FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2014

[specficwriter]

Wow, great find!

Originally Posted by Fbone

It appears The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson is FREE at Amazon today.

http://www.amazon.com/Way-Kings-Stor...=UTF8&sr=&qid=

[koland]

Originally Posted by Fbone

It appears The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson is FREE at Amazon today.

http://www.amazon.com/Way-Kings-Stor...=UTF8&sr=&qid=

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the...gs/id376229549

[itisbomb]

Hollow World
by Michael J. Sullivan

is $0.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Hollow-World-M...s=Hollow+world

Below is the blurb:
The FUTURE IS COMING...FOR SOME SOONER THAN OTHERS
Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when diagnosed with a terminal illness, he's willing to take an insane gamble. He's built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he’ll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. Ellis could find more than a cure for his disease; he might find what everyone has been searching for since time began — but only if he can survive the Hollow World.

Welcome to the future and a new science fiction thriller from the bestselling author of the Riyria Revelations and the Riyria Chronicles. Sullivan's novels have been translated into fifteen foreign languages, and have been selected for more than ninety-five best of the year or most anticipated lists, including those compiled by Library Journal, Barnes & Noble.com, and Goodreads.

[Little.Egret]

Empire of the One (Wine of the Gods Book 12) by Pam Uphoff

Free for a couple of days - 12th book in the Wine of the Gods Series.

This is a spy story, I read it backwards for typos but I still enjoyed each read.

See also
http://madgeniusclub.com/2014/09/19/it-must-be-love/

They crossed the dimensions to spy on the World that attacked their own. The "Oners" had been very high tech, very aggressive, as magic as their own people. They went to collect information, and found a world preparing for war. Can they use this strange world's social conventions to derail that war?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00II99S58/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00II99S58/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00II99S58/

[bethohio3]

There's a Supernatural Suspense Story Bundle available at storybundle.com



Curated by Steven Savile
Suspense comes in all flavors and stripes. Though they are often sloughed off onto the horror genre, Supernatural Suspense novels have become a staple of the genre-bending best-sellers. Authors like Stephen King and Dean Koontz have entrenched themselves in this sub-genre, and over the years an impressive group of talented authors have added their words, and their visions to the mix.
This Supernatural Suspense bundle is curated by Award-winning author, poet, and now publisher David Niall Wilson, who has been writing since the late 1980s and has well over thirty books of his own.
Of this bundle, Wilson says:
"I was very pleased to be afforded the opportunity to choose some of my favorite novels and authors and present their work in such an affordable and unique manner. In a suspense novel, the reader basically knows what's going on – most of the mystery is pushed aside in lieu of eventful moments, fast action, harrowing escapes, and the imminent threat of something very bad happening. What I love best is that sort of a plot with either full-blown dark fantasy, or at least the hint – the question – of something supernatural behind the threat. It heightens the suspense, and though – like most thrillers – the reader is mostly aware of the threat from an early point in the story, there is always the chance that something evil and beyond the control of the protagonist, hero, or whatever character experiences it that will change the outcome completely.
Rather than choose books with a common theme, or style, what I strove for in this grouping is variety. These novels range from those where the supernatural is more in the minds of the characters, as in Elizabeth Massie's Bram Stoker Award-Winning Sineater to – in the case of Clive Barker's Weaveworld – a complete divergence into another realm. – David Niall Wilson
The initial titles in the bundle (minimum $3 to purchase) are:
• Reign by Chet Williamson
• Second Soul by Thomas Sullivan
• On the Third Day by David Niall Wilson
• Incursion by Aaron Rosenberg
• Moonbane by Al Sarrantonio
If you pay more than the bonus price of just $12, you'll get another five books:
• Weaveworld by Clive Barker
• Nightlife by Brian Hodge
• Sineater by Elizabeth Massie
• Skorpio by Mike Baron
• Night of Broken Souls by Thomas F. Monteleone
The bundle is available for a very limited time only, via http://www.storybundle.com. It allows easy reading on computers, smartphones, and tablets as well as Kindle and other ereaders via file transfer, email, and other methods. You get multiple DRM-free formats (.epub and .mobi) for all books, but after the three weeks are over, the bundle is gone forever!

[ATDrake]

Cross-linking to the YA thread, since Gwyneth Jones (ISFDB, Wikipedia) is a pretty prominent multiple award-nominated British sf/fantasy author, and I read her YA pseudonym fantasy titles (not these particular ones) from the school library bookshelf growing up:

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: 2 backlist YA modern urban sf/fantasy + horror hybrid adventure thriller novels written as "Ann Halam", originally out from Penguin's Puffin imprint and Orion Books

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Cross-linking to the YA thread, since Gwyneth Jones (ISFDB, Wikipedia) is a pretty prominent multiple award-nominated British sf/fantasy author, and I read her YA pseudonym fantasy titles (not these particular ones) from the school library bookshelf growing up:

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: 2 backlist YA modern urban sf/fantasy + horror hybrid adventure thriller novels written as "Ann Halam", originally out from Penguin's Puffin imprint and Orion Books

Also free in UK
2 backlist YA modern urban sf/fantasy + horror hybrid adventure thriller novels

[Harlock415]

Expedition to Earth by Arthur C. Clarke is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Expedition-Ear...1462979&sr=1-7

This collection of Clarke's work was originally published in 1953, when it was selected as one of the best Science Fiction books of the year by Boucher and McComas. It contains many short stories that would later become classics, including "The Sentinel"-the basis for the later classic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

These stories present a brilliant showcase of Clarke's many-layered approach to the moral dilemmas of scientific advancement-from the thrilling and brutal "Breaking Strain" to the more poetic and thoughtful "Second Dawn." This collection represents a tour-de-force of Science Fiction storytelling sure to delight fans of Clarke's work and the SF genre.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Kacetwo

Tarnsman of Gor is YA? Really? OK that book is not to bad but in later books!!! I would not want my teenagers reading some of those.

The initial trilogy of Gor books is pretty decent SF. Rather Edgar Rice Burroughs-ish. It didn't turn into bondage and soft porn until later on.

[Kiya]

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand by Brian W. Aldiss is 1.99$ on Kobo

In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind’s future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which man has adapted to new environments and hardships.

[Brendan Moody]

Originally Posted by Kiya

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand by Brian W. Aldiss is 1.99$ on Kobo

Also on Amazon, where it's a Kindle Deal of the Day.

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by HarryT

The initial trilogy of Gor books is pretty decent SF. Rather Edgar Rice Burroughs-ish. It didn't turn into bondage and soft porn until later on.

There's no way I can see a mention of Gor without linking the obligatory parody which must be linked whenever Gor is mentioned: Houseplants of Gor.

And speaking of pastiches, this one is free from the author @ Smashwords (may be price-matched elsewhere):

Time for Sherlock Holmes by David Dvorkin (ISFDB), an sfnal Mars-visiting time-traveling adventure, originally out from Dodd Mead in 1983. Dvorkin, who is incidentally a Star Trek tie-in novelist, also offers a lot of other sfnal shorts and novels (some of them small-press backlist) free via his author page @ Smashwords.

Sherlock Holmes meets H G Wells, discovers the secret of immortality, hunts Professor Moriarty across time and space, and manipulates the destiny of mankind, all with the unflinching support of the stalwart Dr. Watson, who is coping with finding and losing the love of his life.

[bfisher]

Free oldie at amazon.ca

The House of Many Worlds by Sam Merwin Jr.

http://www.amazon.ca/House-Many-Worl.../dp/B000FC2PQK

"THE CLASSIC OF ALTERNATE EARTHS! Ancient, encrusted with legend, supposedly empty, the old mansion on Spindrift Key stood like a dark and lowering wraith. In this classic science fiction novel the New York Times called "a fast-moving adventure, told with engaging humor," reporter Elspeth Marriner's nose for news leads her into a world of trouble. Make that, in worlds of trouble. When she and photographer Mack Fraser, the man she loves to hate, are sent to investigate the old mansion in the Hatteras, they never dream that once inside their lives will never be the same. For the house is a gateway to alternate Earths, watched over by a mysterious group called the Workers, who guard against more advanced civilizations crossing the dimensional barriers to conquer defenseless neighbors. From the Workers, Elspeth learns that her and Mack's presence at the house is no accident. They have been personally selected by the Workers for a dangerous assignment. Their unique combination of talents and knowledge are needed to counter a threat that could plunge the entire world into war. If Elspeth accepted the assignment, she would have to cross to another world, aided only by her native ingenuity, then surmount a succession of plots and counterplots, with death the price of failure. Worse, she would have to work more closely than ever with the detested Mark Fraser."

[HarryT]

Thanks - sounds like fun! Free at Amazon UK, too.

[Dr. Drib]

I ended up buying the Sam Merwin title back when Fictionwise was around.