Novedad y oferta: In Dark Service, de Stephen Hunt

Ayer se puso a la venta In Dark Service, la novela de Stephen Hunt que abre la trilogía Far Called. Durante una semana se podrá adquirir en diversas tiendas online en formato electrónico al precio promocional de 2,99€ (Amazon ES, Kobo).

Ésta es la sinopsis del libro:

Jacob Carnehan has settled down. He's living a comfortable, quiet life, obeying the law and minding his own business while raising his son Carter ... on those occasions when he isn't having to bail him out of one scrape or another. His days of adventure are - thankfully - long behind him. 

Carter Carnehan is going out of his mind with boredom. He's bored by his humdrum life, frustrated that his father won't live a little, and longs for the bright lights and excitement of anywhere-but-here. He's longing for an opportunity to escape, and test himself against whatever the world has to offer. 

Carter is going to get his opportunity. He's caught up in a village fight, kidnapped by slavers and, before he knows it, is swept to another land. A lowly slave, surrounded by technology he doesn't understand, his wish has come true: it's him vs. the world. He can try to escape, he can try to lead his fellow slaves, or he can accept the inevitable and try to make the most of the short, brutal existence remaining to him. 

... unless Jacob gets to him first and, no matter the odds, he intends to. No one kidnaps his son and gets away with it - and if it come to it, he'll force Kings to help him on his way, he'll fight, steal, blackmail and betray his friends in the name of bringing Carter home.

Wars will be started. Empires will fall. And the Carnehan family will be reunited, one way or another...

Free Ebook: The Ruffler and The Hughwayman by Stephen Hunt and Andrew Tolley

As of now, you can download The Ruffler and The Hughwayman, a comic-book by Stephen Hunt and Andrew Tolley, from Amazon (US, ES). This is the product description:

A comic-book based on Stephen Hunt's dark short story, 'The Ruffler and the Highwayman'.

Written in Hunt's Triple Realm universe (For the Crown and the Dragon), this tale is set in a steampunk alternative reality 18th century where haunted forests cover the land and a Pendragon queen still rules Albion.

In a deep woodland, the prince of rufflers (thieves) meets a highwayman. But the meeting isn't chance and nothing is what it seems.

The Ruffler and The Highwayman features stunning artwork from one of Liverpool's leading illustrators, Andrew Tolley.

Free Ebook: Red Sun Bleeding by Stephen Hunt

Red Sun Bleeding by Stephen Hunt is currently free to download from Amazon (US, ES). This is the synopsis of the book:

RED SUN BLEEDING (Book three in the 'Sliding Void' series)

It should have all been so easy for Captain Lana Fiveworlds, owner of Fiveworlds Shipping and master of the free trader starship 'Gravity Rose'. A simple supply run to a mining operation in deep space on a world called Abracadabra. Alright, so the mining operation was illegal and the world unclaimed... that's why the job paid so damn well. But now she's stuck on a hothouse jungle planet, sweltering under the light of a dying red sun with not only oddly missing miners, but vanished crewmen too.

The exiled barbarian prince Calder Durk had disappeared, presumed dragged over the mining camp's laser fence by one of the not-so-pleasant local predators. The skipper may or may not be in love with him, but you can never leave one of your own behind. Lana's android has a bad feeling about the place, and she also has to contend with an arrogant mission leader who is part of humanity's near immortal super-rich ruling class.

Things are looking bad, and that was before the space pirates her rivals have paid to put her out of business jumped in-system looking to hijack her ship.

Sadly for the crew of the Gravity Rose, matters can get even worse when they discover why nobody's ever survived Abracadabra long enough to put it on the charts. For this is one world with a terrible secret. And it just might be the last one for everyone trapped down on the planet.

Free Ebook: The Alien that Ate Christmas by Stephen Hunt

The Alien that Ate Christmas by Stephen Hunt (author of The Court of the Air) is currently free at Amazon (US, ES). This is the product description:

A seasonal short story showcasing Santa, slay-bells and some shocking sci-fi screams!
 

There are many things you don’t expect to see when you wake up in your bedroom on the evening of Christmas Eve. Santa Claus tied up in a chair and being threatened by an alien was right at the top of young Timmy's list. Sadly for our orphan hero, the alien has plans to save the Earth by giving the planet just what it wants. And that's when the trouble REALLY starts...

This is the illustrated edition, featuring five beautiful interior color illustrations by Stefano Trainito.

Free ebook: Sliding Void by Stephen Hunt

Sliding Void by Stephen Hunt is currently free on Amazon (Amazon US, Amazon ES):

Captain Lana Fiveworlds has a hell of a lot of problems.

She's sliding void in an ageing seven-hundred-year-old space ship, scrabbling around the edges of civilised space trying to find a cargo lucrative enough to pay her bills without proving so risky that it'll kill her. She's got an alien religious freak for a navigator, an untrustworthy android for a first mate, a disgraced lizard for a trade negotiator and a deserter from the fleet acting as her chief engineer.

And that was well before an ex-crewman turns up wanting Lana to rescue a barbarian prince from a long-failed colony world.

Unfortunately for Lana, the problems she doesn't know about are even more dangerous. In fact, they just might be enough to destroy Lana's rickety but much-loved vessel, the Gravity Rose, and jettison her and her crew into the void without a spacesuit.

But there's one thing you can never tell an independent space trader. That's the odds...