FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2015

[MMHaven]

JSWolf, I do realize that Google, etc., are US sites. Unfortunately, I had a brain fart since I don't use them. I did say all US sites, hoping that people would be able to search on their own...

FizzyWater, sorry to hear that you didn't like it. I haven't read it myself, but it looked intriguing.

[orangekiwi]

Feed by Mira Grant seems to be a publishers discount (in the US) and is $1.99

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.
Now, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them.
FEED is the electrifying and critically acclaimed novel of a world a half-step from our own---a novel of geeks, zombies, politics and social media.

amazon http://www.amazon.com/Feed-Newsflesh.../dp/B003GFIVSE
kobo http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/feed-1

[Keslynn]

Originally Posted by orangekiwi

Feed by Mira Grant seems to be a publishers discount (in the US) and is $1.99

I highly recommend this one. Great near - future sci-fi and an interesting take on zombies.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Keslynn

I highly recommend this one. Great near - future sci-fi and an interesting take on zombies.

I agree - it's not your typical zombie book.

[DrNefario]

I found it a bit too self-satisfied and slightly creepy, myself.

[scottken]

Originally Posted by orangekiwi

Feed by Mira Grant seems to be a publishers discount (in the US) and is $1.99

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.
Now, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them.
FEED is the electrifying and critically acclaimed novel of a world a half-step from our own---a novel of geeks, zombies, politics and social media.

amazon http://www.amazon.com/Feed-Newsflesh.../dp/B003GFIVSE
kobo http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/feed-1

I enjoyed that one quite a lot. That's a good bargain.

[pdurrant]

Tee Morris's Billibub Baddings mysteries are available at Amazon UK for £0.99 each.

I paid over £5 for the first one back in 2007. I really enjoyed it. It's a shame he didn't continue the series, but the two books are still good fun.

A fantasy dwarf in 1930s Chicago, making a living as a private detective....

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Gun Hand: A Short Story by Resa Nelson (ISFDB), originally published under the title Embracing the Arms She Must Bear in Science Fiction Age magazine in 1994.

In a not-too-distant future, Lynn still feels the aftershocks of the recent murder of a friend. She’s too afraid to do anything other than work and then go home and lock herself inside where she’ll be safe for the night. At least her work as a visual artist gives her a way to feel like she’s doing something worthwhile, because her current project focuses on the escalating violence against women.

On a rare night out with friends, Lynn is shocked to see the new technology adopted by female cops: a bio-mechanical gun that replaces a woman’s hand with a weapon. At first repulsed, Lynn rejects the idea. But with violence against women on a steady rise and a new law that permits any woman to get a gunhand, Lynn wonders how far she’s willing to go to save her own life.

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

If Tears Were Wishes & Other Short Stories by Nebula-finalist Ruth Nestvold (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a mini-collection of 3 shorts originally published in Fantasy magazine and Asimov's SF.

"Feather and Ring" - A game designer is on business in Taiwan, attempting to pull off the commercial deal of her lifetime. Her husband is leaving her, their company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and it looks as though a hostile takeover may ruin them. But luckily for Lindsay, magic lurks in the streets of Taipei, hidden between the skyscrapers and the constant traffic.

"Woman in Abaya With Onion" - A young woman visiting Egypt is pitted against far more than mere cultural differences when she begins to be visited by violent visions from the past.

"If Tears Were Wishes" - "The smell of industrial strength cleansers was laced with the smell of urine. In the back of her mind, through the pain and anger and fear, Brooke registered that the girls' bathroom didn't smell this way, pungent behind the clean, the traces of decades of boys and young men missing the urinals impossible to get out of the walls and the floor. The gag in her mouth tasted like dusty cotton.... She could tell from the third boy's expression that he would have hit her too if not for the vials he held. Vials which held a fortune. The rarest substance in the world: her tears."

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot)

All 3 books of The Jeremiah Trilogy by Michael A. Smith, his sfnal AU political action thriller which posits what would happen if an extremist religious movement took over the States, set up a separatist colony, and used genetically engineered viruses for fun and profit terror and control, originally out from Tor's Forge Books imprint 1998-2000.

In this first book of a trilogy, Jeremiah, who claims to be a modern-day religious prophet, begins killing the "evil ones"--pedophiles, bullies and rapists, prison inmates, stock market manipulators and crooked politicians. At the same time, he progressively publishes on the Internet a new book of the Christian Bible revealed to him by God. It demands strict adherence to God's commandments: "Obey or die!" is the general rule. Jeremiah urges his followers to create a "New America" in the Dakotas, where believers will implement God's revised plan for mankind.

[Harlock415]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Gun Hand: A Short Story by Resa Nelson (ISFDB), originally published under the title Embracing the Arms She Must Bear in Science Fiction Age magazine in 1994.

In a not-too-distant future, Lynn still feels the aftershocks of the recent murder of a friend. She’s too afraid to do anything other than work and then go home and lock herself inside where she’ll be safe for the night. At least her work as a visual artist gives her a way to feel like she’s doing something worthwhile, because her current project focuses on the escalating violence against women.

On a rare night out with friends, Lynn is shocked to see the new technology adopted by female cops: a bio-mechanical gun that replaces a woman’s hand with a weapon. At first repulsed, Lynn rejects the idea. But with violence against women on a steady rise and a new law that permits any woman to get a gunhand, Lynn wonders how far she’s willing to go to save her own life.

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

If Tears Were Wishes & Other Short Stories by Nebula-finalist Ruth Nestvold (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a mini-collection of 3 shorts originally published in Fantasy magazine and Asimov's SF.

"Feather and Ring" - A game designer is on business in Taiwan, attempting to pull off the commercial deal of her lifetime. Her husband is leaving her, their company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and it looks as though a hostile takeover may ruin them. But luckily for Lindsay, magic lurks in the streets of Taipei, hidden between the skyscrapers and the constant traffic.

"Woman in Abaya With Onion" - A young woman visiting Egypt is pitted against far more than mere cultural differences when she begins to be visited by violent visions from the past.

"If Tears Were Wishes" - "The smell of industrial strength cleansers was laced with the smell of urine. In the back of her mind, through the pain and anger and fear, Brooke registered that the girls' bathroom didn't smell this way, pungent behind the clean, the traces of decades of boys and young men missing the urinals impossible to get out of the walls and the floor. The gag in her mouth tasted like dusty cotton.... She could tell from the third boy's expression that he would have hit her too if not for the vials he held. Vials which held a fortune. The rarest substance in the world: her tears."

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot)

All 3 books of The Jeremiah Trilogy by Michael A. Smith, his sfnal AU political action thriller which posits what would happen if an extremist religious movement took over the States, set up a separatist colony, and used genetically engineered viruses for fun and profit terror and control, originally out from Tor's Forge Books imprint 1998-2000.

In this first book of a trilogy, Jeremiah, who claims to be a modern-day religious prophet, begins killing the "evil ones"--pedophiles, bullies and rapists, prison inmates, stock market manipulators and crooked politicians. At the same time, he progressively publishes on the Internet a new book of the Christian Bible revealed to him by God. It demands strict adherence to God's commandments: "Obey or die!" is the general rule. Jeremiah urges his followers to create a "New America" in the Dakotas, where believers will implement God's revised plan for mankind.

Gun Hand is showing up as .99 and the first book in the Jeremiah Trilogy "Jeremiah Terrorist Prophet" comes up as $1.99. NOt bad if you get all three it still comes up to less than two bucks.

EDIT: must have been a very brief sale, because within a few minutes the prices for the Jeremiah books went back up.

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by Harlock415

Gun Hand is showing up as .99 and the first book in the Jeremiah Trilogy "Jeremiah Terrorist Prophet" comes up as $1.99. NOt bad if you get all three it still comes up to less than two bucks.

EDIT: must have been a very brief sale, because within a few minutes the prices for the Jeremiah books went back up.

KDP Select freebies usually expire at midnight Pacific Time.

Wait a while and any ones you might have been interested will probably become free again, since the authors have the option of making them promotionally free for up to 5 days out of every 90 in exchange for having their books exclusively at Amazon, and most of them do use up all 5 days at some point.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Tee Morris's Billibub Baddings mysteries are available at Amazon UK for £0.99 each.

I paid over £5 for the first one back in 2007. I really enjoyed it. It's a shame he didn't continue the series, but the two books are still good fun.

A fantasy dwarf in 1930s Chicago, making a living as a private detective....

Thanks - sounds like fun!

[cromag]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Tee Morris's Billibub Baddings mysteries are available at Amazon UK for £0.99 each.

I paid over £5 for the first one back in 2007. I really enjoyed it. It's a shame he didn't continue the series, but the two books are still good fun.

A fantasy dwarf in 1930s Chicago, making a living as a private detective....

Hmmm ... Never heard of these. They're $.99 each at Amazon in the US.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...gs%20Mysteries

[Apache]

I picked them up at Amazon US since they did sound interesting.
Apache

[itisbomb]

The Warded Man: Book One of The Demon Cycle (The Demon Cycle Series 1)
by Peter V. Brett

is $1.99 at Amazon US

http://www.amazon.com/Warded-Man-Boo...=peter+v+brett

Below is the blurb:
As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise—demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards—symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and whose protection is terrifyingly fragile. It was not always this way. Once, men and women battled the corelings on equal terms, but those days are gone. Night by night the demons grow stronger, while human numbers dwindle under their relentless assault. Now, with hope for the future fading, three young survivors of vicious demon attacks will dare the impossible, stepping beyond the crumbling safety of the wards to risk everything in a desperate quest to regain the secrets of the past. Together, they will stand against the night.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by itisbomb

The Warded Man: Book One of The Demon Cycle (The Demon Cycle Series 1)
by Peter V. Brett

is $1.99 at Amazon US

http://www.amazon.com/Warded-Man-Boo...=peter+v+brett

Below is the blurb:
As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise—demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards—symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and whose protection is terrifyingly fragile. It was not always this way. Once, men and women battled the corelings on equal terms, but those days are gone. Night by night the demons grow stronger, while human numbers dwindle under their relentless assault. Now, with hope for the future fading, three young survivors of vicious demon attacks will dare the impossible, stepping beyond the crumbling safety of the wards to risk everything in a desperate quest to regain the secrets of the past. Together, they will stand against the night.

Again, even better. Much much better as it's the same price and in ePub at Google Play.

https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=AKA7nDO9j48C