FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Cactus Chef]

On sale again, a buck cheaper than the last time I posted it ($3.99):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0741QZVZ7

The Budayeen Cycle: When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss, by George Alec Effinger.

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.

Amazon-only, as of right now. Maybe Kobo will follow suit, or else be willing to price match.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

The Budayeen Cycle: When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss, by George Alec Effinger.



Amazon-only, as of right now. Maybe Kobo will follow suit, or else be willing to price match.

Kobo will price match but it is also in the Kobo Plus program so as Amazon likes saying about books in Kindle Unlimited, "it's $0.00!". With the price match, you would get the book for $3.59 Cdn ($3.99-10%).

[ZodWallop]

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott is $3. Amazon, B&N, Kobo

Coincidentally, I had been looking for books about Baba Yaga.

In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance.

The Yaga siblings—Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist—have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive an inheritance, the siblings agree to meet—only to discover that their bequest isn’t land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs.

Thistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas’ ancestral home outside Kyiv—but not alone. A sinister figure known only as the Longshadow Man has tracked it to American shores, bearing with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in Isaac and Bellatine’s blood for generations. As the Yaga siblings embark with Thistlefoot on a final cross-country tour of their family’s traveling theater show, the Longshadow Man follows in relentless pursuit, seeding destruction in his wake. Ultimately, time, magic, and legacy must collide—erupting in a powerful conflagration to determine who gets to remember the past and craft a new future.

An enchanted adventure illuminated by Jewish myth and adorned with lyrical prose as tantalizing and sweet as briar berries, Thistlefoot is a sweeping epic rich in Eastern European folklore: a powerful and poignant exploration of healing from multi-generational trauma told by a bold new talent.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Coincidentally, I had been looking for books about Baba Yaga.

Emma Goldman Takes Tea With the Baba Yaga by Veronica Shcanoes (in Burning Girls and Other Stories)

When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

And be sure to pronounce it correctly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifmq6XHV_8g

[salty-horse]

Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
First in a 5-part series that's one story.

Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father’s only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it’s no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can’t hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. It’s adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. And despite her family’s misgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down.

Expelled from the Academy in disgrace–and returning home to her humiliated family, a storm of high-profile media coverage, and the gaping void of her own future–Ky is ready to face the inevitable onslaught of anger, disappointment, even pity. But soon after opportunity’s door slams shut, Ky finds herself with a ticket to ride– and a shot at redemption–as captain of a Vatta Transport ship.

It’s a simple assignment: escorting one of the Vatta fleet’s oldest ships on its final voyage . . . to the scrapyard. But keeping it simple has never been Ky’s style. And even though her father has provided a crew of seasoned veterans to baby-sit the fledgling captain on her maiden milk run, they can’t stop Ky from turning the routine mission into a risky venture–in the name of turning a profit for Vatta Transport, of course.

By snapping up a lucrative delivery contract defaulted on by a rival company, and using part of the proceeds to upgrade her condemned vehicle, Ky aims to prove she’s got more going for her than just her family’s famous name. But business will soon have to take a backseat to bravery, when Ky’s change of plans sails her and the crew straight into the middle of a colonial war. For all her commercial savvy, it’s her military training and born-soldier’s instincts that Ky will need to call on in the face of deadly combat, dangerous mercenaries, and violent mutiny. . . .

[SomeSteve]

Welcome to the Monkey House, a collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut, is around $2/€2 at various Amazon stores and at Kobo US.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wel...pecial-edition

https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Monke.../dp/B00E2RZIEA

https://www.amazon.ca/Welcome-Monkey.../dp/B00E2RZIEA

https://www.amazon.de/Welcome-Monkey.../dp/B00E2RZIEA

https://www.amazon.fr/Welcome-Monkey.../dp/B00E2RZIEA

[salty-horse]

Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky is £1 in the UK (Amazon only, but Kobo has it now and you can request a price match)
Kobo just got the book - the sale has been going on for about a week.

Doctor Jasmine Marks is going back into hell.

The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, or the “Zone,” is a growing band of rainforest on the equator, where the heat and humidity make it impossible for warm-blooded animals to survive. A human being without protection in the Zone is dead in minutes.

Twenty years ago, Marks went into the rainforest with a group of researchers led by Doctor Elaine Fell, to study the extraordinary climate and see if it could be used in agriculture. The only thing she learned was that the Zone was no place for people. There were deaths, and the programme was cut short.

Now, they’re sending her back in. A plane crash, a rescue mission, a race against time and the environment to bring out the survivors. But there are things Marks’s corporate masters aren’t telling her. The Zone keeps its secrets, and so does Doctor Fell…

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Emma Goldman Takes Tea With the Baba Yaga by Veronica Shcanoes (in Burning Girls and Other Stories)

When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

And be sure to pronounce it correctly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifmq6XHV_8g

Thanks for that! I can't give you more Karma until I spread some around.

[zelda.owns.link]

Kindle USA and Canada have the Villains series on sale for $1.99 each.

[salty-horse]

Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham is £3 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
The Kithamar Trilogy #2. The final book is out next month.
IIRC it covers the time frame as the first book, but from a different perspective.

[salty-horse]

Humble Bundle has a Dragonlance bundle, I think with everything except the latest series.
US only, but you can change your country in the settings.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/w...ds-coast-books

[DrNefario]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Humble Bundle has a Dragonlance bundle, I think with everything except the latest series.
US only, but you can change your country in the settings.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/w...ds-coast-books

They seemed happy enough to let me buy it with my UK account.

They've got my number. I had Dragons of Autumn Twilight on my kindle wishlist because I'm doing an exercise where I reread some books that meant something to me growing up. I don't expect to get as much from Dragonlance these days, but I wanted to reread it anyway. It would have cost me £5.99, which I thought was a bit much. Instead I've paid two-and-a-half times that price and got 25 more books I didn't really want.

[SomeSteve]

50 in 50, a collection of 50 stories by Harry Harrison, is $1.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US.

https://www.amazon.com/50-Fifty-stor.../dp/B008KP3R70

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/50-in-50-1

[ZodWallop]

Fortress Sol by Stephen Baxter is $1 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

I'm just finishing Baxter's first book, Raft, which seems to be OOP in the US. A shame. I really like Baxter.

When Rab was a baby, his mother made a decision which would change his life. She feared he would be sent to work in the hellish mines of Mercury, to eke out his life until he was worn out, all in the name of maintaining the defense of the Solar System. But when her desperate attempt to flee with her 2 year old failed, she took a desperate step to save him. She cut off his hand.

Decades later, Rab has been spared the physical hardships he can no longer endure, and is now based on the Mask, the all-encompassing structure which hides the Solar System from alien eyes. And it is during his watch that a spaceship arrives, one which has traveled for a hundred years from a long-forgotten colony planet.

If they pierce the Mask, everything humanity has created will be left open to the alien threat. But this strange ship, bearing an offshoot of the species, may bring something else with them. Hope.

[salty-horse]

New World SF StoryBundle curated by Lavie Tidhar:
https://storybundle.com/scifi
Most are anthologies. Sinophagia is a horror anthology, the rest is SFF.

The Golem of Deneb Seven by Alex Shvartsman
The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar
The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv
The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed
Sinophagia edited by Xueting C. Ni
The Pleasure of Drowning by Jean Bürlesk
Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw
Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic by Tobi Ogundiran