Humble Bundle: "Fierce Women of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror"

[mistressofmuses]

Thanks to silversea who shared this over at booknook!

Against my better judgement, I bought ANOTHER humble bundle...

This one is "Fierce Women of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror," which offers 65 works by female authors writing in genre spaces. It's a pretty widespread timeframe, too: the oldest stuff is I think from the early 60s, spanning up through I think 2020 for the most recent?
(It's also *more* than 65; it's 65 files, but a few of those are sets of 2-5 books.)

I already had the Mira Grant works that were included (a fave author!), though the included titles seem a little weird... Book two of the Parasitology trilogy, the sequel-ish novel to the Newsflesh trilogy, and the novellas set in the Newsflesh world... but including the novellas both individually AND including the book that collected them? I want everyone to read more Mira Grant, but I'm not sure this is a great intro to her work. Though the novella collection, Rise, is worth the price of admission on its own, imo, I don't know if they have the same impact if you haven't read the trilogy already.

But there was something off my wishlist (Wylding Hall, which came up on a couple rec lists that I saw recently), plus a few other books that fall into the "hey, I recognize that! Never got around to reading it!" category, plus a few sci-fi and fantasy classics from the 60s-90s that I might not be likely to pick up at random, but might be good to read! (Especially as I continue trying to read some "classics" of these genres, rather than just recent releases.)
Since I was likely to spend at least $10 or so for the wishlisted book alone, it felt like too good a deal to pass up to get 60-some works for around $20, ha.

But my poor TBR. It's up to 580 books total now, and I KNOW I'm never going to get around to reading the whole thing. :(

Comments

[vriddy]

I was going to have "just a look, self, promise" but the bundle isn't available in my region which is probably for the best XD Sounds like a good haul, though as always good luck with the tbr XD

[mistressofmuses]

I'm sorry the bundle is region-locked! (But also maybe whew, glad you dodged the TBR overload!)

[spikedluv]

Yay for more books? o_O

At least they never go bad! *g*

[mistressofmuses]

Why are there always more books!?

But yes, at least they don't have an expiration date! (Which is probably very, very good.)

[galadhir]

It's funny, I used to never read any women authors, but now I've started I find I am much warier of new-to-me male authors. I don't think I'd risk a bundle like this of all male authors any more.

I hope you find something good in there, 579 books down the road :)

[mistressofmuses]

I think I've probably always read a mix of men and women authors, but I do feel like minus a couple particular ones, the "genre classics" that I always heard about were by men. It's kind of nice to have a batch of stuff I haven't read and otherwise might not have picked up.

I'm sure there'll be at least some winners in there! (...Eventually, haha.)

[omens]

Lol my bestie pointed me toward this bundle and I'm tempted, too :D (She said she's enjoyed a few of Jo Walton books, and I have never read her!)

[mistressofmuses]

I haven't read Jo Walton either! Her stuff sounds interesting, as does some of the rest of the list. I'm looking forward to them! Eventually, lol.

[olivermoss]

You will have content forever!