10-03-2012, 04:01 PM | #1 |
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Free and Bargain Fantasy/SciFi Ebooks October 2012
Nightbird, I love your monthly free and bargain horror threads, so I humbly apologize if I am stepping on your toes here, but I thought I'd start a similar thread for Fantasy/SciFi, and kick it off with this:
Kosmonaut Zero by Richard Evans is free at Amazon: Marina Mernova is older sister to little Leon, Moscow resident – and a young KGB officer. She is given a simple mission to find a missing scientist of high value to the Soviet space programme. She navigates 1960s Russia, a land of rockets and shortages, a Cold War utopia with a paranoid underbelly – and her search uncovers visionary technologies that shatter the limits of humanity and longevity. Marina is sacrificed and reborn as Kosmonaut Zero – a body sculpted from flesh and metal, controlled by drugs and a primitive computer interface. But what remains of Marina once she is turned into something designed to exist not on Earth, but in deep space? Will she get back to Earth and her beloved brother? "Excellent Science Fiction" Rosten Blog "Mindblowing" Universe Magazine More praise for Richard Evans: "Think Asimov. Think Blade Runner. Think Richard Evans." Book Munch. Touch Sensitive (short story, 2007) - "Moving & delicately written – one of the anthology's clear front runners." Stool Pigeon Magazine "Manchester's greatest science fiction writer." Anthony H. Wilson Last edited by conanfan; 10-03-2012 at 05:54 PM. Reason: Thread Title Messed Up. |
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Yahoo - I'm so glad you're doing this. No, you're not stepping on my toes. I stole the idea for the other threads from the romance thread. LOL
Open Road is having some bundles on sale. The prices aren't fantastic, but the best deal could be with a Kobo coupon. Available at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Sony, Google, BOB, and Apple. Links for all stores except BOB and B&N are inside the links below (not an affiliate tag - just from their newsletter): Open Road Ebook Bundles The Darwath Trilogy by Barbara Hambly (Fantasy) Priced from $9.99 (Amazon) and up ($12.39 at Kobo) (864 pages). BOB B&N Quote:
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10-03-2012, 08:27 PM | #3 | ||
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Looks like the individual books in the trilogy were $1.99 last november, as I have the entire trilogy. Yay! Quote:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Lyra-Novel...dp/B0092G1BOC/ Wouldn't you know - I bought the first book in this set 8 days ago. I think I'll try for a refund anyway, via customer service, so I can get the bundle instead. Last edited by koland; 10-03-2012 at 08:29 PM. |
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I'm sure you won't have a problem getting a refund. Sad to say, I have used all the Kobo coupons. |
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10-03-2012, 11:09 PM | #5 |
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Thanks conanfan. Now for the most part there are dedicated threads to my three favorite fiction genres (fantasy/sci-fi, horror, and mystery/thrillers).
Of course most of the fiction I read is extremely serious "literature." Darwath Trilogy is pretty good. Hambly is now apparently more into into mysteries, but she has written some decent fantasy. I think the Darwath Trilogy might be her earliest work, from early 80s, but still a good read, in my opinion. Written before multi-volume series became nearly obligatory in the fantasy genre. Which has resulted (again in my opinion) in a lot of boring, cliched writing/stories. |
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10-03-2012, 11:38 PM | #6 |
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Another Open Road Media science fiction bundle is Alan Dean Foster's Icerigger trilogy, which is set in his Humanx Commonwealth universe. It's $7.99 at Google Play, and probably elsewhere, and this is $2 off the regular price for this bundle. For what it's worth, I think Google Play is selling these bundles at the same price as Amazon.
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So - go for the lower price or put it on the account that the family shares? Btw, does anyone else think the new paperwhite's insistence on telling you how many minutes it should take you to finish a chapter is annoying? I keep setting it back to location (and I miss the bar at the bottom to show progress -- it's not as though they are using the space for anything else) but every time the kindle goes to sleep, it resets to time/chapter. |
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I don't have my Paperwhite yet, but that was one of the features I was looking forward to. I like the progress bar, too. |
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One in the family would read them for sure (Foster's as well). But, it's $2.61 cheaper at Kobo with the 30% off coupon for Foster's trilogy and $4.11 less on the Lyra set with the 35% off.... together that's several more books.... None of these are in any of the libraries I belong to, either, so that's not likely to be an option (although they are adding titles all the time, I'd hate to try to get thru a 5-volume set on their deadline). I think I'll get them at Kobo ... am I the only one that gets an "uh-oh" page after every purchase, requiring me to go find the book in my lbrary (I even get it after buying a gift card, although the purchase always goes thru ok). |
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Do you have one of the magnetic covers? I think if you close it when you're taking a break it should work okay. Per the user guide it sounds like there's an option to have it not display if it's really bugging you.
No, I don't have that problem with Kobo. |
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the progress, though, seems to be a choice of three items - but it won't stay with the one I pick (unless I pick one of the ones tied to minutes, which is completely meaningless to me, especially on a paperwhite, which has no audio .. at least, I assume it is tied to the audiobook length for it's timing). You don't get pages anymore (although you can see them by opening the top menu, which also gets you the progress bar) and it wont' stay with the location - which is what I prefer to see. |
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Cryptozoic! by Brian Aldiss is free from E-Reads.
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