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I always wish Humble Bundle would tell you more about the books they offer in their bundles without all the clicking. It's barely worth the time it takes to look up which of the books I might like -- at that point, I might as well just spend the cash on something I know I'd like. Why they don't get the info (descriptions and prices) off of Amazon or elsewhere when they put up a new bundle, I have no idea.
So I decided I'd do it this time for the current SciFi bundle. Here we go. No obvious gems (like the time an unpublished Frank Herbert novel was included in the "pay more than the average" bundle extras. Wow. Yes, please), but these are the books you get for a dollar five dollars (you also get a SciFi fiction magazine, Lightspeed, issue 28):
In Australia...a U.S. Air
Force computer operator receives a terrifying radio transmission out of
Ayers Rock that knocks out the world's communications. In New Mexico...a
boozy college engineering professor is suddenly escorted into a waiting
car by two armed military men. In New York...a tall, slender woman
leaves her husband a note on the refrigerator saying that she's leaving
-- but can't tell him where she's going. In Colombia...a Special Forces
officer breaks into a drug kinpin's bedroom and puts a bullet into a
woman's brain before running to a waiting helicopter. And in England...a
beautiful twenty-three-year-old mathematician prepares for a journey
that will change her life forever.
The team assembles in Australia on a mission that can save the world.
But first, they must figure out who is the message coming from? What are
they trying to tell mankind? And can it be deciphered in time before
Armageddon overtakes the world?
Itโs about a bomb, itโs about a world about to be shattered. Itโs about the last few days they have to save us all.
Bob Mayer is a West Point Graduate and a former Green Beret.
Time-travel stories open
the entire world and all of time to writersโ imaginations. The fifteen
writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line
explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and
travel from 2013 to the nineteenth century to a vast future. Featuring
work from award winners to bestsellers to a few newcomers whose time
will come, Time Streams turns the time-travel genre on its head.
"Fiction River is off to an auspicious start. It's a worthy heir to the
original anthology series of the 60s and 70s. ... It's certainly the top
anthology of the year to date." โAmazing Stories on Fiction River:
Unnatural Worlds
Audie
Masters is a 17-year-old girl who doesn't have it all: not a lot of
money, not much confidence around guys, she can't seem to pass algebra,
and she's desperate to get into the college she's been dreaming of for
years.
But what Audie does have is a knack for physics that's about to catapult her into the adventure of a lifetime.
Steven Savile's popular fantasy stories embrace all
aspects of the fantastic. Be it the wonder of magical realism, the
darkness of the macabre, or the mythological, these stories have one
thing in common: faith. Savile offers up tales of hope and wonder in
equal measure, whilst treating sadness as a long lost friend. Nothing in
his world is quite as it seems. The world you think you know isn't the
world you're about to enter. Everything you think you've learned about
life is about to be unlearned. These are stories of love. These are
stories of loss. In some you will find redemption, in others the simple
act of memory is treacherous and cannot be trusted. But in all of them
there is an aching sense of loss and love. Savile's stories here speak
to the part in all of us who still dares to fall in love again after a
broken heart.
โAlternitechโ sends prospectors into
alternate but similar timelines where tiny differences yield significant
changes: a world where the Beatles never broke up, or where Lee Harvey
Oswald wasnโt gunned down after the Kennedy assassination, where an
accidental medical breakthrough offers the cure to a certain disease,
where a struggling author really did write the great American novel, or
where a freak accident reveals the existence of a serial killer.
Alternitech finds those differencesโand profits from them.
Well, it's useful to me. ;^) Probably worth a dollar. The last scifi bundle I got, Anderson's was the only decent book in the bunch (though I may have only spent a dollar), but it was obviously his first novel.
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