And now for a long reel of new science fiction and fantasy (and related) on the Kindle, because it just isn’t the day after Thanksgiving without consumer consumption.
Also, I’ve started covering offerings from Webscriptions, which includes books from Baen, Nightshade Books, and Subterranean Press.
Fools’ Experiments by Edward M. Lerner
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In a near future world, artificial intelligence developed for controlling prosthetic limbs and otherwise controlling human/machine interactions, evolves consciousness. This is almost always a bad thing.
Lerner also has another book available on the Kindle, Fleet of Worlds, a prequel to Larry Niven’s classic Ringworld.
The Lord-Protector’s Daughter by L. E. Modesitt
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The latest volume of the fantasy series The Corean Chronicles, which is almost entirely on the Kindle as of this writing. The previous books in order:
Princeps’ Fury by Jim Butcher
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This is an early surprise: the fifth book in Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series, has come out on the Kindle and in press.
Other books in this series:
The Crown by Deborah Chester
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A continuation of The Ruby Throne series, featuring the story of Lea, sister to Emperor Caelan Light Bringer. The first half of this story is available on the Kindle: The Pearls.
Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress by Michael Moorcock
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It’s Elric. It’s Michael Moorcock. It’s a new edition of a classic tale of the Eternal Champion. With extras.
Other Elric books available on the Kindle:
The Engine’s Child by Holly Phillips
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According to Meredith Schwartz in Library Journal: “Her lush prose and dark fantasy cityscape will appeal to fans of China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station and Sarah Monette’s Melusine, but her manipulative, scarred, sexual, unapologetic antiheroine recalls Elizabeth Bear or Melissa Scott.”
Phillips has also been compared to Jeff VanderMeer. All this tends to spell WIN for me. How about you?
On the Prowl: Tales of an Urban Werewolf by Karen Macinerney
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It’s a werewolf romance—and the protagonist here is the werewolf. Her perfect life begins to fall apart when she suspects her boyfriend of philandering, a Texas millionaire client begins to exude a strange hold over her, and the Houston wolf pack shows up on her doorstep demanding union dues.
Warriors: Power of Three #5: Long Shadows by Erin Hunter
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The latest in the third mini-series of the highly successful Young Adult fantasy books that follow the adventures of four clans of wild cats.
The entire series has been released on Kindle, with six books per mini-series. The first mini-series begins with Into the Wild; the second, The New Prophecy, begins with Midnight; the third, Power of Three, started with Sight.
A brand new series in the same vein, but this time covering three bears, has started with Seekers.
The Bride and the Beast by Teresa Medeiros
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A humorous, light romantic fantasy that recasts the tale of Beauty and the Beast with an imperfect heroine (irreverent and overweight) and a dragon (wounded and gentlemanly).
She has another book below….
A Kiss to Remember by Teresa Medeiros
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A humorous, light romantic comedy that recasts the tale of Sleeping Beauty in a more complex mold, with a man as the sleeping beauty (but not how you think), a woman who wishes vengeance upon him, and a woman who loves him. And the last two are the same woman.
I think this technically isn’t fantasy, because there appears to be no magic or fantastic beasts involved. But I included it anyways, because it seems fun and it’s a reprint of an otherwise unavailable book.
Star Trek: Destiny: Lost Souls by David Mack
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Soldiers of Armageddon who lay waste to worlds in their passage, unstoppable save for actions unthinkable to Starfleet captains. Or are they so unthinkable? See Captains Picard, Riker, and Dax struggle with their choices.
Lexi by L.S. Matthews
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Through a fair amount of Googling, I’ve determined that Lexi is YA fantasy-but-it-might-not-be-fantasy-kind-of-fantasy. A girl wakes up in the woods, remembering nothing before that, with a silver key. She finds shelter, and rediscovers a life she never knew bit by bit.
Fish Out of Water by Maryjanice Davidson
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Third in a series featuring a cranky mermaid named Fred, a hidden civilization of mer-people, a mer-prince, and her marine biologist friend Thomas.
The second book, Swimming Without a Net, is also available for the Kindle.
Perfect Circle by Carlos J. Cortes
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A geologist is hired by a corrupt company to discover secrets beneath a rain forest, which turn out to be a miracle that might save the planet from the ecological crisis it’s currently headed down the maw of. But the company is corrupt, you know.
The Oracle’s Queen by Lynn Flewelling
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The third book in the Tamír Triad, where the main character is a woman who’s been hidden with a man’s body in the person of Prince Tobin for years. The second book, Hidden Warrior, is also available on the Kindle.
Faerie Tale by Raymond Feist
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A malevolent spirit in the forest brings supernatural mayhem and horror to the home of a family on the edge of its woods.
Feist is more famous for his fantasy, in particular the Riftwar Cycle. The earliest available in the series on the Kindle is the first half of a duology, Prince of the Blood.
Every trilogy after this duology is complete on the Kindle, however, starting with The Serpentwar Saga:
Jack McDevitt’s The Devil’s Eye is not about the mystery. Or rather, the story doesn’t simply begin with the mystery and end with its solution as mysteries generally do, whether inside or outside the SF/F genre, but becomes a much larger narrative that encompasses two species in conflict throughout the Alex Benedict series: the humans (natch) and the towering, insect-like, intrusively telepathic Ashiyyur. Most detectives don’t get involved in showy international, much less intra-galactical, issues; but then Alex and Chase, thanks to Alex’s penchant for digging into cultural nooks and crannies that turn out to be entire keystones of civilization, are not your typical pair of detectives.
