Kindle Science Fiction MegaPacks VERY CHEAP!

[SpaceBadger]

I'm just getting ready for my 100th (maybe, I haven't really kept track) re-read of H.Beam Piper's "Four-Day Planet," turning at this time not to a well-worn paperback on a shelf somewhere but to my handy H.Beam Piper MegaPack kindle book, a compilation of 8 Piper novels and 25 short stories, which I scored from Amazon some time back for mere chump change, 59 cents!!! Of course I have already told my fellow Piper-addict Timerover51 about this treasure trove, but it occurs to me now that I ought to share the bounty with y'all, the rest of my CotI friends.

Even if you're not already a Piper fan, this is surely worth a look for 59 cents! You don't ned an actual Kindle device (I don't have one), just a free app on your phone, tablet, or computer. Piper's classic, "Space Viking," was an acknowledged influence on Marc Miller in the creation of Classic Traveller, and although that novel is also available for free from Project Gutenberg, I find my kindle MegaPack much handier.

Amazon also has these MegaPacks available for other SF authors from the Golden Age, all for either 59 or 99 cents. I know I have Piper, Andre Norton, Poul Anderson (some less popular works, but still nice), Fritz Lieber, Cyril Kornbluth... don't recall who else. Also some theme packs w short stories from multiple authors.

There, you are now informed. You know what to do. Or not. I'm off to enjoy the adventures of ace reporter Walter Boyd on Federation colony Fenris, home of gangster politicians and honest to goodness Sea Monsters.

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[ShawnDriscoll]

I listen to the Space Viking audiobook on YouTube at least once a week, while doing my artwork for my next one-shot.

 

[SpaceBadger]

Aramis, should this thread be moved to the Cleon Memoriall Library subforum? This is not explicitly Traveller fiction, but I posted about it because Marc has cited Space Viking as an influence, so it is Traveller-related.

For that matter, where would be the proper location for a post about some other series of space opera or military SF, such as Bujold's Vorkosigan books? No Traveller connection, but certainly worthy of discussion as inspiration for an ATU!

Or what about another known Traveller influence, such as A.Bertram Chandler (I'm looking for some recommendations there...)?

 

[aramis]

Aramis, should this thread be moved to the Cleon Memoriall Library subforum? This is not explicitly Traveller fiction, but I posted about it because Marc has cited Space Viking as an influence, so it is Traveller-related.

Unless someone complains, it's fine here in lone star.

 

[SpaceBadger]

Piper's Fuzzy series

O frabjous day! Callou, callay! I'm positively chortling with joy! My H.Beam Piper kindle Megapack includes the novel Little Fuzzy, which despite its title is serious SF and an important slice of Piper's Terro-Human Future History, and which has fallen into public domain through some quirk of Piper's estate. The Megapack does not, however, include Little Fuzzy's two sequels: Fuzzy Sapiens, and Fuzzies and Other People. I read both of them long ago and have the paperbacks "around somewhere," but I've gotten spoiled by keeping my favorite books available to read in kindle form on any device. I found Fuzzy Sapiens available separately in kindle form on Amazon for $2.99, but no sign of the third book.

But I had a vague recollection of where I last saw it in a mouse-conquered storage closet, so with son Chris to back me up, and wielding crutch and flashlight defensively against the threat of ROUSes, we ventured in. I found a good selection of other SF books I'd like to reread, and an old backpack to carry them in, but was just about to give up on Fuzzies and Other People due to screaming back pain and running out of shelves that I could reach without major excavation, and there it was, near the very bottom of the last pile I was going to search!! TA-DAH!!! I would have turned a cartwheel, except that I didn't really have room for a proper judo fall, so probably would have ended a paraplegic. Chris mumbled, "Yay," and started dragging me toward daylight where we could breathe without inhaling mouse-dust and hantavirus, me clutching my prize, my crutch, and my backpack full of lesser prizes.

Of course, the book is still a physical paperback rather than a handy ebook, but I'm going to start researching my path to correcting that shortcoming. I dunno anything about making MOBI files for kindle, but PDFs are easy, I used them all the time in my law practice. It'll just take time to "scan" the book w my phone, since I'm not gonna tear it apart to feed through my ScanJet.