Every month, we choose spectacular books of speculative fiction to discount by 80 percent or more. From fantasy classics to cutting-edge science fiction sagas, you can dive into these foreign worlds for a couple of books.
The deals last through the end of the month, but there's no time like the present to snag one and start reading!
Zero-G
Riley Hale may be the newest member of Outer Earth's law enforcement team, but she feels less in control than ever. A twisted doctor bent on revenge is blackmailing her with a deadly threat. If Riley's to survive, she must follow his orders, and break a dangerous prisoner out of jail. To save her own skin, Riley must go against all her beliefs, and break every law that she's just sworn to protect. Riley's mission will get even tougher when all sectors are thrown into lock-down. A lethal virus has begun to spread through Outer Earth, and it seems little can stop it. If Riley doesn't live long enough to help to find a cure, then the last members of the human race will perish along with her.
The Freudian Robot
The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? Lydia H. Liu offers here the first rigorous study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious.
Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires
From a Los Angeles Times–bestselling author, this vampire novel “goes out of its way not to glorify the villainy of vampirism” (Miami Herald).
One man rises in a SoHo alleyway to find his lover dead and his own body terribly transformed. He strains to overcome his murderous instincts through zen meditation and blood deprivation but is reclaimed by The Ministry, an underground society waging war with the undead.
Again and again he will be tested, tempted, by the killers who demand his allegiance ... and the zen masters who will burn him down at his first missed step …
The Stars Blue Yonder
Chief Terry Myell died and became a god. Now he's back to life, careening around space and time at the behest of a voice that told him to save all of mankind. Commander Jodenny Scott is seven months pregnant and trying to come to peace with her husband's death. When Myell reappears with tales of time travel, she's not sure what to believe. But with an invading army bearing down on Earth's last fleet of spaceships, there's not much time for debate. When the dust clears Jodenny is stranded in an Australia she never imagined, and Myell's more desperate than ever to rescue her—from aliens, from treachery, and from history itself.
Skylark
This series-starting fantasy pulls readers into Belladonna Skylark’s world of piracy, prophecies, dark forces, and personal challenges—propelling the protagonist into tests of her character and resolve.
Bander Snatch
One man takes on an all-powerful bureaucracy in the gritty, dystopian debut novel by the acclaimed author of The Journeys of McGill Feighan series. Bander Snatch rules the Jungle, but his life is thrown into disarray when a telepathic alien race chooses him for a new mission, which will prove the ultimate test on more than one world.
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