One of the advantages to owning a Kindle which I hadn’t anticipated is the fact that Amazon’s Kindle Store seems to go on sale with delicious regularity, and genre books tend to be well represented. Currently, Amazon is holding a sale it’s calling “A Big Deal“, and this ends on July 27. As with the previous “Sunshine Deals” sale, I trawled through the 900+ books on sale and picked out titles that seem to fall within the speculative fiction genre, or which would be of interest to the spec fic fan. (Quite a few of the Smart Pop YA series’ are on sale.) Pyr Books is once again participating, and there are a lot of the Classics+Supernatural mash-up books on sale as well. I’ll start with the books I’ve heard good things about, but first let me mention a book that isn’t part of the Big Deal but is on sale nevertheless–Yukikaze, from Haikasoru.
Now, on with the spending show!
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack, The (Burton & Swinburne) by Mark Hodder
Hard Spell: An Occult Crimes Unit Investigation (Angry Robot) by Justin Gustainis
Hunter’s Run by Gardner Dozois, George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham
Blood of Ambrose by James Enge
Archimedes to Hawking : Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them by Clifford Pickover
The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki by Dani Cavallaro
Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge by Lou Anders, Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter and Elizabeth Bear
The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games by Michael J. Tresca
Dawnthief (Chronicles of the Raven 1) by James Barclay
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Warriors #1: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson and Donna Diamond
The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy by Leah Wilson, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Mary Borsellino and Sarah Rees Brennan
Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead
Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan and Leah Wilson
Nyx in the House of Night by Jordan Dane, Kristin Cast, Karen Mahoney and P. C. Cast
Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception by Maggie Stiefvater
Lockdown: Escape from Furnace 1 by Alexander Gordon Smith
Wicca for Beginners: Fundamentals of Philosophy & Practice (For Beginners (Llewellyn’s)) by Thea Sabin
Red-Headed Stepchild (Sabina Kane) by Jaye Wells
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Kushiel’s Scion (Kushiel’s Legacy) by Jacqueline Carey
Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After (Quirk Classics) by Steve Hockensmith
Bewitching by Jill Barnett
Starlighter (Dragons of Starlight) by Bryan Davis
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls (Quirk Classics) by Steve Hockensmith and Patrick Arrasmith
The Unincorporated Man by Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin
Immortal: Love Stories With Bite by Rachel Vincent, Rachel Caine, Kristin Cast and Claudia Gray
Ashes of the Earth: A Mystery of Post-Apocalyptic America by Eliot Pattison
Dead Men Kill (Stories from the Golden Age) by L. Ron Hubbard
Chosen Ones (Aedyn Chronicles, The) by Alister E. McGrath and Wojciech Voytek Nowakowski
Shadow Bound by Erin Kellison
Eternity’s Edge (Echoes from the Edge) by Bryan Davis
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
The Electric Church by Jeff Somers
Ascension (Guardians of Ascension) by Caris Roane
The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber
Encyclopedia of Angels by Richard Webster
On the Run (Elijah Project, The) by Bill Myers and James Riordan
Faerie Wars (Faerie Wars Chronicles) by Herbie Brennan
The Meowmorphosis (Quirk Classics) by Franz Kafka and Cook Coleridge
Herbert’s Wormhole by Peter Nelson and Rohitash Rao
Star Wars Vs. Star Trek by Matt Forbeck
The Dictionary of Demons: Names of the Damned by Michelle Belanger
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
Elfsorrow (Legends of the Raven 1) by James Barclay
Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey
The Sword of Darrow by Hal Malchow and Alex Malchow
That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore: A Zombie Tale by Matt Mogk and Aja Wells
The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Ben H. Winters, Eugene Smith and Constance Garnett
Keeping It Real (Quantum Gravity, Book 1) by Justina Robson
Booksurfers: Treasure Island by David Gatward
TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow
Exploring Space 1999: An Episode Guide and Complete History of the Mid-1970s Science Fiction Television Series by John Kenneth Muir
Shadow Walkers by Brent Hartinger
Another Faust by Daniel Nayeri and Dina Nayeri
Sword Fighting in the Star Wars Universe: Historical Origins, Style and Philosophy by Nick Jamilla
The Battle Sylph (Sylph Series) by L. J. McDonald
In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000: Essays on Film, Fandom, Technology and the Culture of Riffing by Robert G. Weiner and Shelley E. Barba
Booksurfers: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by David Gatward
Dragon, Dragon: and Other Tales by John Gardner
Timeless Reality: Symetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes (Great Books in Philosophy) by Victor J. Stenger
Backteria and Other Improbable Tales by Richard Matheson
Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero: Critical Essays by Robert G. Weine
Official Underground 2012 Doomsday Survival Handbook, The by W.H. Mumfrey
The Book of Pirates by Jamaica Rose and Captain Michael MacLeod
The Beasts that Hide from Man: Seeking the World’s Last Undiscovered Animals by Karl P. N. Shuker
Founders of Comic Fandom: Profiles of 90 Publishers, Dealers, Collectors, Writers, Artists and Other Luminaries of the 1950s and 1960s by Bill Schelly
Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts by Kevin K. Durand
Scream Street: Fang of the Vampire by Tommy Donbavand and Cartoon Saloon Ltd.
The Twilight Mystique: Critical Essays on the Novels and Films (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy) by Amy M. Clarke, Marijane Osborn, Donald E. Palumbo and C. W. Sullivan III
Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse
Existential Joss Whedon: Evil And Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly And Serenity by J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb
I Talked with a Zombie: Interviews With 23 Veterans of Horror and Sci-Fi Films and Television by Tom Weaver
Undead TV: Essays on <I>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</I> by Elana Levine, Lisa Ann Parks, Mary Celeste Kearney and Susan Murray
How To Slay a Dragon by Bill Allen
Brigitta of the White Forest by Danika Dinsmore
Angel Burn by L. A. Weatherly
Blue by Lou Aronica
Rogue (Cat Star Chronicles) by Cheryl Brooks
Tempest Rising (Jane True) by Nicole Peeler
Eternal Flame (Night Watch) by Cynthia Eden
By Magic Alone by Tracy Madison
Fuzz by Ed McBain
Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings by Susan Redington Bobby and Kate Bernheimer
Modem Times 2.0 (Outspoken Authors) by Michael Moorcock
Mammoths of the Great Plains (Outspoken Authors) by Eleanor Arnason
I don’t know whether to thank you or curse you for picking things out for me. Damn. Zoo City and Day of the Triffids. My heart thank you but my purse doesn’t.:)
Heh, I know the feeling. I picked up, what, 7 books from this sale alone? @_@
Eep. “Thanks,” not “thank.”
Yukikaze! Huhu. I also want my hands on the other Haikasoru books.
How much is a Kindle locally? And is getting an older model advisable? Or is my brother right, I should just save for an iPad then get a Kindle app?
Don’t have the exact figures, but significantly more expensive here. No real sense getting an older model since the newer model is cheaper. If all you’re going to do is read prose, then I say go Kindle, but if you want an all-in-one, or want to read comics/manga as well, then go for the iPad.
Thanks!