Ebook Bundles and Deals

Amazon have a few good SF&F titles going cheaply today.

Perdido Street Station by China Meiville for £0.99
The Eisenhorn trilogy by Dan Abnett for £1.99
Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton for £0.99
the SF Masterworks version of The Man Who Fell To Earth by Daniel Tevisfor £0.99
The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu for £0.99
The Collapsing Empire by John Skalzi for £0.99
 
Vertigo said:
Pratchett's and Gaiman's Good Omens currently on offer from Amazon in the UK at least for £0.99.
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That's a good price. Pity I've already got it :)

Also a pity it's one of the worst Pratchett books...

Out of curiosity, what do people think is the best thing in the book? (personally I'd say it was the angel/demon combo while almost everything else is forgettable)
 
.matthew. said:
That's a good price. Pity I've already got it :)

Also a pity it's one of the worst Pratchett books...

Out of curiosity, what do people think is the best thing in the book? (personally I'd say it was the angel/demon combo while almost everything else is forgettable)
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I don't know, I pretty much enjoyed the whole thing. It has been a lot of years since I read it though!
 
.matthew. said:
Also a pity it's one of the worst Pratchett books...

Out of curiosity, what do people think is the best thing in the book? (personally I'd say it was the angel/demon combo while almost everything else is forgettable)
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I really liked it, but it is the only Pratchett book I've read so I can't compare it to his other works.

Although the book is witty and humorous throughout, I think the angel/demon conversation could get rather philosophical as they seem to have more similarities than differences. I found the funniest parts to be how the kid made "new age" prophecies come true inadvertently just by thinking about them after hearing the stories. :)
 
And back up you go thread!
Up for grabs is a big bundle of RA Salvatores books featuring Drizzt set within the world of Dungeons and Dragons. This bundle includes books from 7 through to 33. It also includes the complete 5 book The Cleric Quintet series.
I believe it follows an earlier bundle where books 1-11 were included (many moons ago though). A bit of a shame for people new to the bundle that books 1-6 aren't included, but at the same time this is a huge selection of books with a top price of only £11.62 - roughly the cost of two or three regular ebooks.
So if you're a fan of the series this is well worth getting for a huge bucketload of books; even if you're new you get a sizeable chunk of the collection and can easily pick up the preceding 6 books (being earlier books Amazon Kindle likely puts on them on sale or you can grab physical copies in book stores/secondhand book stores etc...)

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There's also a Neverwinter Companion Pack for the Neverwinter MMORPG computer game.
 
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Most of Fabbri's Vespasian books are on 99p deals in Amazon UK:
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Vespasian

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Rather apposite for me; I've read Arminius (a side shoot from the series) and the first book and, whilst I have some reservations, I plan to continue and read them all. I have previously picked up 2 & 3 on 99p deals and now this makes the whole set of 9, barring the first, at 99p each! :D
 
With all the recent Dune hype, some might be interested in 6 Dune kindle books for 99p each. For those across the pond I'm sure there's probably a similar promotion over there!
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Dune

Visit Amazon's Dune page and shop for all Dune books. Check out pictures, author information and reviews of Dune
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Amazon have a lot of the Masterworks books up for 99p. I just bought a few,

Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed.
Neil Gaimon - Stardust.
Walter Tevis - Mockingbird.
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous With Rama
Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
The Strugatsky Brothers - Roadside Picnic.
 
Rodders said:
Amazon have a lot of the Masterworks books up for 99p. I just bought a few,

Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed.
Neil Gaimon - Stardust.
Walter Tevis - Mockingbird.
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous With Rama
Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
The Strugatsky Brothers - Roadside Picnic.
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Have you red Mockingbird? I got that offer as well but that's the only one I've neither read nor own a copy of. I did find I struggled a little with Walter Tevis's writing style in The Man Who Fell to Earth. I enjoyed the book well enough but wasn't really encouraged to go looking for more of his work.
 
I haven’t read Mockingbird, no. I also have The Man Who Fell To a Earth, but will try and read it next year as one of my reading goals will be to read more classic SF. I have to confess that the one I’m looking forward to most is Roadside Picnic.
 
Rodders said:
I haven’t read Mockingbird, no. I also have The Man Who Fell To a Earth, but will try and read it next year as one of my reading goals will be to read more classic SF. I have to confess that the one I’m looking forward to most is Roadside Picnic.
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I think my favourites from that list are A Scanner Darkly and The Dispossessed (I always feel there are altogether too many S's in that word). Roadside Picnic is a brilliant, inspired idea and the whole book is full of great ideas but I struggled a little with the writing and the characters' dialogue in particular. I'm not sure how much of that was bad translation or me finding Russian dialogue a bit too aggressive for my tastes. But it's a fantastic read just for the ideas in it!
 
There are a bunch of SF classics on 99p deals on Amazon uk just now. Sorry no time for links but here are some of the titles:
The Martian - Weir
Redshirts - Scalzi
(Okay those two aren't exactly classics...)
The Dispossessed - Le Guinn
Endymion - Simmons
I Am Legend - Matheson
Doomsday Book - Willis
Flowers for Algernon - Keyes
 
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Thanks, I just bought the Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
 
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