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Pssssst! Wanna infect a kid with wonder? Indie SF & Fantasy ebooks for teens
With the release of Linda Nagata’s Skye Object 3270a, I thought I should mention that Book View Café now has several ebooks for teens that should do a great job of infecting your kids with a dose of wonder. Not only are they DRM-free, but the majority of the money goes directly to the author who produced the great book. So take a look at our list and give us a try!
First off, launching this week is Skye Object 3270a. Here are the basics on it:
Skye was found as an infant, adrift in a lifepod in a lonely star system. Now she's a bold teen whose past is awakening in her own body. Helping her are best friends Zia and Buyo, and the handsome young astronomer Devi Hand. Their adventure will take them from their high-tech home down to an alien wilderness and then up into the nebula of dust, gas, and ancient nanomachines protecting their world.
Best of all, this book is available as an ebook and in print! Ebook ISBN: 978-0-9831100-4-0, Print ISBN: 978-0-9831100-7-1. This link will take you to the sample as well as the ebook itself.
Book View Café can also offer Barbary, by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Vonda N. McIntyre. What’s it about? Simply put:
Barbary is emigrating from Earth to Einstein, an orbital space station. But she has a secret -- and no one she can trust.
And if the cover is any indication, there’s a feline involved somehow. Cats and space stations -- it has my attention! Read the sample right online.
We’ve also got fantasy, such as popular author Sherwood Smith’s Crown Duel duet, a must-read for any young fantasy reader. Attractively priced at only $2.99, this ebook contains both the "Crown" books. This perennial favorite is a great introduction both to Smith’s world and to how history really works, all from the point of view of a maturing teen.
Sherwood Smith’s most popular young adult fantasy begins with Meliara and her brother vowing to free Remalna from an evil king. War is tougher than it seemed. When Meliara is caught by the enemy commander, the elegant Marquis of Shevraeth, it’s escape or die. Afterward, Meliara faces a tougher challenge: the battlefield is no longer mud and steel, but palaces, the weapons manners and fans. Toughest of all is courtship, when the one who catches her heart is an enemy.
We have numerous Sherwood Smith teen novels, including A Posse of Princesses and the quartet called Wren’s World. Check out Sherwood’s bookshelf for more holiday gift ideas.
Need a fantasy for an older teen? Then how about Demon High by Lori Devoti?
Lucinda Dent never planned to call demons. She wasn’t stupid, after all. She’d seen what the addiction had done to her mother. But her mother has been gone for ten years, sucked into hell by a demon, and all Lucinda has left is her grandmother and the house she grew up in. Who could blame her for using the only thing her mother gave her, a talent for demon calling, to save them?
Of course, as in all good novels, Lucinda’s plan to earn money raising demons goes awry, with spectacular results!
If you have a teen who is unhappy because the Twilight quarto is over, never fear -- try her out on Immortal by Pati Nagle. Elves, vampires, and young love! Urban fantasy to lure them into the fold!
What do you do if the most gorgeous guy you’ve ever seen walks up and asks for help?
Len Whiting is smitten from the minute she sees Caeran’s amazing eyes. She agrees to help him with research, and then to help him find a healer in rural New Mexico. Only then does she learn he’s immortal -- an ælven -- locked in an ancient struggle with a vampire who’s now got his sights set on Len.
SF suitable for older teens? Give them some complex world-building and a romance they can believe in and hope for with Fires of Nuala. This is an adult novel, but it doesn't contain any explicit sex or gore, so I feel comfortable suggesting it for older teens.
On the planet Nuala, the scam that beguiling free-trader Silver has come to join has just been blown to the skies, along with the throne lines of three separate sovereign nations.
The last male heir of one throne line, Sheel Atare, is unprepared to rule, but he’s quick to seize allies wherever he can -- like the beautiful and dangerous Silver.
Now Silver has to choose: stick to the scam, or get sucked into the struggle to save Nuala -- and Sheel Atare’s life.
If your teen has access to a handheld ereader or tablet, we’ve got a book to lure them into the wonder of speculative fiction. Remember that registration at Book View Cafe allows you to download your books from anywhere, at any time, in any format the books come in. And that offer is good for as long as we’re out there fighting the good fight for better books and more choices in book buying. (When you visit www.backlistebooks.com, you'll have the choice of multiple bookstores to purchase your indie ebook.)
Power to the Authors! ;^)
First off, launching this week is Skye Object 3270a. Here are the basics on it:
Skye was found as an infant, adrift in a lifepod in a lonely star system. Now she's a bold teen whose past is awakening in her own body. Helping her are best friends Zia and Buyo, and the handsome young astronomer Devi Hand. Their adventure will take them from their high-tech home down to an alien wilderness and then up into the nebula of dust, gas, and ancient nanomachines protecting their world.
Best of all, this book is available as an ebook and in print! Ebook ISBN: 978-0-9831100-4-0, Print ISBN: 978-0-9831100-7-1. This link will take you to the sample as well as the ebook itself.
Book View Café can also offer Barbary, by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Vonda N. McIntyre. What’s it about? Simply put:
Barbary is emigrating from Earth to Einstein, an orbital space station. But she has a secret -- and no one she can trust.
And if the cover is any indication, there’s a feline involved somehow. Cats and space stations -- it has my attention! Read the sample right online.
We’ve also got fantasy, such as popular author Sherwood Smith’s Crown Duel duet, a must-read for any young fantasy reader. Attractively priced at only $2.99, this ebook contains both the "Crown" books. This perennial favorite is a great introduction both to Smith’s world and to how history really works, all from the point of view of a maturing teen.
Sherwood Smith’s most popular young adult fantasy begins with Meliara and her brother vowing to free Remalna from an evil king. War is tougher than it seemed. When Meliara is caught by the enemy commander, the elegant Marquis of Shevraeth, it’s escape or die. Afterward, Meliara faces a tougher challenge: the battlefield is no longer mud and steel, but palaces, the weapons manners and fans. Toughest of all is courtship, when the one who catches her heart is an enemy.
We have numerous Sherwood Smith teen novels, including A Posse of Princesses and the quartet called Wren’s World. Check out Sherwood’s bookshelf for more holiday gift ideas.
Need a fantasy for an older teen? Then how about Demon High by Lori Devoti?
Lucinda Dent never planned to call demons. She wasn’t stupid, after all. She’d seen what the addiction had done to her mother. But her mother has been gone for ten years, sucked into hell by a demon, and all Lucinda has left is her grandmother and the house she grew up in. Who could blame her for using the only thing her mother gave her, a talent for demon calling, to save them?
Of course, as in all good novels, Lucinda’s plan to earn money raising demons goes awry, with spectacular results!
If you have a teen who is unhappy because the Twilight quarto is over, never fear -- try her out on Immortal by Pati Nagle. Elves, vampires, and young love! Urban fantasy to lure them into the fold!
What do you do if the most gorgeous guy you’ve ever seen walks up and asks for help?
Len Whiting is smitten from the minute she sees Caeran’s amazing eyes. She agrees to help him with research, and then to help him find a healer in rural New Mexico. Only then does she learn he’s immortal -- an ælven -- locked in an ancient struggle with a vampire who’s now got his sights set on Len.
SF suitable for older teens? Give them some complex world-building and a romance they can believe in and hope for with Fires of Nuala. This is an adult novel, but it doesn't contain any explicit sex or gore, so I feel comfortable suggesting it for older teens.
On the planet Nuala, the scam that beguiling free-trader Silver has come to join has just been blown to the skies, along with the throne lines of three separate sovereign nations.
The last male heir of one throne line, Sheel Atare, is unprepared to rule, but he’s quick to seize allies wherever he can -- like the beautiful and dangerous Silver.
Now Silver has to choose: stick to the scam, or get sucked into the struggle to save Nuala -- and Sheel Atare’s life.
If your teen has access to a handheld ereader or tablet, we’ve got a book to lure them into the wonder of speculative fiction. Remember that registration at Book View Cafe allows you to download your books from anywhere, at any time, in any format the books come in. And that offer is good for as long as we’re out there fighting the good fight for better books and more choices in book buying. (When you visit www.backlistebooks.com, you'll have the choice of multiple bookstores to purchase your indie ebook.)
Power to the Authors! ;^)