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Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.

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The ad flyer for the series The Wizard's Scion.

(Background) View of a planet from space.

(Top Center) A black flying saucer surrounded by this text:
Trolls, boogeymen and witches, oh my!
Just another day for a young wizard.

(Top Left) The cover of Troll Song displays a woman in battered, muddy armor with her two swords crossed against the neck of a dwarf.

(Lower Left) The cover of Forgotten Legends displays a child reading in bed as a black, smoky monster with red eyes peeks out from under the bed.

(Lower Center Left) The cover of The Third Wish displays a wizard on top of a mountain, looking to the sunset, over a city of sky scrapers that have plants growing on them. In his shadow is the red eyed creature from Forgotten Legends.

(Lower Center Right) The cover of Dark Moon displays a witch and wizard fighting back to back, holding pistols, while objects fall around them, with the moon behind their heads.

(Lower Right) The cover of The Inverted Glass displays a line art hourglass with a white figure in black sand at the bottom, with a black figure in white sand upside-down in the top. Balanced on a scale are a heart and a feather.

(Upper Right) The cover of The Wizard's Scion: The Complete Series displays several figures in silhouette representing the main characters, as they traverse a wormhole. Behind them is a red-eyed octopus.

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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/StoneProphet

Nicole seeks to collect the missing fragments of the magical city of Kurg from her home world, but the remaining pieces were deactivated and are hard to find. Luckily, she just found the first piece of the Seventh Sage, an ancient stone man that knows the future, which she hopes knows where to find them.

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(Left) The cover of Stone Prophet, by Owen Tyme.

At the center is a hexagonal coin with a golden appearance,. That bears a watercolor painting of a woman's face, which drips paint as if it were fresh.

Following the edges of the coin, the background is divided by a spiral of black lines into six images representing vital pieces of the titular stone prophet.

Upper right is an attractive woman with blue eyes and blond hair that's almost white. She stands in place of Memory.

Right is an eye with a blue iris surrounded by blue skin and golden decorations, representing Vision.

Lower right is a hooded woman in darkness, partially illuminated by a purple triangle that magically restrains her. She is Skill.

Lower left is a heart made of and resting in blue sand, with yellow light inside. That shines through cracks, hinting at fragility. This is Emotion.

Left is a gray sphere covered in black zeros and ones. More zeros and ones lay over the top, in blurred white. This is Reason.

Upper Left is a brass statue of justice, wearing a robe and blindfold. She holds a sword and scales. Behind her are the stars of space. This is Heart.

(Right) The same attractive woman from the upper right section of the cover, looking right at the viewer. The following quote frames her face, above and below:

“Does the Leader make the hard choices, or do the hard choices make the Leader?”

“Will she do what must be done, for the good of all?”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/StoneProphet

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118d

I've finished: Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

This was the 40th anniversary edition of Woman on the Edge of Time and I was listening to it on it's 50th anniversary.

What amazed me was how many of the social and environmental ideals proposed for a better future are the same ones I see today.

So many of the progressive ideas we are fighting for today were already proposed more than 50 years ago and the progress is so slow, even going backwards in the past decade.

I was especially intrigued by the introduction of diverse pronouns in a 1976 novel, an idea I only became aware of in the past decade or so through contemporary works of SF&F.

I loved the ending and how it elevates Connie's role as more than just a tourist visiting from the bad old days.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d291fbda-e6c3-40e7-91d1-f86c8be8cf1e

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#TimeTravel #ScienceFiction #SocialJustice #amReading #bookstodon #AudioBooks

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118d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TymeStarwitch
Audiobook: https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch

The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…

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117d

The Epilogue of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole greets new arrivals to the city, among which is Sergeant Major Edwin Harris, the very same human that Candleflash was forced to rely on for survival, in a dangerous rainforest...

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In these times of despair, here is a hopeful story - “A New Faith”.

Available to read online or download (EPUB and PDF) for free at: https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

#bookstodon #books #book #novel #story #fiction #hopepunk #solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #mystery #thriller #detective #women #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #survival #adaptation #migration #immigration #indie #indieauthor #clifi #scifi

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108d

Book Promotion: Sci-Fi & Fantasy books on Kindle Unlimited

A collection of 44 #books for you to read free on KU. My book is DRM-free.

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108d

Just received my contributor’s copy of “Chinese Science Fiction in Translation and Its World Impact: Connecting Futures”! This is a wide-ranging volume on the translation, adaptation, and reception of Chinese SF, with some excellent people offering their insights, so please give it a look.

My chapter is titled “Future without Tense? Time and Tense in the Translation of Chinese SF” and focuses on a comparison of the use of grammatical tense in the English and Finnish translations of three SF short stories written by Xia Jia, Chen Qiufan, and Regina Kanyu Wang. I also briefly discuss tense and estrangement more generally in English translations of Chinese SF, with reference to the theoretical conceptualizations of Brian McHale and Simon Spiegel.

#ChineseStudies #ChineseLiterature #Translation #TranslationStudies #ScienceFiction #SFStudies #SpeculativeFiction #LiteraryStudies #LiteraryScholarship #AcademicChatter #Tutkijahommat

"Chinese Science Fiction in Translation and Its World Impact: Connecting Futures", edited by Yiqing Gu, Yun Wu, and Riccardo Moratto, with a dark blue cover with thin white lines forming geometrical shapes like in a mechanical diagram

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107d

Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, #kindle

A collection of 176 #books for you to read free on #KU. My book is DRM-free.

#spaceship #magic #aliens #legendary #fedibookfair #boost #amreading #writing #dwarfs #readers #rogue #heroes #bookwyrm #reading #goodbooks #space #time #dwarves #dystopia #sorcery #monsters #futurism #planets #sciencefiction #science #scifi #writing #young #newadults #teen #teens #ya #books #booktoot #booksky #bookfunnel #bookstagram @bookstodon

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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.

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(Left) The cover of Jigsaw City, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a futuristic city of sky scrapers covered in greenery, with water ways in place of some streets. The background has been divided by dark lines that cut it up, into a jigsaw puzzle.

The foreground is a hexagonal coin with an indentation in the center that follows the same shape, with raised lines forming a hexagram in the center, which has a smaller one turned at a ninety-degree angle inside the hexagon at the center of it. The smaller hexagram has another inside it, a pattern that repeats until the lines become so fine and indistinct, they blend together.

(Right) There's a pool of lava at the base of a rocky slope, with some sharp rocks sticking upward out of it and the following text over the top:

“I’m immune to heat and fire. I can easily carry and protect one of you…”

“Ye’d need to deliver an army to make a difference, not one person!”

“I *am* an army.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

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106d

I've finished: BadAsstronauts by Grady Hendrix

A wonderful novella about a southern town crowdsourcing a space mission to rescue a local astronaut who was abandoned on the dying ISS.

It was a bit strange to see a redneck community embody progressive anarchist ideas. It made me think about the intersection between libertarian and anarchist ideals of self reliance.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/64457329-eab0-4771-b210-18b3f9903212

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#ScienceFiction #CrowdSourcing #nasa #anarchist

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106d

Book Promotion: First #book in a series on #Kindle Unlimited

A collection of 107 #books for you. My book is DRM-free.

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105d

A Review of Afterglow - Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-afterglow-climate-fiction-for-future-ancestors/

#SolarPunk #HopePunk #Books #ScienceFiction #LGBTQ

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Book cover for Afterglow - Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors by Grist. Image on cover is a drawing of an alien with a small, curled snout who is holding a shovel and standing on a pink, blue, and yellow surface that seems to have vegetation of those colours, too.

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Trans/Port, an anthology of queer speculative fiction featuring my trans cyberpunk story "Conversion", is now available for preorder! It's releasing July 1st, and is on sale for $1.99 until July 8th, so reserve your copy now!

https://draft2digital.com/book/4305329

#SciFi #ScienceFiction #Queer #Trans

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79d

PictCon 2
17 October 2026, Perth, Scotland: £6–£30

A Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention for everyone who reads, writes and watches

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pictcon2-tickets-1794793438489

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #fantasy #scifi #SFF #convention #specfic #speculativefiction

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Hive Mind: Looking for a sci-fi book read in the mid-'60s. Takes place in a moon colony run by a large corporation. Murders are happening & no one can find the murderer. A detective is brought up from Earth to assist. He is blind & has a "birth defect" that allows him to see people as strange, colorful geometric objects, which leads to the answer. Need author & title.

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*Please Boost*

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101d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TrollSong

Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?

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(Left) The cover of Troll Song, by Owen Tyme, Illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

There's a woman in mud spattered white, leather armor crossing a pair of short swords against the neck of a terrified, shirtless dwarf.

The woman has white hair and a darker skin tone on the left side of her face. Her left eye is green and her right eye is blue.

The dwarf's hair and beard are blond.

The background is a green forest, with some flowers among the tall grass.

(Right) The background is a snow-covered forest, with a pair of dark silhouettes in it, one small and the other large, like a giant. The smaller silhouette is of a young woman walking away and the interior is filled with musical symbols, in green, white and two shades of blue. The larger silhouette is a woman wielding two swords and the interior is full of blood spatter. The larger one appears to be chasing the smaller one.

The following text is laid over the scene:

“I can’t die until Lyra takes her last breath! She’ll regret betraying her sisters!”

“There’s no price I won’t pay to see that happen, no pain I won’t endure and I’d sacrifice the whole world to seal her fate!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TrollSong

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101d

RE: https://mas.to/@nnedi/116675932991239833

Yoo hoo, @bookstodon! I highly recommend both of these books by one of my favorite authors! #bookstodon #books #SciFi #ScienceFiction

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101d

A la recherche de recommandations !

Je suis à la recherche de livres de l'imaginaire écrit-es par des femmes et non-binaires d'origine iranienne et/ou se passant dans un univers inspiré par la Perse.

Notamment pour avoir de quoi lire lors d'une randonnée de plusieurs jours avec pas mal de temps pour se poser.

En Français ou Anglais. Par contre, je ne lis par le Farsi.

#sciencefiction #fantasy #fantastique #SFFF #mastobook

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81d

Just starting out: need a reading order for #TerryPratchett.

I've read Tiffany Aching, but I keep eyeing his other stuff & not really sure where to start.

#ScienceFiction #SciFi

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108d

Fresh newsletter incoming in one week! Want to catch up on past missives? Trawl the archive to sample the mini-essays or book and game recs, then sign up to get a free ebook delivered hot and ready!

https://subscribepage.io/IrMXIq

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105d

My newest audio dispatch, "For The One Who Has Everything", is up on Patreon and AVAILABLE TO ALL! Consider it a free sample of what you get with a Neo-Human pledge. Enjoy, and don't forget to share if you liked it!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/for-one-who-has-159531571

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