Jeffrey A. Carver has just posted Eternity's End (Star Rigger)
(no longer in print), a novel of the Star Rigger universe, as a free ebook. It looks like DRM free versions in multiple formats (including Kindle compatible) will eventually be available at Fictionwise, but right now you can get this and several other books at no charge, already formatted for the Kindle, no PDF conversion required. Eternity's End was a finalist for the 2000 Nebula, and concerns the search by a star rigger named Legroeder for the lost ship Impris, the Flying Dutchman of the stars.The newest novel set in the Star Rigger Universe, ETERNITY'S END features the search for the legendary ghost rigger ship Impris and her crew, whose fate is entwined with interstellar piracy, quantum defects in spacetime, galactic coverup conspiracies, and deep-cyber romance.
You can also get, for a limited time, a free download of Sunborn (Chaos Chronicles)
($21.24 Hardcover) on his downloads page. The first three books in the Chaos Chronicles (Neptune Crossing, Strange Attractors and The Infinite Sea) are available there and in the Baen Free Library. All of his downloads are in multiple formats and DRM free.
The Pendragon (The Merchant of Death, Book 1)
($7.99 Kindle) by D.J. MacHale, earlier reported as a free PDF download from Barnes and Noble is now available as a free audiobook from Audible.com.Apex Book Company is giving away the PDF version of Open Your Eyes
($10.94 Paperback) by Paul Jessup until the end of May. This is book #4 in a novella series, but can be read as a standalone story, which they describe as a surreal space opera.Her lover was a supernova who took worlds with him when he died, and as a new world grows within Ekhi, savage lives rage and love on a small ship in the outer reaches of space. A ship with an agenda of its own. Critically acclaimed author of weird fiction Paul Jessup sends puppets to speak and fight for their masters while a linguistic virus eats through the minds of a group of scavengers in Open Your Eyes, a surrealist space opera of haunting beauty and infinite darkness.
Several short novels/short stories by J.A. Konrath
, aka Jack Kilborn of Afraid
($1.99 Kindle) are available for free, with a little searching, or at bargain prices in the Kindle store. You can get Disturb
, The List
and Origin
(all $1.19 Kindle) for free on Konrath's download page, but it looks like Shot of Tequila
is only available in the Kindle store ($1.19) or as a 99 cent PDF.Suckers
($1.59 Kindle) byJ.A. Konrath and Jeff Strand is free from the co-author: "For a free PDF, just send an e-mail to gleefullymacabre@gmail.com with "Suckers" in the subject line and I'll send it on over. I promise that you won't be subscribed to any mailing lists or anything sinister like that."Planter's Punch
($1.59 Kindle) by JA Konrath and Tom Schreck is free via a link on Tom Schreck's website (although you have to cut and paste the link there and can just click it here). Serial by Jack Kilborn and and Blake Crouch is free in the Sony bookstore, as is Infinite Exposure (Promotional Version), by Roland Hughes (also here as a PDF), but the promotional version is missing the last chapter (you get 18 chapters, 314 pages for free) and you'll have to chase down a full version to find out how it ends.
Catherine Wilson is offering Book I of her trilogy, When Women Were Warriors
($0.99 Kindle) as a free download on her website. Previously a PDF, multiple formats are now available.
