The fabulous Ann & Jeff VanderMeer have a thing going over at StoryBundle. It is a collection of works that they have been involved in, and which will make up one of those bundle things that people seem so obsessed with these days. I haven’t really caught up with this trend yet, but Ann & Jeff sent me the bundle as a holiday present (because they are lovely people) and anyway it is an excuse to run this gorgeous piece of art by Ivica Stevanovic which forms the cover of one of the included titles.

The bundle is notable to me because it contains a lot of translated fiction. In particular it includes the fabulous Leena Krohn’s Collected Fiction (in two volumes). Krohn is one of Finland’s finest writers and has a deeply weird imagination. As I understand it, the two volumes contain everything of hers that it available in English. That’s a bundle in itself.

Then again, there’s also The Best of Spanish Steampunk, and there’s The Eisenberg Constant by German writer, Eugen Egner, which The Times compared to Kafka and Monty Python. The English language material contains Clarkesworld: Year 6, and the World Fantasy Award winning Crandolin from the talented Anna Tambour.

And of course there is The Bestiary, which includes stories by Karen Lord, Rochita Loenin-Ruiz, Cat Valente, Karin Tidbeck, Vandana Singh, China Miéville and many others.

Go ye forth and bundle, people (or whatever the appropriate verb is).