[ATDrake]

New Humble Bundle is up, and it's an excellent offering for:

Humble Book Bundle Stellar Sci-Fi & Fantasy presented by Tachyon full of best-of story collections and newer novella offerings by well-established authors including Nalo Hopkinson, Peter S. Beagle, Jeff VanderMeer, Tad Williams, Patricia A. McKillip, Nancy Kress, Peter Watts, Kate Elliott, Bruce Sterling, Alistair Reynolds, and many more. I already own nearly a dozen titles from this (most of which I slowly waited for Kindle Daily Deals to price-match at Kobo), but it's still well worth an auto-buy for me for the rest of it.

Fixed tiers of $1, $8, $15, and $18 (no new titles added next week). In addition to the single-author collections and novels, there are also 6 anthologies and 1 non-fiction book of essays from Cory Doctorow.

Insert "out of this world" joke here. We're all starry-eyed over our new ebook bundle! The superstars at Tachyon have collected some of their most stellar science fiction and fantasy titles. Kelley Armstrong? Peter S. Beagle? Cory Doctorow? Brandon Sanderson? Nalo Hopkinson? They're all in this bundle – and not for an astronomical price, either. Honestly, we couldn't planet better.

HB also has an additional Monday offering, for:

Humble Book Bundle Java presented by O'Reilly chock-full of DIY computer programming books for that language from the popular tech publisher.

Fixed tiers of $1, $8, and $15 (no new titles added next week).

Coffee and tea and the Java and me. O'Reilly Media is back, and this time they brought a fresh pot of Java. Get Java Cookbook, Java Performance: The Definitive Guide, Minecraft Modding with Forge, Jenkins: The Definitive Guide, and more great ebooks. Ahhh, tasty tasty knowledge!

Last week's Humble Comics Bundle Ian Fleming's James Bond 07 containing the licensed tie-in comics telling new stories, from Dynamite Entertainment, is also still available.

StoryBundle has a new offering for:

The Neo-Noir Bundle curated by Kate Sullivan. This apparently contains hybrid noir-style stories across various (mostly sfnal) genres, such as alternate history, paranormal, and superhero. Contributors seem to be mainly indie authors or ones with minor short story and franchise tie-in credits, but there's a novella by Laura Anne Gilman (ISFDB, Wikipedia) in her long-running Cosa Nostradamus series (published by Harlequin's Luna imprint), and maybe a few other things by more established authors.

There's also a freebie 1st-in-series novel for newsletter subscribers.

$5 minimum gets you 4 titles, including the Gilman novella
$15 top tier adds 6 titles, including the 2nd-in-series for the newsletter freebie.

Still available are their The Aurora Award 3 Bundle containing backlist works from recipients of Canada's top speculative fiction writing prize, and The 2017 NaNoWriMo Writing Tools Bundle curated by Kevin J. Anderson, containing advice for aspiring authors.

Bundle of Holding's new RPG gamebook offering is for: Indie Cornucopia +5, their annual bundle spotlighting small press games, with a diverse selection that includes historical, supernatural, storytelling, fantasy, cyberpunk, and more. There's also The Worldbuilder's Toolkit +5 presenting backgrounder resources suitable for incorporating into many game systems, such as a book explaining how medieval societies worked and adapting them to flesh out your gameplay, a classic Palladium compendium of real life arms, armour, and castles upon which to base things, a guide to plots and campaigns containing advice from authors such as Margaret Weis (ISFDB, Wikipedia; author of many tie-in Dragonlance franchise books and co-author of the popular Death Gate Cycle fantasies), and more.

Still available for a while are: Castles & Crusades +2 and the original Castles & Crusades Essentials, a vaguely historical fantasy adventure game from Troll Lord Games which uses something called the SIEGE Engine rules.