Free Kindle Books List

This page has gone through several radical remakes, but my current plan is to repost my 99 cent list of Free Kindle Science Fiction Classics here when it ages out of the 90 day agreement I made with Amazon to publish it on Kindle and offer it free for a five day period. I decided to pull that list back from Kindle because some idiot gave it a 1 star review for getting an author's first initial wrong, ie, not worth the irritation. Below I'm listing a few of the free SciFi novels from current authors that are well worth reading, and in some cases, I've purchased the follow-up books.

In Her Name by Michael R. Hicks

I read the first three books of this series in the omnibus edition which was free at the time, but I would have happily paid for the next two after reading the first. Hicks creates something relatively rare in Science Fiction, an Earth based empire fighting an alien empire which is superior, but not really trying to win. I don't want to reveal any plot spoilers, but Hicks manages another feat for modern SciFi writers, which is to include women warriors without going over the top with political correctness. There's a bit of it, perhaps, but women buy many more books than men so you can't knock it.

Traitor: Book One of the Turner Chronicles by Mark Eller

I thought this was a great read and highly original, so I purchased the next book as well. I see there's a third volume out now so I'll probably get that too, but there's a caveat. Mark has written some horror fiction as well, and the "mean" characters in the Turner Chronicles are out-and-out sadists, it the classic sense. So I wouldn't recommend these books to anybody under the age of 40, or the squeamish. Which is a shame since Mark is a great writer with otherwise sympathetic characters who keeps a highly original plot moving along.

Smallworld: A Science Fiction Comic Adventure by Dominic Green

A brilliant book that requires a little patience for the plot to develop. It's not easy to write humorous science fiction without simply making fun of the genre, which is definitely not what Dominic does here. The plot involves a religious cult, and may offend people who mistake the cult for mainstream religion. There is no theology involved (or attacked) so it didn't bother me.

All three of these books are science fiction for adults. There are no quests for magic swords, elves, etc, and there's a lot of killing, perhaps to much. But I've read practically all the free new science fiction on Kindle by this point and these three are my top choices. Some of the books that I haven't included featured strong writing, but silly plots or over the top political correctness. Give me a break with aliens wiping out humanity to save mother earth! Other had interesting plot ideas but very weak writing, frequently peopled entirely with teenage characters of all ages who spend their time smirking at inappropriate times.

The books I'm ignoring entirely for the time being are the derivative books. Copying is an age-old tradition in science fiction, but even though I enjoy some of those books, I just can't quite see my way to giving them links, yet.

Stay tuned for additions, and if you believe I'm skipping a free SciFi book that should be here, drop me a line and make your case.

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