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Did we break the other thread?

yep! it had a good life haha

Haha, I saw the notification for the end of the old thread *after* reading this, hence my question!

posting so this thread hits my update feed and notifications. eeeexcellent.

Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky is $1 on Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DJBQ1M8

Ori wrote: "Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky is $1 on Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DJBQ1M8"

wow, they finally made those available in Kindle format on amazon.com. I had to get mine from amazon.fr

The Tor free ebook of the month is

THE ALLOY OF LAW
The Mistborn Saga
Book 1 of the Wax and Wayne Era
by Brandon Sanderson

and can be found here: https://ebookclub.tor.com/

unfortunately I already bought it back in 2011

Missed a few Amazon sales, so here they are:
The trilogy starting with The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams is on sale. Books 1 and 2 for $1 each, and the final book is $5.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

Aspects by John M. Ford is $3
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0927DL7Z2

The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz is $2
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013NI7V9S

Jade War by Fonda Lee is $3
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H27TV1G

The Green Man's Challenge by Juliet E. McKenna is $3 on all platforms. Here's Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...

The Exile Waiting by Vonda N. McIntyre is $2 on Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PG252T4/

IIRC, this is on our group bookshelf: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune is 2.99 on amazon/bn/kobo/google right now.

good finds y'all!

on amazon us daily deal:

A Darker Shade of Magic 2.99 - club bookshelf
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 4.99
Jade City / Jade War 2.99 each
Circe 4.99 - club bookshelf
She Who Became the Sun 2.99 - current hugo nom

Dragonsbane is only $1.99 today in the U.S. Kindle store. It's a good 'un.

The Light of the Midnight Stars is in the US store for $2.99 today.

nice selection here: Nancy Kress, Lavie Tidhar, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Susan Palwick and I may go for it:

The Dark SF Bundle - Curated by Lavie Tidhar

Science fiction has dabbled in utopia before, but never as often as people might think. The early writers' visions of the future were often dire. There was Asimov's crumbling galactic empire in Foundation, or his murder-driven The Caves of Steel with its claustrophobically enclosed city. Philip K. Dick's nightmares took form in print, paranoid horror-like tales of a shifting reality in classics like Ubik or The Man in the High Castle. Richard Matheson's I Am Legend imagined the last man on Earth haunted by vampires.

There is a certain darkness to much good SF, an underlying sense that, beneath the glimmering golden surface of spaceships and robots and towers reaching up to the skies there is a shadow, and it will always be there, and might engulf us all. Once it might have been fear of the Bomb, now perhaps of cataclysmic climate collapse. War was then, and is now. Not much has changed. But dark SF has within it, too, a dark seduction. There is a place, it seems to whisper, for the cozy, the cheerful and optimistic in your heart. But deep down you know the truth. Things don't end well. Sit down. Relax. Read a book and wait for your inevitable extinction. What else is there to do?

The writers gathered here have all written some pretty dark stuff in their time, but what I hope you find here is a collection of science fiction tales as fine as any you may wish to encounter here at the start of the new twenties, with all the chaos our reality currently exhibits. This is science fiction with an edge – as science fiction must be, if it is to be relevant! And it comes from some of the top names in the field. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

– Lavie Tidhar

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For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you're feeling generous), you'll get the basic bundle of four books in any ebook format—WORLDWIDE.

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Infinity Wars edited by Jonathan Strahan
Genocidal Organ by Project Itoh

If you pay at least the bonus price of just $20, you get all three of the regular books, plus six more books for a total of 10!

The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts
The Second Shooter by Nick Mamatas
Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley
Martian Sands by Lavie Tidhar
Plague Birds by Jason Sanford
The Fate of Mice by Susan Palwick

This bundle is available only for a limited time 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, .mobi) for all books!

hmm, I think I'll go for part 1 of the Story Bundle as I already have two in the second group

Mindy wrote: "The Light of the Midnight Stars is in the US store for $2.99 today."

Thanks.

I had my eye on it when it was in hardcover, but it got buried in my (enormous) wish-lists, and I missed even the paperback and Kindle editions.

CBRetriever wrote: "hmm, I think I'll go for part 1 of the Story Bundle as I already have two in the second group"


Thanks CBR. I got the 4 bundle for the Tchaikovsky.

2 for 1 sale on audible!

The Hydrogen Sonata By Iain M. Banks $2.99 in US Kindle store https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0081BU42...

The Annals of the Western Shore trilogy (Gifts, Voices, Powers) by Ursula K. Le Guin is $2 on Amazon.com - This is a fancy Library of America edition, which includes annotations by the editor
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083RZ4D2B/

Indiana University Press has been publishing a 40-some book series, "Life of the Past," Kindle editions of which are sometimes on sale.

They are often pretty technical (the logistics of discovering dinosaurs in Australian caves: mysterious fossil teeth), and many are histories of research, full of biographical details and bibliography of long-dead paleontologists.

So I haven't mentioned any of them here before. But for a complete list, with current prices, see https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08728SMPY?...

However, today The Complete Dinosaur, second edition, with almost 2250 pages, is now available at $2.99.

I think it has at least something for any dinosaur fancier, which I suspect includes a whole lot of science fiction fans. And the chapters which don't hold your interest can be skipped without losing the argument of the book.

See https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Dinos...

Also at $2.99, for the visually-minded, see Life Through the Ages II: Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory, a successor to a long-popular, but outdated, collection of early twentieth-century reconstructions (hence "II" in the title).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

Ori wrote: "The Annals of the Western Shore trilogy (Gifts, Voices, Powers) by Ursula K. Le Guin is $2 on Amazon.com - This is a fancy Library of America ..."

Thanks. I picked up one volume on sale some time ago, and have long wanted the rest of the set.

I meant to post this sooner, but there were some decent SFF weekly deals in the US store this week. Sunday will be the last day to pick them up. (Just a note, the Katherine Arden books are labeled as childrens, MG?, but the author's on the shelf so I figured I'd include them in case anyone is interested.)

$1.99
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology edited by Dhonielle Clayton

$2.99
The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Passage by Justin Cronin (on the shelf)
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (on the shelf)
The Age of Witches by Louisa Morgan
Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
Dead Voices by Katherine Arden
Dark Waters by Katherine Arden

$3.99
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Thanks, Sarah!

Audible Canada is having a buy one get one free sci-fi and fantasy sale that includes many books on the shelf including The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec.

Sale Link - https://www.audible.ca/special-promo/...

I think you have to be a member for the sale though as it is credit based.

DivaDiane wrote: "Did we break the other thread?"

Wow, it certainly had a long and fruitful life.

The Last Policeman
which is on our shelf, on sale today in
Amazon.com Daily Deals

https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&...

The Ghosts & Apparitions Bundle - Curated by Tricia Reeks

It isn't a requirement to believe in ghosts to enjoy a good ghost story. Most of us have wondered what happens after this life, and what better way to explore the infinite possibilities than by reading the imaginative takes writers have on the topic. I have long been drawn to tales of ghosts and hauntings: starting with early reads, such as Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, to later stories like Toni Morrison's Beloved or Isabel Allende's House of Spirits.

For me, the very wrongness of spirits that refuse to move on can somehow be so right. Perhaps it is the ability of authors to make us feel the intensity of emotions strong enough to keep an entity tethered to this world that can be so intoxicating. Love, hate, grief, longing. And let's not forget revenge.

The manifestation of ghosts in fiction is almost endless. Haunted houses, haunted ships, haunted forests. Spirits of bad intent. Others that stay to lend a helping hand. Ghostly apparitions. Entities that are invisible to the eye yet devastating to the soul. Stories that evoke emotions that range from terror to despair to hope.

The books in this bundle are purposefully wide-ranging in tone as well content. From the hopefulness and redemption of Keith Rosson's Smoke City and J.S. Breukelaar's The Bridge, to the gut-wrenching devastation of Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs and Andrew Cull's Remains. From the poignant prose of Mary Rickert's stories to the masterful storytelling styles in William Meikle's The Ghost Club. If you like tales of the supernatural, then we think that this selection will have something that appeals to everyone. – Tricia Reeks

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For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you're feeling generous), you'll get the basic bundle of four books in any ebook format—WORLDWIDE.

Hauntings edited by Ellen Datlow
The Bridge by J.S. Breukelaar
Remains by Andrew Cull
Bayou Whispers by R.B. Wood

If you pay at least the bonus price of just $20, you get all four of the regular books, plus six more books for a total of 10!

Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias
You Have Never Been Here by Mary Rickert
Smoke City by Keith Rosson
Into Bones Like Oil by Kaaron Warren
The Crying Forest by Venero Armanno
The Ghost Club by William Meikle

This bundle is available only for a limited time 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, .mobi) for all books!

Hardcovers of all Michael Sullivan's books except the Riyria Revelations (and the first two books of the Riyria Chronicles) come in this format. Orbit only produced trade paperbacks of these books (the hardcovers you may have seen for sale through marketplace dealers are actually Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Club editions for which we earn nothing). Also, all of them will be signed

https://mailchi.mp/b4d50149be34/news-...

I have bought all of his books directly through him, and they're all signed. It's really cool that he does that.

Michelle wrote: "I have bought all of his books directly through him, and they're all signed. It's really cool that he does that."

in the link he says these are the last few that didn't have HC versions.

Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre is $2.99 as part of Amazon's Daily Deal for August 20th on amazon.com

Austral by Paul McAuley is $1 on Amazon.com and £1 on Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077MC4DD5
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01M657AAZ

These say Limited Time Deals, so I’m not sure when they expire (because there are also some other Limited time deals that I think are the weekly deals), but Kindle US store has:

The Change by Kiersten Miller for $3.99

Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes for $3.99 (technically non fiction, but about Greek Myths)

Insomnia by Sarah Pinbrough for $3.99

A Lullaby for Witches by Hester Fox for $3.99

Tor Free Ebook of the month:

https://ebookclub.tor.com/

SHADOWS OF SELF
The Mistborn Saga
Book 2 of the Wax and Wayne Era
by Brandon Sanderson

Amazon has so many places where Kindle books are for sale that I forget exactly where I learned about the following, but its price suggests it is on sale.

Galaxias By Stephen Baxter $0.99 US Kindle store https://smile.amazon.com/Galaxias-Ste...

https://www.audible.com/ep/road-trip-...

Audible US sale, starting at $5, ends August 28th.

edit: I almost fell asleep while scrolling the selection, nothing caught my interest.

The Renegades of Tomorrow Bundle - Curated by the Independent Authors Committee of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)

"Not on my watch."

Why do rule-breakers and rogues intrigue us? Perhaps because we know the rules often need changing. Meet thirteen reluctant heroes of all types as they face an unjust system and find they can't leave well enough alone. Then join each of our carefully selected renegades on their thrilling adventure to make things right, one way or another!

SFWA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting, advancing, and supporting science fiction and fantasy writing in the United States and elsewhere. This year the SFWA Independent Authors Committee had the pleasure of sorting through over a hundred excellent books as we narrowed our selection down to these special stories.

We were fascinated and inspired by a determined cop who risks the wrath of her AI superiors to save her mentor from a ruthless crime boss in In The Paradise Factory. We were moved by the story of an illegal cyborg fighting to survive in Ternary and nanotech addict struggling to recover in ACHE. We reveled in tales of prison revolts, steam punk adventure, sci-fi espionage, underworld intrigue, and of entire galaxies standing on the brink of war in this exciting and varied look at the difference one person can make when they dare to say "not on my watch." – The SFWA

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For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you're feeling generous), you'll get the basic bundle of four books in any ebook format—WORLDWIDE.

Glitch Rain and Other Stories by Alex Livingston
Petra by Matthew S. Rotundo
The Diamond Device by M. H. Thaung
ACHE by Kelvin Myers

If you pay at least the bonus price of just $20, you get all four of the regular books, plus NINE more books for a total of 13!

The Ascension Machine by Rob Edwards
The Hands We're Given by O.E. Tearmann
Situation Normal by Leonard Richardson
Ternary by Kristin L. Stamper
The Paradise Factory by Jim Keen
Double Edged by Jessie Kwak
Ardulum by J.S. Fields
Blue on Black by Carole Cummings
Centricity by Nathaniel Henderson

This bundle is available only for a limited time 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, .mobi) for all books!

Hey! Aren't we about due for a "Buy $25.00 in ebooks Get $6.00 in Credit" sale? Or some variation of that sale. Amazon is laying down on the job. They're too busy screwing up GR :)

I hear a lot of complaints from people about GR's web design. : )

Mindy wrote: "I hear a lot of complaints from people about GR's web design. : )"

There's a whole thread about it, Mindy :o

I see. A plentiful amount of complaints also from SFFBC, then. :0

A little of everything is on sale in the US Kindle store today, but a few of the ones I noted:

Klara and the Sun - $4.99
Destiny of the Dead by Kel Kade - $2.99
The Thousand Eyes by AK Larkwood - $2.99
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger - $2.99
Anthem by Noah Hawley - $3.99
His Dark Materials ( The Golden Compass) by Phillip Pullman - $2.99
The Power by Naomi Alderman - $2.99
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tann - $2.99
Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow - $2.99
Skyward by Sanderson - $2.99
The Last Graduate (Scholomance) by Naomi Alderman - $4.99

There may be a few I missed. Sorry for the sloppy formatting - doing this from my phone.

Thanks, Sarah! I'm particularly excited about The Last Graduate. The first book, A Deadly Education, was a fun read.

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker is 2.99 on Kindle US today (may be longer, it's a limited time deal).

It's on the club shelf, and many, many of us would highly recommend it.

Lowell wrote: "The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker is 2.99 on Kindle US today (may be longer, it's a limited time deal).

It's on the club shelf, and many, many of us would ..."

Thanks.

I have wanted this for some time, but couldn't talk myself into the full price when it might go on sale......

I was too slow! Would have loved Destiny of the Dead but only a one day sale apparently.

Little, Big by John Crowley is $2 on Amazon.com
A classic novel, was on my wishlist.