The Big Jump ($4.99 Kindle), a novella by Leigh Brackett, is this month's free book from Phoenix Pick.Book Description
What awaits us out in space?
New star-drive engines promise to open up the galaxy to human-kind. But the first ship to use the engines disappears and a sole survivor returns…alone and dying of some strange type of radiation.
No one can figure out what has happened to the ship or the crew. Nor does anyone know what happens to a ship travelling using star-drive technology.
Does some unknown horror await us out there?
The only way to find out is to go out again. And Arch Comyn is determined to be the one to solve the mystery.
But is he, and the rest of mankind, ready for whatever awaits us beyond the Big Jump?
Click HERE for the free book from Phoenix Pick. You'll need to scroll down to find the book's listing, click on "FREE EBOOK of the Month", then enter coupon code 9991393. Click thru the next page and then scroll down and get the format of your choice. They are DRM-free, so you can convert to other formats, if desired.
On the download page, you'll also find a discounted bundle for the month: THE CLASSICS COLLECTION, containing Daniel F. Galouye: Dark Universe and Simulacron-3; L. Sprague de Camp: Lest Darkness Fall (contributions by Frederik Pohl, David Drake,and Alexei Panshin), Edmond Hamilton: The Best of Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Bracket: The Long Tomorrow. Regular price separately is $43.95; regular bundle price is $26.37; this month, you can get either the EPUB or MOBI bundle for $19.78. There's no DRM (and why they don't just put them together into a single download, as Baen does, I don't know), so grab either one and they can be converted easily using Calibre. The MOBI files can be emailed to your free Kindle address for WiFi delivery and backup as a Personal Document.
You'll also find a bundle of Leigh Brackett novels at Baen. They usually raise the price to $32 after the bundle has been out for a while, but this one is still stuck at $20.
