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.

[DrLimu]

The New Space Opera 2 edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan. $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002EBDP6E

Contents:

Spoiler:

Robert Charles Wilson: "Utriusque Cosmi"
Peter Watts: "The Island"
John Kessel: "Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance"
Cory Doctorow: "To Go Boldly"
John Barnes: "The Lost Princess Man"
Kristine Kathryn Rusch: "Defect"
Jay Lake: "To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves"
Neal Asher: "Shell Game"
Garth Nix: "Punctuality"
Sean Williams: "Inevitable"
Bruce Sterling: "Join the Navy and See the Worlds"
Bill Willingham: "Fearless Space Pirates of The Outer Rings"
John Meaney: "From the Heart"
Elizabeth Moon: "Chameleons"
Tad Williams: "The Tenth Muse"
Justina Robson: Cracklegrackle"
John Scalzi: "The Tale of the Wicked"
Mike Resnick: "Catastrophe Baker and A Canticle For Leibowitz"
John C. Wright: "The Far End of History"

Edit: the first one is also on sale.

The New Space Opera edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BKD8YJE/

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by BetterRead

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

Got it.

Thank you!

[salty-horse]

The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

A subversive tale that immerses us in a world where the extremes of bleakness and beauty exist together in dangerous harmony in a city on the edge of civility and chaos.

The Great War is over. The city of Lower Proszawa celebrates the peace with a decadence and carefree spirit as intense as the war’s horrifying despair. But this newfound hedonism—drugs and sex and endless parties—distracts from strange realities of everyday life: Intelligent automata taking jobs. Genetically engineered creatures that serve as pets and beasts of war. A theater where gruesome murders happen twice a day. And a new plague that even the ceaseless euphoria can’t mask.

Unlike others who live strictly for fun, Largo is an addict with ambitions. A bike messenger who grew up in the slums, he knows the city’s streets and its secrets intimately. His life seems set. He has a beautiful girlfriend, drugs, a chance at a promotion—and maybe, an opportunity for complete transformation: a contact among the elite who will set him on the course to lift himself up out of the streets.

But dreams can be a dangerous thing in a city whose mood is turning dark and inward. Others have a vision of life very different from Largo’s, and they will use any methods to secure control. And in behind it all, beyond the frivolity and chaos, the threat of new war always looms.

[salty-horse]

Light from Other Stars is $3 on Amazon.com
This is on the literary side. The original cover is one of my favorites.
Recommended by Lynn Cherny

Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida Space Coast town, her dreams seem almost within reach--if she can just grow up fast enough. Theo, the scientist father she idolizes, is consumed by his own obsessions. Laid off from his job at NASA and still reeling from the loss of Nedda's newborn brother several years before, Theo turns to the dangerous dream of extending his daughter's childhood just a little longer. The result is an invention that alters the fabric of time.

Decades later, Nedda has achieved her long-held dream and is traveling aboard the space ship Chawla, part of a small grouphoping to colonize a distant planet. But as she floats in zero gravity, far from earth, she and her crewmates face a serious crisis. Nedda may hold the key to the solution, if she can come to terms with her past and the future that awaits her.

[BionicGecko]

The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1 is on sale for £1.99 today at Kobo UK and Amazon UK. It seems to have remarkably little overlap with the other cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades (the ebook version of which is available for free here), despite being quite voluminous.

Synopsis
**VOLUME ONE OF TWO
'A huge, eye-opening, mind-blowing surprise' Lisa Tuttle, Guardian**
A genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from across the globe

In The Big Book of Cyberpunk, award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin brings together over a hundred stories from more than twenty-five different countries. Here are tales that both establish and subvert the classic Cyberpunk tropes and aesthetic – from gritty, near-future noir to pulse-pounding action. Urban rebels undermine their monolithic corporate overlords, daring heists are conducted through back alleys and the darkest parts of the online world, and dangerous new technology, cybernetic enhancements, scheming AIs, corporate mercenaries, improbable weapons and roguish hackers all collide into rich, thrilling entertainment. Set across two volumes, these are stories that examine the near-now, extrapolating the most provocative trends into fascinating and plausible futures.

We live in an increasingly Cyberpunk world, packed with complex technologies and globalised social trends. It is a world so bizarre that even the futurists couldn’t explain it – though many authors in this book have come closer than most. As both an introduction to the genre and the perfect compendium for the lifelong fan, The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 offer more than a hundred ways to understand where we are, and where we’re going – or simply the opportunity to venture down dazzling, neon-slicked streets.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by BionicGecko

The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1 is on sale for £1.99 today at Kobo UK and Amazon UK. It seems to have remarkably little overlap with the other cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades (the ebook version of which is available for free here), despite being quite voluminous.

It's different than Mirrorshades because it's published years later, and the editor is taking a very broad approach to the meaning of the term.
Note that this is one half of the book that was published in the US.
Table of contents:
https://raptorvelocity.beehiiv.com/p...unk-volume-1-2

The subtle differences between editions are listed here:
raptorvelocity.beehiiv.com/p/not-new-books

[BionicGecko]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The subtle differences between editions are listed here:
https://raptorvelocity.beehiiv.com/p...unk-volume-1-2

Is it possible that this link might be, by mistake, a copy/paste of the one above it? I’m interested in the differences between the editions. Thanks!