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Moliere wrote:Furies of Calderon By Jim Butcher

$1.99 $9.99

coopasonic wrote:

Moliere wrote:Furies of Calderon By Jim Butcher

$1.99 $9.99

Bought. I have all his Dresden books but haven't given anything else a shot. For $2 he can have another shot.

Moliere wrote:Zodiac By Neal Stephenson
$1.99 $9.99

El Guapo wrote:Hillbilly Elegy, which is supposed to be amazing, is $4.99 today.

Moliere wrote:The Big U by Neal Stephenson
$1.99

Along with Astounding Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy Magazine was one of the most important science fiction digests in 1950s America. Ray Bradbury wrote for it--including an early version of his masterpiece Fahrenheit 451--as did Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon, Cordwainer Smith, Jack Vance, and numerous others.

Now a fairly decent collection of issues (355 in total) is available for your perusal at archive.org for absolutely free. It’s not complete yet, but it’s close.

Isgrimnur wrote:Foundation by Isaac Asimov $1.99

Moliere wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:Foundation by Isaac Asimov $1.99

Tempting, but I would want to get all the associated Foundation books. Too expensive.

Moliere wrote:Summerland by Michael Chabon
$1.99
I've been a big fan of Chabon since reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

Moliere wrote:Dies the Fire
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Emberverse Book 1
"S. M. Stirling presents his first Novel of the Change, the start of the New York Times bestselling postapocalyptic saga set in a world where all technology has been rendered useless."
I enjoyed this series until the most recent book. Recommended.

MonkeyFinger wrote:Out of curiosity, how many is that? I read the first (not sure I actually finished it though, now that I think about it) and never really felt a need to read more.

Moliere wrote:

MonkeyFinger wrote:Out of curiosity, how many is that? I read the first (not sure I actually finished it though, now that I think about it) and never really felt a need to read more.

I read the first ten books along with the 3 books in the side series. That was enough for me.

Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe.

Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates—provide an entryway into the frontier of his singular imagination. Madcap but sincere, pulsating with strong social and philosophical undercurrents, his irreverent classics have introduced countless readers to natural born hitchhiking cowgirls, born-again monkeys, a philosophizing can of beans, exiled royalty, and problematic redheads.

In Tibetan Peach Pie, Robbins turns that unparalleled literary sensibility inward, stitching together stories of his unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his globetrotting adventures —told in his unique voice that combines the sweet and sly, the spiritual and earthy. The grandchild of Baptist preachers, Robbins would become over the course of half a century a poet-interruptus, an air force weatherman, a radio dj, an art-critic-turned-psychedelic-journeyman, a world-famous novelist, and a counter-culture hero, leading a life as unlikely, magical, and bizarre as those of his quixotic characters.