New Humble Bundle is up, and it's for:
Humble Book Bundle Extraordinary Fiction presented by Small Beer Press, chock-full of mostly sfnal and speculative literary titles from the eponymous publisher, whom I will remind you has a
Creative Commons section with free ebooks in it.
This is an auto-buy for me, as they've published works by some of my favourite authors over the years, as well as having been generous with the freebies.
Quite aside from that, they have some excellent offerings in this bundle, including works by Shirley Jackson Award-winning Elizabeth Hand and Campbell Best New Writer finalist Sofia Samatar, Argentina's Angélica Gorodischer translated by Ursula K. Le Guin, also Shirley Jackson Award-winning Maureen F. McHugh (one of my personal favourite sf/f authors; I already own her short story collection in this from an old Fictionwise sale), Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning George Ryman, and Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame inductee Kate Wilhelm's non-fiction writing advice/memoir of the Clarion Workshop which has produced a number of very well-known sfnal authors. I own this latter as a hardcover, and it's very good and straightforward, with both interesting reminisces, and solid creative tips, IMHO.
Current average is fluctuating, but under $9 at the moment, top-tier is $15, no extra books added next week. This is excellent value for money if you like sfnal stuff with a literary bent, IMHO.
Quote:
Take one down, pass it around. With this bundle from Small Beer Press, there are plenty of ebooks to go around. In fact, there are 21 included when you add them all up! So grab a 21-pack, crack a Small Beer ebook open, and head to your comfiest chair — good times await.
Pay $1 or more for Meet Me in the Moon Room, Trash Sex Magic, The Fires Beneath the Sea, Fire Logic, The Liminal People, Generation Loss, Tyrannia, The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories, and Stranger Things Happen.
Pay more than the average price to also receive A Stranger in Olondria, Couch, Travel Light, The Entropy of Bones, Kalpa Imperial, Solitaire, and North American Lake Monsters.
Pay $15 or more for all of that plus Carmen Dog, The Child Garden, Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, After the Apocalypse, and Archivist Wasp.
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ETA: Small Beer Press are also holding a Kickstarter which ends in a week's time, for what seems to be the first English-language publication of a vintage 400 year old science fiction novel, translated and redone in an illustrated edition by Mythopoeic & World Fantasy award-winner John Crowley (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia; of
Little, Big and Ægypt series fame). It's a bit pricey at $10 for the e-book, but if you happen to want to subscribe to the Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet magazine, there's a $20 tier which gives you the e-book and a 8-issue subscription at effectively half off:
The Chemical Wedding.
The Kickstarter project page has links to Guardian and Publishers Weekly articles about it all, and there are also options for signed versions of Crowley's paper books as well, as well as signed copies of other Small Beer Press titles, if you happen to wish to collect them.
StoryBundle is offering a new bundle, good for the next three weeks:
Write Stuff 2016 curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, a former editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, consisting of DIY creative & career advice from backlist authors including Rusch herself, Dean Wesley Smith, her co-editor at the Fiction River online magazine, SFWA's Cat Rambo, mystery author Lawrence Block, romance author Mindy Klasky, and more.
$5 minimum gets you 5 books.
$15 top tier gets you an additional 5 books.
There does not seem to be any overlap between this, the 2015 Write Stuff bundle offered last year, or the NaNoWriMo bundles offered, either, so these look to be all new-to-you titles.