The Celestial Sagas Space Opera Bundle

Blurb:

In this set of adventures, you will meet heroes and villains, all larger than life, all roaming myriad worlds and stations and outposts on quests for survival or freedom or love or redemption. You will find yourself with enough thrilling adventures to banish every doldrum, and every one of them comes from the mind of a master writer. When you read this bundle, you will invite the cream of the crop of space opera authors into your imagination. You know you are in for a finely crafted thrill ride when you leap into the starship cockpit alongside David Gerrold, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Craig Martelle, or Timothy Zahn. You know you can trust Jeannette Bedard, Ron Collins, Robert J. Szmidt, Dave Walsh, and Lawrence Schoen to take you very far in every way possible.

$5

Easy to Be a God by Robert J. Smidt (The Fields of Long-forgotten Battles-1)
Slice of Entropy by Lawrence M. Schoen (Pizza in Space-1)
Killer Advice by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (An Assassins Universe Novella)
Cydonia Rising by Dave Walsh (Andlids-1)

$20

Stealing the Sun: Books 1-3 by Ron Collins
Cosmic Conflicts by Robert Jeschonek (StoryBundle Exclusive) (short stories)
The Settler Chronicles: Books 1-4 by Jeannette Bedard
Jumping Off the Planet by David Gerrold (The Far Side Of The Sky-1)
Cygnus Space Opera: Books 1-3 by Craig Martelle
Colliding Worlds Vol. 6 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith (short stories)
Night Train to Rigel by Timothy Zahn (Quadrail-1)

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It says Saga in the title so you know what you're getting.
Weird that the blurb says you get 7 more books at the the higher price when 3 of them are multibook omnibuses so its more like 14 books.

edit: whoops just noticed I forgot the blurb

https://storybundle.com/writing

Blurb:

In the 21st century, the writing world changes daily. New tech, new ways to promote, new ways to think about publishing. One thing that doesn’t change? How to tell good stories. The other thing that doesn’t change? The difficulties of living the writing life. In the Write Stuff Bundle for 2022, we have all of those topics covered, from how to live the writing life to the latest greatest tech.

$5

Domesticate Your Badgers by Michael W Lucas
Publishing Pitfalls for Authors by Mark Leslie Lefebvre
Writing Craft by DeAnna Knippling
A Freelancer's Survival Guide to Starting Your Own Business by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

$20

A Writer Prepares by Lawrence Block
Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer by Johanna Rothman (StoryBundle Exclusive)
Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Virtual Worlds by Joanna Penn
Create a Character Clinic by Holly Lisle
Do...Quit Your Day Job by Christina F. York (StoryBundle Exclusive)
The Pop-Up Series - Clean First Draft Writing by Dean Wesley Smith (video)

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Book writing time again

The 200 Sci-Fi Worlds Bundle

Blurb:

We've included fifteen sci-fi anthologies and collections showcasing 139 authors and more than 200 individual stories, but it's available for a limited time only! This StoryBundle features a wide variety of themes – fighting climate change, exploring the far reaches of the galaxy, future crime, hopepunk, sci-fi zombies, space marines, exosapiens, LGBTQ+ heroes, and so much more. With 139 authors, chances are that you'll find some new writers to love.

$5

Shout Kill Revel Repeat by Scott R. Jones
The Way of the Laser by Eric M. Bosarge & Joe M. McDermott
Tangents & Tachyons by J. Scott Coatsworth
Escape Vector by Bryan Young

$20

Beamed Up by Ariele Sieling, V. S. Holmes and more!
Mirror Shards edited by Thomas K. Carpenter
In Harm's Way by Mike McPhail
Soulmates by Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn
The Future Will Be Written By Robots edited by Laura Morrison
A Metal Box Floating Between Stars by Jamie Lackey
Fix the World by Bryan Cebulski, J. Scott Coatsworth and more!
Lost Signals edited by Charles E. Gannon
Transcendent 4 edited by Bogi Takács
Once Upon a Star by Anthea Sharp, Alethea Kontis, and more!
Into the Black - Tales from the Cassidyverse 1 by Adam Gaffen

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All Short Stories and a lot of them.

https://storybundle.com/fairytales

Blurb:

Fairytales are near and dear to my heart - but TWISTED tales are even better! As a reader, I love it when authors take the old and familiar and fold it into strange new shapes, flipping the roles of hero and villain, adding unexpected romance, and blending together strands of different classic stories to make something altogether new and enthralling. So when I had the opportunity to curate this collection, I leaped on it like a starving grandma on a poor innocent wolf…

In this StoryBundle you'll find eleven thrilling twists on Cinderella, Beauty & the Beast, Rumpelstiltskin, Alice in Wonderland, Mulan, and more, from award-winning and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, which includes an anthology packed with eerie retellings of your favorite tales.


$5

Raine by Anthea Sharp
Of Cinder and Madness by Nicole Zoltack
Alice the Dagger by Ashley McLeo (The Wonderland Court Series)
Once Upon a Ghost by Melissa Marr, Alethea Kontis and more! (short stories)

$20

Dragon Rising by Michelle Lynn
Cold Iron Heart by Melissa Marr (A Wicked Lovely novel)
Threads of Gold by Christine Pope
Brutal Curse by Casey Bond
Magic After Midnight by C. Gockel (I Bring the Fire-8)
A Heart in the Sun and Shadow by Annie Bellet (Cymru-1)
Cinderella Assassin by Allie Burton (A Glass Slipper Adventure)

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Twisted Fairytales has some very romance looking covers.

The 2022 Visions of the Future Bundle

Blurb:

I knew, without a doubt, I was going to really enjoy putting Visions of the Future together as a StoryBundle. I just love science fiction of all types, and any form of looking into the future, seeing visions of the future, is science fiction by definition.

So ten novels of different visions of the future, including an anthology with 17 different stories in it. This is an exciting bundle. Don't miss it, since it will only be around for a very short time. – Dean Wesley Smith

$5

Jumpback by Terry Hayman
Between Mountain and Sea by Louisa Locke (Paradisi Chronicles)
The Becalmed by Kari Kilgore
Next Generation by Barbara G.Tarn (A Star Minds Universe Novel)

$20

Paloma by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (A Retrieval Artist Novel)
Rescue Two by Dean Wesley Smith (A Seeders Universe Novel)
Eternity by Maggie Lynch
Experiencing True Purple - Books 1 & 2 by Lisa Silverthorne
The Gaia Websters by Kim Antieau
Writers of the Future Volume 37 edited by David Farland (short stories)

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The 2022 Pride Bundle

Blurb:

It's time for another queer-themed bundle to celebrate Pride! This year, we have five books in the main bundle, and another ten in the bonus, for a total of fifteen if you spring for the bonus. Once again, winnowing it down to a manageable number was ready hard — there are so many writers out there who are creating intelligent, nuanced and queer SF/F.

$5

Lord of the White Hell by Ginn Hale
We're Here edited by C.L. Clark & series editor Charles Payseur (short stories)
The Adventure of the Incognita Countess by Cynthia Ward (Blood Thirsty Agent-1)
Sanctuary by Andi C. Buchanan
The Language of Roses by Heather Rose Jones

$20

Unfettered Hexes edited by dave ring (short stories)
The Adventure of the Dux Bellorum by Cynthia Ward (Blood Thirsty Agent-1)
It Gets Even Better edited by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin (short stories)
The Hereafter Bytes by Vincent Scott
Water Horse by Melissa Scott
Friends For Robots by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (short stories)
The Sea of Stars by Nicole Kimberling
Foxhunt by Rem Wigmore
Pangs by Jerry L. Wheeler

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A good number of standalone novels in this one.

The Best of Lavie Tidhar Bundle

Blurb:

If you decide to take a chance on it, you may have read some of the books before, or maybe you never heard of any of these. But for me, each one was an adventure to write.

The real streets of Central Station in Tel Aviv inspired the novel of that name. Living on the Mekong in Vientiane inspired much of the atmosphere of Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God, and a fascination with the game of poker led to the writing of The Big Blind.

The world of Unholy Land was much informed by the years I spent in south and east Africa, just as my adopted home city of London was a fundamental character in The Violent Century and The Vanishing Kind.

But I cannot, in truth, claim ever to have lived in the Doinklands of The Escapement.

$5

Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
The Lunacy Commission by Lavie Tidhar (5 short stories)
An Occupation of Angels by Lavie Tidhar (novella)

$20

The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar
Neom (Teaser) by Lavie Tidhar (StoryBundle Exclusive)
Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar
The Big Blind by Lavie Tidhar (non-sf)
Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God by Lavie Tidhar (novella)
Jesus and the Eightfold Path by Lavie Tidhar (novella)
New Atlantis by Lavie Tidhar (novella)
The Vanishing Kind by Lavie Tidhar (novella)

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Close call on this one, I have a few tidhar but only 3 of these.

The Humorous Fantasy Bundle

Blurb:

I've curated a wonderful bunch of fantasy novels that show the lighter side of epic quests. Sometimes spells go wrong, magic swords have a bad attitude, and dragons just don't behave as they should. You'll have a laugh-out-loud time reading these fun adventures.

These books are amusing enough to put a smile on even the surliest orc's face, and you can name your price for the whole bundle, and a part of the proceeds goes to benefit the Challenger Learning Centers for Space Science Education. – Kevin J. Anderson

$5

Mis Spelled by TH Leatherman
The Night Sheriff by Phil Foglio
Fools' Day by Patrick Thomas
Magic and Misrule by KM Merritt

$20

The Dragon Business by Kevin J. Anderson
Mythology 101 by Jody Lynn Nye (mythology-1)
Kradak the Champion by Shawn Inmon
The Thing from HR by Roy M. Griffis (Cthulhu, Amalgamated-1)
His Angelic Keeper by Melinda Kucsera (A Curse Breaker Novel)
Og-Grim-Dog by Jamie Edmundson
Hatched - Dragon Farmer Book One by Caren Hahn
The Simple Delivery by Andrew Claydon (Chronicles of The Dawnblade-1)
Quest by A.J. Ponder

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Hmm not even a single short stories book?

The Best of the Indies Bundle

Blurb:

How do you pick "the best" of anything? You can't. Not really. I can't pick "the best of the indies" because I haven't read all of the indie books out there. But "This Awesome Selection of Really Great Self-Published and Small Press Books by a Killer Mix of Debut Authors, Award Winners, and NY Times Best Sellers" was too big to fit at the top of the website. So this is "The Best of the Indies!"

Are these the best books written in the last few years by self-published or small press authors? I have no idea. Are they really, really good books from self-published or small press authors, ranging in experience from debut novels (The Children of Menlo Park) to the 24th novel from a multiple award winner and best seller (Burning Shakespeare)? Yes. One hundred percent. This sampling of awesomeness has everything you could want in a fistful of books, from comedy to drama to mystery to action to love to despair.


$5

Of Blood and Ashes by Kyoko M.
Mason Dixon Monster Hunter by Eric R. Asher (Season 1?)
The Water Blade by Stuart Jaffe (The Ridnight Mysteries-1)
Get Bent! by Rick Gualtieri (Hybrid of High Moon-1)
Of Cinder and Bone by Kyoko M.

$20

Second Hand Curses by Drew Hayes
The Fixer by Jon F. Merz (A Lawson Vampire Novel)
Kill Three Birds by Nicole Givens Kurtz (A Kingdom of Aves Mystery)
A Fall in Autumn by Michael G. Williams
Amazing Grace by John G. Hartness
Burning Shakespeare by A.J. Hartley
The Children of Menlo Park by Jessica Nettles
Fairy Godmurder by Sarah J. Sover (Fractured Fae-1)
The Ghost Dance Judgement by R.S. Belcher (Gologtha-4)
Spells, Salt & Steel by Gail Z. Martin and Larry N. Martin

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Mostly Fantasty and Mystery or both.
Free book Of Cinder and Bone for people on the email list with this bundle.

The Pop Culture Explosion Bundle

Blurb:

The bundle includes the Locus Award winner and Hugo Award nominee Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985, the seminal examination of British punk One-Chord Wonders, Michael Moorcock's provocative essay collection London Peculiar, and much more. Many of these titles are available as ebooks for the first time, and exclusively for this bundle!

That is popular culture.

The bundle includes the Locus Award winner and Hugo Award nominee Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985, the seminal examination of British punk One-Chord Wonders, Michael Moorcock's provocative essay collection London Peculiar, and much more. Many of these titles are available as ebooks for the first time, and exclusively for this bundle!

$5

Muse Sick by Ian Brennan
London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction by Michael Moorcock
Arena One: On Anarchist Cinema by Richard Porton
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats edited by Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette

$20

Sticking It to the Man by Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History by Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole and Yony Leyser
One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock by Dave Laing
If It Sounds Good, It Is Good by Richard Manning
Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat by Bob Ostertag
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams by Mat Callahan
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 edited by Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette
Arena Two: Anarchists in Fiction by Stuart Christie

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Let's talk about Pop Kulture.. or not
Seems to be a weirdly inappropriately titled bundle.

The Great Galaxies Adventure SF Bundle

Blurb:

I've curated 14 Adventure Science Fiction books for a mind-bending reading roller-coaster ride across the galaxy. Name your own price, and get them all.

In this Great Galaxies StoryBundle, you'll get a brand-new exclusive novel by legendary SF master Alan Dean Foster, Prodigals—not yet released to the general public! Nexus is the first novel featuring the cosmic superhero by comics master Mike Baron, and Dr. Alien by Rajnar Vajra pits a human psychologist against an incomprehensible alien mindset to avert a galactic war.


$5

Corvus Ascending by Dale Sale (Corvus-1)
Any Job Will Do by John Wilker (Grand Human Empire-1)
Cosmic Cats & Fantastic Furballs by Mary A. Turzillo (short stories)
Winston Chase and the Alpha Machine by William Van Winkle (Winston Chase-1)

$20

Day 9 by Robert Jeschonek
Debunked by Dito Abbott (Terravanum-1)
Starhelm Epsilon by David Viergutz (Leviathan-1)
City of Kaus #1: Revenge by Dani Hoots
Zeroland by Ryan Winters
Writers of the Future: Volume 31 edited by David Farland (short stories)
Prodigals by Alan Dean Foster
Jeff Sturgeon's Last Cities of Earth edited by Jennifer Brozek (short stories)
Nexus by Mike Baron
Dr. Alien by Rajnar Vajra

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GOG Bear ate my first version of this

Fanatical: Packt Summer Giveaway
fanatical.com/en/bundle/packt-summer-giveaway

Free
Ends in 4d 14hr

Contains:
-Coding Roblox Games Made Easy
-Blender 3D By Example - Second Edition
-Unity 2020 By Example - Third Edition
-20% Voucher: 20% Off all Packt Bundles in Fanatical (must be redeemed by 08/08/2022 08:00 BST)

The Past Crimes Bundle


Blurb:

In fact, for a vast majority of crime fiction (mystery), the crime has already happened in the past and solving what happened, or who did it, or why the crime happened is the fun of it all.

I personally love past crimes of another category: cold cases. When the question of who done it or why in the normal crime stories doesn't get answered in any satisfying way, the crime becomes a cold case.

But no way did I want to have just cold cases, although I bet that would be a fun StoryBundle down the road. No, I wanted first of all, great crime stories, and second, great writing from top mystery and crime writers.


$5

The Rabbit Mysteries by Leah Cutter
Death in the Serengeti and Other Stories by David H. Hendrickson (short stories)
The Shroud Key by Vincent Zandri
Smoke-Filled Rooms by Kris Nelscott (Smokey Dalton Novel)

$20

A Night of Long Knives by Rebecca Cantrell (Hannah Vogel Mystery)
Scorpion Scheme by Melissa Yi (Hope Sze)
Lucky at Cards by Lawrence Block
The Masked Family by Robert Jeschonek
Hidden in Crime by Fiction River (short stories)
Heads Up by Dean Wesley Smith (Cold Poker Gang Mystery)

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Given the SFF tendencies of the people behind story bundle I wondered if some of these might be alternate historical crime, but they all seem straight down the line.

The Summer Fireball Game Bundle

Blurb:

Summer heatwaves make the angry sun in Super Mario Bros. 3 feel as balmy as a spring breeze in comparison. When it's too hot for days at the beach or picnics in the park, embark on an adventure in the books collected in our Summer Fireball game bundle.

Gaming historian Richard Moss dives deep into the secret history of Mac games and chronicles the thrills and toils of managing a football club. Boss Fight Books and author Sebastian Deken connect our fondness for Final Fantasy VI's iconic characters and story in the titular Final Fantasy VI.

Author David L. Craddock collects interviews and oral histories in Game Dev Stories: Volume 7 and Dialogue Boxes—exploring the making of Fallout, the early days of Nintendo Power, and other pivotal titles and epochs of gaming history. All that, plus narrative designer and game journalist Cara Ellison's year-long adventure learning from game developers, Brian Riggsbee takes you on a journey through the history of Rygar, and more.

$5

The Legend of Argus: The Complete History of Rygar by Brian Riggsbee
HG101 Presents: The Guide to Shoot-Em-Ups Vol. 2 by Kurt Kalata
Football Manager, One Day at a Time by Richard Moss

$20

Boss Fight Books: Final Fantasy VI by Sebastian Deken
Embed With Games by Cara Ellison
Dialogue Box: Oral Histories of Video Games by David L. Craddock (StoryBundle Exclusive)
GameDev Stories: Volume 7 by David L. Craddock (StoryBundle Exclusive)
HG101 Digest Vol. 7: Metroid and Kid Icarus by Kurt Kalata
The Secret History of Mac Gaming by Richard Moss

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The Dark SF Bundle

Blurb:

Science fiction has dabbled in utopia before, but never as often as people might think. The early writers' visions of the future were often dire. There was Asimov's crumbling galactic empire in Foundation, or his murder-driven The Caves of Steel with its claustrophobically enclosed city. Philip K. Dick's nightmares took form in print, paranoid horror-like tales of a shifting reality in classics like Ubik or The Man in the High Castle. Richard Matheson's I Am Legend imagined the last man on Earth haunted by vampires.

The writers gathered here have all written some pretty dark stuff in their time, but what I hope you find here is a collection of science fiction tales as fine as any you may wish to encounter here at the start of the new twenties, with all the chaos our reality currently exhibits. This is science fiction with an edge – as science fiction must be, if it is to be relevant! And it comes from some of the top names in the field. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

$5

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Infinity Wars edited by Jonathan Strahan (short stories)
Genocidal Organ by Project Itoh

$20

The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts
The Second Shooter by Nick Mamatas
Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley
Martian Sands by Lavie Tidhar
Plague Birds by Jason Sanford
The Fate of Mice by Susan Palwick

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I'm pretty sure I own the Nancy Kress from a couple of of other bundles, and 2 of the others were in a supermassive humble bundle march last year.

This reminded to have a look at humble books deals, because although they a lot they seem to only send me emails on ones they know I will definitelky not be interested in.

Currently they have Humble Stars of Sci-Fi Summer by Draft2Digital 35 items for $insertlocalpricehere (plus 11 item, 4 item price levels). It says 35 items but it is way more than that since there are many omnibus type books, including a couple of 7 book items. There is some overlap with storybundle bundles as there are a few of the story bungle regulars, including the first 3 of Rusch Diving Universe and Blaze Ward's Science Officer Omnibus. Quite Tempting.