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Titus Alone and Cheap

Greg Laden — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:09:41 +0000

Titus Alone* by Mervyn Peake, is the third in the Gormenghast series.**

This is one of the most highly regarded of fantasy world constructions, while at the same time one of the least appreciated. Personally, I think this is because most, possibly all, of the printed version of the books are big and heavy with tiny type. And, there’s not been a movie. Regarding the first problem, that is solved by there being a Kindle version, and now is your chance to stock up the third of the three for super cheap, two bucks, but only for a day or two.

see associates note below
** Not a trilogy, though there are three of them. Peake died while writing the fourth in the series, leaving only three, and thus leading many to believe that this is a trilogy.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Greg Laden — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 16:24:53 +0000

For the Heinlein fans, Stranger in a Strange Land is currently* available cheap in Kindle form.

Gould’s Flamingo Smile Book Cheap Now On Kindle

Greg Laden — Mon, 03 May 2021 14:15:04 +0000

Even though I have a hard copy of this, I’ll probably get a cheap* Kindle version of The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History. You know what the book is and why you want it, and you probably already have one, but maybe not an ebook version. Just thought you should know about it. You’re welcome.

The Historian Relatively Cheap

Greg Laden — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:27:54 +0000

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is a ground breaking (like you do in a grave yard!) and illuminating (as in don’t go out in the sun) work of fiction that I know many of you have read because we’ve talked about it. So you have a copy. But maybe you don’t have a Kindle copy, which is now available for 4.99. But not in Transylvania.

How to reverse global warming

Greg Laden — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 15:22:34 +0000

The book* Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming edited by Paul Hawken is a must have resource if you want to have useful conversations, and carry out effective activism, related to Global Warming. I actually recommend you get the print version, but at the moment, the Kindle version available cheap (at least in the US) so I wanted to let you know about it. Two bucks, and also, lower carbon footprint (on the other hand, books are carbon sinks, right?)

Bill McKibben book Cheap

Greg Laden — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:00:48 +0000

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by climate change activist Bill McKibben* is now cheap on Kindle. The Kindle form of a book has a low carbon footprint. So, now is your chance!

Poul Anderson totally stole my idea!

Greg Laden — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:31:02 +0000

Here was my idea. I call it “The Wedge.” See, there’s this wedge of, well, effect, emanating from the cluster of black hoes near the center of the galaxy, and sweeping around like a lighthouse beam, with one rotation every several thousand years (details to be worked out). While The Wedge is shining on your plant, things work one way. When it passes, things go back to normal. Our solar system has been within the Wedge Zone for thousand of years (except may be it flicked off now and then, say, during Egyptian times, or whatever). Never mind the details.

In Poul Anderson’s Brain Wave (a novel*) which is at this exact moment available by Kindle for a mere $1.99 (at least in the US), instead of a galaxy level wedge, there is a magnetic force that switches off. The magnetic force has been keeping intelligence out of the evolutionary process on Earth. Mostly. Then it goes off.

My story might be better. In my story, the solar system has plenty of intelligent life forms that know all about the Wedge. Then,they show up on Earth in advance of the Waning of the Wedge, which is going to result in a world in which current Earthling Science will suddenly have access to technology that will allow the ravaging and conquering of other worlds. So they send this guy with this big metal killing machine, in order to have a talk with the Earth’s world leaders but then he get shot and “killed” and … well, you get the point.

So, anyway, I’m glad that I can pick up Brain Wave for next to nothing!

The Sympathizer, Excellent Novel, Now $2

Greg Laden — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:14:04 +0000

How many ways can I describe The Sympathizer: A Novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen*?

Shocking. Revealing. Informative. Historic. Historical. Hard to put down. Won all the prizes (Pulitzer, Edgar, Andrew Carnegie, etc).

Do not read reviews of it. They tend to give some of the story away. Just read the book. Best novel of the last few years (it came out in 2016). I’ve recommended it before, but now, it is on Kindle for $1.99 (at least in the US) so NOW is the time to get it.

Tolkien Christmas Book On Kindle Cheap

Greg Laden — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:30:43 +0000

I didn’t even know this book existed, but here it is: Letters From Father Christmas by JRRT* … Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in a strange, spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or painting. The letters were from Father Christmas.

They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone North Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house into the dining room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house, and many more.

No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by Tolkien’s inventiveness in this classic holiday treat.

Winter is coming. Now as an ebook

Greg Laden — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:34:41 +0000

The novel that started it all, A Game of Thrones* by George Martin (the first in a series) is now available on Kindle for cheap right now. This is the illustrated edition. I thought you should know.

This is not the TV series, but it is the critically acclaimed novel.