FREE E-Book Download – ‘Starfist: First to Fight’ by David Sherman & Dan Cragg

For a limited time, ‘Starfist: First to Fight’ by David Sherman & Dan Cragg is being offered for FREE download from Amazon (as the Kindle Edition) or as a Sony Reader e-book. Download and save yourself $7.99!

This is a military science fiction novel series, so it may not be for everyone, even for lovers of science fiction. The reviews have been great for this series, and supposedly, it has impressed military-associated readers with its authenticity (well, except for the sci-fi parts).

Note that you will need an Amazon Kindle OR the Sony Reader or the FREE desktop Sony Reader software to be able to read this ebook.

Product Description:

“Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol . . .”

Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day’s water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future seventy-five light-years from home. The only thing between his Marines and safety was eighty-five miles of uncharted, waterless terrain and two thousand bloodthirsty savages with state-of-the-art weapons in their hands and murder on their minds.

But the enemy didn’t reckon on the warrior cunning of Marines’ Marine Charlie Bass and the courage of the few good men who would follow him anywhere–even to death. . .

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FREE E-book Download – ‘MetaGame’ by Sam Landstrom

Author Sam Landstrom is giving away his novel for FREE on his website. It’s DRM-free and is available in different formats – ePub, PDF, Mobi and HTML. All he asks is that if you like it, please just leave a review or recommend it to your friends. Seems to be a pretty good deal to me! Plus, reading the book synopsis, seems to be pretty interesting plot!

Message from Sam Landstrom:

I’m giving you, dear reader, my novel MetaGame for FREE. I capitalized the word “FREE” because it truly is. There is no cost to you monetarily or otherwise, no DRM protection, and no piracy guilt. Please Do share the book with your friends. My objective is for this book to get read because it took me a looong time to write and IMO as well as the majority of my reviews, it’s pretty kick-ass.

Book Description:

Life is a game, literally. Winners earn immortality, while losers are condemned to aging and death. D_Light, a gifted player, knows this all too well and he-s willing to do anything to win-even kill. It is no wonder then that when given the chance to enter a MetaGame-an exclusive, high-stakes, anything goes contest-he-s quick to jump at the opportunity. The MetaGame starts out well enough for D_Light, the first quest being to hunt down a dangerous fugitive, but through his own ambition, the tables turn and D_Light finds himself the renegade. Now, D_Light pits himself against his world to find the truth behind -The Game- and must decide between winning it and saving what-s left of his humanity.

This 122,000 word (~400 page) novel blends emerging political and cultural trends, such as gaming culture, globalization, and the ever-increasing hegemony of corporations, with technological trends, such as genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. Emerging from this stew is an original world for you to explore through the point of view of its many “players”.

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Exclusive iTunes Podcast Download – Transition by Iain M. Banks

Hachette Book Group and Orbit is offering a FREE twice weekly podcast of the novel “Transition” by Iain M. Banks. (Find out more about Iain M. Banks at www.iainbanks.net.)

Click here to subscribe to the iTunes podcast or if you don’t like iTunes, click here to subscribe to the podcast feed.

Podcast Description:

Welcome to the exclusive podcast of Transition by best-selling author Iain M. Banks. This twice weekly podcast delivers the abridged audiobook edition of Banks’ stunning new novel directly to iTunes users. Subscribe now to have all episodes sent directly to your iTunes library, or buy the full unabridged download, a 13-hour audiobook, from iTunes.

Transition: A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse, such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organisation with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?

Among those operatives are Temudjin Oh, of mysterious Mongolian origins, an un-killable assassin who journeys between the peaks of Nepal, a version of Victorian London and the dark palaces of Venice under snow; Adrian Cubbish, a restlessly greedy City trader; and a nameless, faceless state-sponsored torturer known only as the Philosopher, who moves between time zones with sinister ease. Then there are those who question the Concern: the bandit queen Mrs. Mulverhill, roaming the worlds recruiting rebels to her side; and Patient 8262, under sedation and feigning madness in a forgotten hospital ward, in hiding from a dirty past.

There is a world that needs help; but whether it needs the Concern is a different matter.

As vivid, strange and sensuous worlds circle and collide, an unstable universe is set on a dizzying course. Enter the world of Iain M. Banks.

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Free E-book Download – Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, Book 1) by John Birmingham

Amazon is offering a FREE download of “Weapons of Choice” (Axis of Time, Book 1) (Kindle Edition) by John Birmingham. Click here to download and save yourself $7.99!

Suvudu library is also offering this book as a PDF download. It is also available for free download from Sony Reader, Scribd.com, and Stanza.

Book Description:

On the eve of America’s greatest victory in the Pacific, a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . .

The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the U.S. naval task force speeding toward Midway Atoll—and what was to be the most spectacular U.S. triumph of the entire war.

Thousands died in the chaos, but the ripples had only begun. For these veterans of Pearl Harbor—led by Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, and Spruance—have never seen a helicopter, or a satellite link, or a nuclear weapon. And they’ve never encountered an African American colonel or a British naval commander who was a woman and half-Pakistani. While they embrace the armada’s awesome firepower, they may find the twenty-first century sailors themselves far from acceptable.

Initial jubilation at news the Allies would win the war is quickly doused by the chilling realization that the time travelers themselves—by their very presence—have rendered history null and void. Celebration turns to dread when the possibility arises that other elements of the twenty-first century task force may have also made the trip—and might now be aiding Yamamoto and the Japanese.

What happens next is anybody’s guess—and everybody’s nightmare. . . .

ETA: You may also read “Weapons of Choice” (Axis of Time, Book 1) here on PAGE 2 since I’ve embedded it also. Enjoy!

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FREE E-book Download – Changelings: Book One of The Twins of Petaybee by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and Anne Mccaffrey

Suvudu.Com has made “The Changelings: Book One of the Twins of Petaybee” by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough available for FREE download!

Click here to download and save yourself $7.99! The ebook is available as PDF and is also available for free from Amazon – Kindle, Sony Reader, BN.com and Scribd.

Book Description:

They are Ronan Born for Water Shongili and Murel Monster Slayer Shongili. Twin brother and sister. Children of Yana and Sean. Children of Petaybee. As such, theirs is a destiny deeply intertwined with the sentient planet that is their home. For Ronan and Murel are more than human. Like their father, each can transform into a seal and converse telepathically with the planet’s creatures–such as the friendly otter whose life they save one day from a pack of ravenous wolves.

But the twins’ bravery has unforeseen results when a visiting scientist witnesses their startling metamorphosis and becomes obsessed with their capture. To protect their children, Sean and Yana send them to stay with a powerful family friend on an orbiting space station. But no one realizes that Ronan and Murel hunger to discover the origins of their shape-shifting talent-and that their search for knowledge will place them squarely in the path of peril.

Meanwhile, Petaybee is changing–and much faster than an ordinary planet’s natural evolution. It appears that portions of the sea are heating up and a landmass is suddenly rising from the depths. To investigate the startling occurrence, Sean heads out to the open water in his seal form. But the newly unstable region holds untold mysteries–and the potential for disaster.

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FREE E-book Download – Raising Atlantis by Thomas Greanias

Thomas Greanias has a new book “The Atlantis Revelation” for release, and to help promote it, Simon & Schuster is giving a FREE download of the first book from the series “Raising Atlantis”.

Click here to download the pdf version (Direct link) and save yourself $6.39 (had you bought it from Amazon).

Book Info:

“BURIED UNDER TWO MILES OF ICE.

In Antarctica, a glacial earthquake swallows up a team of scientists…and exposes a mysterious monument older than the Earth itself. In Peru, archaeologist Dr. Conrad Yeats is apprehended by U.S. Special Forces…to unlock the final key to the origins of the human race. In Rome, the pope summons environmental activist Dr. Serena Serghetti to the Vatican…and reveals a terrifying vision of apocalyptic disaster. In space, a weather satellite reveals four massive storms forming around the South Pole…and three U.S. spy satellites disappear from orbit.

These are the end times, when the legends of a lost civilization and the prophecies of the world’s great religions lead a man and a woman to a shattering discovery that will change the fate of humankind. This is the ultimate voyage, a journey to the center of time, as awe-inspiring as the dawn of man–and as inevitable as doomsday. This is RAISING ATLANTIS.”

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FREE E-book – Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld’s new book Leviathan is coming out in October. I’m excited, since I’m a huuge fan of Scott Westerfeld. In the meantime, his publisher (Simon & Schuster) is releasing Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) as a FREE download!

Click here to download (you’ll have to provide your e-mail address). (Direct link) ETA – This offer expires in two days (Sept 4)! according to Scott’s tweet.

And check out the author’s blog while you’re at it!

Book Description

“Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. Not for her license — for turning pretty. In Tally’s world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally’s new friend Shay isn’t sure she wants to be pretty. She’d rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world — and it isn’t very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.”

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For Star Wars Fans – Free Downloads of Star Wars E-books

Product Description

“Don’t miss STAR WARS: LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH: PRECIPICE a FREE original e-book short story, the first in a series that tell the untold story of the FATE OF THE JEDI’s forgotten Sith castaways, their battle to survive, and their quest to re-conquer the galaxy! PRECIPICE includes an exclusive excerpt from STAR WARS: FATE OF THE JEDI: OMEN (Del Rey Hardcover, available June 23rd) and offers a unique look into the backstory of events that will begin to unfold in OMEN.

SURVIVAL—NOT SURRENDER

For the ruthless Sith Order, failure is not an option. It is an offense punishable by death—and a fate to which Commander Yaru Korsin will not succumb. But on a crucial run to deliver troops and precious crystals to a combat hotspot in the Sith’s war against the Republic, Korsin and the crew of the mining ship Omen are ambushed by a Jedi starfighter. And when the Sith craft crash-lands, torn and crippled, on a desolate alien planet, the hard-bitten captain finds himself at odds with desperate survivors on the brink of mutiny—and his own vengeful half brother, who’s bent on seizing command. No matter the cost, Korsin vows that it will not be his blood and bones left behind on this unknown world. For the way of the Sith leaves little room for compromise—and none for mercy.”

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Download Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn by JOHN JACKSON MILLER for FREE after the jump: