Sales!
Audible has taken 80% off selected audiobooks for this weekend only AND they have a a whole bunch of fantasy and sci-fi audiobooks available at a reduced price as a part of their ‘treat yourself sale! I’ve rounded up the best fantasy/sci-fi books (with a few contemporary audiobooks thrown in) to make life a bit easier for you. Since Audible is an Amazon company, all of the sale audiobooks are available through the Amazon store.
The top Fantasy and Science Fiction picks on sale:
1: Golden Son: Book II of the Red Rising Trilogy
Price: $4.97
Rating: 4.70/5
Overview: Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within
Get Golden Son Book II here
Get Golden Son Book I here
2: A Shrouded World- Whistlers (A Shrouded World Book 1)
Price: $4.95
Rating: 4.50/5
Overview: Jack Walker and Michael Talbot come from two worlds; the same, yet different. They both find themselves transported into an alien one, where things aren’t as they seem. While it appears similar to the ones they come from, there are some terrifying differences. Is it a dream? Or has reality been somehow warped? Jack comes from a world filled with nocturnal creatures that were once human, but now seek to destroy the last vestiges of humanity
Get a Shrouded World- Whistlers here
3: Line of Departure: Frontlines, Book 2
Price: $4.95
Rating: 4.40/5
Overview: Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the solar system. Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is Commonwealth Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson
Get Lines of Departure: Frontlines Book 2 here
Get Frontlines Book 1 here
4: Hard Magic: Book 1 of the Grimnoir Chronicles
Price: $7.73
Rating: 4.40/5
Overview: Jake Sullivan is a licensed private eye with a seriously hardboiled attitude. He also possesses raw magical talent and the ability to make objects in his vicinity light as a feather or as heavy as depleted uranium, all with a magical thought. It’s no wonder the G-men turn to Jake when they need someoneto go after a suspected killer who has been knocking off banks in a magic-enhanced crime spree.
Get Hard Magic here
5: The Collapse, 299 Days Book 2
Price: $4.95
Rating: 4.40/5
Overview: In The Collapse, the government stops working, guns and ammo are in high demand, and a trip to the gas station has become a mission rather than an errand. Grant and the Team see these warning signs and know it is only the beginning, so they begin taking action to protect themselves and their loved ones. As they prepare to get out of dodge after a deadly incident in Grant’s neighborhood, they will soon learn whether the preparations they made in Book One will be enough to survive the breakdown of society.
Get the Collapse, 299 days Book 2 here
6: The Community, 299 Days Book 3
Price: $4.95
Rating: 4.40/5
Overview: 299 Days: The Community, the third book in the 299 Days series, reunites Grant Matson with his family after his wife, children, and in-laws accept that the only way to survive the Collapse is to flee the comfort of their suburban lives and join him at his isolated cabin in the woods. With riots becoming more violent, power outages more widespread, and the military crumbling, Grant and others throughout Washington State realize they must organize if they want to endure.
Get the Community, 299 days Book 3 here
Best Picks Audibles 80% off Sale
1: Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
Best Seller in: comedy/sci-fi
Price: $15.74
Rating: 4.60/5
Overview: When Lister got drunk, he really got drunk!
After celebrating his birthday with a Monopoly-board pub crawl around London, he came to in a burger bar on one of Saturns moons, wearing a lady’s pink crimplene hat and a pair of yellow fishing waders, with no money and a passport in the name of “Emily Berkenstein”.
Joining the Space Corps seemed a good idea. Red Dwarf, a clapped out spaceship, was bound for Earth. It never made it, leaving Lister as the last remaining member of the human race, three million light years from Earth, with only a dead man, a senile computer, and a highly evolved cat for company.
They begin their journey home. On the way, they’ll break the light barrier. They’ll meet Einstein, Archimedes, God, and Norman Wisdom…and discover an alternative plane of reality.
Get Red Dwarf here
2: Evil Games
Price: $17.95
Rating: 4.50/5
Overview: When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that there is someone far more sinister at work
Get Evil Games here
3: The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again!
Price: $22.95
Rating: 4.40/5
Overview: The little old lady is back! This time, Martha Andersson and her friends – the League of Pensioners – have left behind their dreary care home in Stockholm and are enjoying the bright lights of Las Vegas. This is their opportunity for a new lease of life and they plan to make the most of it. But before long, they are up to their old tricks and with ingenious tactics, a pair of false teeth and a wheelchair each, they plot to outwit the security system at one of the casinos.
Get the Little Old Lady who Struck Lucky Again here
4: The Secret of Crickley Hall
Price: $14.95
Rating: 4.30/5
Overview: The Caleighs have had a terrible year. They need time and space, while they await the news they dread. Gabe has brought his wife, Eve, and daughters, Loren and Cally, down to Devon, to the peaceful seaside village of Hollow Bay. He can work, and Eve and the kids can have some peace and quiet – and perhaps they can try, as a family, to come to terms with what’s happened to them.
Crickley Hall is an unusually large house on the outskirts of the village at the bottom of Devil’s Cleave, a massive tree-lined gorge, the stuff of local legend. A river flows past the front garden. It’s perfect for them, if a bit gloomy. And Chester, their dog, seems really spooked at being away from home. And old houses do make sounds. And it’s constantly cold. And even though they shut the cellar door every night, it’s always open again in morning.
Get the Secret of Crickley Hall here
5: The Great Gatsby
Price: $9.79
Rating: 4.10/5
Overview: After meeting and losing Daisy during the war, Gatsby has made himself fabulously wealthy. Now, he believes that his only way to true happiness is to find his way back into Daisy’s life, and he uses Nick to try to reach her. What happens when the characters’ fantasies are confronted with reality makes for a startling conclusion to this iconic masterpiece.
Get the Great Gatsby here
Hopefully there were a few things in this list that tickled your fancy- happy listening!