Wildside Press is back with the new Tuesday freebie for:
The H. B. Fyfe Minipack™ by the late H. B. Fyfe (
ISFDB,
SF Encyclopedia entry), a mini-collection of some of his vintage science fiction stories.
Horace B. Fyfe (1918-1997) was an engineer by trade and a popular science fiction writer. He published extensively in SF magazines from his first appearance in Astounding in February 1940 until his last publication in Analog in January 1967. Sadly, Alzheimer’s cut short his career, but his family stepped in to save many of his files, including more than 90 unpublished stories and an unpublished historical novel.
Most of his unpublished works is either juvenilia or attempts to break into other fields, such as suspense or romance, that misfired. But a few are lost gems, and we will shortly have a third collection of his stories published, The 24th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK™: H.B. Fyfe (vol. 3) which will include two previously unpublished SF tales. And our next ghost story MEGAPACK™ will have a ghost story that would have been right at home in the original Weird Tales.
Enjoy!
Humble Bundle has a couple of good-quality ebooks among its game offerings for:
Humble Total War Bundle which contains at the basic level ($1 minimum for Steam keys), three ebooks. 1 of them is a tie-in novel, but for military history aficionados, two of them are non-fiction works from Osprey Publishing, which are general works on
Alesia 52 and
Roman Soldier versus Germanic Warrior, about those respective Gaulish and Germanic conflicts. I had a peek inside both of them, and they're perfectly cromulent books which are not game-specific tie-ins, but quasi-scholarly how-these-battles-worked-out things with proper bibliographical references and further reading recommendations, as you might expect an Osprey book to have. Certainly worth it for the price, even if you're not interested in the actual games.
Bundles expiring soon:
Humble Book Bundle Neil Gaiman Rarities which will switchover at 11 AM Pacific Time tomorrow on Wednesday; pretty much the only HB I've personally seen where the average went
above the top-tier. Still a pretty good deal if you're a fan, as they went and added 3 more books to the average tier, including an illustrated volume of short stories and poems set in the world of the popular
Stardust novel/GN.
StoryBundle's
Dragons & Darkness Bundle of mostly indie fantasy novels on the expected theme expires in a couple of days, and please see Dr. Drib's
dedicated thread here for linkage and discussion about the contained authors' works which may help you decide whether or not you want it. There's also a freebie available if you're a newsletter subscriber.
ETA: also for aspiring programmer-type people who like to create games,
Humble Weekly Bundle Play and Create with Game Maker is offering the binaries and source code for 2 games in exchange for your valid email address (no purchase necessary).