Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for June 18, 2016

Olivia Black has a rare birth defect known as Psyche Sans Soma, or PSS. Instead of a right hand made of flesh and blood, she was born with a hand made of ethereal energy.

How does Olivia handle being the girl with the ghost hand? Well, she’s a little bit morbid and a whole lot snarky.

Her mother thinks her obsession with death, black clothing, and the local cemetery is a bid for attention. But when Marcus, the new guy in Olivia’s calculus class, stares at her like she’s a freak, Olivia doesn’t like it. And when her hand goes rogue, doing things she never imagined possible, Olivia finds herself running for her life with Marcus from a group of men bent on taking the power of her hand for their own nefarious purposes.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.

Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats “existence” as something that can be bought and sold. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning. . . .

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Category: Hard Science Fiction

In post-alien invasion Belfast, John struggles to keep his younger siblings safe and fed.

Held in thrall to the local hardman, he’s forced to commit a crime that will see him sent to Inish Carraig, an alien prison. There, he will unveil a secret that threatens Earth, and everyone he loves.

He has to reveal. First, he has to get out.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

We first meet Theoclea as a child and experience her first vision of the future. The book moves on to a time when she has become the Oracle of Delphi and gives the speech of a lifetime to a huge crowd before the Mysteries of Eleusis begin. The second part moves on as Theoclea is captured and has to deal with an attack on the Temple of Delphi by descendants of the Atlanteans. Later, Theoclea and her friends, her teacher, Pythagoras, Vorios, the Magician, Morain, her counselor, and Panelle, her Guardian ‘see’ Atlantis, experiencing a series of joint visions. In the end, we ‘know’ and ‘see’ Atlantis as well.

Category: Fantasy – Alternative History

Coal, a sixteen-year-old human, has lived most of his life in the fey realm with his elven best friend Princess Chalcedony. When a human child he promised to protect unintentionally breaks a law in the presence of the fey elite, Coal will have to choose between betraying his best friend or saving the child’s life.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

King Markon of Montalier is at the end of his tether. His son, Prince Parrin, is afflicted with a rather nasty curse that slaughters, maims, or brutally attacks any woman with whom he so much as flirts. After the rumour that sweeps around the kingdom, promising that any woman breaking the ‘curse’ will be eligible to marry the prince, there is no shortage of willing volunteers. Unfortunately, there is also no shortage of bodies piling up.

Markon needs to do something, but what? Can a visiting enchantress from Avernse help, or is she simply another accident waiting to happen? And will Markon be able to give her up to his son if she does break the curse?

Twelve Days of Faery is the first novella in the Shards of a Broken Sword novella trilogy.

Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales