FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

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The Mars House by Natasha Pulley is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
Pulley usually mixes historical fiction and fantasy for non-genre readers. This her first foray into an SF setting, which is an immigration story on Mars.
Lukewarm review by Niall Harrison on Locus

January Stirling was one of the principal dancers of London's Royal Ballet. Now he's a climate refugee bound for Tharsis, the notorious terraformed colony on Mars. It's a utopia for the naturalised population. For January, as a dangerous Earthstronger whose body is unadjusted to the weaker Martian gravity, it's a life sentence to hard labour and ferocious discrimination.

But he will live.

Aubrey Gale, energy trillionaire and hereditary senator, is running for election on a hardline platform to protect the native population from dangerous immigrants. The path to equality is simple, requiring all Earthstrongers who choose to come to Mars to undergo the disabling and sometimes fatal process of surgical naturalisation.

Which is no life at all.

When a disastrous media encounter plunges Aubrey and January's lives into chaos, the solution is a five-year made-for-reality-TV marriage that could secure January's future and ensure Aubrey's political success . . . but it soon becomes clear that thousands of lives hang in the balance, and nothing is as it seems.

The Mars House is an exceptional genre-blending story about privilege, strength, life, and love across class divisions

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The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle is now £0.99 at Amazon UK:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09VKP5FH4

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Company Town by Madeline Ashby is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd.

Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bio-engineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig—making her doubly an outsider, as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline?

Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be—but now, the danger is personal.

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Mortal Engines (Predator Cities #1) by Philip Reeve is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

London is hunting again. Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon London will feed.In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage -- and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle is now £0.99 at Amazon UK:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09VKP5FH4

Also avaiable at Amazon US for 1 $.

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That edition isn't available in the US, and the US edition isn't on sale.