FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[salty-horse]

Jewel Box: Stories by E. Lily Yu is £1.99 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
Debut short story collection of one of the most celebrated genre authors. Was on my wishlist.
Table of Contents: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?967349

Here's one of my favorite stories: The Cartographer Wasps
and the Anarchist Bees (archived, as it was removed in protest of large language models being trained on authors' work without permission)

[BetterRead]

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is currently $1.99 at Amazon and Kobo.

Now featuring never-before-seen material, the “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovators.

Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions.

Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary.

But in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state).

Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He’ll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.

[zje]

Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear is $1.99 at (Amazon) (Kobo)

A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.

Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence—with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big—just once—to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human and alien vessels. But when they make a shocking discovery about an alien species that has been long thought dead, it may be the thing that could tip the perilous peace mankind has found into full-out war.

[salty-horse]

Cross-posted to Horror.
Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts―and where death is always just around the bend.

Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive). And every hired gun in Kansas is out to collect the bounty on her head, including bona fide witch hunter Old Tom and his mysterious, mute ward, Rabbit.

On the road to Burden County, they’re joined by two vagabond cowboys with a strong sense of adventure – but no sense of purpose – and a recently widowed schoolteacher with nothing left to lose. As their posse grows, so too does the danger.

Racing along the drought-stricken plains in a stolen red stagecoach, they encounter monsters more wicked than witches lurking along the dusty trail. But the crew is determined to get that bounty, or die trying.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Jewel Box: Stories by E. Lily Yu is £1.99 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Now $2 in the US: Kobo, Amazon

[Section8]

Cross-posted to the Non-fiction deals thread, but I thought this would also be of interest to Science Fiction fans:

Space Odyssey by Michael Benson is $2.99

The definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, and of director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke—“a tremendous explication of a tremendous film….Breathtaking” (TheWashington Post).

Fifty years ago a strikingly original film had its premiere. Still acclaimed as one of the most remarkable and important motion pictures ever made, 2001: A Space Odyssey depicted the first contacts between humanity and extraterrestrial intelligence. The movie was the product of a singular collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and science fiction visionary Arthur C. Clarke. Fresh off the success of his cold war satire Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick wanted to make the first truly first-rate science fiction film. Drawing from Clarke’s ideas and with one of the author’s short stories as the initial inspiration, their bold vision benefited from pioneering special effects that still look extraordinary today, even in an age of computer-generated images.

In Space Odyssey, author, artist, and award-winning filmmaker Michael Benson “delivers expert inside stuff” (San Francisco Chronicle) from his extensive research of Kubrick’s and Clarke’s archives. He has had the cooperation of Kubrick’s widow, Christiane, and interviewed most of the key people still alive who worked on the film. Drawing also from other previously unpublished interviews, Space Odyssey provides a 360-degree view of the film from its genesis to its legacy, including many previously untold stories. And it features dozens of photos from the making of the film, most never previously published.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074ZP9S44
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/space-odyssey-2

[GlennD]

Defiance, the most current book in the Foreigner series by CJ Cherryh, is on sale at Amazon for $1.99.

I highly recommend the series if you enjoy political science fiction. Essentially a colony ship arrived at a planet a couple of hundred years before the story starts, and finds a sentient species already populates the planet. They don't have the resources to go somewhere else so they end up establishing a colony anyway. It's a first-contact story with humans as the aliens.

[DrNefario]

John Bierce's Mage Errant series seems to be a Countdown deal on the UK Kindle store at the moment.

It looks like the first 3 books are FREE, and books 4-6 are £0.99, with only book 7 at full price. These are self-published, but I am willing to vouch for them. I have enjoyed them so far and the 3 free books are definitely worth a try. (I don't know if it's a complete series at 7 books, I'm only up to book 5.)

It starts off as a magic school series.

Book 1 - Into the Labyrinth - link:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Into-Labyri.../dp/B07J675X2C

[TrevorViking]

US too
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PHPLHX5...9046843&sr=1-1

[DNSB]

The first 3 books are free in Canada as well.

Into the Labyrinth - Amazon.ca

[ZodWallop]

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

I've not yet read the book myself, but know it has been wildly popular.

Welcome to Charon's Crossing.
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.

And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.

But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.

Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.

[salty-horse]

The anthology Unnatural Creatures, edited by Neil Gaiman is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Table of contents: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?410604
And the second story is the E. Lily Yu one I mentioned when her collection was on sale

[salty-horse]

The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club #3) by Theodora Goss is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Final book in the trilogy. By now, all titles have been on sale.

[salty-horse]

A Cathedral of Myth and Bone by Kat Howard is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Short story collection. Table of contents.

[svenlind]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The anthology Unnatural Creatures, edited by Neil Gaiman is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Table of contents: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?410604
And the second story is the E. Lily Yu one I mentioned when her collection was on sale

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