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ATDrake · 04-05-2016, 01:18 PM

New Wildside Press freebie for Tuesday is up:

Prospector's Special by the late Robert Sheckley (ISFDB, Wikipedia), who was apparently named SFWA Author Emeritus at some point, a vintage science fiction adventure novelette set on Venus, originally published in Galaxy magazine in 1959.

Lost in the vast Scorpion Desert of Venus, he neede all the courage a man could own -- and every bit of credit he could raise! A classic science fiction novelet originally published in 1959.

Also, a reminder that StoryBundle's Weird Horror Bundle, containing works by Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Award winners and finalists expires in a couple more days, and their Aurora Award Bundle chock-full of actual finalist and winning works by Canadian authors for our top national sfnal writing prize will be available for the next two weeks.

And Rev. Bob pointed out in the SF/Fantasy megathread that the Humble Comics Bundle Buffy, Angel & Spike from Dark Horse contains a number of the official post-series continuations of the TV shows with titles written by show creator Joss Whedon himself, and has comparatively little overlap with Dark Horse's own giant Buffy anniversary bundle which they offered a while ago, so it's probably well worth getting for fans (and will be valid for the next week).

The Humble Bundle Aspen Comics expires tomorrow at 11 AM Pacific Time, if you're interested, and also expiring on Wednesday is the Groupees Archie Comics Bundle which mostly contains titles that weren't offered in the previous Archie Comics Humble Bundle (some of which are follow-ups to the storylines in those, like the Sonic the Hedgehog crossover thing). This includes issues in some kind of new reboot series, some of which are written by Mark Waid, whom I've generally found to be a fairly good and interesting writer who pays attention to character history and development while telling engaging stories.

For tabletop RPG players, the Bundle of Holding people have a new offer for a retro sci-fi interplanetary game which they liken to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, and Flash Gordon, which is done by Cubicle 7 (makers of the tie-in RPG to Charles Stross' Laundry Files, which was a previous bundle offer which I bought and thought was very well done for the entertaining supplementary info, even if I don't game), if you're interested: Rocket Age

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ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	New Wildside Press freebie for Tuesday is up: Prospector's Special by the late Robert Sheckley (ISFDB, Wikipedia), who was apparently named SFWA Author Emeritus at some point, a vintage science fiction adventure novelette set on Venus, originally published in Galaxy magazine in 1959. Lost in the vast Scorpion Desert of Venus, he neede all the courage a man could own -- and every bit of credit he could raise! A classic science fiction novelet originally published in 1959. Also, a reminder that StoryBundle's Weird Horror Bundle, containing works by Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Award winners and finalists expires in a couple more days, and their Aurora Award Bundle chock-full of actual finalist and winning works by Canadian authors for our top national sfnal writing prize will be available for the next two weeks. And Rev. Bob pointed out in the SF/Fantasy megathread that the Humble Comics Bundle Buffy, Angel & Spike from Dark Horse contains a number of the official post-series continuations of the TV shows with titles written by show creator Joss Whedon himself, and has comparatively little overlap with Dark Horse's own giant Buffy anniversary bundle which they offered a while ago, so it's probably well worth getting for fans (and will be valid for the next week). The Humble Bundle Aspen Comics expires tomorrow at 11 AM Pacific Time, if you're interested, and also expiring on Wednesday is the Groupees Archie Comics Bundle which mostly contains titles that weren't offered in the previous Archie Comics Humble Bundle (some of which are follow-ups to the storylines in those, like the Sonic the Hedgehog crossover thing). This includes issues in some kind of new reboot series, some of which are written by Mark Waid, whom I've generally found to be a fairly good and interesting writer who pays attention to character history and development while telling engaging stories. For tabletop RPG players, the Bundle of Holding people have a new offer for a retro sci-fi interplanetary game which they liken to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, and Flash Gordon, which is done by Cubicle 7 (makers of the tie-in RPG to Charles Stross' Laundry Files, which was a previous bundle offer which I bought and thought was very well done for the entertaining supplementary info, even if I don't game), if you're interested: Rocket Age Last edited by ATDrake; 04-05-2016 at 01:25 PM.