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Ariadne
Jennifer Saint
Historical Fiction
In one of the most famous Greek myths, Ariadne betrayed her father, King Minos, to help Theseus defeat the Minotaur. But Theseus in turn betrayed her. This is her story
£0.99

Deal ends: 21-04-2023

Empire of Silence
Christopher Ruocchio
Science Fiction
Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy
£0.99

Deal ends: 30-04-2023

After the Ice
Steven Mithen
Science
A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it
£0.99

Deal ends: 30-04-2023
 
Moriarty
Anthony Horowitz
Crime Fiction
A delightfully fiendish crime thriller from the bestselling author of MAGPIE MURDERS and A LINE TO KILL
£0.99
Deal ends: 30-04-2023

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Only got it the other day from Kobo, and I’m waiting for a couple of NewCon Press novellas from LibraryThing to drop which I’ll need to read first. One is a Kari Sperring Arthurian novella; I scored the second of those a couple of years ago, and enjoyed it enough to buy the first full price.

I’m currently reading the Shattered Sea trilogy and a couple of books of poetry I got given for review a while back. The poetry I’m finding mildly tedious - perhaps I’m old fashioned, but I don’t find blank verse very interesting, and the poems are a combination of abstract and trippy to boot. I do prefer things to have decent narrative structure.

Incidentally, the McCaffrey needs to be price matched if you buy from Kobo. I did that (it’s a bit of a kerfuffle but you get an extra 10p discount). I’m split between over Aliette de Bodard’s Fireheart Tiger at £2.99 or Walter Jon Williams‘ Knight Moves at £3.36 to spend my credit on.
 
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Gollancz 99p sale.
"FEAST of juicy eBook deals this month spanning classic favourites by Patrick Rothfuss and Brandon Sanderson to recent releases by Aliette de Bodard and Nick Martell."
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All eBooks 99p until 31 May. UK only.

Now I am just dumping an image here, you'll have to use your fingers and search for them, the links went to Amazon but I suspect they'll be on all platforms.

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Today's Big Deal is 10 books in Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga:
  • Magician (n.b. REPEAT)
  • Silverthorn (may be a repeat)
  • A Darkness at Sethannon (may be a repeat)
  • Prince of the Blood
  • The King's Buccaneer
  • Krondor: The Betrayal
  • Serpentwar: Shadow of a Dark Queen
  • Serpentwar: Rise of a Merchant Prince
  • Serpentwar: Rage of a Demon King
  • Shards of a Broken Crown
I shan't bother - I tried reading Magician a couple of years back and stalled halfway through. I never did like LitRPG much, and this was one of the originators of the genre. I recall seeing it in Forbidden Planet in the old shop in Denmark Street in the 1980s and being put off by the price (about triple the price of a mass-market paperback at the time). I might have enjoyed it had I read it then, but 40 years on I didn't.
 
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Maddz said:
I never did like LitRPG much, and this was one of the originators of the genre.
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Talking about LitRPG, there's a new Humble Bundle Audiobook bundle. It's mostly LitRPG, but includes the first 6 Martha Wells Murderbot novellas and Eric Flint's 1632. I'm havering about it - £16 for 6 titles I'm interested in (Murderbot), and 1 title I'm mildly interested in (1632 is OK, along with the next 2 or 3, then the series went downhill into Truth, Justice and the American Way), and 13 titles I'll probably never bother listening to. Unfortunately, you need to purchase the full bundle to get all 6 Murderbots.
 
Maddz said:
Today's Big Deal is 10 books in Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga:
  • Magician (n.b. REPEAT)
  • Silverthorn (may be a repeat)
  • A Darkness at Sethannon (may be a repeat)
  • Prince of the Blood
  • The King's Buccaneer
  • Krondor: The Betrayal
  • Serpentwar: Shadow of a Dark Queen
  • Serpentwar: Rise of a Merchant Prince
  • Serpentwar: Rage of a Demon King
  • Shards of a Broken Crown
I shan't bother - I tried reading Magician a couple of years back and stalled halfway through. I never did like LitRPG much, and this was one of the originators of the genre. I recall seeing it in Forbidden Planet in the old shop in Denmark Street in the 1980s and being put off by the price (about triple the price of a mass-market paperback at the time). I might have enjoyed it had I read it then, but 40 years on I didn't.
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I read the first three but gave up after that.
 
MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood
The final volume in the extraordinary speculative fiction trilogy - a decade in the making - from one of the greatest writers in the English language today
£0.99
Deal ends: 17-06-2023

Indeed the first two also seem to be 99p.
She seems to be the SF author that no-one thinks of as SF but her track record is impressive. Obviously Handmaiden's Tale but many others.

All the usual places.
 
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