01-28-2017, 04:23 PM | #76 |
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I wonder why there are so few James Blish novels available as ebooks in the US. As far as I can tell, they're all out of print here, and Orion's already published them as ebooks in the UK. Maybe the estate is asking for too large an advance for the presumably larger US market. However, the nostalgia value for an author from the 50's-70's only decreases every year.
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Well, the nostalgia value may decrease, but the story value doesn't necessarily do so in synch. I know there are a few technology and/or scientific details that kinda take you out of the story in Cities in Flight, but the story is so darn good that I just kinda clear my throat and go on...
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"On the Edge of Gone" by Corinne Duyvis is $1.29 at Kindle & Kobo: young adult scifi of the "looming meteor collision" variety, with good reviews from pro outlets.
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Robert R. McCammon — Swan Song
Only 23¢ on Kindle. A pricing mistake? https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005T54IAY/ |
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I suspect that for most authors who died over 40 years ago, the primary ebook sales are going to people who read them when they were young, and they are either buying to replace lost or paper copies, or buying unread stuff of authors they read back then and enjoyed. Since most of Blish's work has been out of print for decades, younger readers are unlikely to buy any of his works except for award winners, or Cities in Flight. So when I say nostalgia value, I mean the readership who will buy any of his ebooks out of nostalgia, and those readers are probably in their 50s or older, and the longer his works stay out of print, fewer nostalgia buyers will be around to buy them if they do get ebook editions, and the less likely there will be a resurgence of interest by the younger generations.
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Twelve Kings in Sharakhai (Song of Shattered Sands, book 1) by Bradley P. Beaulieu for $2.99
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01-30-2017, 05:32 AM | #85 |
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The Native Star by M.K. Hobson is only $0.99 on Amazon US. It's a steampunk book set in the 1800s US. I read it a few years ago and enjoyed the unique magic system.
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The Amazon.co.uk February Kindle Monthly Deals include:
Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games (bk1) £2.69 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hunger-Game...930851&sr=1-10 Garth Nix: Lirael (The Old Kingdom bk2) £1.99 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lirael-Old-...930773&sr=1-55 Abhorsen (The Old Kingdom bk3) £1.99 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Abhorsen-Ol...5932206&sr=1-1 Patricia Briggs: Moon Called (Mercy Thompson bk1) £1.49 (repeat deal) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moon-Called...930904&sr=1-73 Mercedes Lackey: Closer to the Chest (Herald Spy) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Closer-Ches...931192&sr=1-91 Jeff Wheeler: Legends of Muirwood at 99p each Bk1: The Wretched of Muirwood https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wretched-Mu...931192&sr=1-93 Bk2: The Blight of Muirwood https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blight-Muir...931284&sr=1-98 Bk3: The Scourge of Muirwood https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scourge-Mui...932359&sr=1-10 Evan Currie: Odyssey One Series at 99p each Bk1: Into the Black (Remastered edition) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Into-Black-...31400&sr=1-173 Bk2: The Heart of Matter https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heart-Matte...31400&sr=1-167 Bk3: Homeworld https://www.amazon.co.uk/Homeworld-O...31377&sr=1-160 Bk4: Out of the Black https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Black-O...31377&sr=1-158 Last edited by maddz; 02-01-2017 at 02:01 AM. |
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Ted Chiang's 2002 collection of his shorter works Stories of Your Life and Others is currently only £1.29 at Amazon UK.
"Includes 'Story of Your Life' the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. With his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality. . . Chiang's rigorously imagined fantasia invites us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it." I rated this 5/5 when I read it back in November 2010. Last edited by pdurrant; 02-01-2017 at 02:56 AM. |
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Some Kindle Countdown Deals:
Juanita Coulson Space Trap at 99p (repeat) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Trap-...33632&sr=1-346 Michaela Roessner Vanishing Point at 99p (repeat) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vanishing-P...33580&sr=1-305 Jeff Wheeler The Lost Abbey (The Covenant of Muirwood bk4/Banished of Muirwood prequel) at 99p https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Abbey-...933067&sr=1-27 |
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The entire Amoveo shapeshifter PNR series by Sara Humphreys is free today. I think this is a one-day only deal from Sourcebooks. It should be available at all retailers. I haven't read this series, but I've read her vampire series and really liked it. Here are the Amazon links:
Unbound Unleashed Untouched Untamed Undone Unclaimed |
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The Frontlines series by Marko Kloos is on sale for $1.00 per book right now. I assume this is because book five comes out at the end of the month...
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