FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Here is a blog post about the 4th book from the author posted February 09, 2023.

https://elspethcooper.com/archives/tag/the-dragon-house

There is nothing you can love as much as your own writing, I always say. (Unfortunately.)

Aeon Timeline to the rescue.

Additional items:
1.) Chair
2.) Butt (unavailable from Amazon)
3.) Computer

Optional Item[s]:
Scotch on the rocks

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

There is nothing you can love as much as your own writing, I always say. (Unfortunately.)

Aeon Timeline to the rescue.

Additional items:
1.) Chair
2.) Butt (unavailable from Amazon)
3.) Computer

Optional Item[s]:
Scotch on the rocks

2. From Amazon... https://www.amazon.com/Rubies-Costum.../dp/B000HL3Y3C

To add to your optional list, Bacardi and Diet Coke.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

2. From Amazon... https://www.amazon.com/Rubies-Costum.../dp/B000HL3Y3C

To add to your optional list, Bacardi and Diet Coke.

Jon: TMI !!!!1

[salty-horse]

Grendel by John Gardner is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic.

[salty-horse]

Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

In flight from a traumatic rural childhood, Corey Fah has come to earth in a one-bed council flat in the capital. Trapped, with partner Drew, in the limited world which late capitalism has allotted them, they are modestly happy but practically futureless.

Until, one day, Corey is offered a life-changing prize from out of the blue. Things are looking up – but as Corey soon finds, it’s one thing winning a prize in life’s lottery, and quite another being able to collect it – especially if you are a queer, working class immigrant with all of History working against you.

Corey Fah’s pursuit of the elusive prize – and an escape from precarity – is a whirlwind, epic journey through the streets of the city and the time-loops of the past, written with boundless energy and invention.

Social mobility, in this radiant, radical novel, is never a simple step up the ladder, but a hopeful leap into the void.

[salty-horse]

The Best of the Best, Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels by Gardner Dozois is $3 on Amazon.com
A collection of novellas:

• Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg
• Surfacing by Walter Jon Williams
• The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
• Mr. Boy by James Patrick Kelly
• Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
• Griffin's Egg by Michael Swanwick
• Outnumbering the Dead by Frederik Pohl
• Forgiveness Day by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Cost to Be Wise by Maureen F. McHugh
• Oceanic by Greg Egan
• Tendeléo's Story by Ian McDonald
• New Light on the Drake Equation by Ian R. MacLeod
• Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds

[BetterRead]

Station Eleven: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel is currently $1.99 at Amazon, Kobo, and B&N.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.

[elaysee]

Thanks for highlighting this - didn't realize one of the best-ofs was novellas.