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Posted 30 May 2021 - 02:53 PM

N. K. Jemisin's The City We Became is 3.99$ on Kindle.

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Posted 31 May 2021 - 04:42 PM

worry, on 27 May 2021 - 04:31 AM, said:

These fantasy fools need to calm down with all these titles and subtitles and supertitles. Look at this!

The Price of Faith: The Ties that Bind book 3 (First Earth Saga)

IKR

I have some vague idea he's now done a few trilos in this series hence Book Title: Trilogy Title (Overall series title) but yeah, at a certain point my eyes roll.
See also when authors release novellas set between novels and the numbering gets down to the triple digits a la Book 3.5.1(a) .

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Posted 31 May 2021 - 07:20 PM

Lol true. But who doesn't love it when they give us a Volume 0.5 to learn what baby food the protagonist ate?

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Posted 01 June 2021 - 04:25 AM

worry, on 31 May 2021 - 07:20 PM, said:

Lol true. But who doesn't love it when they give us a Volume 0.5 to learn what baby food the protagonist ate?

If they go full prequel series they have to use negative numbers.

...and don't even get me started on the novellas set between the prequels and the original series because fractions...

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Posted 02 June 2021 - 12:45 PM

Brian Staveley's SKULLSWORN is on kindle sale for like $3 and I know Amph likes that one a lot, and I've not yet read it so I nabbed it.

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Posted 02 June 2021 - 01:03 PM

I look forward to your thoughts on it, QT.

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Posted 21 June 2021 - 03:17 AM

Audible has a huge MASSIVE sale on. Much earbook goodness for less than the cost of a credit.
Notably, I saw Stover's ACTS OF CAINE for $7-9 / book, which is fucking nuts.
Worth a look.

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Posted 28 June 2021 - 02:59 PM

Graphic Audio - a company which, to be clear, i quite like, think produces great product, and routinely spend my money at - is one of those companies that always has a sale on, to the point that i'd say buying anything from them at full price is just silly.

Their current sale is a buy 1 get 1 free thing, but not quite clearly promoted is also 50% off series.
Thus, R.S. Belcher's GOLGOTHA, books 1-4 (7 parts, full cast and audio fx), which i have been praising for a while now, is about $75usd. A couple of bucks cheaper than the same thing from audible, totally worth your eartime and money.

Linky: https://www.graphica...series-set.html

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Posted 19 July 2021 - 02:30 AM

I am very very late to this, but Audible.com has a huge $5 sale on fantasy and sf. It's on for like five more hours.
ICE is in there, Reynolds, Ilona Andrews, the first two BASTARDS books by Jonathan French which i utterly reco, and a bunch of others.
Yes, there's some wading thru generic hot person with sword on cover urban fantasy stuff, but honestly it's worth a look if you have time before it's done.

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Posted 20 July 2021 - 11:52 PM

Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven is 1.99$ on Kindle.

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Posted 21 July 2021 - 01:12 AM

Claire North's excellent The Sudden Appearance of Hope and The Gameshouse are both $1.99 on Amazon right now:

https://amazon.com/dp/B00Z7J7CZA
https://amazon.com/dp/B07H2BB9DQ

They're $2.99 on Amazon CA:

https://amazon.ca/dp/B00Z7J7CZA
https://amazon.ca/dp/B07H2BB9DQ

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Posted 26 July 2021 - 01:37 PM

Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn, and The Shadow Rising are 4.99$ on Kindle.

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Posted 06 August 2021 - 04:03 AM

Both of Seanan McGuire's fantastic INDEXING books are 99 cents right now:

Indexing:
US: https://amazon.com/dp/B00CDXPL3I
CA: https://amazon.ca/dp/B00CDXPL3I

Indexing: Reflections:
US: https://amazon.com/dp/B00X6AXV84
CA: https://amazon.ca/dp/B00X6AXV84

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Posted 10 August 2021 - 05:41 PM

Audible.com's deal of the day is Martha Wells' MURDERBOT 6 - FUGITIVE TELEMETRY.

It's $1.95, which is borderline absurd.
The MURDERBOT DIARIES are each fairly self-contained... i would not usually tell someone to start a series w book 6, but it's $1.95 and if you do start there you'll know quickly if it works for you or not.
If you're already into this series and don't have this, get it. If you have it in another format, it's worth it just to experience the narrator's perfect Murderbot voice.

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Posted 11 August 2021 - 02:08 PM

Jim Butcher's Peace Talks is 1.99$ on Kindle.

Martha Wells' Network Effect is 2.99$ on Kindle.

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Posted 11 August 2021 - 08:12 PM

Amazon is having a "Goodreads Choice Winners/Nominees" sale that, in addition to the above, also includes (for $2.99 each):

The Empire of Gold (Daevabad) by S. A. Chakraborty:
US: https://amazon.com/dp/B07YG44LJD
CA: https://amazon.ca/dp/B07YG44LJD

The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut) by Mary Robinette Kowal:
US: https://amazon.com/dp/B07X17XSPS
CA: https://amazon.ca/dp/B07X17XSPS

The Last Emperox (Interdependency) by John Scalzi:
US: https://amazon.com/dp/B07QPGW9FS
CA: https://amazon.ca/dp/B07QPGW9FS

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Posted 11 August 2021 - 08:13 PM

Strange I took a look at Amazon's Kindle store for the first time in a long while and found a couple of cheap preorders.

Josiah Bancroft's fourth Books of Babel book is 3.50 USD

So is the third Bone Shard book by Andrea Stewart.

I haven't even read the first books in those series but what I'm I going to do? NOT buy new books I might never read? That would be crazy.

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Posted 11 August 2021 - 11:02 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 11 August 2021 - 08:12 PM, said:

Amazon is having a "Goodreads Choice Winners/Nominees" sale that, in addition to the above, also includes (for $2.99 each):

The Last Emperox (Interdependency) by John Scalzi:
US: https://amazon.com/dp/B07QPGW9FS
CA: https://amazon.ca/dp/B07QPGW9FS

Sweet! Thanks. I got the first one the other day on a sale, so this makes 2 of the 3!

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Posted 12 August 2021 - 09:57 AM

Monitoring the kindle story for cheap book deals, trying to complete a set is like collecting pokemon cards.

Cheap Warhammer books are the most elusive rare shiny.