L. Neil Smith’s SF mystery, Their Majesties’ Bucketeers, normally a $6 Kindle ebook, is being offered as a free or very cheap ebook by publisher Arc Manor.
It’s listed as 99 cents, and I paid it, but you have the option of changing the price to free. It was supposed to be the May book under the publisher’s monthly program, but the email wasn’t sent out until May 17, and I was still able to snag it on June 2.
The offer will expire when a new one is posted, so if you want the deal, I’d hurry. Smith of course was a libertarian SF author who founded the Prometheus Awards.
Sign up for similar email offers at the publisher’s website.
(If you have trouble with any link, just visit the Arc Manor website directly at www.arcmanorbooks.com and you shouldn’t have any trouble getting the free novel – your choice of a Mobi or ePub file – and signing up for the monthly free ebooks from this publisher.)
To whet your appetite to read or reread L. Neil Smith, check out the Prometheus Blog appreciations for his Prometheus winning novels:
The Probability Broach (the 1982 Best Novel winner)
Pallas (the 1994 Best Novel winner)
and The Forge of the Elders (the 2001 Best Novel winner.)
* Prometheus winners: For a full list of winners, finalists and nominees – for the annual Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) categories and occasional Special Awards – visit the enhanced Prometheus Awards page on the LFS website, which now includes convenient links to the full set of published appreciation-reviews of past winners.
* 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.
* Join us! To help sustain the Prometheus Awards, join the Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS), a non-profit all-volunteer association of freedom-loving sf/fantasy fans.
Libertarian futurists believe that culture matters! We understand that the arts and literature can be vital, and in some ways even more powerful than politics in the long run, by sparking innovation, better ideas, positive social change, and mutual respect for each other’s rights and differences.
Through recognizing the literature of liberty and the many different but complementary visions of a free future via the Prometheus Awards, the LFS hopes to help spread better visions of the future that help humanity overcome tyranny, slavery and war and achieve universal liberty and human rights and a better world (perhaps eventually, worlds) for all.
Ken – Sorry for the glitch and thanks for bringing this to our attention!
Try the freshly added link now, and it should work. (I just tried it and it works fine.)
The fallback option: Go directly to http://www.arcmanorbooks.com and you should have no trouble getting the digital ebook.
EEEE Free Books! (runs away to get free books) I now have an even longer list of GREAT Books I have to read…
ah well.
I clicked within seconds of receipt of email “[New post] Free (or very cheap) L. Neil Smith ebook Thursday, June 02, 2022 5:33 PM EST” and I only get “This product combination does not exist.” Seems you lucked out, sir, congratulations. Oh well.