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Two new Humble Bundles are up:

Humble RPG Book Bundle War Machine, Hordes, & Iron Kingdoms contains a selection of gamebooks and tie-in fiction from the popular fantasy steampunk setting out from Privateer Press, plus discount coupons on some miniature model/tabletop card game kits from their direct-buy store, including 100% off one of the cardgame boxes, rendering it effectively nearly free (cost of shipping is additional).

They've a few sample short stories for their Iron Kingdoms fiction over at the official website, and the Wikipedia entry lists the authors of some of the novels and anthologies included in the HB, some of whom are reasonably recognizable genre authors whose works you may have previously enjoyed.

Fixed tiers of $1, $8, and $15 (no new titles added next week). All levels contain a mix of fiction, gamebooks, and discount coupon offers.

The tabletops have turned. WARMACHINE and HORDES are dynamic tabletop miniatures games set in the steam-powered fantasy world of the Iron Kingdoms. We've teamed up with Privateer Press for a library of ebooks to immerse you in these fantastic realms. The battlefield has been leveled, and victory lies before you!

WARMACHINE and HORDES use the same rules, and can be played independently or against each other by two or more players. WARMACHINE triumphs through tactical resource management, harnessing advanced magic, technology, and mighty mechanical constructs. Beyond the boundaries of the industrialized world, the fierce warriors and monstrous warbeasts of HORDES risk predictable strategy for the prospect of powerful rewards.

Humble Book Bundle Cloud Computing presented by Packt, who've been pretty generous about giving away a daily computer programming freebie, contains assorted DIY tech learning books about Exactly What It Says In The Title, covering services including Microsoft Azure, Amazon's AWS, and also related stuff like Kubernetes and Docker and Open Stack.

Fixed tiers of $1 (includes a 50% off discount coupon for their Mapt library service which is like O'Reilly's Safari), $8, and $15 (no new titles added next week).

Stratus, cumulus, humbleonimbus. Our newest ebook bundle is all about cloud computing. Packt Publishing has condensed a lot of information into these books, so if you're a little hazy on the details, cut through the fog with titles like Designing AWS Environments, Implementing Azure Solutions, AWS Administration – The Definitive Guide, Mastering OpenStack, and more.

Still available for a limited time is last week's Humble Bundle Win at Work containing career-oriented workplace skills and personal self-improvement advice books from Berett-Koehler and Mango Media.

Bundle of Holding's new RPG gamebook offering is for Esteren +2 & Shadows of Esteren, a new supplementary collection and a repeat of a previous offer for the eponymous medieval gothic horror game which, as it turns out, is a translation of a popular French RPG.

Unusually, this setting inventively includes music soundtracks and a recipe booklet with faux-cuisine assembled by a real French chef. Plus, there's a mini-collection of prose fiction tie-in stories, if you're interested.

Still available are previous BOH offers for Rippers, a Victorian monster hunter game in the Savage Worlds setting from Pinnacle Entertainment, and World War Cthulhu featuring British spies throughout various historical eras from WWII onwards, and Cthulhu Britannica from Cubicle 7, designed to be compatible with the popular Call of Cthulhu gaming system.

Just a reminder that expiring within the next few days is StoryBundle's The Adventure Sci-Fi Bundle curated by Kevin J. Anderson, containing a mix of backlist and newly-written titles by established and newer authors. Still available for a while longer are their The 2017 NaNoWriMo Writing Tools Bundle also curated by Anderson, full of practical career and creative advice for aspiring authors, as well as writing-adjacent tech guides, and The SFWA Fantasy Bundle curated by Cat Rambo, containing backlist reprints and newer contributions by assorted member authors of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the The Fear Bundle curated by former Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch.