FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[salty-horse]

The Angry Robot publisher store has a 50% discount on all ebooks (except preorders) with the coupon BLACKFRIDAY22.

I got:
Within Without and Creeping Jenny by Jeff Noon - books 3 and 4 in his weird "detective in strange lands" series.
The Worldbreaker Saga by Kameron Hurley - epic fantasy trilogy.
The Phlebotomist and Stringers by Chris Panatier - the first is a vampire story about a conspiracy where they control blood banks, and society is segregated by blood type. The second is a weird aliens story.

[ZodWallop]

To the Vanishing Point by Alan Dean Foster is $1.99 at Amazon US. I read this years ago and enjoyed it.

Aliens in the mirror are closer than they appear. The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Relic takes readers on an out-of-this-world road trip.
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The Sonderberg family does not know it yet, but this is not going to be any ordinary road trip. After they pick up an unassuming hitchhiker, a quiet drive down Interstate 40 becomes a trip into an alternate reality. It turns out the family has just given a ride to an alien who has the fate of the universe resting on her shoulders. Now the Sonderberg family must fight evil alongside their new alien friend, in a desperate attempt to save the world they love.

[tch65721]

Dragons of Winter Night: The Dragonlance Chronicles by Weis/Hickman - $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004G8P1J2

[andyh2000]

Far Thoughts and Pale Gods (The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear Book 2) is £1.99 at Amazon at the moment (usually ~£7 according to ereaderiq).
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0155UBSDC

Andrew

[wandalynn]

Kraken by China Mieville is currently $4.99 on AMAZON and several other ebook vendor sites.

[ZodWallop]

The Crystal Shard by R.A. Salvatore is $1.99 at Amazon US. My experience reading Salvatore was... not good. But hey, he's wildly popular. Fun fact: this was the second Forgotten Realms book published.

With his days in the Underdark far behind him, drow ranger Drizzt Do’Urden sets down roots in the windswept Ten-Towns of Icewind Dale. A cold and unforgiving place, Ten-Towns sits on the brink of a catastrophic war, threatened by the barbarian tribes of the north.

It’s in the midst of battle that a young barbarian named Wulfgar is captured and made the ward of Bruenor, a grizzled dwarf leader and a companion to Drizzt. With Drizzt’s help, Wulfgar will grow from a feral child to a man with the heart of a dwarf, the instincts of a savage, and the soul of a hero. But it will take even more than that to defeat the corrupt wizard who wields the demonic power of Crenshininbon—the fabled Crystal Shard.

The Crystal Shard is first book in the Icewind Dale Trilogy and the fourth book in the Legend of Drizzt series.

Like Star Wars, the fourth tale was the first produced. Fun fact #2

[ZodWallop]

Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert is $1.99 at Amazon US.

Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time

The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest—the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power.

Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they’ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy—the spice melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes—a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad’Dib....

[bookmarked]

It's been cheaper before, but considering this is the first real price drop for the omnibus edition since 2015, some may count it as a deal.

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume by Douglas Adams is on sale for $9.99 (it's been $13.99 for years).

Effectively $2 per book, it's not a bad price.

[GlennD]

Originally Posted by bookmarked

It's been cheaper before, but considering this is the first real price drop for the omnibus edition since 2015, some may count it as a deal.

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume by Douglas Adams is on sale for $9.99 (it's been $13.99 for years).

Effectively $2 per book, it's not a bad price.

I see it includes the short story. I think there's a collection that doesn't, so this is a good one to get.

[salty-horse]

A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys is $3 on Amazon.com

A novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that just might be in reach.

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. She heads out to check what she expects to be a false alarm—and stumbles upon the first alien visitors to Earth. These aliens have crossed the galaxy to save humanity, convinced that the people of Earth must leave their ecologically-ravaged planet behind and join them among the stars. And if humanity doesn't agree, they may need to be saved by force.

But the watershed networks that rose up to save the planet from corporate devastation aren't ready to give up on Earth. Decades ago, they reorganized humanity around the hope of keeping the world liveable. By sharing the burden of decision-making, they've started to heal our wounded planet.

Now corporations, nation-states, and networks all vie to represent humanity to these powerful new beings, and if anyone accepts the aliens' offer, Earth may be lost. With everyone’s eyes turned skyward, the future hinges on Judy's effort to create understanding, both within and beyond her own species.

[salty-horse]

Mordew by Alex Pheby is $3 on Amazon.com
First in a trilogy. The sequel was just released.

God is dead, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew.

In the slums of the sea-battered city, a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his parents, eking out a meagre existence by picking treasures from the Living Mud and the half-formed, short-lived creatures it spawns. Until one day his desperate mother sells him to the mysterious Master of Mordew.

The Master derives his magical power from feeding on the corpse of God. But Nathan, despite his fear and lowly station, has his own strength—and it is greater than the Master has ever known. Great enough to destroy everything the Master has built. If only Nathan can discover how to use it.

So it is that the Master begins to scheme against him—and Nathan has to fight his way through the betrayals, secrets, and vendettas of the city where God was murdered, and darkness reigns.

[Manabi]

Brian McClellan's In the Shadow of Lightning is on sale for $2.99 today only.

Demir Grappo is an outcast—he fled a life of wealth and power, abandoning his responsibilities as a general, a governor, and a son. Now he will live out his days as a grifter, rootless, and alone. But when his mother is brutally murdered, Demir must return from exile to claim his seat at the head of the family and uncover the truth that got her killed: the very power that keeps civilization turning, godglass, is running out.

Now, Demir must find allies, old friends and rivals alike, confront the powerful guild-families who are only interested in making the most of the scraps left at the table and uncover the invisible hand that threatens the Empire. A war is coming, a war unlike any other. And Demir and his ragtag group of outcasts are the only thing that stands in the way of the end of life as the world knows it.

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[ZodWallop]

Hot Moon by Alan Smale is $0.99 at Amazon US.

I checked CAEZIK SF & Fantasy and they are a small, but legit publisher. (And one of the board members here gave it a positive blurb)

From the two-time Sidewise Award-winning author of the acclaimed Clash of Eagles trilogy comes an alternate 1979 where the US and the Soviets have permanent Moon bases, orbiting space stations, and crewed spy satellites supported by frequent rocket launches.

Apollo 32, commanded by career astronaut Vivian Carter, docks at NASA's Columbia space station en route to its main mission: exploring the volcanic Marius Hills region of the Moon. Vivian is caught in the crossfire as four Soviet Soyuz craft appear without warning to assault the orbiting station. In an unplanned and desperate move, Vivian spacewalks through hard vacuum back to her Lunar Module and crew and escapes right before the station falls into Soviet hands.

Their original mission scrubbed, Vivian and her crew are redirected to land at Hadley Base, a NASA scientific outpost with a crew of eighteen. But soon Hadley, too, will come under Soviet attack, forcing its unarmed astronauts to daring acts of ingenuity and improvisation.

With multiple viewpoints, shifting from American to Soviet perspective, from occupied space station to American Moon base under siege, to a covert and blistering US Air Force military response, Hot Moon tells the gripping story of a war in space that very nearly might have been.

[gbm]

Also at Kobo and Partners22 discount code works with it.


bernie

P.S.
On sale until Dec 4, 2022

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Hot Moon by Alan Smale is $0.99 at Amazon US.

I checked CAEZIK SF & Fantasy and they are a small, but legit publisher. (And one of the board members here gave it a positive blurb)

[salty-horse]

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is $3 on Amazon.com

Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman.

Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers.

The hybrids: The fruits of the doctor’s labor, destined to blindly obey their creator and remain in the shadows. A motley group of part human, part animal monstrosities.

All of them live in a perfectly balanced and static world, which is jolted by the abrupt arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the charming and careless son of Dr. Moreau’s patron, who will unwittingly begin a dangerous chain reaction.

For Moreau keeps secrets, Carlota has questions, and, in the sweltering heat of the jungle, passions may ignite.