FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Martinoptic]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The omnibus of Earthsea (with Charles Vess illustrations) is available in ebook form, but only in the UK from Gollancz. They also have individual ebook editions of each book, that have Vess's covers from the omnibus, but I think no other illustrations.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CRN8NNG

Also on Kobo uk at £14.99

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Well, dang, I would've gladly traveled overseas and paid full price for that, as it's very reasonable compared to the ridiculous $60 you'd pay in total for the ebooks at list price in the US.

I saw a tradeback of The Tombs of Atuan at B&N the other day, and it's a frickin' pamphlet in width.

You can go to eBooks.com and travel to the UK to get this omnibus for the same price (£14.99) and in ePub with full size graphics.

https://www.ebooks.com/en-gb/book/96176376

[maddz]

Originally Posted by Quoth

99c Kobo Ireland and 99p Amazon UK. "Silver on the Tree" by Susan Cooper. Big reduction.

99p Kobo UK as well. Thanks - that's the last of that series I was after.

[salty-horse]

The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler is $4 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
New-ish novella.

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.

Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again.

Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behavior, was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants from the brutal ivory trade. Now, her digitized consciousness has been downloaded into the mind of a mammoth.

As the herd's new matriarch, can Damira help fend off poachers long enough for the species to take hold? Or will her own ghosts, and Moscow's real reason for bringing the mammoth back, doom them to a new extinction?

[SomeSteve]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Heads up about Open Road Media books:
I've come to realize they're poorly edited. The collection I got (Is That What People Do? by Robert Sheckley) has OCR-ed text, and one of the stories is actually a duplicate of another story.

Originally Posted by SomeSteve

Would you mind telling which story is a duplicate?

In case anybody else is interested, the duplicated story is "All the Things You Are." The missing story is "Fear in the Night"--the title's there, but the text is that of "All the Things You Are."

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by SomeSteve

In case anybody else is interested, the duplicated story is "All the Things You Are." The missing story is "Fear in the Night"--the title's there, but the text is that of "All the Things You Are."

Yes. Both are also supposed to be available in Open Road's Pilgrimage to Earth, but I don't have that one to check.

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Yes. Both are also supposed to be available in Open Road's Pilgrimage to Earth, but I don't have that one to check.

Yes, they are in there.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by mbovenka

Yes, they are in there.

With the correct text?

[Hollow Man]

Anathem by Neal Stephenson is $1.99 at Amazon USA, Kobo USA, and B&N.

[Aleron Ives]

Stephenson's collaboration with Nicole Galland, 'The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.' is also $2 right now.

[BetterRead]

New $2.99 title from Valancourt Books. Now through May 15.

One by David Karp.

In a dateless future, a seemingly benevolent totalitarian State has eliminated poverty, crime, war, and religious intolerance and brought the happiness of conformity to its people. Professor Burden thinks he too is a loyal citizen, but the Department of Internal Examination discovers that he secretly values his individuality. Believing Burden to be a threat to the continued existence of the State, an examiner named Lark decides to cure him of his heresy and return him to being a normal, productive member of society—by persuasion if possible, but by complete obliteration of his identity if necessary.

First published in 1953, One earned critical comparisons to the great dystopian novels of Orwell and Huxley. It is both a gripping psychological thriller and an indictment of totalitarianism which, as Philip Boakes argues in the introduction, is more relevant than ever.

Note: The second $2.99 Valancourt title is Antique Dust: Ghost Stories by Robert Westall and is posted in the Horror/Supernatural thread.

[salty-horse]

The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers is $2.5–3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
First in a series of humorous German novels.

Captain Bluebear tells the story of his first 13-1/2 lives spent on the mysterious continent of Zamonia, where intelligence is an infectious disease, water flows uphill, and dangers lie in wait for him around every corner.

"A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen and a half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest," says the narrator of Walter Moers’s epic adventure. "What about the Minipirates? What about the Hobgoblins, the Spiderwitch, the Babbling Billows, the Troglotroll, the Mountain Maggot… Mine is a tale of mortal danger and eternal love, of hair’s breadth, last-minute escapes." Welcome to the fantastic world of Zamonia, populated by all manner of extraordinary characters. It’s a land of imaginative lunacy and supreme adventure, wicked satire and epic fantasy, all mixed together, turned on its head, and lavishly illustrated by the author.

[JSWolf]

Humble Bundle has yet another bundle out. This one is JONATHAN MAYBERRY'S ACTION PACKED THRILLERS. 15 eBooks.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/j...ins_bookbundle

Pay at least $18 or £14.38 for the 15 or 18 book bundle. Expires in 20 days: 22 hours: 35 minutes (from now).

A bundle of thrilling suspense

Brace yourself and experience the work of Jonathan Maberry, one of the world’s modern masters of suspense! Included in this bundle are multiple Bram Stoker award winning author’s novels, ranging from dark fantasy, to action-packed thrillers. Cave 13, the latest Joe Ledger novel, has the captain contending against crazed terrorists and villainous corporations to contain an ancient magical threat. Kagen the Damned follows an exiled captain of the palace guard on his quest to avenge the vile forces responsible for murdering the royal family he was sworn to protect. Catch up on the Kagen the Damned series before the third book comes out on August 20! Pay what you want for these books and help support Kiss the Ground with your purchase.

1. Cave 13
2. Relentless
3. Rage
4. Deep Silence
5. Dogs of War
6. Kill Switch
7. Predator One
8. Code Zero
9. Extinction Machine
10. Assassin's Code
11. Fall of Night
12. Dead of Night
13. I Say Your Name in the Dark Nights
14. Son of the Poison Rose
15. Kagen the Damned

US Specific

1. King of Plagues
2. Dragon Factory
3. Patient Zero

P.S. If you are not int he US, get a VPN to look like you are to get all 18 eBooks.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Humble Bundle has yet another bundle out. This one is JONATHAN MAYBERRY'S ACTION PACKED THRILLERS. 15 eBooks.

I guess "ancient magical threat" is fantasy but they don't seem like it from most of the covers. Some have a blurb from Moorcock.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

I guess "ancient magical threat" is fantasy but they don't seem like it from most of the covers. Some have a blurb from Moorcock.

Most or all are urban fantasy.