In a world without global terrorism, Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden, vigilante...
Intriguing, right? Intriguing to say the least.
Osama isn't Lavie Tidhar's latest, but it's been getting a lot of attention of late, in all the right places. The British Science Fiction Association have nominated it for Best Novel alongside the likes of Embassytown, By Light Alone and The Islanders... and one other book I clearly need to read, given the company it's keeping: Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin-Smith.
Meanwhile Osama is also up for a Red Tentacle over at Pornokitsch, where Anne has given it an incredible review.
So for the last little while I've certainly been interested to see what the big deal about Osama is for myself. Alas, the limited edition wasn't and isn't cheap, but for some reason - presumably to promote it - PS Publishing have slashed the price of the e-book right down.
In fact, at the moment, on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, Osama is available to download onto your Kindles or computers for... free.
Click on through via the links above to have your copy "whispered" to you at no extra cost!
I can't yet speak to the quality of Osama myself, but I absolutely do trust the individuals and organisations who have recommended it, so I'm excited to start in on this thing now that the cost of laying hands on a physical copy is a non-issue. You really should be too.
Quick turnaround. It's only free to borrow now for Amazon Prime members in the US. $5.99 to buy. Bummer...
ReplyDelete@Adam - Gosh, you're right! And I see it's gone up in price on Amazon.co.uk as well. Oh well. Here's hoping a few of you folks caught it in time!
ReplyDeleteStill and all, I suppose £3.92 isn't an abominable amount of money to shell out for a multiple award-nominated novel... so there's that. :/
Darn, I got here too late. Oh well. Couldn't hurt to try!
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