A SF/F book collection from Humble Bundle
Jan. 5th, 2023 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneTachyon Books releasing twenty books for $18 in PDF, epub, and Mobi format, featuring Brandon Sanderson, Bruce Sterling, and a host of other authors, male and female. Most of the books are novels, there are a few short story collections. A couple of the books I absolutely will not touch, but a lot of them look quite interesting. And at less than a buck per, certainly a good deal.
As usual, no DRM.
The charity for this bundle is Gameheads, described as: "We are a tech training program that uses video game design, development and DevOps to create diverse talent and bold new voices, train youth of color for the tech eco-system, and prepare them for college, career and civic life. Teaching areas include: Project management, art and animation, software development and programming fundamentals, project management, game design, level design, video game history/theory and more." Sounds like a worthwhile charity to me! You can adjust the percentage of your purchase for how much goes to the charity with sliders, personally I try to split it into rough thirds.
This bundle just launched today and will be up for another twenty days.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/sanderson-liu-sterling-and-more-great-sff-from-tachyon-books
As usual, no DRM.
The charity for this bundle is Gameheads, described as: "We are a tech training program that uses video game design, development and DevOps to create diverse talent and bold new voices, train youth of color for the tech eco-system, and prepare them for college, career and civic life. Teaching areas include: Project management, art and animation, software development and programming fundamentals, project management, game design, level design, video game history/theory and more." Sounds like a worthwhile charity to me! You can adjust the percentage of your purchase for how much goes to the charity with sliders, personally I try to split it into rough thirds.
This bundle just launched today and will be up for another twenty days.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/sanderson-liu-sterling-and-more-great-sff-from-tachyon-books
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Date: 2023-01-05 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-05 09:32 pm (UTC)Cool! I have several of these authors on my (digital) shelves, but none of these specific titles. I buy almost exclusively digital these days.
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Date: 2023-01-06 04:09 am (UTC)I've read The bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamima. It was good.
I've read other things by these authors, but not the books in the bundle:
-- Tobias Buckell -- Ragamuffin -- good novel, but I mostly don't read short fiction
-- Nicole Kornher-Stace -- Firebreak -- novel (possibly YA?) with lots of conflict and war and streaming of online games
-- Marjorie Liu -- A fave author for graphic stories and prose fiction
-- Sam J. Miller -- Blackfish City -- really interesting world setup
-- Daniel Pinkwater -- Who doesn't like Pinkwater?
-- Bruce Sterling -- Good author, but again, short fiction
-- Lavie Tidhar -- Central Station, which I liked, but somehow I haven't kept up with their other works
-- Jane Yolen -- I love her work, but I haven't read this one yet (she's so prolific, dammit)