New Wildside Press freebie for this Tuesday is:
My Lady Greensleeves by the late SFWA Grandmaster Frederik Pohl (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia), a vintage short science fiction novel originally published in Galaxy Magazine in 1957.
This guard smelled trouble and it could be counted on to come--because a nose for trouble is one of the many talents bred in the prisons of the future! A classic short novel by Grand Master Frederik Pohl.
To celebrate their moving to a newer and more reliable webhost, Weightless Books is offering free-with-purchase through February 29th a 4-issue subscription to Small Beer Press' magazine
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. The freebie will be credited to your account in March, according to their
blog page for the offer.
Any e-book bought from Weightless' catalogue will qualify, but the one currently on sale which looks the niftiest is:
Letters to Tiptree edited by Alexandra Pierce & Alisa Krasnostein, for just 99 cents from Twelfth Planet Press (regular $6.99). This is a collection of letters written to groundbreaking pioneer sfnal author James Tiptree Jr., aka Alice Sheldon (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia) from prominent sfnal authors, including Aurora Award-winning Canadian Elisabeth Vonarburg, Hugo & Nebula-winning Rachel Swirsky, Ursula K. Le Guin, etc.
In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Alice Sheldon’s birth, and in recognition of the enormous influence of both Tiptree and Sheldon on the field, Twelfth Planet Press is publishing a selection of thoughtful letters written by science fiction and fantasy’s writers, editors, critics and fans to celebrate her, to recognise her work, and maybe in some cases to finish conversations set aside nearly thirty years ago.
StoryBundle has a new bundle up for the next two weeks, and it's for:
The Mega Game Bundle containing another set of books mostly about classic video games.
$3 minimum gets you 4 non-fiction titles, including a collection of articles from some gaming magazine, a couple of books about game design, and one retrospective of classic games.
$12 top tier gets you another 4+1 titles including a graphic novel originally funded by Kickstarter, a retrospective of another classic game, an collection of magazine articles exploring the indie game scene, and a 2-in-1 volume of articles and interviews about the Japanese gaming industry.
As a reminder, the
Humble Book Bundle 3D Printing & Drones presented by Make: expires tomorrow on Wednesday at 11 AM Pacific Time and they've added what looks like 3 more topical back issues of the magazine to the middle tier. And the
Humble Comics Bundle Best-Selling Authors presented by Dynamite runs for another week and contains several graphic novel adaptations of series franchises by popular sfnal authors, including Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Dean Koontz, and George R. R. Martin.