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Posted 21 December 2012 - 09:54 PM

I've been meaning to do this for awhile now, so here we go. Basically, if you stumble across discounted or free SF/F ebooks on amazon or wherever post the info.

I'll start us off with this triple giveaway from Nightshade books. Their past giveaways had some good books so these could be promising.
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Posted 10 February 2013 - 08:10 PM

Stupefying Stories has released a 2013 Campbellian Pre-Reading Anthology for free for a limited time. It includes 80 stories by 43 authors eligible for this year's John W. Campbell Best New Author award. I've read Van Aaron Hughes' "The Dualist" previously and enjoyed it.
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Posted 10 February 2013 - 08:13 PM

Baen Free Library

updates what's available every few months too.
meh. Link was dead :(
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Posted 10 February 2013 - 10:46 PM

Baen has been methodically removing all their books from their free section. Only like 10ish left there now unfortunately.
And I'll check out that anthology, thanks SMZ.
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Posted 11 February 2013 - 03:53 AM

 Stalker, on 10 February 2013 - 10:46 PM, said:

Baen has been methodically removing all their books from their free section.

Yeah, I was fortunate to have grabbed the complete Vorkosigan Saga for free just a month or two before Baen pulled it.
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Posted 13 February 2013 - 06:11 PM

 Salt-Man Z, on 11 February 2013 - 03:53 AM, said:

 Stalker, on 10 February 2013 - 10:46 PM, said:

Baen has been methodically removing all their books from their free section.

Yeah, I was fortunate to have grabbed the complete Vorkosigan Saga for free just a month or two before Baen pulled it.



I noticed that too.

I assume someone crunched the dollars and decided that it wasn't worth it any longer, but too bad, because i discovered a pile of authors through there and did buy their later books.
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Posted 06 March 2013 - 04:58 PM

Almost all the novels of Joseph Robert Lewis are available for free on his site. I can't vouch for their quality, though I poked around Amazon and LibraryThing looking for reviews, and didn't see anything bad. I downloaded them all, 'cause hey, why not?
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Posted 06 March 2013 - 05:25 PM

 Abyss, on 13 February 2013 - 06:11 PM, said:

 Salt-Man Z, on 11 February 2013 - 03:53 AM, said:

 Stalker, on 10 February 2013 - 10:46 PM, said:

Baen has been methodically removing all their books from their free section.

Yeah, I was fortunate to have grabbed the complete Vorkosigan Saga for free just a month or two before Baen pulled it.



I noticed that too.

I assume someone crunched the dollars and decided that it wasn't worth it any longer, but too bad, because i discovered a pile of authors through there and did buy their later books.



Relatedly, a bunch of free books from the old library are still being linked here http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

...WITH Baen's permission, btw.
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Posted 06 March 2013 - 05:38 PM

 Abyss, on 06 March 2013 - 05:25 PM, said:

Relatedly, a bunch of free books from the old library are still being linked here http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

...WITH Baen's permission, btw.

Yep, that's where the Bujold stuff used to be. I just downloaded the Honor Harrington zip because I recognized the name. Anything else there especially worth grabbing? (I'll confess my "Take it all! It's free! It's freeeeee!" instincts are starting to kick in.)
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Posted 06 March 2013 - 05:51 PM

 Salt-Man Z, on 06 March 2013 - 05:38 PM, said:

 Abyss, on 06 March 2013 - 05:25 PM, said:

Relatedly, a bunch of free books from the old library are still being linked here http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

...WITH Baen's permission, btw.

Yep, that's where the Bujold stuff used to be. I just downloaded the Honor Harrington zip because I recognized the name. Anything else there especially worth grabbing? (I'll confess my "Take it all! It's free! It's freeeeee!" instincts are starting to kick in.)



i haven't really looked thru what's there, but it appears to include the Hammer's Slammers, Aldenata, Looking Glass and Council Wars series and provided you enjoy Weber/Ringo/White's style of milSF, i think they're worthwhile (they're free, d'uh), with the qualifier that while i enjoyed the main series, some of the spin-off Aldenata books by other authors were pretty mediocre-to-bad.
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Posted 06 March 2013 - 06:34 PM

Yeah, I'm digging into two of the Honorverse zips, and there's a lot of extra stuff in here. I might just go the "download it all now, sort it out later" route.
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Posted 16 July 2013 - 04:36 PM

To celebrate Tor.com's 5th anniversary, they're giving away a free ebook of all of their original stories during that time to registered users. This sucker is huge; really, it's all of the individual ebooks just wrapped into one file. Close to 150 stories: http://www.tor.com/b...rdotcom-stories
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Posted 18 July 2013 - 08:41 PM

 Salt-Man Z, on 16 July 2013 - 04:36 PM, said:

To celebrate Tor.com's 5th anniversary, they're giving away a free ebook of all of their original stories during that time to registered users. This sucker is huge; really, it's all of the individual ebooks just wrapped into one file. Close to 150 stories: http://www.tor.com/b...rdotcom-stories



relatedly the Lavie Tidhar story they posted today was a nice read. worth a look/see.
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Posted 18 July 2013 - 09:28 PM

The first issue of Neil Gaiman's Sandman is Free on amazon this week. I've heard good things about it, so looking forward to checking it out.
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 10:32 PM

Peter Watts has several sci-fi novels available for free. Blindsight is apparently a hard sci-fi novel that was up for several awards when it was first published. The other three are part of a trilogy made up of Starfish, Maelstrom, and Behemoth.
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Posted 21 August 2013 - 02:46 PM

Various places have Warren Ellis' short story DEAD PIG COLLECTOR for .99cents.
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Posted 16 September 2013 - 03:28 AM

I found This cool list of discounted September SF/F books, all under $4. I grabbed like 6 books for $8 of random books that sounded interesting. At the very bottom of the list is Dan Simmon's excellent novel, The Terror, and Brian McClellan's debut Promise of Blood. I enjoyed both, and The Terror is still on my shortlist of best read this year.
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Posted 01 October 2013 - 01:58 PM

They've got a thread for this over on SFF world and I think its quite a good idea. Couldn't find one here on malaz so I thought I'd start one off...

'Lies of Locke Lamora' only £0.99 on Amazon UK

http://www.amazon.co...=I113L7GTT41F1W
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Posted 01 October 2013 - 02:02 PM

also 'The Heroes' by Joe Abercrombie £0.99

http://www.amazon.co...bs_362268031_13

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Posted 01 October 2013 - 03:02 PM

Those are some good ones! Lynch is also on sale in the US store, thanks for the heads up.


Here is the other thread for this. It doesn't see quite enough action, but there are several people posting good deals. http://forum.malazan...27#entry1085827
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