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[ATDrake]

Humble Bundle put up a new offer for:

Humble Bundle Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency, full of self-education and DIY titles from publishers Wiley, No Starch Press, Apress/Springer, and Packt on Exactly What It Says In The Title. If the title doesn't make sense, there's a handy Bitcoin for the Befuddled at the $1 level, alongside some discount coupons for video courses from Packt, plus some time-limited free magazine access from Zinio.

Fixed tiers of $1, $8, and $15 (no new titles added next week), and the selected charity goes to recent hurricane relief.

Do a bitcoin of good. We've partnered with top technology publishers to offer a library of programming guides in support of hurricane disaster relief. Score coding instruction and business insights at every level, from beginner to advanced; explore coding with Ethereum; learn about the latest developments in cryptocurrency; and support relief and recovery efforts from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.

Just a reminder that expiring tomorrow on Wednesday at 11 AM Pacific Time is the Humble Book Bundle Haikasoru presented by Viz Media full of Japanese science fiction in translation, and there's still another week to go on the Humble Book Bundle Adventures in Science Fiction presented by Open Road, full of their well-known and often award-nominated backlist author reprints.

StoryBundle has two new offerings for:

The SFWA Fantasy Bundle edited by former co-editor of Fantasy magazine Cat Rambo (ISFDB, Wikipedia). This features a number of selections, mostly from newer member authors, but with some contributions by Locus-nominated Lisa Mason (ISFDB, Wikipedia), Compton Crook Award-winner James Stoddard (ISFDB), and Canadian Aurora Award-winner Douglas Smith (ISFDB), and more.

$5 minimum gets you 4 titles, including Stoddard's Compton Crook Award-winning novel out from Warner Aspect in 1998, and a 4-part omnibus
$15 top tier adds 8 more titles, including a 2012 small press backlist novel from Lisa Mason, Erica L. Satifka's Apex-published novel which netted her a 2017 win for the British Fantasy Awards' Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, and more.

For the aspiring writers in the audience, they're also running the annual 2017 NaNoWriMo Writing Tools Bundle curated by Kevin J. Anderson, full of practical creative and career advice from writers including Hugo & Nebula Award-winner Mike Resnick, former Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Kevin J. Anderson himself (a new title exclusive to this SB so far).

$5 minimum gets you 4 titles, including the Resnick (a Q&A for sfnal writers) and a Scrivener tips book
$15 top tier adds 9 titles, including some titles which aid you with the apparent ebook publishing program Vellum, and also Excel if you happen to need technical help, plus advice on copyright and time management.

Just a reminder that expiring in the next day or so is their Aliens Among Us curated by Dean Wesley Smith, and The Adventure Sci-Fi Bundle curated by Kevin J. Anderson is also still available, if you're interested.

[ATDrake]

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

Humble RPG Book Bundle Pathfinder Worldscape Ultimate Crossover presented by Paizo & Dynamite containing a mix of resources for the gaming company's popular multi-canon crossover setting, plus accompanying comics for assorted relevant series from Dynamite. The Paizo stuff is redeemed via a key at their website (IIRC, maybe watermarked PDF but otherwise no restrictions). The Dynamite comics are immediately available for direct-download from HB.

Although there are a bunch of repeats from previous bundles, this actually looks like a pretty decent deal Dynamite-wise, with what look like substantial complete story-arcs and runs from them.

Fixed tiers of $1, $8, $15, and $25 for the digital stuff, with an additional $45 tier for unpainted collectible figurines and print comics (shipping not included, but estimated ~$7 for US domestic and $12 for international).

Your premier worldscaping service. Dynamite and Paizo welcome you to a literary landscape full of magic, monsters, and mystery. Check out the latest from Dynamite's fantasy adventure crossover event, where the Pathfinders meet the greatest warriors of Hyboria, Barsoom, Golarion, and Earth to clash in an ancient battle of life and death. Awesome.

[ATDrake]

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

Humble Book Bundle Win at Work containing mostly business-oriented advice titles from publishers Berrett-Koehler (Wikipedia) and Mango Media (publishers of the Associated Press history books for which we've gotten a couple of freebies and an HB), with a few non-business-centric personal grooming, communication, financial, and time management self-helpers, including motivational speaker Stephen R. Covey's bestselling (Wikipedia)'s The 7 Habit of Highly Effective People (Wikipedia), which is available in the middle tier probably sells for that much already at the regular price.

Fixed tiers of $1, $8, and $15 (no new titles added next week). There looks to be no substantial overlap with Berrett-Koehler's previous Be the Boss and Hacking Capitalism HBs, making for an all-new selection of books, if you happened to have picked up the previous offerings.

Winner winner humble dinner. Our latest bundle of books is here to help you navigate your business challenges (and look sharp doing it). Get a library of titles from Berrett-Koehler and Mango Media, including Notoriously Dapper, Hustle Away Debt, Negotiating the Impossible, and – oh, did we mention Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling? We like that one.

Still available are the previous HBs for Humble Book Bundle Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency containing tech explainers and DIY programming books, and Humble RPG Book Bundle Pathfinder Worldscape Ultimate Crossover presented by Paizo and Dynamite containing a mix of RPG supplements and tie-in comics for various popular mostly public domain spin-off franchises being crossed over, with options for collectible physical merchandise, if you're into that.

StoryBundle has a new offering for:

The Fear Bundle curated by former Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch containing a mix of multi-genre suspense-oriented titles with newer works from established and indie authors, ranging from serial killer thrillers to outright horror. Contributors include Canadians Rebecca M. Senese (ISFDB) & Mark Leslie (ISFDB), both Aurora-nominated for their short stories, Tor & Pocket Books-published fellow Canadian Sean Costello (ISFDB, Wikipedia), Gary Jonas (ISFDB) who has been contributing to small press magazines since the 1990s, and more.

$5 minimum gets you 4 titles, including one of those Fiction River anthologies and a dark fantasy novella by Rusch which was originally out from Subterranean Press
$15 top tiers adds 6 more titles, which looks like they're all novels

Just a reminder that expiring within the next few days is their 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.

Bundle of Holding's new RPG gamebook offering is for: Rippers, a Victorian monster hunter game in the Savage Worlds setting from Pinnacle Entertainment, containing both the original Rippers and the newer Rippers Resurrected lines, plus a few extras.

For Lovecraftian aficionados, two separate but apparently crossover-compatible games from Cubicle 7 Entertainment (makers of the rather nice official tie-in RPG for Charles Stross' urban fantasy series The Laundry Files) using the Call of Cthulhu game system are offered: World War Cthulhu featuring British spies throughout various historical eras from WWII onwards, and Cthulhu Britannica with a more general London setting. Apparently the latter is a repeat that has been enhanced with a few new materials (top-tier purchasers of the older versions apparently get all the new stuff retroactively added to their libraries, which is pretty nice of them).

And still available until the end of the week is their Demon: The Descent Bundle, another occult espionage thriller from Onyx Path Publishing in the Chronicles of Darkness setting, wherein this storyline, you play fallen angels defected to humanity in a noir-ish spy setting full of secret identities, conspiracies, and backstabbing betrayals.

[Little.Egret]

Mahatma Gandhi: A Life From Beginning to End

The Dutch East India Company: A History From Beginning to End

Richard Nixon: A Life From Beginning to End

Nikola Tesla: A Life From Beginning to End

Mao Zedong: A Life From Beginning to End

King George VI: A Life From Beginning to End (Royalty Biography Book 5)

Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology (3 Book Series)


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[ATDrake]

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.

[ATDrake]

New Humble Bundle is up, and it's a pretty nice one for:

Humble Book Bundle Multi-Genre Fiction presented by Night Shade Books, containing mostly sfnal selections from their stable of authors and anthologists, including some themed collections and best-ofs edited by Ellen Datlow, John Joseph Adams, and Neil Clarke (of Clarkesworld magazine), and novels by prominent authors including Martha Wells, Glen Cook, and more.

Fixed tiers of $1, $8, and $15 (no new titles added next week). This is a very good sampler of their overall catalogue, and an auto-buy for me.

Multi-genre multipass. This bundle is your ticket to new worlds! Immerse yourself in horror, science fiction, fantasy, and mystery from our friends at Night Shade Books. You'll find tales by George R. R. Martin, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Stephen King, Kelly Link, Orson Scott Card, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jeff Vandermeer, Brandon Sanderson, and even Jack Kerouac! (The bundle includes a lot of other fantastic authors too, but we're starting to run out of room.)

If you've been getting those Paizo Pathfinder RPG bundles they've been offering, there's also the new Humble Extra Life 2017 Bundle which contains a mix of video games (some accompanying soundtracks) and many supplements for the Pathfinder system (redeem via key into your Paizo account, but otherwise DRM-free PDF downloads, maybe watermarked, IIRC) with tiers of $1, $8, and $15.

And still available are the previous Humble Book Bundle Cloud Computing presented by Packt with DIY tech titles, and Humble RPG Book Bundle Warmachine, Hordes, Iron Kingdoms containing a mix of gamebooks and extensive tie-in prose fiction, some written by decently-established sfnal genre authors, from Privateer Press.

Bundle of Holding's new RPG gamebook offering is for: Old School Revival +5, containing a mix of assorted games in various genres by smaller and independent designers. Still available are the previous bundles for Rippers, a Victorian monster hunter game in the Savage Worlds setting from Pinnacle Entertainment, and Esteren +2 & Shadows of Esteren, for a French medieval gothic horror game with unusual supplements including music soundtracks and a recipe booklet.

Just a reminder that expiring in the next day or so is StoryBundle's 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. Also available is the The Fear Bundle curated by former Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and of course The 2017 NaNoWriMo Writing Tools Bundle curated by Kevin J. Anderson will be available until the end of the month.

[ATDrake]

StoryBundle has a new offering up, for:

The Aurora Award Bundle 3 curated by Canadian author Douglas Smith (ISFDB), himself thrice a recipient of Canada's top sfnal prize, containing a mix of works by various other alumni.

It looks like pretty much every novel on offer has been either an Aurora nominee or a winner, across a range of genres from YA steampunk adventure through to horror as well as more standard sf/fantasy, plus two anthologies of Canadian writing. ETA: Here's a nice review and contents description/listing of Tesseracts 14 from the Canadian Review of Materials magazine hosted by the University of Manitoba.

$5 minimum gets you 4 titles, including a vampire fiction anthology with a story in Tanya Huff's popular Blood Books series (basis of the TV show Blood Ties) which hasn't been reprinted elsewhere yet, according to ISFDB, and a 2003 Edo van Belkom (ISFDB, Wikipedia) horror novel originally out from Kensington's Pinnacle imprint

$15 top tier adds 6 more titles, including 2 works by Hugo Award-winning fellow MR member author Robert J. Sawyer: Far-Seer has previously been offered as a freebie and in the recent Adventure Sci-Fi StoryBundle, but Relativity, his collection of essays and short stories and writing advice columns (the latter also available on his website, IIRC) is brand new, as far as I can tell. There's also one of the annual Tesseracts showcase anthologies.

Humble Bundle also has a new offering up, for:

Humble Book Bundle Start a Startup by Wiley, containing topical DIY business books from the publisher of the popular “Dummies” guides, with several titles especially suited to tech startups.

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

Startup your engines. Oh, we know you've got the next great idea. It's just a question of getting started! This ebook bundle from Wiley will be your guide as you begin your very own business venture. Get Starting a Tech Business: A Practical Guide for Anyone Creating or Designing Applications or Software; The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business; The Other "F" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work; and lots more.

Also still available are Humble Book Bundle Multi-Genre eFiction presented by Night Shade Books containing sfnal works from many well-known authors, and Humble Comics Bundle Sex & Science presented by Top Cow Publishing, containing a mix of in-universe superhero and creator-owned non-superhero titles. And if you play those Pathfinder RPGs from Paizo, the charity fundraising Humble Extra Life Bundle 2017 contains a substantial selection of gaming supplements at all tiers, which may or may not have also been offered in previous HBs.

Bundle of Holding have added to the RPG gamebook offerings: 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.

Still available from previous weeks are: Old School Revival +5, containing a mix of assorted games in various genres by smaller and independent designers, and Esteren +2 & Shadows of Esteren, for a French medieval gothic horror game with unusual supplements including music soundtracks and a recipe booklet.

[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.

[elaysee]

Apex Book Company is having a Black Friday bundle sale running through Monday. They're a small press and publisher of fantasy/SF Apex Magazine, which hit its hundredth monthly issue this year.

Apex publishes fantasy, horror, and SF - I'd say their sweet spot is dark fantasy. Titles are DRM-free and in PDF/ePub/Mobi formats. They also have 30% off individual titles with discount code CHEER17.

I've read three of the titles in the 2016 bundle, (Stay Crazy, Glitch Rain, and The Kraken Sea), and subscribed to Apex Magazine for a few years now. Stay Crazy won the 2017 British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer.

2017 - 10 titles / $25

Spoiler:

Throne of the Bastards by Brian Keene & Steven L. Shrewsbury
Everything That's Underneath by Kristi DeMeester
Entertaining Demons by Daniel I. Russell
Mars Girls by Mary Turzillo
Shine Your Light on Me by Lee Thomas
Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt
Beautiful Sorrows by Mercedes M. Yardley
The Wicked by James Newman
Ugly as Sin by James Newman
Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem

2016 titles - 8 titles / $18

Spoiler:

Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling edited by Jaym Gates & Monica Valentinelli
Kentucky Kaiju by Shawn Pryor, Justin Stewart, and Tressina Bowling
Stay Crazy by Erica L. Satifka
The Kraken Sea by E. Catherine Tobler
Freeze/Thaw by Chris Bucholz
first communions by Geoffrey Girard
Glitch Rain by Alex Livingston
Best of Apex Magazine: Volume 1 edited by Jason Sizemore and Lesley Conner

2015 titles - 5 titles / $10

Spoiler:

The Apex Book of World SF 4 edited by Lavie Tidhar & Mahvesh Murad
King of the Bastards by Brian Keene & Steven L. Shrewsbury
For Exposure: Tales of a Small Press Publisher by Jason Sizemore
The Lost Level by Brian Keene
Sing Me Your Scars by Damien Angelica Walters

2014 titles - 5 titles / $10

Spoiler:

Severance by Chris Bucholz
War Stories: Tales of Military Science Fiction edited by Jaym Gates & Michael Liptak
The Apex Book of World SF 3 edited by Lavie Tidhar
Maze by J.M. McDermott
Midnight by Mari Adkins

[datcha]

http://www.phoenixpick.com/botm/Christmas.htm

As it does each month, Phoenix Pick is offering a free book (you are allowed to pay for it what you will, if you wish to give them support).

I personally prise very much their publications, notably many classical works.

This month the free book is no less than Heinlein's first Hugo winner Double Star (which I have not yet read).

But this month includes yet another freebie, which I have read and highly appreciate, Soulmates, an anthology of short stories and novelettes, all written by Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn, usually together, ranging from funny, to inspiring, to bittersweet or charming (my review is online). Mike Resnick won 5 Hugos out of a record 37 nominations.

Three other titles are available at a very low price (see details):

2 by Robert A. Heinlein:

• Podkayne of Mars
• Time for the Stars

1 by Mike Resnick with Lezli Robyn and Larry Hodges:

• When parallel lines meet

All DRM-free, like all Phoenix Pick books.

And the best way to say thank you is to leave reviews on Amazon and other sites. Small publishers need it as much as indie authors.

I am saying this because I really like this publisher, for its DRM-free policies, and for making available so many great books, at very reasonable prices, and I am sorry to see so few reviews for a book like "Soulmates", even if they are excellent reviews. I know this sounds like advertising, but it is only how I feel.

[ATDrake]

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

Humble Book Bundle Network Security & Certification presented by Wiley full of highly-specialized technical training books for professionals or those aspiring to be, by the publisher of the popular “Dummies” DIY series.

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

Network smarter, not harder. With this Network & Security Certification bundle from Wiley, you can secure a new ebook library to help you net-work smarter. Get Network Attacks and Exploitation: A Framework, Network Security Bible, Phishing Dark Waters: The Offensive and Defensive Sides of Malicious Emails, Microsoft Windows Networking Essentials, and more!

They are also offering the annual Yogscast Jingle Jam multi-media advent calendar bundle, which all proceeds at or above the $35 level to unlock the full contents go to charity. It's mostly games, but so far there's been at least one ebook (a tie-in novel for the Dark Futures game from Black Library), and a bunch of DRM-free games, and more are being revealed every day until Xmas.

As a reminder, expiring in a couple of days on Wednesday at 11 AM Pacific Time is the excellent Humble Book Bundle Stellar Sci-Fi & Fantasy presented by Tachyon chock-full of notable award-winning sfnal authors, many represented by collections of their harder to find short story work, and the Humble Comics Bundle Riverdale & Archie full of volumes featuring the classic characters, now turned into an apparently hit TV show, is also still available.

StoryBundle has a new bundle up for:

The Winter Wonderland Game Bundle containing non-fiction books about (mostly video) games and the gaming industry, both history and creative stuff including interviews and DIY.

$5 minimum nets you 3 titles, including an award-nominated worldbuilding guide (contains an essay by sf/fantasy author Michael A. Stackpole (Wikipedia) and an introduction by Tor-published author Ken Scholes), a collection of magazine articles, and an historical overview of point and click adventure games.

$15 top tier adds 7 more titles, including some ROM game hacks, a journalist's book on the rise of eSports, an actually rather interesting-looking book about localization explaining translator choices and cultural differences, plus some sort of retrospective on an installment in the popular Final Fantasy franchise, and some books of interviews with game developers.

Their previous Neo-Noir Bundle full of mostly indies in mostly sfnal crossover hybrid subgenres done in a retro pulpy style is still available, and offers a freebie novel for newsletter subscribers.

Unusually, Bundle of Holding is offering an sfnal prose bundle as well, repeating the Stone Skin Press bundle from RPG game publisher Pelgrane Press.

This is apparently their spin-off fiction publishing line, and for the top tier price, which is currently under $11 for 9 books, you get 7 prose anthologies + 2 webcomics collections, curated by Robin D. Laws (ISFDB). The anthologies are themed original works, not gaming tie-ins, as far as I can tell, and run a mix of sfnal genres from fantasy to horror to speculative crime, with themes like Shotguns v Cthulhu, The New Gothic, The Lion and the Aardvark (inspired by Aesop's classic fables), etc. All books are available as ePub/Mobi/PDF except for the webcomics, which are PDF only.

Contributing authors seem to be mainly newer ones, but there are also some works by fairly well-established authors like multiple award-winning horror author Ramsey Campbell (Wikipedia), Alex Bledsoe (Tor), Ekaterina Sedia (Prime Books), Tobias S. Buckell (Tor) and more.

Also, for fans of the late Jack Vance (Wikipedia), they are re-offering a previous bundle Dying Earth Compleat containing the officially-licensed RPG set in one of his most popular fantasy worlds. They have augmented the contents with 5 new titles since the last go-round. If you, like me, bought it last time, the new books have been automatically added to your account without having to make an extra purchase, which is really quite nice of them.

The other new offer is for The Dracula Dossier, a spies vs vampires game also out from Pelgrane.

Expiring tonight is The Worldbuilder's Toolkit +5 presenting backgrounder resources suitable for incorporating into many game systems, which is really quite nice (I bought it out of curiosity for the medieval society and weapons volumes, and found them reasonably informative and interesting). And still available for another week or so 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.

[ATDrake]

StoryBundle has a new offering for:

The WordFire Press Super Showcase Bundle curated by Star Wars tie-in novelist Kevin J. Anderson, from his own WordFire Press imprint.

These look to be mainly works by newer sfnal authors, some of whom are well-established in other fields (Brooks Arthur Wachtel's bio-blurb says he is an Emmy Award-winning television writer, Mike Baron is an Eisner Award-winning comic book writer) or have short story publication credits, but are otherwise relatively new to novel-publishing.

In addition, there are anthologies with stories from well-known authors (one festively holiday-themed) and also works by Anderson himself (a tie-in to his Dan Shamble Zombie P.I. series out from Kensington, for which we've previously received the 1st novel as a freebie), a novel by Stoker Award-nominated horror and franchise tie-in author Jeff Mariotte (ISFDB, Wikipedia), and a collection of sports-themed short stories by Hugo & Nebula-winner Mike Resnick (also previously offered in a prior SB, IIRC).

$5 minimum gets you 2 anthologies and 3 novels.

$15 top tier adds 12 more titles, for an amortized price of less than $1 per book.

As a reminder, their Neo-Noir Bundle is still available for another week and offers a free novel to newsletter subscribers. And their Winter Wonderland Game Bundle of related non-fiction still has a couple of weeks to run.

Humble Bundle's new offering is for:

Humble RPG Book Bundle Dungeons, Monsters & Dragons 5E by Frog God Games & Kobold Press containing all sorts of adventures, resources, etc. in their own settings and also compatible with Paizo's popular Pathfinder system and others.

Fixed tiers of $1 (includes a 30% off coupon for products in the Frog God & Kobold stores), $8, and $17 (no new titles added next week).

Bundles, monsters, and dragons. Oh, and dungeons, too! This new RPG book bundle from Frog God Games and Kobold Press supports the Fifth Edition of everyone’s favorite roleplaying game – plus Pathfinder, Swords & Wizardry, and more. You'll score a virtual stack of maps, campaign guides, adventures, and more. So stop dragon your feet and get it already!

[Little.Egret]

Free, first two in series

Steampunk, The Tinkerer's Daughter (3 Book Series)


The Tinkerer's Daughter by Jamie Sedgwick

Tinker's War (The Tinkerer's Daughter Book 2) Jamie Sedgwick


Breeze is an outcast, a half-breed orphan born into a world torn apart by a thousand years of war. Breeze never knew her elven mother, and when her human father is recalled to the war, he leaves her in the safest place he knows: in the care of a reclusive tinker.

The Tinkerman's inventions are frightening at first -noisy, smelly, dangerous machines with no practical use- but when the war comes home, Breeze sees an opportunity. If she can pull it off, she'll change the world forever. If she fails, she'll be considered a traitor by both lands and will be hunted to her death.


(and two others)

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[Step_hen]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Humble Bundle put up a new offer for:

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Fixed tiers of $1, $8, and $15 (no new titles added next week), and the selected charity goes to recent hurricane relief.



Just a reminder that expiring tomorrow on Wednesday at 11 AM Pacific Time is the Humble Book Bundle Haikasoru presented by Viz Media full of Japanese science fiction in translation, and there's still another week to go on the Humble Book Bundle Adventures in Science Fiction presented by Open Road, full of their well-known and often award-nominated backlist author reprints.

StoryBundle has two new offerings for:

The SFWA Fantasy Bundle edited by former co-editor of Fantasy magazine Cat Rambo (ISFDB, Wikipedia). This features a number of selections, mostly from newer member authors, but with some contributions by Locus-nominated Lisa Mason (ISFDB, Wikipedia), Compton Crook Award-winner James Stoddard (ISFDB), and Canadian Aurora Award-winner Douglas Smith (ISFDB), and more.

$5 minimum gets you 4 titles, including Stoddard's Compton Crook Award-winning novel out from Warner Aspect in 1998, and a 4-part omnibus
$15 top tier adds 8 more titles, including a 2012 small press backlist novel from Lisa Mason, Erica L. Satifka's Apex-published novel which netted her a 2017 win for the British Fantasy Awards' Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, and more.

For the aspiring writers in the audience, they're also running the annual 2017 NaNoWriMo Writing Tools Bundle curated by Kevin J. Anderson, full of practical creative and career advice from writers including Hugo & Nebula Award-winner Mike Resnick, former Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Kevin J. Anderson himself (a new title exclusive to this SB so far).

$5 minimum gets you 4 titles, including the Resnick (a Q&A for sfnal writers) and a Scrivener tips book
$15 top tier adds 9 titles, including some titles which aid you with the apparent ebook publishing program Vellum, and also Excel if you happen to need technical help, plus advice on copyright and time management.

Just a reminder that expiring in the next day or so is their Aliens Among Us curated by Dean Wesley Smith, and The Adventure Sci-Fi Bundle curated by Kevin J. Anderson is also still available, if you're interested.

Hey, who is already investing money in bitcoins ??

[ATDrake]

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


Humble Book Bundle A Galaxy of Stars in Sci-Fi & Fantasy presented by Open Road which lives up to its name, and actually has a couple of books which are normally out from different publishers.

This features some very good selections of work from Ursula K. Le Guin, Stanisław Lem, Theodore Sturgeon (geo-restricted to US-only, I think; it says “not available in your region” for me), Poul Anderson, Patricia C. Wrede, Robert McCammon, R. A. MacAvoy, Harlan Ellison, and more. I already have a decent chunk of this from past purchases (including the Sturgeon from past travelling), but there's still plenty to make it worth it for me including a few wishlist items, though I wish they'd gone with books available worldwide for everyone, since the exchange rate is currently unfavourable for me. ETA: it seems that HB doesn't keep actual physical address info in the account settings, and goes by apparent geographic IP address when purchasing and/or downloading. YMMV.

Anyway, fixed tiers of $1, $8, $15, and $18 (no new titles added next week).

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They also have the Humble Book Bundle Be A Coder presented by No Starch Press which has a very good selection of DIY computer programming books on both obscure and popular languages.

The first two tiers contain a lot of repeats from an earlier HB, Hacking bundle or something like that. But the top two tiers contain all-new items, and if you missed the earlier bundle, then the repeats are useful, since they're for less popular languages that don't show up very often.

Fixed tiers of $1, $8, $15, and $18 (no new titles added next week).

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And last week's HB was Humble Book Bundle Maker Skill Builders presented by Make: with books and issues of the popular DIY tech craft hobbyist magazine, this one focusing on various forms of fabrication using new technologies for old crafts such as leather and woodcarving, as well as programming.

HB runs a lot of Make: bundles, which are apparently very popular, so this has a lot of repeats, but also a bunch of brand new items as well, some not yet released elsewhere.

Fixed tiers of $1, $8, $15 (new titles were added this week), and $20.

If you bundle it, they will come. Build your dreams with our new bundle from Maker Media! You'll get brand-new 2017 releases like Zero to Maker, Second Edition; Design for CNC; Getting Started with the micro:bit; Getting Started with 3D Carving; Modern Leatherwork for Makers; and more. Plus, check out Humble-exclusive first looks of Jumpstarting JavaScript and Jumpstarting C! If you build it, it will be awesome.