{"id":10056,"date":"2025-12-02T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/?p=10056"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:33:08","slug":"caezik-sf-fantasys-ninja-loot-book-sale-discounts-on-michael-flynn-harry-turtledove-other-prometheus-winning-authors-and-five-free-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/caezik-sf-fantasys-ninja-loot-book-sale-discounts-on-michael-flynn-harry-turtledove-other-prometheus-winning-authors-and-five-free-ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"CAEZIK SF &#038; Fantasy\u2019s \u201cNinja Loot\u201d book sale: Discounts on Michael Flynn, Harry Turtledove, other Prometheus-winning authors &#8211; and five free ebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Unknown.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10057\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/caezik-sf-fantasys-ninja-loot-book-sale-discounts-on-michael-flynn-harry-turtledove-other-prometheus-winning-authors-and-five-free-ebooks\/unknown-6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Unknown.jpeg?fit=92%2C92&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"92,92\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Unknown\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;CAEZIK SF &#038; Fantasy publisher books &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Unknown.jpeg?fit=92%2C92&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Unknown.jpeg?fit=92%2C92&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10057 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Unknown.jpeg?resize=92%2C92&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a>CAEZIK SF &amp; Fantasy, which has published quite a few Prometheus-winning authors and this year\u2019s Best Novel winner, is having a book sale.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a few titles have been discounted, and five of the ebooks are now free, for a limited time, in the so-called Ninja Loot Sale of the Maryland-based small press.<\/p>\n<p>CAEZIK and Arc Manor publisher Shahid Mahmud also reports that his company has just added new titles from such science fiction and fantasy greats as Harry Turtledove, Mercedes Lackey, Katharine Kerr, Jim. C. Hines, Joan Slonczewski and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/In-the-Belly-of-the-Whale-2_.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8534\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/review-michael-flynns-in-the-belly-of-the-whale-offers-sobering-drama-about-the-challenging-and-un-libertarian-aspects-of-multi-generation-colony-ship-voyages\/in-the-belly-of-the-whale-2_\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/In-the-Belly-of-the-Whale-2_.jpg?fit=295%2C445&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"295,445\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"In the Belly of the Whale 2_\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Michael Flynn &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/In-the-Belly-of-the-Whale-2_.jpg?fit=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/In-the-Belly-of-the-Whale-2_.jpg?fit=295%2C445&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8534 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/In-the-Belly-of-the-Whale-2_.jpg?resize=199%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/In-the-Belly-of-the-Whale-2_.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/In-the-Belly-of-the-Whale-2_.jpg?w=295&amp;ssl=1 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sale includes Flynn\u2019s <i>In the Belly of the Whale,<\/i> the 2025 Prometheus Best Novel winner, and Turtledove\u2019s <i>Powerless,<\/i> among eight 2025 novels nominated so far for the next Best Novel award.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Powerless-harry-Turtledove.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9903\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/review-harry-turtledoves-powerless-critiques-communism-and-blind-obedience-to-authority-in-a-story-about-the-repercussions-of-a-seemingly-small-act-of-defiance-taken-by-a-good-citizen-who\/powerless-harry-turtledove\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Powerless-harry-Turtledove.jpg?fit=540%2C810&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"540,810\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Powerless harry Turtledove\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Harry Turtledove&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Powerless-harry-Turtledove.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Powerless-harry-Turtledove.jpg?fit=540%2C810&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9903 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Powerless-harry-Turtledove.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Powerless-harry-Turtledove.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Powerless-harry-Turtledove.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><strong>FREE EBOOKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plus, \u201csomewhere in the sale, we have hidden 5 completely free ebooks,\u201d Mahmud said.<\/p>\n<p>I searched through the listings &#8211; not that hard, actually, and it didn&#8217;t take long at all &#8211; and discovered that the free ebooks include <i>Captive Dreams,<\/i> an anthology of Flynn\u2019s stories and novellas.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the sale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcmanorbooks.com\/white\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LFS-icon-domain.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8019\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=8019\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LFS-icon-domain.png?fit=750%2C751&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"750,751\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LFS-icon-domain\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;logo LFS Libertarian Futurist Society&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LFS-icon-domain.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LFS-icon-domain.png?fit=660%2C661&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8019 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LFS-icon-domain.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LFS-icon-domain.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LFS-icon-domain.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LFS-icon-domain.png?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>ABOUT THE PROMETHEUS AWARDS AND THE LFS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0<b>Join us!<\/b> To help sustain the Prometheus Awards and support a cultural and literary strategy to appreciate and honor freedom-loving fiction, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/join.shtml\">join<\/a> the Libertarian Futurist Society, a non-profit all-volunteer international association of freedom-loving sf\/fantasy fans.<\/p>\n<p>Libertarian futurists understand that culture matters. We believe that literature and the arts can be vital in envisioning a freer and better future. In some ways, culture can be even more influential and powerful than politics in the long run, by imagining better visions of the future incorporating peace, prosperity, progress, tolerance, justice, positive social change, and mutual respect for each other\u2019s rights, human dignity, individuality and peaceful choices.<\/p>\n<p>* <b>Prometheus winners:\u00a0<\/b>For a full list of Prometheus winners, finalists and nominees \u2013 including in the annual Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) categories and occasional Special Awards \u2013 visit the enhanced \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/awards.shtml\">Prometheus Awards page<\/a>\u00a0on the LFS website. This page includes convenient links to all published essay-reviews in our Appreciation series explaining why each of more than 100 past winners since 1979 fits the awards\u2019 distinctive dual focus on both quality and liberty.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0Watch 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\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/videos\/\">Video page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* Read <a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/06\/12\/the-libertarian-history-of-science-fiction\/\">\u201cThe Libertarian History of Science Fiction,\u201d<\/a> an essay in the international magazine\u00a0<i>Quillette<\/i>\u00a0that favorably highlights the Prometheus Awards, the Libertarian Futurist Society and the significant element of libertarian sf\/fantasy in the evolution of the modern genre.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out the Libertarian Futurist Society\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/170484086945\">Facebook page<\/a> for comments, updates and links to the latest Prometheus Blog posts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAEZIK SF &amp; Fantasy, which has published quite a few Prometheus-winning authors and this year\u2019s Best Novel winner, is having a book sale. Quite a few titles have been discounted, and five of the ebooks are now free, for a limited time, in the so-called Ninja Loot Sale of the Maryland-based small press. CAEZIK and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/caezik-sf-fantasys-ninja-loot-book-sale-discounts-on-michael-flynn-harry-turtledove-other-prometheus-winning-authors-and-five-free-ebooks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CAEZIK SF &#038; Fantasy\u2019s \u201cNinja Loot\u201d book sale: Discounts on Michael Flynn, Harry Turtledove, other Prometheus-winning authors &#8211; and five free ebooks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2665,10],"tags":[2723,386,2129,204,2732],"class_list":["post-10056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-flynn","category-news","tag-books","tag-harry-turtledove","tag-in-the-belly-of-the-whale","tag-michael-flynn","tag-publisher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-2Cc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10060,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056\/revisions\/10060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}