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Recommend me a good new release Scifi/fantasy ebook

HumblePie

HumblePie

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I am an avid reader and do prefer sci fi or fantasy. I buy a ton of ebook and read them off microsoft E-reader for my PC. Usually I get them from fictionwise, but they seem to be slacking on new releases or releases in general lately as I've gone through most of what they have.

So I'm trying to find some good books to occupy my time. I prefer them to be in microsoft e-reader that I can download, but I'll take them as mobi or adobe reader. I am trying to avoid the kindle software so I don't get stuff from Amazon, so that is out. So any suggestions on a new book, or two, or five, and where to get?
 
Peter F. Hamilton's The Dreaming Void, followed by the second in the trilogy The Temporal Void are excellent if you haven't already read them yet. There's a third coming, I believe it's called The Evolutionary Void, but not out yet afaik.
 
Black Library is currently giving away a free ebook every Friday for a total of 5 (2 are out already).

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Digital

The first one, First & Only is the first book in the Gaunt's Ghosts series which is really good and the second one is Nightbringer, the first book of the Ultramarines series.
 
Have you checked out the Baen.com free ebook library?

David Drake has a bunch of free titles, including the first three Lt. Leary books (With the Lightnings is #1).

New Baen ebooks sell for $6 and are DRM-free.
 
Kadarin said:
Peter F. Hamilton's The Dreaming Void, followed by the second in the trilogy The Temporal Void are excellent if you haven't already read them yet. There's a third coming, I believe it's called The Evolutionary Void, but not out yet afaik.
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Read the first two trilogies in his universe and they were decent. Was waiting for the last book to come out before picking up the void part of the series.

epidemis said:
You should take a look at the "sword of truth" series by terry goodkind 🙂
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Read them all as well as every book so far written by him

DaveSimmons said:
Have you checked out the Baen.com free ebook library?

David Drake has a bunch of free titles, including the first three Lt. Leary books (With the Lightnings is #1).

New Baen ebooks sell for $6 and are DRM-free.
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Read all the free books awhile ago. Kind of getting tired of flint and weber and ringo writing style though.

surfsatwerk said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl
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This looks interesting as well as the Gaunt's Ghost which I don't believe I've read yet.
 
recently published fantasy that I've read and liked:
"The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch.
"The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss.
 
I haven't read them yet but I have heard nothing but positive things about the series from Glen Cook called The Black Company.

If you dig Gaunt's Ghost or Warhammer 40k in general there are lots of great scifi books in that series as well as the normal Warhammer fantasy series.
 
I'm not real big into cookie cutter books or what I call pulp books. Regurgitations of the same story over and over tend to make me stop reading a book. Partly why I stopped reading David Weber. I also don't read those Dresdin books or most of the stuff by Patricia Briggs. The urban fantasy lately has been giving me a headache.
 
Kadarin said:
Peter F. Hamilton's The Dreaming Void, followed by the second in the trilogy The Temporal Void are excellent if you haven't already read them yet. There's a third coming, I believe it's called The Evolutionary Void, but not out yet afaik.
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I'm reading his Night's Dawn trilogy now. I like it quite a bit, though I would have been happier with less metaphysics/religion.
 
I just got into sci-fi/fantasy genre, and I must say that George RR Martin's Game of Thrones (part of the ice and fire series) is outstanding (these have been out for a while now, so this might be old news to you).

For those that never read it, think of it as sopranos in Middle Earth- medieval fantasy for adults. He's written 4 books so far, and working on the 5th
 
KaOTiK said:
I haven't read them yet but I have heard nothing but positive things about the series from Glen Cook called The Black Company.
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While it's not as well known, Glen Cook has also written some fantastic scifi. Check out The Dragon Never Sleeps (one of my favorite all-time books for some reason) and the Stars' End trilogy (Passage At Arms also fits into that universe).
 
HumblePie said:
I am trying to avoid the kindle software
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why?


For something 'lighter' you might try the YA side like the Queen's Theif series (Megal Whalen Turner) and Ranger's Apprentice series (John Flanagan)

time travel/shift you have Destroyermen series (Anderson) and Axis of Time (Birmingham)
 
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tynopik said:
why?


For something 'lighter' you might try the YA side like the Queen's Theif series (Megal Whalen Turner) and Ranger's Apprentice series (John Flanagan)

time travel/shift you have Destroyermen series (Anderson) and Axis of Time (Birmingham)
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Because I can't install it on my work pc since they changed the admin rights 🙂 I have already installed mobi reader and microsoft reader and adobe digital reader though.
 
HumblePie said:
Because I can't install it on my work pc since they changed the admin rights 🙂 I have already installed mobi reader and microsoft reader and adobe digital reader though.
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you could download on home pc and then rip to more friendly format
 
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