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jueves, 23 de julio de 2015

Free Ebook: Interface Dreams, by Vlad Hernández

As of now, Interface Dreams, by Vlad Hernández is free to download from Amazon (ES, USA). This is the synopsis of the book:

A novel of bravery, redemption and love in a future of fear and trans-humanism. 
In the second half of the twenty-first century Havana has become a mega-city. After a bloody civil world, the old capital has emerged as Conglomerate Havana, an opulent super metropolis, the Key to the Gulf and both Americas, the new hub-for-all-cultures in the middle of the Caribbean. High towers of emergent corporations and post-national enclaves populate the skyline of the city; there, the weirdest technologies and concepts are developed and put to test, and some of them are totally illegal.

Roy Cruz is a reluctant hero, only he doesn’t know it yet. He used to be a tech soldier, a former interface pilot in the war between the Western block and his economic enemies. But he is retired now, victim of obsolescence and the high speed race of optimized technologies. Since then Roy has been living a confusing life, the eagerness of his pilot interface for being connected again makes him suffer from abstinence syndrome, a sort of emptiness that makes harder for him to connect with other people. 
During his stay in Conglomerate Havana, Roy and his companion, a German woman called Anna, meet by chance two girls on the run, two biotech artifacts: Two quartz novas --cutting edge tech out of control, escaping from the powerful True Confessions Corp. Inside the head of one of them there is a state-of-the-art neuro-implant, a revolutionary prototype destined to become the next new thing of the century. That means that hunters will come following the escapees, and Roy will have to face his broken humanity and take the toughest decision of his life.
Note: If you read in Spanish, you may also be interested in two these other two free ebooks by Vlad Hernández.  

martes, 24 de diciembre de 2013

Ebook gratis: Blackbirds, de Chuck Wendig


La buena gente de Angry Robot, no contenta con tentarnos con las ofertas de su campaña 12 Days of Christmas, nos regala hoy un ebook: Blackbirds, de Chuck Wendig. El libro se puede descargar gratuitamente en formatos epub y mobi (sin DRM) hasta final de año. 

Ésta es la sinopsis de la novela:
Miriam Black knows when you will die. She's foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides. 
But when Miriam hitches a ride with Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be murdered while he calls her name. Louis will die because he met her, and she will be the next victim.  
No matter what she does she can't save Louis. But if she wants to stay alive, she'll have to try.
Nota: Agradezco a mi amigo Josep María Oriol el aviso de esta promoción.

viernes, 22 de noviembre de 2013

Free Ebook: A Vintage from Atlantis, by Clark Ashton Smith

As of now, A Vintage from Atlantis, a collection of stories by Clark Ashton Smith, is free to download at Amazon (US, ES). Be careful, there are two different editions of the book and only one of them seems to be free.

These are the contents of the book:

  • Introduction by Michael Dirda
  • A Note on the Texts
  • The Holiness of Azedarac
  • The Maker of Gargoyles
  • Beyond the Singing Flame
  • Seedling of Mars
  • The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis
  • The Eternal World
  • The Demon of the Flower
  • The Nameless Offspring
  • A Vintage from Atlantis
  • The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan
  • The Invisible City
  • The Immortals of Mercury
  • The Empire of the Necromancers
  • The Seed from the Sepulcher
  • The Second Internment
  • Ubbo-Sathla
  • The Double Shadow
  • The Plutonian Drug
  • The Supernumerary Corpse
  • The Master of the Asteroid
  • The Colossus of Ylourgne

martes, 8 de octubre de 2013

Free Ebook: The Coyote Kings, Book One - Space-Age Bachelor Pad, by Minister Faust

The Coyote Kings, Book One - Space-Age Bachelor Pad, by Minister Faust is free at Amazon (US, ES) until tomorrow. The book was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Locus Best First Novel Award and the Compton-Crook Award. 

This is the synopsis of the novel:
Sherem is brilliant. She’s travelled the world. She speaks a dozen ancient and modern languages, including Fan-Girl. And she can use—or improvise—a hundred weapons from around the globe or of her own design. Quite the list of accomplishments for a 25 year old. 
Or is that 2500? 
When best friend/roomies Hamza and Yehat, two Gen-X brainiacs too smart for their own good, meet Sherem during the heat of summer, they take one look at her and expect sparks to fly. 
They just don’t expect them to come from the edges of blades.
Minister Faust’s first foray into astonishing adventure, pop culture craziness and Africentric awe, The Coyote Kings, Book One: Space-Age Bachelor Pad is already a cult classic that had readers, critics and even Hollywood fluttering with excitement.

miércoles, 2 de octubre de 2013

Free Ebook: The Walls of the Castle, by Tom Piccirilli

As of now, The Walls of the Castle by Tom Piccirilli is free at Amazon (US, ES). This is the synopsis of the book:
From four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award and finalist for the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award Tom Piccirilli comes an intense and visceral psychological thriller novella, the first title in the Black Labyrinth imprint illustrated by Gothic artist Santiago Caruso. 
An atmospheric yet action-packed, mature psychological thriller that is part examination into the bonds of family and part treatise on the nature of identity, The Walls of the Castle explores the deepest areas of what makes us who we are. With a noir sensibility and complexity of character, the novella is a hybrid psychological thriller that's part suspense tale, part family saga, and part literate mystery.

domingo, 8 de septiembre de 2013

Free Ebook: Ephemera, Dark Stories from the mind of Paul S. Kemp

As of now, you can download Ephemera: Dark Stories from the mind of Paul S. Kemp, a collection of stories by Paul S. Kemp (obviously), for free from Amazon (US, ES). This is the synopsis of the book:
From the multiple NY Times bestselling author who brought you Erevis Cale and Darth Malgus, comes this compelling volume of dark imagination.  
Experience the fantastic through the eyes of a private detective who investigates the occult in 1930s NYC, a demonologist who may or may not be mad, a maimed talespinner on a doomed boat, a witch pursued by religious fanatics who want her unborn child, and many more. 
A fabulous, disturbing visit into Kemp's dark mind. Each story contains a brief introduction by the author.

miércoles, 28 de agosto de 2013

Free Ebook: Aliena by Piers Anthony

As of now, you can download Aliena by Piers Anthony for free from Amazon (US, ES) courtesy of Premier Digital Publishing. This is the synopsis of the ebook:

Aliena is a nice person who turns out to be an alien in a human host. She just has things to learn about the human form and society. When her body starts immune-rejecting the alien brain, and the brain has to be replaced by another alien brain, maintaining the semblance of marriage and family becomes a challenge for both Aliena and the man who loves her.

viernes, 16 de agosto de 2013

Free Ebook: The Ice Owl by Carolyn Ives Gilman

Courtesy of Phoenix Pick you can donwload The Ice Owl, a Hugo and Nebula nominated novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman, for free. You have to subscribe to their newsletter and then you'll receive a coupon to download the ebook.

This is the synopsis of the book:
Set in the same universe as Arkfall (although a totally independent story), The Ice Owl tells a tale capturing that moment when we start to lose our childhood…when we start to realize that our parents and the “grown-ups” are just as flawed as we are…everyone struggling to deal with their own demons.  
It is also a story about past crimes and the haunting echo of ghosts long dead, of a life-long quest for redemption and, for some, the final revenge for crimes lost in the stellar dust...

jueves, 8 de agosto de 2013

Free Ebook: Engraved on the Eye, by Saladin Ahmed

As of now, you can download Engraved on the Eye by Saladin Ahmed for free from Amazon (US, ES). This is the synopsis of the book:
Stories to Captivate the Imagination: Welcome to the worlds of Saladin Ahmed 
A medieval physician asked to do the impossible. A gun slinging Muslim wizard in the old West. A disgruntled super villain pining for prison reform. A cybernetic soldier who might or might not be receiving messages from God. Prepare yourself to be transported to new and fantastical worlds. 
The short stories in this collection have been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards. They’ve been reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and other anthologies, recorded for numerous podcasts, and translated into several foreign languages. Now they are collected in one place for the first time. Experience for yourself the original voice of one of fantasy’s rising stars!

martes, 30 de julio de 2013

Free Ebook: Nod by Adrian Barnes

Nod by Adrian Barnes, a novel recently nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, can be downloaded for free until the 4th of August, courtesy of LondonCalling.com. In addition, if you're a UK resident you'll enter a giveaway to win a signed copy of the book.

This is the synopsis of the novel:
Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no-one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no-one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand can still sleep, and they've all had the same strange, golden dream. A handful of children still sleep as well, but what they're dreaming remains a mystery. After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises in which those previously on the fringes of society take the lead. One couple experience a lifetime in a week as he continues to sleep , she begins to disintegrate before him, and the new world swallows the old one whole...NOD 

miércoles, 3 de julio de 2013

Three Free Ebooks published by Nonstop Press

Through July 5 Nonstop Press is offering three of their books for free in electronic format. The titles and their synopsis are the following (click on the links to download the PDF files):

Steampunk Prime edited by Mike Ashley
Discover original steampunk tales in this anthology of stories written before there were actual rocketships, atomic power, digital computers, or readily available electricity. The modern day steampunk genre is a reinvention of the past through the eyes of its inventors and adventurers, but this collection is from real Victorians and Edwardians who saw the future potential of science and all its daring possibilities for progress and disasters. Edited by Mike Ashey, with a foreword by Paul di Fillipo and 16 New illustrations by Luis Ortiz.
Why New Yorkers Smoke edited by Luis Ortiz
This collection of original stories answers the question What is there to fear in New York City?, with creative responses from Paul di Filippo, Scott Edelman, Carol Emshwiller, Lawrence Greenberg, Gay Partington Terry, Don Webb, and Barry Malzberg, among others. The contributors represent a combination of New Yorkers, ex-New Yorkers, and wannabe New Yorkers, and the tales of the fears, both real and imagined, all use the city as their ominous setting. Blending the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, the stories in this anthology showcase work from up-and-coming writers as well as veterans of fantastical fiction. Edited by Luis Ortiz.
Meeting the Dog Girls by Gay Terry
A thief, languishing in prison for stealing moments, escapes and becomes a chronometric fugitive. Women wait in a long, endless line, night and day, without knowing what is at the beginning of the line. An otherworldly marble called the Ustek Cloudy passes through the hands of Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Earhart, and D. B. Cooper just before they each disappear off the face of the earth. Whether they are called fantasy, magical realism, science fiction, or parodies, the stories in this collection—the first from Gay Terry—blend the real and the fantastic in an imaginative and mischievous way. Written in the tradition of Ray Bradbury, Angela Carter, and Edgar Allan Poe, these contemporary fables present remarkable characters trapped in unusual situations. 

domingo, 30 de junio de 2013

Free Ebook: Through Your Eyes by Linda Nagata

Linda Nagata is offering her short story Through Your Eyes to those who sign up for her newsletter. As she explains in her blog:
“Through Your Eyes” is a prequel story to my newest novel, The Red: First Light. Right now, I’m offering an ebook copy to everyone who subscribes to my newsletter.
After you submit the form, you’ll get an email asking you to confirm your subscription. Once you do that, you’ll get a thank-you email that includes the web address where you can download both EPUB and MOBI (Kindle) versions of the “Through Your Eyes” ebook, which also includes an excerpt from The Red: First Light.

miércoles, 26 de junio de 2013

Ten Free Ebooks by A.A. Attanasio

As of now, ten fantasy and science fiction ebooks by A.A. Attanasio can be downloaded for free from Amazon. All of them have been free in the past at some time or other, but if you missed them now it is a perfect time to catch up. These are the ebooks that are free downloads:

sábado, 22 de junio de 2013

Free Ebook: Captive Girl by Jennifer Pelland

Thanks to a tweet by @sfsignal I've found out that Captive Girl by Jennifer Pelland, a story that was nominated for the 2008 Nebula Award, can be downloaded for free from Smashwords, courtesy of Apex Publications. This is the synopsis:
In this brilliant dark science fiction story from her collection Unwelcome Bodies, Nebula-nominated Jennifer Pelland confronts the handicap that is normality... 
Alice watches the skies with two other saviors of humankind, children who were altered into monsters to save a space colony from an attack like the one that killed Alice's parents. Alice lives in slavery to duty and machines: yet she's content, supported by the love of her minder, Dr. DeVeaux. Marika.  
Then the program is shut down, and Alice is forced to return to normal human functionality.   

miércoles, 12 de junio de 2013

Free Ebook: Wool, Part One by Hugh Howey

As of now, Wool (Part One) by Hugh Howey is free to download on Amazon (US, ES). It's not the first time that this ebook is free, but I think I haven't posted about it before. This is the synopsis:
Thousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about people living anywhere else. Such a life requires rules. Strict rules. There are things that must not be discussed. Like going outside. Never mention you might like going outside. 
Or you'll get what you wish for.

sábado, 1 de junio de 2013

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.

sábado, 25 de mayo de 2013

Free Ebook: Interface Dreams by Vlad Hernández

As of now, Interface Dreams by Cuban author Vlad Hernández can be downloaded for free from Amazon (US, ES). This novella was awarded an honorable mention on the Premio UPC 2003. This is the synopsis of the ebook:
A novel of bravery, redemption and love in a future of fear and trans-humanism.

In the second half of the twenty-first century Havana has become a mega-city. After a bloody civil world, the old capital has emerged as Conglomerate Havana, an opulent super metropolis, the Key to the Gulf and both Americas, the new hub-for-all-cultures in the middle of the Caribbean. High towers of emergent corporations and post-national enclaves populate the skyline of the city; there, the weirdest technologies and concepts are developed and put to test, and some of them are totally illegal.

Roy Cruz is a reluctant hero, only he doesn’t know it yet. He used to be a tech soldier, a former interface pilot in the war between the Western block and his economic enemies. But he is retired now, victim of obsolescence and the high speed race of optimized technologies. Since then Roy has been living a confusing life, the eagerness of his pilot interface for being connected again makes him suffer from abstinence syndrome, a sort of emptiness that makes harder for him to connect with other people.

During his stay in Conglomerate Havana, Roy and his companion, a German woman called Anna, meet by chance two girls on the run, two biotech artifacts: Two quartz novas --cutting edge tech out of control, escaping from the powerful True Confessions Corp. Inside the head of one of them there is a state-of-the-art neuro-implant, a revolutionary prototype destined to become the next new thing of the century. That means that hunters will come following the escapees, and Roy will have to face his broken humanity and take the toughest decision of his life.

Three Free Ebooks by John Ringo

As of now, three ebooks by John Ringo can be downloaded for free from Amazon (in addition to Gust Front, which is still free). The books are the following:

A Hymn Before Battle (Amazon US, Amazon ES)
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE . . .

With the Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the peaceful and friendly races of the Galactic Federation offer their resources to help the backward Terrans—for a price.

Humanity now has three worlds to defend.

As Earth's armies rush into battle and special operations units scout alien worlds, the humans begin to learn a valuable lesson: You can protect yourself from your enemies, but may the Lord save you from your allies.
Emerald Sea (Amazon US, Amazon ES)
The Battle Against
Those Determined
to Rule the World—or
Destroy It—Continues

In the future the world was a paradise—and then, in a moment, it ended. The council that controlled the Net fell out and went to war, while people who had never known a moment of want or pain were left wondering how to survive.

Duke Edmund Talbot has been assigned a simple mission: Go to the Southern Isles and make contact with the scattered mer-folk—those who, before the worldwide collapse of technology, had altered their bodies in the shape of mythical sea-dwelling creatures. He must convince them to side with the Freedom Coalition in the battles against the fascist dictators of New Destiny. Just a simple diplomatic mission. That requires the service of a dragon-carrier and Lieutenant Herzer Herrick, the most blooded of the Blood Lords—because New Destiny has plans of its own.

The fast-paced sequel to There Will be Dragons is a rollicking adventure above and below the high seas with dragons, orcas, beautiful mermaids— and the irrepressible Bast the Wood Elf, a cross between Legolas and Mae West.
There Will be Dragons (Amazon US, Amazon ES)
Paradise Lost

In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise—and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive.

But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil and small farm. In the village of Raven's Mill, Edmund Talbot, master smith and unassuming historian, finds that all the problems of the world are falling in his lap. Refugees are flooding in, bandits are roaming the woods, and his former lover and his only daughter struggle through the Fallen landscape. Enemies, new and old, gather like jackals around a wounded lion.

But what the jackals do not know is that while old he may be, this lion is far from death. And hidden in the past is a mystery that has waited until this time to be revealed. You cross Edmund Talbot at your peril, for a smith is not all he once was. . . .

sábado, 18 de mayo de 2013

Free Ebook: Gust Front by John Ringo

As of now, Gust Front by John Ringo is free to download from Amazon (US, ES). This is
the book synopsis:
The aliens had arrived

With gifts, warnings, and an offer we couldn't refuse....

Our choice was simple: we could be cannon fodder, or we could be ... fodder. We could send our forces to fight and die (as only humans can) against a ravening horde that was literally feeding on its interstellar conquests—or remain as we were—virtually weaponless and third in line for brunch.

We chose to fight.

Thanks to alien technology and sheer guts, the Terrans on two worlds fought the Posleen to a standstill. Thank God there was a moment to catch our breath, a moment, however brief, of peace—.

Now, for the survivors of the Barwhon and Diess Expeditionary Forces, it was a chance to get some distance from the blood and misery of battle against the Posleen centaurs. A blessed chance to forget the screams of the dying in purple swamps and massacres under searing alien suns.

For Earth it was an opportunity to flesh out their force of raw recruits with combat-seasoned veterans. Political, military and scientific blundering had left the Terran forces in shambles-and with the Posleen Invasion only months away, these shell-shocked survivors might be the only people capable of saving the Earth from devastation.

If the veterans had time to lick their wounds.

Because the Posleen don't read schedules.