Ebook Deal: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

As of now, you can get The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson in ebook format for only $2,99 (Amazon US, Amazon ES). This is the synopsis of the novel:

Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.

One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar’s niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan’s motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths,

Life before death.Strength before weakness.Journey before Destination.
and return to men the Shards they once bore.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.

Ebook Deal: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch is currently only $3 (€2.49) on ebook format (Amazon US, Amazon ES). This is the product description:

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluable, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. 

Now I'm a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated: nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames, and digging up graves in Covent Garden... and there's something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair. 

The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it's falling to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying.

Ebook Deal: The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie is currently in ebook format at the promotional price of $3 (€2.50) on several retailers (Amazon US, Amazon ES, Kobo Europe). This is the product description:

Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers. Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards. Vain, shallow, selfish and self-obsessed, the biggest blot on his horizon is having to get out of bed in the morning to train with obsessive and boring old men. And Logen Ninefingers, an infamous warrior with a bloody past, is about to wake up in a hole in the snow with plans to settle a blood feud with Bethod, the new King of the Northmen, once and for all - ideally by running away from it. But as he's discovering, old habits die really, really hard indeed. . . especially when Bayaz gets involved. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Glotka, Jezal and Logen a whole lot more difficult . . . 

If you are interested in Abercrombie's work, you can watch my recording of his talk at the Celsius 232 Festival (English version, Spanish version).

Download Michael Flynn's "The Forest of Time" for free

As part of Phoenix Pick's weekly Amazon promotion, today you can download "The Forest of Time" by Michael Flynn for free. This novella was nominated for the Hugo Awards and it is included in the collection The Forest of Time and Other Stories which you can get at the promotional price of $1.99 until Friday.

Cheap Ebook: The January Dancer by Michael Flynn

The January Dancer by Michael Flynn is available from Kobo for only $2.99. You can also get this ebook, at the same price, on Amazon, but if you use the coupons welcome90us and welcome90ca on Kobo you get an additional 90% off the price!!!

Here's the blurb for The January Dancer:

A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled!

Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, The January Dancer tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the people who found it.

Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer; pirates take it, rulers crave it, and they’ll all kill if necessary to get it. This is a thrilling yarn of love, revolution, music, and mystery, and it ends, as all great stories do, with shock and a beginning.

The January Dancer has two sequels, Up Jim River and In the Lion's Mouth (published earlier this year) and another one, On the Razor's Edge, is upcoming.

I think the deal is only valid today, so if you're interested, go get it as soon as possible.

Update: I have updated the coupon codes so now you get an 90% off. Of course, you can also use these codes to buy other ebooks.

Steampunk Novella Free to Download

Aladdin and His Wonderful Infernal Device a steampunk novella written by Tee Morris and edited by Pip Ballantine is currently free to download on Amazon.

This is the product description:

From the imagination behind the award-winning Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series comes a steampunk novella to a legend from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

Aladdin is a street-wise thief that finds himself under the tutelage of a world-renown illusionist. He is escorted deep into the deserts in search of a treasure beyond his wildest dreams, and discovers instead something far more valuable—a destiny.

It was also free a few hours ago on amazon.es but it no longer is, so run and grab it while you can.  

More free PS Publishing ebooks

Last week, the digital edition of Straship Summer by Eric Brown was free to download from Amazon. Now, you can get for free My travels with Al-Qaeda by Lavie Tidhar (related to whom I have something interesting coming next week) and The Boy Who Cast No Shadow by Thomas Olde Heuvelt from PS website, and also Urbis Morpheos by Stephen Palmer from Amazon.

Enjoy!

A free ebook by Eric Brown

It seems that PS Publishing is periodically offering some ebooks for free on Amazon. Several weeks ago I got The Ghostwriter by Zoran Zivkovic. And before that, it was Osama by Lavie Tidhar.

Today, it is Starship Summer by Eric Brown (whose The Devil's Nebula is one of the books I'm looking forward to in 2012) that is free. The ebook is a story about an alien artifact and comes with a foreword by Peter F. Hamilton.

So, what are you waiting for? Go grab it while it's free!

(I first knew about this promotion from Books of the Knob, a very interesting site that I found via this article by James Wallace Harris)