This week's Wildside Press Tuesday freebie is for:
The Charles V. de Vet MINIPACK™ (
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Charles V. de Vet (1911-1997) published more than 50 in the science fiction field over a period of 31 years, starting with “The Unexpected Weapon” (included here) for Amazing Stories in 1950. His early work was fun action-adventure, often of the “space opera” type. The Charles V. de Vet MINIPACK™ presents 7 of his classic works—228 pages of great sci-fi reading!
Also, StoryBundle has for the next 2 weeks the following:
The Write Stuff Bundle chock-full of assorted guides for aspiring authors, written by established ones, including things by Vonda N. McIntyre (Hugo & Nebula winner, whom you may also know from her early Star Trek tie-in novels), Judith Tarr (one of my favourite alternate-history authors, who also raises horses and her offering is a book on how to accurately portray horses in your fantasy/history), Kristine Kathryn Rusch (former editor of the Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy), Laura Resnick (DAW-published fantasy author who also writes romances, her book is on the latter).
It's pay-what-you-want for the first 6 books, but the $15 top tier gets you 5 more titles (including the really interesting-looking ones, IMHO), and a 40% discount code off a future purchase of some kind of epublishing software (Jutoh 2).
The Humble Bundle for the next week or so is:
Humble Make: Book Bundle, featuring titles by and assembled from the eponymous DIY tech tinkering magazine, many of which are also published by O'Reilly.
Frankly, this one's been popular enough that the pay-more-than-average price is just under the $15 top-tier, so you might as well get the lot.
Lots of DIY robotics stuff, and some fashion-crafting, and a few kid-friendly project guides, etc., with more titles to be added tomorrow.
Name your price for Making Makers: Kids, Tools, and the Future of Innovation, Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff, Making Simple Robots: Exploring Cutting-Edge Robotics with Everyday Stuff, Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 41: Tinkering Toys, and LEO the Maker Prince: Journeys in 3D Printing.
If you pay more than the average price, you'll also get Make: Rockets: Down-to-Earth Rocket Science, Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery), Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting, Make: Basic Arduino Projects: 26 Experiments with Microcontrollers and Electronics, Make: School's Out Summer Fun Guide, and Make: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi, 2nd Edition.
If you pay $15 or more, you'll receive all of the above plus The Best of MAKE and Zero to Maker: Learn (Just Enough) to Make (Just About) Anything.