FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[tch65721]

The Majipoor Cycle by Robert Silverberg - $2.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CDB8GXWV

The first three novels in the acclaimed sci-fi fantasy series...

[bookmarked]

The Atlas Of Middle-Earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad is on sale for $2.99.

Karen Wynn Fonstad's THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH is an essential volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Here is the definitive guide to the geography of Middle-earth, from its founding in the Elder Days through the Third Age, including the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Authentic and updated -- nearly one third of the maps are new, and the text is fully revised -- the atlas illuminates the enchanted world created in THE SILMARILLION, THE HOBBIT, and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.

Hundreds of two-color maps and diagrams survey the journeys of the principal characters day by day -- including all the battles and key locations of the First, Second, and Third Ages. Plans and descriptions of castles, buildings, and distinctive landforms are given, along with thematic maps describing the climate, vegetation, languages, and population distribution of Middle-earth throughout its history. An extensive appendix and an index help readers correlate the maps with Tolkien's novels.

Still hoping the print version goes on sale, but this will do until then.

[ZodWallop]

Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo. I've not read it, but I enjoyed Miller's novella Let All the Children Boogie.

After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city’s denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges—crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called “the breaks” is ravaging the population.

When a strange new visitor arrives—a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side—the city is entranced. The “orcamancer,” as she’s known, very subtly brings together four people—each living on the periphery—to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves.

Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent—and ultimately very hopeful—novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection.

[JSWolf]

The Lord of the Rings Illustrated is on sale at Kobo for $1.99.

I suggest you do not buy this from Amazon as Amazon plays games with image heavy books and you'll most likely end up with a book with reduced size images. If you want to read this on a Kindle, get the ePub and convert.

For the first time ever, a very special edition of the J. R. R. Tolkien's classic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, gorgeously illustrated throughout in color by the author himself.

Since it was first published in 1954,The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivaled magic and otherworldliness, Tolkien's sweeping fantasy and epic adventure has touched the hearts of young and old alike. More than 150 million copies of its many editions have been sold around the world, and occasional collectors’ editions become prized and valuable items of publishing.

This one-volume, jacketed hardcover edition contains the complete text, fully corrected and reset, which is printed in red and black and features, for the very first time, thirty color illustrations, maps and sketches drawn by Tolkien himself as he composed this epic work. These include the pages from the Book of Mazarbul, marvelous facsimiles created by Tolkien to accompany the famous ‘Bridge of Khazad-dum’ chapter. Also appearing are two removable fold-out maps drawn by Christopher Tolkien revealing all the detail of Middle-earth.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...ated-edition-1

[ZodWallop]

The Great When: A Long London Novel by Alan Moore is $7 at Amazon (only)

$7 is steep for a discount, but it's the cheapest the book has been offered and I've been looking forward to it (and have enough Amazon credits that the book is 'free').

For Moore, this looks to be a more mainstream novel.

From the New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the first book in an enthralling new fantasy series about murder, magic, and madness in post-WWII London.

If this London is what they call the Smoke, then that place is the Fire...

The year is 1949, the city London. Amidst the smog of the capital stumbles Dennis Knuckleyard, a hapless eighteen year-old employed by a second-hand bookshop. One day, on an errand to acquire books for sale, Dennis discovers a novel that simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, a figment from another novel. Yet it is physically there in his hands. How?

Dennis has stumbled on a book from the Great When, a magical version of London beyond time and space, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wondrous, terrible beings. But this other, magical London must remain a secret: if Dennis cannot find a way to return this book to where it belongs, he risks repercussions, such as his body being turned inside out (or worse).

So begins a journey delving deep into the city's occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers – some from legend, some all too real, and all with plans of their own. Soon Dennis finds himself at the centre of an explosive series of events that may alter and endanger both Londons forever...

Named a Most Anticipated Novel by Associated Press, NPR.org, Literary Hub, Reactor, Publishers Weekly, and Parade.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Great When: A Long London Novel by Alan Moore is $7 at Amazon (only)

$7 is steep for a discount, but it's the cheapest the book has been offered and I've been looking forward to it (and have enough Amazon credits that the book is 'free').

For Moore, this looks to be a more mainstream novel.

Of course, 'long' is relative:

https://www.amazon.com/Jerusalem-Ala...s%2C214&sr=8-3



Looks I'll be buying The Great When: It sounds great.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Of course, 'long' is relative:

https://www.amazon.com/Jerusalem-Ala...s%2C214&sr=8-3



Looks I'll be buying The Great When: It sounds great.

Its not really a long novel. IMHO, long is 500+pages.

[Cactus Chef]

I haven't read any of Alan Moore's prose works yet, even though I bought both Jerusalem and Illuminations. Obviously a huge fan of his comic works...I bought his Marvelman/Miracleman and Captain Britain runs on a Marvel sale over Christmas, and both of those were excellent.