition) is $1.99. The Kindle edition includes audio and video, however that works. Don't know if the Kobo edition is the same.

https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-75th-A.../dp/B007978NU6

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-hobbit-35

There's also an illustrated edition of The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again for $1.99.

https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-J-R-R-.../dp/B009VN1Q00

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-hobbit-34

There's a bunch more, actually. Might be easier just to link to the full list from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/s/browse/?ie=...f_rd_s=slot-14

[Cactus Chef]

This popped up in my eReaderIQ yesterday, and looks like the sale is still going.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-budayeen-cycle
https://www.amazon.com/Budayeen-Cycl...dp/B0741QZVZ7/

The Budayeen Cycle by George Alec Effinger, which includes:

• When Gravity Fails
• A Fire in the Sun
• The Exile Kiss

Price: $4.99 (approx. $1.66 per book)

Synopsis:

The complete Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated cyberpunk trilogy by an author whose work is “wry and black and savage” (George R. R. Martin).

Praised as “a perfect example of how exciting the subgenre can and should be,” George Alec Effinger’s Budayeen Cycle is a towering and timeless science fiction achievement that continues to amaze, shock, and captivate readers (SF Signal).

When Gravity Fails: Set in a high-tech near future featuring an ascendant Muslim world and divided Western superpowers, this cult classic takes readers into a world with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose, brains enhanced by electronic hardware, and surgically altered bodies. Street hustler Marîd Audran has always prided himself on his independence, free from commitments, connections, and even cybernetic modifications. But when a string of brutal murders lands him on the radar of Friedlander Bey, the most powerful and dangerous man in the decadent Arab ghetto, the Budayeen, Audran is forced to change his loner ways, or risk losing his life . . .

A Fire in the Sun: Once a small-time smuggler, Marîd Audran has, to his chagrin, moved up in the ranks of the criminal underworld to become a lieutenant in Friedlander Bey’s shadowy empire. Tasked with being Bey’s eyes and ears inside local law enforcement, Audran finds himself tracking yet another serial killer through the streets of the Budayeen. And the closer he gets to his target, the more embroiled he becomes in the deadly political machinations hidden behind the city’s façade.

The Exile Kiss: Marîd Audran is finally learning to appreciate the wealth and benefits that come from being on Friedlander Bey’s payroll when a powerful enemy does the unthinkable, and gets both Audran and Bey exiled from the Budayeen. Abandoned in the lifeless and lethal Arabian Desert, Audran and Bey have only one option: survive long enough to exact revenge on the man responsible.

I've not read it, but I could always use more Cyberpunk.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

This popped up in my eReaderIQ yesterday, and looks like the sale is still going.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-budayeen-cycle
https://www.amazon.com/Budayeen-Cycl...dp/B0741QZVZ7/

The Budayeen Cycle by George Alec Effinger, which includes:

• When Gravity Fails
• A Fire in the Sun
• The Exile Kiss

Price: $4.99 (approx. $1.66 per book)

I've not read it, but I could always use more Cyberpunk.

I bought the three individual books. Your all-in-one is a better deal.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I bought the three individual books. Your all-in-one is a better deal.

And the discount usually gets lower than $5, so wait if you can.

[sufue]

A whole bunch of Tolkien books are $1.99 and up right now at Kindle US as part of "Tolkien Reading Day". And the "and up" isn't too bad - many of them really are $1.99, and most or all of the rest are $2.99.

Everyone on this thread who wants them probably has them, but just in case, here are links - to the sale page at Kindle US, and a link to a search on Tolkien at Kobo US, where I spot-checked a few, and prices seem to be pretty similar. I didn't check exhaustively to see if all were exactly the same, so YMMV.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/b/node=120337246011
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?qu...fclanguages=en

[Sumanuil]

Riverworld and Other Stories by Philip José Farmer is $1.99 on Amazon US.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0732JTY19

[salty-horse]

Crossposted to Horror forum.
Ascension by Nicholas Binge is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Recommended by Stephen King.
Locus review by Gabino Iglesias.

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human

The only way out is up. . .

An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to explain its existence. When Harold Tunmore is contacted by a shadowy organization to help investigate, he has no idea what he is getting into as he and his team set out for the mountain.

The higher Harold’s team ascends, the less things make sense. Time moves differently, turning minutes into hours, and hours into days. Amid the whipping cold of higher elevation, the climbers’ limbs numb and memories of their lives before the mountain begin to fade. Paranoia quickly turns to violence among the crew, and slithering, ancient creatures pursue them in the snow. Still, as the dangers increase, the mystery of the mountain compels them to its peak, where they are certain they will find their answers. Have they stumbled upon the greatest scientific discovery known to man or the seeds of their own demise?

Framed by the discovery of Harold Tunmore’s unsent letters to his family and the chilling and provocative story they tell, Ascension considers the limitations of science and faith and examines both the beautiful and the unsettling sides of human nature.

[salty-horse]

The Master of Whitestorm is Janny Wurts is $2 in the US. (Kobo US, Kobo WW, Amazon)

Chained at the oar on a Mhurgai galley, a sullen slave who never speaks is considered a madman by his fellow captives -- until the hour Korendir announces a plan, which is certainly doomed to failure, for no one ever escapes the merciless Mhurgai alive...
Korendir's silence hides a devious intellect. And his benchmate, Haldeth, is desperate to end his cruel captivity, even if mercy comes to him under the murderous knives of the Mhurgai. When Korendir's daring plan frees them both, Haldeth is compelled to follow his determined companion on an even more impossible quest: to lift a curse that despoils the kingdom of Torresdyr by recovering a legendary wardstone from a witch. His prize if he succeeds? A wizard's treasure. If he fails? A grave with the legion of defeated champions before him. Far from content to retire from danger, Korendir's restless nature will not embrace peace, his insatiable taste for impossible odds skating the thin edge toward insanity...

From a Tor.com overview by Stefan Raets:

Another personal favorite is Master of Whitestorm, the tale of a former galley slave who becomes somewhat obsessed (to put it mildly) with gathering enough money to build an impregnable fortress. Initially feeling like an old-fashioned episodic adventure fantasy, the novel gradually reveals an underlying thread that explains the main character’s personality. Think Lethal Weapon in a complex fantasy setting.

[salty-horse]

The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
While Ballingrud is primarily a horror author, this is more of an SF novel.

1931, New Galveston, Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the Strange to find Silas Mundt’s gang who have stolen her mother’s voice, destroyed her father, and left her solely with a need for vengeance in this “page-turner” (Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun) from Nathan Ballingrud.

Since Anabelle’s mother left for Earth to care for her own ailing mother, her days in New Galveston have been spent at school and her nights at her laconic father’s diner with Watson, the family Kitchen Engine and dishwasher, as her only companion. When the Silence came, and communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars stopped, life seemed stuck in foreboding stasis until the night Silas Mundt and his gang attacked.

At once evoking the dreams of an America explored in Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and the harsher realities of frontier life in Charles Portis True Grit, Ballingrud’s “brilliant” (Paul Tremblay) novel is haunting in its evocation of Annabelle’s quest for revenge amidst a spent and angry world accompanied by a domestic Engine, a drunken space pilot, and the toughest woman on Mars.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
While Ballingrud is primarily a horror author, this is more of an SF novel.

Thanks for that. Sounds quirky.

[Aleron Ives]

'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue' by V. E. Schwab is $2:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084357H23
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-addie-larue-2

In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force.
A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life

Also in the vein of The Sudden Appearance of Hope

[Quoth]

Left Hand of Darkness, classic Ursula Le Guin 85p Amazon UK today https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01NCU4VNT/