{"id":4675,"date":"2022-06-02T16:33:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2024-01-03T20:07:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T02:07:16","slug":"free-or-very-cheap-l-neil-smith-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/free-or-very-cheap-l-neil-smith-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"A free (or very cheap) L. Neil Smith ebook from Arc Manor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nL. Neil Smith’s SF mystery, Their Majesties’ Bucketeers,<\/em> normally a $6 Kindle ebook, is being offered as a free or very cheap ebook<\/a> by publisher Arc Manor.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Sign up for similar email offers<\/a> at the publisher’s website.<\/p>\n

(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.)<\/p>\n

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L. Neil Smith in the 1980s (Creative Commons license)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To whet your appetite to read or reread L. Neil Smith, check out the Prometheus Blog appreciations for his Prometheus winning novels:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Probability Broach <\/em>(the 1982 Best Novel winner)<\/a><\/p>\n

Pallas<\/em>\u00a0(the 1994 Best Novel winner)<\/a><\/p>\n

and The Forge of the Elders <\/em>(the 2001 Best Novel winner.)<\/a><\/p>\n

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* Prometheus winners:\u00a0<\/strong>For a full list of winners, finalists and nominees \u2013 for the annual Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) categories and occasional Special Awards \u2013 visit the enhanced\u00a0Prometheus Awards page\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>on the LFS website, which now includes convenient links to the full set of published appreciation-reviews of past winners.<\/p>\n

* Read\u00a0\u201cThe Libertarian History of Science Fiction,\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0an essay in the international magazine\u00a0Quillette<\/em>\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

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*\u00a0Join us<\/strong>! To help sustain the Prometheus Awards,\u00a0join\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>the Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS), a non-profit all-volunteer association of freedom-loving sf\/fantasy fans.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s rights and differences.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading A free (or very cheap) L. Neil Smith ebook from Arc Manor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":[32,2203,10],"tags":[1129,29,232,235,63,1614],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-updates","category-l-neil-smith","category-news","tag-arc-manor","tag-l-neil-smith","tag-pallas","tag-the-forge-of-the-elders","tag-the-probability-broach","tag-their-majesties-bucketeers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-1dp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}