Peter S. Beagle and Humble Bundle team up to Save the Unicorns

April
19, 2017 – San Francisco, CA:
While
the legendary unicorn may or may not exist, the fate of many of
nature’s most beautiful creatures remains uncertain. Fortunately,
there is still time to both celebrate the unicorn and chip in to save
endangered wildlife. And what better way than through the magical
guidance of our foremost unicorn expert?

Humble
Bundle is partnering with beloved fantasy author Peter
S. Beagle
(THE
LAST UNICORN) to offer unicorn
e-books to protect the wilderness.

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The
Humble
Book Bundle: Save the Unicorns presented by Peter S. Beagle

Available from April 19 – May 3 at

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/save-the-unicorns-book-bundle

The
Humble Book Bundle: Save the Unicorns
presented by Peter S. Beagle
will be
on offer for purchase exclusively through Humble Bundle for a limited
period of two weeks. Proceeds benefit the authors and publishers, as
well as the World Wide Fund for
Nature
and Fauna
& Flora International
. As with
all Humble Bundles, customers choose how much to contribute and how
their purchase dollars are allocated through their innovative
pay-what-you-want approach.

Highlights:

  • The Save the Unicorns bundle consists of
    fifteen unique unicorn e-books
  • Six of the books were created especially and
    exclusively for the bundle
  • Bundle sales proceeds benefit the authors as
    well as diverse wildlife charities
  • Humble Bundle lets bundle purchasers set their
    own price and split their payment as they wish
  • Contributors include bestselling and
    critically-acclaimed authors Peter S. Beagle, Garth Nix, Jane Yolen,
    Patricia A. McKillip, Piers Anthony, Bruce Coville, Steven Boyett,
    Karen Joy Fowler, Stephen R. Donaldson, Alan Dean Foster, and many
    more

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Contents:

  • THE FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF
    UNICORNS, VOLUME 1
  • THE FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF
    UNICORNS, VOLUME 2
  • THE
    UNICORN ANTHOLOGY edited by Peter
    S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman
  • MY
    SON HEYDARI AND THE KARKADANN by
    Peter S. Beagle
  • THE
    TRANSFIGURED HART by Jane Yolen
  • UNICORN
    TRIANGLE by Patricia A. McKillip
  • UNICORN
    MOUNTAIN by Michael Bishop
  • HOMEWARD
    BOUND AND OTHER STORIES by Bruce
    Coville
  • THE
    DRAGON AND THE UNICORN by A. A.
    Attanasio
  • IN
    CALABRIA
    by Peter S. Beagle
  • THE
    DAY OF THE DISSONANCE by Alan
    Dean Foster
  • DREAM
    A LITTLE DREAM: A TALE OF MYTH AND MOONSHINE
    by Piers Anthony and Julie Brady
  • PANDORA
    PARK by Piers Anthony
  • THE
    UNICORN TRADE by Poul and Karen
    Anderson
  • ARIEL
    by Steven R. Boyett

Beagle,
in the midst of a career renaissance, appears in Save the Unicorns as
both author and editor. The bundle features his latest book, IN
CALABRIA, about a family of
unicorns in the mountains of Italy and the man they’ve chosen to
look after them. Beagle also co-edited the brand-new THE
UNICORN ANTHOLOGY, and his
Persian unicorn fantasy “My Son Heydari and the Karkadann,”
published here for the very first time.

Save
the Unicorns contains fifteen titles, with six new e-books created
specifically for the bundle. Originals include two new anthologies
edited by Gordon Van Gelder, the long-term, expert editor of FANTASY
& SCIENCE FICTION. Three
stories are collected from The Unicorn Chronicles by the bestselling
children’s author Bruce Coville. Much-adored fantasist Patricia A.
McKillip (THE
RIDDLE-MASTER OF HED) put forward
her original tribute story to THE
LAST UNICORN, “Unicorn
Triangle.”  

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The
bundle also features classics such as Steven R. Boyett’s famous
novel, ARIEL,
in which a unicorn and young boy wander a post-apocalyptic landscape
to which magic has returned. The Arthurian mash-up THE
DRAGON AND THE UNICORN by
A. A. Attanasio offers  a cosmic addition to unicorn lore. Piers
Anthony’s PANDORA
PARK is a
wild adventure packed with magical powers, dragons, talking unicorns,
and candy trees.


About
Peter S. Beagle

Peter
S. Beagle is the internationally-bestselling author of numerous
classic fantasy novels and short stories, including
A FINE & PRIVATE PLACE, THE LAST UNICORN, TAMSIN, THE INNKEEPER’S
SONG, THE LINE BETWEEN, SUMMERLONG,
and IN
CALABRIA. He is the editor
of THE
SECRET HISTORY OF FANTASY
and the
co-editor of THE
URBAN FANTASY ANTHOLOGY
and
THE
NEW VOICES OF FANTASY

(forthcoming).
Beagle published his first novel, A
FINE & PRIVATE PLACE, at
nineteen, and his epic follow-up, THE
LAST UNICORN, has been made into
an animated film, a stage play, and a graphic novel. Beagle is the
recipient of the Hugo, Nebula, Mythopoeic, and Locus awards, the
Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, the World Fantasy Life Achievement
Award and the Inkpot Award from Comic-Con. Beagle lives in Richmond,
California, where he is working on too many projects to even begin to
name.

About
Humble Bundle

Humble
Bundle sells digital content through its pay-what-you-want bundle
promotions and the Humble Store. When purchasing a bundle, customers
choose how much they want to pay and decide where their money
goes—between the content creators, charity, and Humble Bundle.
Since the company’s launch in 2010, Humble Bundle has raised more
than $96 million through the support of its community for a wide
range of charities, providing aid for people across the world. For
more information, please visit https://www.humblebundle.com.