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Fantastic Books has cut prices on their ebooks.
Check out the following press release for the juicy, money-saving details…
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Phoenix Pick continues their free eBook promotion this month with AI Unbound: Two Stories of Artificial Intelligence by Nancy Kress!
About the Book:
Nancy Kress is the author of twenty-two novels and numerous short stories. She is perhaps best known for the “Sleepless” trilogy that began with BEGGARS IN SPAIN. Her fiction has won four Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and the 2003 John W. Campbell Award (for PROBABILITY SPACE).
These two outstanding stories give us a fascinating look into the evolution of artificial intelligence and the impact it has on human society.
Expect the unexpected
Instructions and download links can be found on Phoenix Pick’s catalogue page. The Coupon Code for the free eBook this month is 9991976 and is only good between May 2nd – May 30, 2013. Grab it now!
Here’s another roundup of some inexpensive science fiction, fantasy and horror Kindle eBooks for you to check out on your favorite reading device (pc, smartphones and kindles). All of these titles are priced under $5 at the time of writing this posting. Many of them are free! Prices are noted below, but prices are subject to change, so check the price before clicking “buy”. If Amazon is not your eBook ecosystem, please do look up the titles wherever you buy your eBooks.
Tobias Buckell has made the price of his new collection, Mitigated Futures, available for just $2.99
Here’s the book description.
Twelve science fiction stories about the oncoming future, each of them representing a possible glimpse of what could be just around the corner… or much further down the corridor. These stories previously appeared in places like Clarkesworld Magazine, The Year’s Best SF, Subterranean Magazine, and in various anthologies. They deal with the future of war, our climate, and technology’s effect on our lives.
You can pick up Mitigated Futures for $2.99 from Amazon, B&N, or directly from Tobias Buckell himself.
Phoenix Pick is continuing their free eBook promotion this month with Starborne by Robert Silverberg!
About the Book:
Is utopia a death sentence for mankind?
Does living in a perfect world destroy all that makes us human? Fifty men and women, living prefect lives, decide to give it all up to embark on the adventure of a lifetime.
Equipped with enough genetic material to populate a new planet, these fifty set out to travel to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, with their only link to home a fragile telepathic bond between a blind crew member and her sister back home.
Starborne is a thoughtful, introspective look by one of the Grand Masters of science fiction at what it means to be human and to live a life of meaning
Instructions and download links can be found on Phoenix Pick’s catalogue page. The Coupon Code for the free eBook this month is 9991828 and is only good between March 2nd – March 31, 2013. Grab it now!
Hey, eBook readers!
At the time of this writing, Amazon US and Barnes and Noble are listing the brand new John Joseph Adams anthology The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination for only $1.99! And DRM-free!
Take a look at the stellar list of contributors and determine for yourself whether or not this is a great deal. (Hint: It is.)
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We loves us some good eBook deals! Thanks again to Dan Geiser for the heads-up on this handful of eBook deals by top-name authors that you can grab right now for less than 5 bucks — many of them free!
[Note: All of these titles are priced under $5 at the time of writing this post, but prices are subject to change, so check the price before clicking “buy”. If Amazon is not your eBook ecosystem, please do look up the titles wherever you buy your eBooks -- I spent enough time putting this together 
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Phoenix Pick is continuing their free eBook promotion this month with A.A. Attanasio’s Arc of the Dream (A Radix Tetrad Novel)!
About the Book:
The Arc—Earth’s Last Hope?
The Arc, a being of immense power, trapped within a continuum too small, fights for its freedom. Its monumental struggle will touch a few select individuals on Earth—and in doing so, change their lives forever. The Arc may also be the last hopefor humanity’s survival.
Instructions and download links can be found on Phoenix Pick’s catalogue page. The Coupon Code for the free eBook this month is 9991743 and is only good between February 2nd – February 28, 2012. Grab it now!
For a limited time, you can get a free ebook version of The Demi-Monde: Winter by Rod Rees, part of his The Demi-Monde Saga.
Here’s what the book is about:
The Demi-Monde:
- A subclass of society whose members embrace a decadent lifestyle and evince loose morals.
- A shadow world where the norms of civilized behavior have been abandoned.
- A massive multiple-player simulation technology that re-creates in a wholly realistic cyber-milieu the threat-ambiance and no-warning aspects of a hi-intensity, deep-density, urban Asymmetric Warfare Environment.
- Hell.
Welcome to the Demi-Monde, the ultimate in virtual reality—a military training ground and vivid, simulated world of cruelty and chaos run by psychopaths, madmen and fanatics.
If you die here, you die in the Real World . . .
In the year 2018, the Demi-Monde is the most sophisticated, complex and unpredictable computer simulation ever created, devised specifically to train soldiers for the nightmarish reality of urban warfare. A virtual world of eternal civil conflict, its thirty million inhabitants—“Dupes”—are ruled by cyber-duplicates of some of history’s cruelest tyrants: the fanatical Nazi butcher Reinhard Heydrich; Stalin’s arch executioner Lavrentii Beria; the torture-loving Grand Inquisitor TomÁs de Torquemada; the Reign of Terror’s bloodthirsty mastermind Maximilien Robespierre.
But something has gone horribly wrong inside the Demi-Monde, and the U.S. president’s daughter, Norma, has been lured into this terrifying shadow world, only to be trapped there. Her last hope of rescue is Ella Thomas, an eighteen-year-old jazz singer and very reluctant heroine. But when Ella infiltrates the Demi-Monde and begins her hunt for Norma, she soon discovers the walls containing the evils of this simulated environment are dissolving—and the Real World is in far more danger than anyone knows. With the help of resistors determined to understand their world, Ella must race to save Norma and stop an apocalypse . . . but the clock is ticking.
Blending fact and fantasy, history and religion, military and existential themes, epic adventure and dark wit, dystopia and steampunk in a wholly original and driving narrative stream, The Demi-Monde: Winter is inventive fiction at its finest.
J.M. McDermott’s Are You Listening?, a book in The Fathomless Abyss cycle, is currently available as a free download for the Amazon Kindle reading platform.
Are You Listening? Is a new short story by J.M. McDermott, author of the Dogsland Trilogy, set in the evolving shared world of the Fathomless Abyss.
The Abyss has a top but no bottom. When you fall in, you fall forever. When the Crown closes, you make a new home for yourself among the captive population from a million worlds and a million epochs…or you die trying.
For a sentient plant, the Abyss brings only pain and slavery, until it learns to speak.
Are You Listening? is an introduction to an impossible new fantasy world from the creative minds of Philip Athans, Jay Lake, Mike Resnick & Brad R. Torgersen, Cat Rambo, and J.M. McDermott.
Fall in with them, and find your place in the Fathomless Abyss.
We loves us some good eBook deals! Here’s a handful of eBook by top-name authors that you can grab right now for less than 3 bucks — some of them free!
[Note: All of these titles are priced under $3 at the time of writing this post, but prices are subject to change, so check the price before clicking “buy”. If Amazon is not your eBook ecosystem, please do look up the titles wherever you buy your eBooks -- I spent enough time putting this together ]
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Today’s Kindle Daily SF/F Deal is Return From The Stars by Stanislaw Lem, which you can pick up for $1.99:
Hal Bregg is an astronaut who returns from a space mission in which only 10 biological years have passed for him, while 127 years have elapsed on earth. He finds that the earth has changed beyond recognition, filled with human beings who have been medically neutralized. How does an astronaut join a civilization that shuns risk? Translated by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
Note: Kindle books can be read on by downloading the Kindle software for computers and smartphones, or directly on a Kindle device.
Kindle Daily deals are good for one day only, so if you want it, grab it while you can.
Phoenix Pick is continuing their free eBook promotion this month with Paul Cook’s The Aljeandra Variation!
About the Book:
Nicholas Tehada is dreamer having his dreams harvested by Mnemos Nine-a computer used in a top secret government project.
But where do the dreams end and reality begin? And what is the ultimate goal of Project Foresee?
Instructions and download links can be found on Phoenix Pick’s catalogue page. The Coupon Code for the free eBook this month is 9991465 and is only good between January 2nd – January 31, 2012. Grab it now!
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Today’s Kindle Daily SF/F Deal is The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, which you can pick up for $1.99:
The Handmaid’s Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men of its population.
The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment’s calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid’s Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.
Note: Kindle books can be read on by downloading the Kindle software for computers and smartphones, or directly on a Kindle device.
Kindle Daily deals are good for one day only, so if you want it, grab it while you can.
For a limited time, you can get the following eBooks for a steal/
The Ben Bova books are available at this price through the end of the month. Stant Litore’s book is an Amazon daily deal, so that expires at the end of the day today.
If you want ‘em, grab ‘em while you can.
Hey, eBook readers!
Today’s Kindle Daily SF/F Deal is “A Kingdom Besieged (Book One of the Chaoswar Saga) by Raymond E. Feist, which you can pick up for $0.99:
For years following the terrible Serpentwar, the Empire of Great Kesh remained peaceful, but now dark clouds of conflict gather once more. Rumors abound from the Kingdom’s far western borders of spies missing, murdered, and turned. Powerful legions from the Keshian Confederacy are being mobilized, and an attack is all but certain. As his legendary ancestor Prince Arutha did, Martin conDoin, middle son of the Duke of Crydee, must defend the lands against the invaders. But Arutha commanded a mighty army. Martin has only old men and young boys.
Pug, Midkemia’s most powerful magician, fears what is in the wind, for he senses an encroaching darkness whose growing power surely spells his world’s end. And soon the Kingdom’s enchanted defender will find himself questioning everything he’s ever held true and dear . . . including the loyalty and desires of his beloved son, Magnus.
Note: Kindle books can be read on by downloading the Kindle software for computers and smartphones, or directly on a Kindle device.
Today’s SF/F Kindle Deal is Old Man’s War by John Scalzi, which you can pick up for $2.99:
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife’s grave. Then he joined the army.
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place.
So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for our new enemies, should we let them get close enough) and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has gone on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.
Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity’s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force, which shields the home planet from too much knowledge of the situation. What’s known to everybody is that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don’t want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You’ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You’ll serve your time at the front. And if you survive, you’ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.
John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine-and what he will become is far stranger.
Remember, Kindle books can be read on by downloading the Kindle software for computers and smartphones, or directly on a Kindle device.
[UPDATE] Also: this deal is available for this same price today for the Nook and from Apple.
Today’s SF/F Kindle Deal is Terry Pratchett’s first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic:
Terry Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett’s maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins — with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind.
Remember, Kindle books can be read on by downloading the Kindle software for computers and smartphones, or directly on a Kindle device.
Here’s the latest roundup of some inexpensive science fiction, fantasy and horror Kindle eBooks for you to check out on your favorite reading device.
All of these titles are priced under $3 at the time of writing this post, but prices are subject to change, so check the price before clicking “buy”.
Who doesn’t love inexpensive eBooks by first-rate authors?
Here’s a roundup of some inexpensive science fiction, fantasy and horror Kindle eBooks for you to check out on your favorite reading device.
All of these titles are priced under $3 at the time of writing this post, but prices are subject to change, so check the price before clicking “buy”.
