By Michael Grossberg
Arc Manor Books, whose CAEZIK SF & Fantasy imprint published our 2025 Prometheus Best Novel winner, is having a special ebook sale.
Available through Sunday Sept. 14 at significant ebook savings are several novels by Prometheus winners – including Michael Flynn’s In the Belly of the Whale, the 2025 Best Novel winner.
“Michael Flynn’s In the Belly of the Whale won the Prometheus Award for Best Novel last month! This epic, hard science fiction tale unfolds aboard a colossal generation ship, where a decaying aristocracy faces rebellion after a mysterious death in the abandoned “Burnout” region,” publisher Shahid Mahmud said.
“It’s just $2.99 through Sunday (regularly $9.99),” Mahmud said, noting that no coupon is required to take advantage of all the current sale offers.
“Just click the button and cart will show the correct (discounted) price,” he wrote in an email to Arc Manor readers and their website-alert subscribers.
HARRY TURTLEDOVE
Another Arc Manor deal of interest is for the latest novel by Harry Turtledove, a 2008 Best Novel winner for The Gladiator and nominated again this year for his 2025 novel Powerless.
City of Shadows, Harry Turtledove’s new paranormal detective-noir series, has earned a “glowing Publishers Weekly review and consistently high ratings on Goodreads and Amazon,” Mahmud notes.
The current Arc Manor offer: 99¢ through Sunday (normally $9.99).
Also discounted (to $2.99) is the 2025 Nebula-nominated Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Bursokov.
“It follows exiled minister Shea Ashcroft as he confronts alien technology, political intrigue, and the unraveling of reality itself,” Mahmud said.
ANDRE NORTON AND MERCEDES LACKEY’S HALFBLOOD CHRONICLES
Finally, Arc Manor announced it has the contract for all four books of the Halfblood Chronicles. The first three were co-written by SFWA Grandmasters Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton.
Elvenbred, the long-awaited fourth book left unfinished at Norton’s death, has now been completed by Lackey with Ben Ohlander.
Mahmud said that Arc Manor will be releasing one book each month in the series, beginning in June 2026, “culminating in the brand-new, eagerly awaited conclusion.”
For a limited time, the first book in the series is available for preorder through retailers for $2.99 (not through Arc Manor).
ABOUT ARC MANOR BOOKS
A Maryland-based small-press created by Shahid Mahmud in 2006 to utilize the exciting new emerging technologies being developed in the publishing marketplace, Arc Manor and CAEZIK SF & Fantasy has published works of science fiction and fantasy that have won the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, Prometheus Award, and IBPA’s Franklin Award and have been nominated for the Hugo and Sidewise awards.
Coming up Sunday Sept. 14 on the Prometheus Blog: Publisher Shahid Mahmud’s acceptance speech, an eloquent and amusing tribute to Flynn’s work with stories about Flynn’s characteristic open-mindedness about reasonable debate and disagreement.
Meanwhile, check out the video of the 45th Prometheus Awards ceremony, now posted on the LFS website’s Video page.
ABOUT THE PROMETHEUS AWARDS AND THE LFS
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* Watch videos of past Prometheus Awards ceremonies, Libertarian Futurist Society panel discussions with noted sf authors and leading libertarian writers, and other LFS programs on the Prometheus Blog’s Video page.
* Read “The Libertarian History of Science Fiction,” an essay in the international magazine Quillette that favorably highlights the Prometheus Awards, the Libertarian Futurist Society and the significant element of libertarian sf/fantasy in the evolution of the modern genre.
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