FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2014 - Page 25

murg · 12-19-2014, 05:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Today's Weightless Books weekly 1-day sale for Dec 18th is for 50% off all titles published by Prime Books (mostly regularly $6.99, DRM-free choice of ePub/Mobi/PDF available worldwide):

Linkage for the lot of Prime's catalogue, discount is automagically applied in the cart.

There's a bunch of Horton-edited Year's Best anthologies in there, as well as best-of Lightspeed Magazine collections, and also plenty of collections and novels by well-respected authors and editors such as Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois, Liz Williams, Ekaterina Sedia, Elizabeth Bear, John Joseph Adams, et al.

I'd love to be able to find books on this site.

Except that the Author's list is sorted by first name. And since there are thousands of authors, that makes it pretty much useless.

ATDrake · 12-19-2014, 05:13 AM

^

They do have a search function, so while that's not optimal, it does bring up all the works of a particular author one might be interested in.

Or there's the option of doing Ctrl-F in the browser on the full list of author name links, which does helpfully tell you how many of an author's works are actually in their catalogue.

Mind you, it doesn't help with the occasional misspelt name, but then that could happen on any store's website.

HarryT · 12-19-2014, 05:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by murg

Except that the Author's list is sorted by first name. And since there are thousands of authors, that makes it pretty much useless.

Although it's a little, er, unconventional, why is it any harder to locate a particular author by first name than by last name?

Kieran Seymour · 12-19-2014, 06:08 AM

The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five - Douglas Adams

Currently £2.89 at Amazon UK, compared to £7.31 at Google and a mind-boggling £26.31 at Kobo...

HarryT · 12-19-2014, 06:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five - Douglas Adams

Currently £2.89 at Amazon UK, compared to £7.31 at Google and a mind-boggling £26.31 at Kobo...

That's good, but not the cheapest it's been. I see that I bought on 27th Dec 2012 for £2.29.

Little.Egret · 12-19-2014, 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by murg

I'd love to be able to find books on this site.

Except that the Author's list is sorted by first name. And since there are thousands of authors, that makes it pretty much useless.

You can search with Google site:weightlessbooks.com

or Amazon publisher= Prime Books

Then go to the site for an book

Demingy · 12-19-2014, 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five - Douglas Adams

Currently £2.89 at Amazon UK, compared to £7.31 at Google and a mind-boggling £26.31 at Kobo...

I really wish this kind of deal would make its way across the pond.

ATDrake · 12-19-2014, 04:59 PM

X-link to the Kids/YA megathread since Gwyneth Jones is a multi-award-winning British sf/fantasy author and you might have been picking up the previous installments in this series:

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: The Powerhouse by "Ann Halam", YA pseudonym of Gwyneth Jones (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a horror-ish installment, 4th in her Ghosts and Other Hauntings series of YA sfnal/supernatural/fantasy thrillers, originally out from Orion in 1997.

Also, if anyone else happens to read French-language books or just wants to try out their language learning skills, Bragelonne's Milady imprint is holding a mostly-1st-in-series sale on selected translated and native francophone titles for $3.99 CAD each, which is really cheap considering that most French publishers rarely discount anything, and the ones I was looking at a couple of weeks ago were still at $8.99.

This sale seems to be good in at least Canada when I look at iTunes (France was €4,99 when I spot-checked a title, but they might have a different selection discounted), and is also available at Kobo (non-couponable).

Linkage for the lot @ Kobo: Milady & Bragelonne (there's some serial fiction installments in there at the same price point, but they're easy to spot and ignore, and if you go off the sf/fantasy filter for Milady, there's some paranormal romance-looking urban fantasy translations by Lara Adrian et al. if you're interested).

Among the offerings are translated works by Mercedes Lackey (1st in her Arrows trilogy in the Valdemar series), Jim Butcher (1st in his Harry Dresden series), Arthur C. Clarke w/Stephen Baxter (at the $5.99 mark, you can find a lot more translated solo Clarke), Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon (English-language edition is discounted to $2.99 CAD from Orion in Canada if you want both versions), a bunch of Graham Masterson werewolf horror books, Peter F. Hamilton, Kevin J. Anderson's Hidden Empire (English version was recently an iTunes UK freebie), James Clemens, Louise Cooper, and a couple of others.

A francophone-native sale title I recommend is Pierre Pevel (ISFDB, Wikipedia)'s Les Lames du Cardinal, 1st in his The Cardinal's Blades trilogy which has been translated and available in English from Gollancz & Pyr, which is basically The Three Musketeers with dragons in it. It's a fun series which I quite liked when I started reading it in translation a few years back, and now own in its original French in an omnibus paperback and very soon, in this discount e-book for the 1st (the other volumes are still $17.99 CAD).

Fbone · 12-19-2014, 05:06 PM

The Forever King (Forever King #1) by Molly Cochran & Warren Murphy is FREE at Amazon today. Arthurian fantasy originally published by Tor in 1992.

http://smile.amazon.com/Forever-King...e+forever+king

ATDrake · 12-19-2014, 05:12 PM

^

It's being price-matched to iTunes where it's free in multiple regions: The Forever King (available to Canadians & in Denmark, and probably most places worldwide)

ETA: the sequels are couponable (or will be, once they go off pre-order) @ Kobo if you'd like to complete the trilogy.

ATDrake · 12-19-2014, 05:42 PM

Bargain @ 99 cents for today only (Dec 19th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, price good in all the standard Canada & US stores, may or may not also be discounted in other regions (actually probably geo-restricted since it looks like Orion's Gateway imprint still has the UK rights), etc.):

Parsival or A Knight's Tale by Richard Monaco (ISFDB), 1st in his Saga of Parsival vintage Arthurian fantasy quartet originally out from Macmillan in 1977. This is another one I missed during a previous sale which has now gone cheaper and will be purchasing shortly. Sometimes apathy does pay off.

Richard Monaco has taken a slice of the Arthurian legend and created a thoroughly modern-minded re-imagining of the classic tale. Colorful medieval settings blend with a hard-edged look at human foibles and a romantic story of love and loss is narrated with a lean, contemporary sensibility to form a new, but still ageless, adventure that anyone can enjoy.

murg · 12-19-2014, 07:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Although it's a little, er, unconventional, why is it any harder to locate a particular author by first name than by last name?

Sorry, but I'm not going to search for every author I'm interested in.

If the list was sorted properly, then I could scan through it.

ATDrake · 12-21-2014, 06:15 PM

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot)

Irene's Song by German author Astrid Julian (ISFDB), a BSFA-nominated fantasy short which originally appeared in Interzone magazine #69 in 1993.

World-famous conductor Irene Janowitz doesn’t believe the rumours surrounding her work. How can music bring children back to life? It’s a ridiculous idea. But something about her music has made her mother so afraid that she has never attended one of her concerts, not even in Vancouver, their home city. Irene's mother and grandmother share a secret, and she has no idea what it could be, except that a long, long time ago, in a land far, far away from Canada something quite strange happened to them both.

The Hunter & the Stag a literary fantasy short originally published in the Xanadu 3 anthology edited by Jane Yolen in 1995.

Called a "literary standout" by Booklist when it first appeared in a collection edited by Jane Yolen, this story was inspired by "Hunor and Magor", a work by Hungarian-American painter Katalin Hampel, Tallos and a Toronto newspaper article about a Brazilian war correspondent who worked with Ernest Hemingway during WWII.

Bringing Sissy Home a supernatural suspense short which originally appeared in #8 of L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future in 1992 and was reprinted in their Best Of volume in 2000.

An assassin stalks Charlotte Adekunle, Princess of the Yoruba through a West African city. Heir to a vast oil empire, Charlotte's very existence threatens the interests of Global Oil. Will voodoo magic protect the innocent princess from the assassin? Will the assassin's fee be enough to buy back her sister's freedom from the sex-slave criminals holding her hostage? Find out in this remarkable story exploring how African animist religions and Christian beliefs were interwoven in America and brought back to Africa.

There's also two additional recently-written mystery/suspense thriller shorts if you're interested.

Also, Stay Thirsty Media are repeating a few of their sfnal KDP Select freebies, including Gerald Hausman's (ISFDB, Wikipedia) collection which reprints his Roger Zelazny (ISFDB, Wikipedia) co-write story and reminisces about the author who was a personal friend of his, a literary fantasy novella about the basis of Bram Stoker's Dracula, a literary fantasy take on Beauty & the Beast, and I might as well mention the repeat of Juliet Ackroyd's dramatic play on Darwin & Fitzroy, which has been performed in UK theatres, since you kind of need some science to base your science fiction off of, much of the time (actually, most of the time sf authors seem to be of the "eh, let's just make everything up" school of "by the way, I failed all my high school science classes", but I live in hope).

Linkage for the lot @ Amazon, if you're interested

Kacetwo · 12-22-2014, 10:10 AM

Amazon UK have now got up the Mike Shevdon courts of feyre books and 1 and 2 are very cheap. Some details from a previous thread https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=100275

Sixty-One Nails (The Courts of the Feyre Book 1)"]Sixty-One Nails (The Courts of the Feyre Book 1) is £1.29 and Whispersync for audio ready

The Road to Bedlem (The Courts of Feyre Book 2) is only 0.99p

Also book 1 is cheaper at Kobo and couponable

Sixty-One Nails

Kacetwo · 12-22-2014, 10:15 AM

Also in the UK Anne Lyle's The Prince of Lies (book 3 in the Night's Masque trilogy) is £1.15 at Kobo and couponable

12-19-2014, 05:12 PM	#370
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	^ It's being price-matched to iTunes where it's free in multiple regions: The Forever King (available to Canadians & in Denmark, and probably most places worldwide) ETA: the sequels are couponable (or will be, once they go off pre-order) @ Kobo if you'd like to complete the trilogy. Last edited by ATDrake; 12-19-2014 at 05:17 PM.

12-21-2014, 06:15 PM	#373
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot) Irene's Song by German author Astrid Julian (ISFDB), a BSFA-nominated fantasy short which originally appeared in Interzone magazine #69 in 1993. World-famous conductor Irene Janowitz doesn’t believe the rumours surrounding her work. How can music bring children back to life? It’s a ridiculous idea. But something about her music has made her mother so afraid that she has never attended one of her concerts, not even in Vancouver, their home city. Irene's mother and grandmother share a secret, and she has no idea what it could be, except that a long, long time ago, in a land far, far away from Canada something quite strange happened to them both. The Hunter & the Stag a literary fantasy short originally published in the Xanadu 3 anthology edited by Jane Yolen in 1995. Called a "literary standout" by Booklist when it first appeared in a collection edited by Jane Yolen, this story was inspired by "Hunor and Magor", a work by Hungarian-American painter Katalin Hampel, Tallos and a Toronto newspaper article about a Brazilian war correspondent who worked with Ernest Hemingway during WWII. Bringing Sissy Home a supernatural suspense short which originally appeared in #8 of L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future in 1992 and was reprinted in their Best Of volume in 2000. An assassin stalks Charlotte Adekunle, Princess of the Yoruba through a West African city. Heir to a vast oil empire, Charlotte's very existence threatens the interests of Global Oil. Will voodoo magic protect the innocent princess from the assassin? Will the assassin's fee be enough to buy back her sister's freedom from the sex-slave criminals holding her hostage? Find out in this remarkable story exploring how African animist religions and Christian beliefs were interwoven in America and brought back to Africa. There's also two additional recently-written mystery/suspense thriller shorts if you're interested. Also, Stay Thirsty Media are repeating a few of their sfnal KDP Select freebies, including Gerald Hausman's (ISFDB, Wikipedia) collection which reprints his Roger Zelazny (ISFDB, Wikipedia) co-write story and reminisces about the author who was a personal friend of his, a literary fantasy novella about the basis of Bram Stoker's Dracula, a literary fantasy take on Beauty & the Beast, and I might as well mention the repeat of Juliet Ackroyd's dramatic play on Darwin & Fitzroy, which has been performed in UK theatres, since you kind of need some science to base your science fiction off of, much of the time (actually, most of the time sf authors seem to be of the "eh, let's just make everything up" school of "by the way, I failed all my high school science classes", but I live in hope). Linkage for the lot @ Amazon, if you're interested Last edited by ATDrake; 12-21-2014 at 06:17 PM.

12-22-2014, 10:10 AM	#374
Kacetwo Connoisseur Posts: 56 Karma: 267178 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Sony e-Reader	Amazon UK have now got up the Mike Shevdon courts of feyre books and 1 and 2 are very cheap. Some details from a previous thread https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=100275 Sixty-One Nails (The Courts of the Feyre Book 1)"]Sixty-One Nails (The Courts of the Feyre Book 1) is £1.29 and Whispersync for audio ready The Road to Bedlem (The Courts of Feyre Book 2) is only 0.99p Also book 1 is cheaper at Kobo and couponable Sixty-One Nails Last edited by Kacetwo; 12-22-2014 at 10:13 AM.

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ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	^ They do have a search function, so while that's not optimal, it does bring up all the works of a particular author one might be interested in. Or there's the option of doing Ctrl-F in the browser on the full list of author name links, which does helpfully tell you how many of an author's works are actually in their catalogue. Mind you, it doesn't help with the occasional misspelt name, but then that could happen on any store's website.

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12-19-2014, 04:59 PM	#368
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	X-link to the Kids/YA megathread since Gwyneth Jones is a multi-award-winning British sf/fantasy author and you might have been picking up the previous installments in this series: Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: The Powerhouse by "Ann Halam", YA pseudonym of Gwyneth Jones (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a horror-ish installment, 4th in her Ghosts and Other Hauntings series of YA sfnal/supernatural/fantasy thrillers, originally out from Orion in 1997. Also, if anyone else happens to read French-language books or just wants to try out their language learning skills, Bragelonne's Milady imprint is holding a mostly-1st-in-series sale on selected translated and native francophone titles for $3.99 CAD each, which is really cheap considering that most French publishers rarely discount anything, and the ones I was looking at a couple of weeks ago were still at $8.99. This sale seems to be good in at least Canada when I look at iTunes (France was €4,99 when I spot-checked a title, but they might have a different selection discounted), and is also available at Kobo (non-couponable). Linkage for the lot @ Kobo: Milady & Bragelonne (there's some serial fiction installments in there at the same price point, but they're easy to spot and ignore, and if you go off the sf/fantasy filter for Milady, there's some paranormal romance-looking urban fantasy translations by Lara Adrian et al. if you're interested). Among the offerings are translated works by Mercedes Lackey (1st in her Arrows trilogy in the Valdemar series), Jim Butcher (1st in his Harry Dresden series), Arthur C. Clarke w/Stephen Baxter (at the $5.99 mark, you can find a lot more translated solo Clarke), Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon (English-language edition is discounted to $2.99 CAD from Orion in Canada if you want both versions), a bunch of Graham Masterson werewolf horror books, Peter F. Hamilton, Kevin J. Anderson's Hidden Empire (English version was recently an iTunes UK freebie), James Clemens, Louise Cooper, and a couple of others. A francophone-native sale title I recommend is Pierre Pevel (ISFDB, Wikipedia)'s Les Lames du Cardinal, 1st in his The Cardinal's Blades trilogy which has been translated and available in English from Gollancz & Pyr, which is basically The Three Musketeers with dragons in it. It's a fun series which I quite liked when I started reading it in translation a few years back, and now own in its original French in an omnibus paperback and very soon, in this discount e-book for the 1st (the other volumes are still $17.99 CAD).

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ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Bargain @ 99 cents for today only (Dec 19th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, price good in all the standard Canada & US stores, may or may not also be discounted in other regions (actually probably geo-restricted since it looks like Orion's Gateway imprint still has the UK rights), etc.): Parsival or A Knight's Tale by Richard Monaco (ISFDB), 1st in his Saga of Parsival vintage Arthurian fantasy quartet originally out from Macmillan in 1977. This is another one I missed during a previous sale which has now gone cheaper and will be purchasing shortly. Sometimes apathy does pay off. Richard Monaco has taken a slice of the Arthurian legend and created a thoroughly modern-minded re-imagining of the classic tale. Colorful medieval settings blend with a hard-edged look at human foibles and a romantic story of love and loss is narrated with a lean, contemporary sensibility to form a new, but still ageless, adventure that anyone can enjoy.

12-22-2014, 10:15 AM	#375
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