FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[radbaddude]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The book sounds interesting, but man the reviews range from split to bad.

Is the company in the novel just called The Company? Stuff like that is some lazy writing.

I read that book last year and gave it 3/5. For 0.99 it's good but otherwise you can afford to skip.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

That's not an uncommon nickname for companies. Kage Baker's time travel series, the CIA...

A nickname, sure. The CIA is a good example. The CIA isn't literally called The Company.

Featuring a villainous company in a story and having it named The Company (or The Corporation, The Corp, etc.) is a trope that comes off as lazy and unrealistic to me.

Any nefarious company is going to have an army of highly paid advertisers and spin doctors working for it and is going to have a name, logo and mascot to hang their brand on.

Evil company? Sure.

Evil company that calls itself The Company? Come on man.

[cc_in_oh]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

A nickname, sure. The CIA is a good example. The CIA isn't literally called The Company.

Featuring a villainous company in a story and having it named The Company (or The Corporation, The Corp, etc.) is a trope that comes off as lazy and unrealistic to me.

Any nefarious company is going to have an army of highly paid advertisers and spin doctors working for it and is going to have a name, logo and mascot to hang their brand on.

Evil company? Sure.

Evil company that calls itself The Company? Come on man.

And the name would be something warm & fuzzy, like Momcorp in Futurama...

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by cc_in_oh

And the name would be something warm & fuzzy, like Momcorp in Futurama...

Exactly. With a cute ubiquitous logo

[salty-horse]

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock is $2.99 on Amazon.com, US only

The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's entire, and long, life. Now, after his death, his sons have taken up his work. But what they discover is beyond what they could have expected. For the Wood is a realm where myths gain flesh and blood, tapping primal fears and desires subdued through the millennia. A realm where love and beauty haunt your dreams—and may drive you insane.

This is the first book in a trilogy, but I usually only hear about this one.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock is $2.99 on Amazon.com, US only

This is the first book in a trilogy, but I usually only hear about this one.

Thanks for that. It sounds similar to Raymond Feist's Faerie Tale, which I enjoyed. Though it looks like Mythago is more of a fantasy and Faerie Tale played up the horror aspects.

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Thanks for that. It sounds similar to Raymond Feist's Faerie Tale, which I enjoyed. Though it looks like Mythago is more of a fantasy and Faerie Tale played up the horror aspects.

Fantasy and Faerie, yes. Horror, not so so much. I *highly* recommend it. Also the rest of the series (there are 7 total).

[Dr. Drib]

That first book won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1985.

[ottdmk]

Mythago Wood is also on sale for $2.99 at amazon.ca and Kobo Canada.

[ZodWallop]

The classic Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance is $2.99 at Amazon.

Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his 1964 novel, The Dying Earth, and its sequels--a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever.

This omnibus volume comprised all four books in the series, The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rialto the Magnificent.

[tlc]

Three Neal Asher books are on sale at Amazon.com for < $4. But beware: I already had other e-versions of these from Amazon. I really like the fact that Amazon usually stops me from buying something I already have. Perhaps it is due to a change in publisher?

Line War: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07H47PVH7
Polity Agent: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07H4657RF
Prador Moon: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01HU42772

[Fluribus]

Originally Posted by tlc

Three Neal Asher books are on sale at Amazon.com for < $4. But beware: I already had other e-versions of these from Amazon. I really like the fact that Amazon usually stops me from buying something I already have. Perhaps it is due to a change in publisher?

Line War: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07H47PVH7
Polity Agent: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07H4657RF
Prador Moon: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01HU42772

It uses the ASIN. If the number changes for any reason, you will get no warning. Open Road often changes the number when they do discounts. If a new edition of a book comes out, it will have a different number. Changing of publisher would result in a different number.

[ZodWallop]

The Horror on the Links: The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume One by Seabury Quinn is $1.99 at Amazon. These books are outrageously priced normally ($23 a pop), but one by one they go on sale.

Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn.

Quinn’s short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries—and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)—captivated readers for nearly three decades.

Collected for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh, presents all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero.

The first volume, The Horror on the Links, includes all of the Jules de Grandin stories from “The Horror on the Links” (1925) to “The Chapel of Mystic Horror” (1928), as well as an introduction by George Vanderburgh and Robert Weinberg.

[brudigia]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Horror on the Links: The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume One by Seabury Quinn is $1.99 at Amazon. These books are outrageously priced normally ($23 a pop), but one by one they go on sale.

Thank you. Bought it this morning, you beat me to the post, this is the 3rd one discounted, as far as I know. Every 4-5 months one of them is discounted, just wait and be patient.


P.S. Same price at Kobo.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by brudigia

...this is the 3rd one discounted, as far as I know. Every 4-5 months one of them is discounted, just wait and be patient.

I believe you're right. We should both be missing books four and five, I think. I've added the two I'm missing to my ereaderiq list.