Originally saw this on r/ebookdeals: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0753FP6SP

Saw no posts on this yet here, but this news arrived a few days ago. She was one of the greats.

Hello, r/fantasy! I’m Sarah Lin, author of a variety of books. I’ve written a lot because A) I enjoy writing and B) I enjoy having enough money for food.

To keep this post from getting too jumbled, here is the free content promised in the title:

• Anybody can read Throne of Time online for free.
• Almost all my past books are free on Amazon this week only! (Only .com and .uk, sorry; I’d do more, but Amazon doesn’t allow it.)
• Everyone commenting here will be placed into a drawing for free Audible codes for the Depthless Hunger audiobooks (unless you say you’re not interested in your comment).

If you know me, it’s probably from my longest ongoing series, The Weirkey Chronicles, or one of my finished series, like Street Cultivation. These are the books that are 100% free on Amazon right now, to celebrate the most recent book:

Deadgold

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H51F4DJ8

Description: Betrayed. Murdered. Reborn. One last chance, to make it …

What older fantasy books you liked, but you don´t see them being recommended here?

It can be a hidden gem or just a obscure fantasy novel you remember for some reason.

I just want to say this community is fantastic! I started reading about a year ago due to playing magic and realizing I needed to read more and come across more unfamiliar words and get better at processing and decoding them. I’ve discovered many books and series I otherwise would have never read. I just wanted to thank the members of this community. Sorry if this breaks community rules. Cheers

“Lawmakers in the state House overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at shielding public and school libraries from the book-banning efforts that have swept the nation over the last few years.”

“The 22-year-old son of former reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin announced on Instagram that he is releasing a memoir titled In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood, which is scheduled to be published on Oct. 13, 2026.”

“Inspired by those colorful outdoor boxes that invite you to take books or small objects for free, the Pittsburgh Equality Center has launched a network of Little Queer Libraries in time for Pride Month.”

I read Solaris, then The Invincible, and now His Master’s Voice. This dude clearly influenced TONS of modern sci-fi. And his aliens are actual aliens… like so weird and different that it’s not even clear how you could communicate with them.

This is the first book I’ve read by him and it’s so incredible. Just finished it and have been thinking about it for 30 mins straight without doing anything else. Didn’t expect the conversation between devi and the ships computer to be so funny specifically in the beginning. Didn’t expect the end of chapter/section 6 to hit so hard. Just all around incredible. Kim Stanley Robinson has a new fan in me

Love sci-fi since it introduces ethics and existentialist questions. Looking for books/novellas/short stories that really made you think long after reading it. NOT looking for books that end with no conclusion and you wonder what happens next or have to come to your own conclusion. Looking specifically for interesting thought concepts.

I’ve heard a couple of my favourite booktubers talk about Barry Malzberg very highly, so I figured I’d check him out. I purchased an old paperback copy of his novel, The Destruction Of The Temple on ebay for about £20. It was utterly fantastic and on another level. Told with immaculate prose, it was like if you combined the grittyness and decay of a 70s JG Ballard novel with a delirious and mindbending plotline that made Ubik seem straightforward. Anyway I checked on Goodreads and it only as about 100 ratings, and I was stunned.

But then again it’s no wonder that this book only got 100 ratings, because nobody in the right mind would ever pay that price for a 50 year old paperback. In fact nearly all of his books are overpriced as they are all out of print; some fetching as much as £45. In this modern world of ours where every everyone is tight for cash, it’s no wonder that nobody is talking about him anymore.

I just find it so tragic that an author who was so …

Within SF, who would you think has written the most novels that are more than just worth a read? Like, really good A tier stuff. I’m not talking about the Kevin J. Andersons with 100+ books that go straight to the TBDNF shelf.

I get that that it’s hard to consistently churn out gold, and burnout will almost always catch up to a good writer. I’d just like something that will keep my attention for a good while, and not just read their seven books or so and be done with them forever.

I recently stumbled across Elizabeth Bear’s White Space trilogy. By that I mean I plunged into it without any prior research. I was expecting a sprawling galactic scale and hard-ish futuristic world building, and the books delivered, but I was not prepared for the intensely introspective narrative voice.

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For the first 50 pages or so of Ancestral Night, I was somewhat irked by how preoccupied the main character was with her own internal state. Plotwise, the book gets into action and mystery pretty quickly, but it doesn’t feel fast-paced because every event is accompanied by a minute account of how it is affecting the main character psychologically.

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When I say psychologically, I don’t mean just subjectively or emotionally, but also biologically. We’re told about hormones and neurotransmitters as much as or maybe even more than emotions. A lot of the prominent technology in the series is tasked with moment-by-moment fine-tuning of …

Hi reddit, I’m Robert Hays.

You may recognize me as Ted Striker in Airplane! and Airplane II: The Sequel. I’ve also starred in things like Starman, Angie, Homeward Bound, Take This Job and Shove It, Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye, and as the voice of Iron Man.

I’m out on tour now with Airplane! doing screenings and onstage Q&As with my co-star Julie Hagerty, you can find tickets/showings here, this week we’re in San Francisco - come see us! In the meantime, Ask Me Anything!

Airplane! trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07pPmCfKi3U

After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.

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Bio:

Since his debut as Ted Striker in the comedy classic Airplane! where he immortalized movie lines including “Surely you can’t be serious”, Robert Hays has starred in more than 20 films, numerous television series, and continues to work across …