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FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2015
A thread for 2015.
We point out free and bargain SF/Fantasy titles to each other. Please don't post any self-published books*, and please do a search before posting to avoid duplicates. Be aware that many freebies are only free for a day, so grab them fast! *Unless you have read them yourself, think they are excellent, and you're not connected to the author in any way. |
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Happy 2015 everyone!
Cross-posted from the Kindle for Samsung Free Selections thread: They're here! These are the January 2015 Samsung Book Deals selections from the Kindle store (in the order in which Amazon presented them). Click on Samsung Book Deals to learn how this works.
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Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:
Dragonslayer: Two Short Stories by Resa Nelson (ISFDB), a mini-collection of her high fantasy shorts originally published in the now-defunct Science Fiction Age magazine in 1992 and 1996, which formed the basis of her Dragonslayer series currently out from Mundania Press. In "The Dragonslayer’s Sword", Astrid the blacksmith struggles to choose between protecting herself from a new dragonslayer’s unwelcome advances and the necessity of keeping his weapons in good shape so he can protect her village from dragons. Her fellow villagers believe the previous dragonslayer has been killed by a dragon, but Astrid knows the real reason he’s gone missing and this knowledge haunts her. In "The Silver Shoes", Astrid is surprised by a visit from Lenore, a newcomer who acts as if the village’s customs and laws don’t apply to her, leaving her friendless. But when asking Astrid to make a pair of silver shoes for her, Lenore reveals her disturbing past and the true meaning of her request for these shoes. Free again from the small-press re-publisher Books We Love via KDP Select @ Amazon: The Leopard's Daughter by Lee Killough (ISFDB, Wikipedia), her African-mythology-based adventure fantasy novel originally out from Warner's Questar imprint in 1987. In an ancient Africa of verdant Sahara plains, warrior woman Jeneba Karamoke has grown up scorned by her people because her father was a leopard man. When she rescues a party of fellow warriors from cannibalistic monster half-men, she hopes it will finally win acceptance for her. But no...in order to prove she isn't lying about the vanished hero Tomo Silla's part in their capture by the half men she must make Tomo face the tribe. Can she find him, and then survive more monsters, foreign tribes, and a curse laid on a fabled city to bring him back alive? |
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Book 1 & 2 of "Lives of Tao" by Wesley Chu are on sale at Amazon. They can be downloaded for $1.99 each.
The Lives of Tao (Book 1) http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Tao-Wesl...e+lives+of+tao The Deaths of Tao (Lives of Tao Book 2) http://www.amazon.com/Deaths-Tao-Liv...e+lives+of+tao |
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Phoenix Pick's free book of the month for January is An Elephant for Aristotle by L. Sprague de Camp.
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The Bronze God of Rhodes Spoiler:
The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate Spoiler:
The Arrows of Hercules Spoiler:
The Golden Wind Spoiler:
The second deal is $15+ and includes all of the above novels, plus three more de Camp novels. The Glory That Was Spoiler:
Rogue Queen Spoiler:
Lest Darkness Fall & Related Stories (Related Stories by Frederik Pohl, David Drake and S.M. Stirling.) Spoiler:
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01-02-2015, 12:49 PM | #6 |
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The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin for $0.99 US. Also at B&N, KOBO, and Google.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Lathe-Of-H.../dp/1416556966 |
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The Lion, The witch, and the Wardrobe is currently $1.99 at Kobo. I don't know how long it will stay that low.
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And only another 19 years (2034) until it's out of copyright in the UK and other life+70 countries.
But not in the public domain in the US until 2046! |
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The Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence is $1.99 at Amazon US. Nominated for the David Gemmel Morningstar Award in 2012. This is book 1 of the Broken Empire trilogy.
Amazon US Synopsis: When he was nine, he watched his mother and brother killed before him. By the time he was thirteen, he was the leader of a band of bloodthirsty thugs. By fifteen, he intends to be king... It's time for Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath to return to the castle he turned his back on, to take what's rightfully his. Since the day he was hung on the thorns of a briar patch and forced to watch Count Renar's men slaughter his mother and young brother, Jorg has been driven to vent his rage. Life and death are no more than a game to him-and he has nothing left to lose. But treachery awaits him in his father's castle. Treachery and dark magic. No matter how fierce, can the will of one young man conquer enemies with power beyond his imagining? |
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Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:
Bernardo's House by Hugo & Nebula Award-winner James Patrick Kelly (ISFDB, Wikipedia), one of my favourite writers for what I've read of his short stories, of which you may know best his "Think Like A Dinosaur", which was also adapted into a The Outer Limits episode. This is a short piece about the ramifications of domestic AI, originally out as a chapterbook from the now-defunct Fictionwise in 2004. A domotic story, a conscious living house who speaks and shows, through the objects that fill her, the need to be inhabited, to be eternally possessed by a tenant. Get ready for an unusual visit to "Bernardo's House", where the topic of home automation is inseparably interwoven with Artificial Intelligence: what would happen if such a House would lose her "beloved tenant", and if in his place - with a totally unexpected visit - came a strange figure? Unknown to the House, which will question each and every certainty of her life. |
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01-05-2015, 07:41 PM | #14 |
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Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:
A Winter of Rolling Thunder by Resa Nelson (ISFDB), a short story about a friendship in a suddenly-altered world, originally published in Tomorrow SF magazine in 1997. Every time Elaine has a new boyfriend, she goes out of her way to make time for her best friend Meg. But when the tables are turned and Meg begins a new relationship, Elaine feels left out in the cold. During a normal workday, sudden changes startle everyone. A white light flashes in the sky. A shock wave shudders through the earth. Traffic freezes because car engines fail, and elevators won’t work. Everyone panics, many believing a bomb has been dropped and that nuclear winter has begun. People race to find the fastest way home to their loved ones. Elaine finds herself lapsing in and out of consciousness. Every time she awakes, the world has shifted in a new, surrealistic way. Strangely colored storm clouds race across the sky. Some people float up and down in the air. Nothing makes sense. And yet, every time the world changes, she gains a better understanding of what kind of friend Meg really is. |
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And since it's past midnight my preorder freebie from November has arrived
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014: A Tor.Com Original A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2014. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, Dale Bailey, Kelly Barnhill, Richard Bowes, Marie Brennan, Adam Christopher, John Chu, A. M. Dellamonica, Ruthanna Emrys, Max Gladstone, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Nicola Griffith, Maria Dahvana Headley, Pasi Ilmari Jaskääläinen, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Seanan Mcguire, Daniel José Older, Mary Rickert, John Scalzi, Veronica Schanoes, Genevieve Valentine, Jo Walton, Kai Ashante Wilson, Ray Wood, and Isabel Yap. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P5JNNBE/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00P5JNNBE/ http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00P5JNNBE/ |
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