Amplitudes is out and available! I have a story in this! The feminine aspect of the Holy One fucks a closeted trans woman! There are lots of other good stories too! Read it!
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770919/amplitudes-by-lee-mandelo/
We're so happy to announce that "Final Lap" by @Jess_Alter is now out in print - but even better, we worked with her to get a *direct from distributor* link to give folks a big discount off the cover price.
Such a great hopepunk sci-fi story about friendship through adversity, found families, and determination. All set against the backdrop of the incredible world Jessica Alter designed for our games.
Check it out:
https://blog.longplay.games/final-lap-now-in-print/
Now for something completely different: a novel
Sometimes I take a break from writing programs to make art to write English to make art. Out Oct 1st: Atraxian Blue. Space opera. Our hero is an artist (usually).
Buy it, get it from the library, or just drop me a line. Ebook/print (link). It's about freedom & friendship & forging your own path. Perhaps not your cup of tea, and it has flaws, but I am frightfully proud of myself for making it.
Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud is the most ultra-realistic science fiction I've ever read. It is dated and very white-man-British biased, but the insight it provides into the machinations of the government and academia of the day (circa 1957) is fascinating.
https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=the-black-cloud
Do you want to hear a story about a robot caregiver and his cancer-stricken owner? My audiobook narrator said this story made him cry “A LOT.”
https://youtu.be/A_Dm3IHi6KY?si=R8dq1SkldnA3DJY2
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Silas Morlock is a book written by a reader for readers to read about readers reading, by Mark Cantrell. Despite a somewhat silly underpinning, it takes itself so seriously that the reader will find themselves hooked, and in the end it turns out to be an entertaining romp over well-worn science fiction tropes, with plenty of action.
https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=silas-morlock
Palisade Green, sequel to Atraxian Blue available as ebook https://books2read.com/u/3RrNwn or print https://books2read.com/u/m0XB6y
Renny thought he'd escaped from his father. He thought he had his addiction under control. Then a bot turns up on his doorstep with a message that changes everything.
#GardnerDozois 's yearly #SciFi collections are slowly taking over my bookshelf. This one from 1991 starts extremely strongly with Nancy Kress's 'Beggars in Spain', which I believe she later reworked into her most well known novel. She really is the best writer in SF at handling themes of class and wealth inequality I think. Other highlights are by Alexander Jablokov, Geoffrey A. Landis, Rick Shelley, and two Greg Egan stories I already own in his Axiomatic collection. #Bookstodon @bookstodon
It's here!! THE SECRET OF THE SAPPHIRE SENTINEL is now available! Written by me as J. Dianne Dotson, this is the sequel to my Nebula & BSFA finalist novel, THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN. Order from your favorite bookseller!
#scifi #fantasy #sff #newbooks #books
https://jendiagammon.com/the-secret-of-the-sapphire-sentinel/
I've got a new patron-only post up on Patreon! Want to influence the future of my release schedule? Pledges start at $1USD/month, which includes free copies of two short ebooks (with more to come!)
FREE SHORT STORY: Minotaur, a story of alien abduction. https://youtu.be/t-6Ih7iZMaQ?si=IeU9-liKHudabFaw
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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The announcement out of AwesomeCon has come.
Nathan Fillion and Crew Reunite for ‘Firefly’ Animated Series
https://www.thetvcave.com/post/firefly-animated-series-what-we-know
"Grab your brown coats and a very expensive bottle of Mudder’s Milk, because the impossible just happened. After two decades of "maybe next year" and enough fan petitions to paper the entire Verse, Nathan Fillion has finally stopped teasing us on Instagram and dropped the big one: a Firefly animated series is officially in advanced development."
The series takes place between the original TV series and Serenity, the film.
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finished reading Skyward Flight: The Collection: Sunreach / ReDawn / Evershore 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson.
While the hero of the series is lost in the Nowhere, her fellow pilots get on with being awesome and taking the fight to the oppressors. Decent YA fare with lots of dogfights, light humour and a little romance. The hyperslugs are adorable.
“We live in a bully culture right now. We have bullies everywhere — you don’t need me to point the finger at who, but there are all these bullies. In this movie, Biff is a bully. Time is a bully. For me personally, Parkinson’s is a bully. And it’s all about how you stand up to them and the resolve that you take into the fight with them. It’s about your resilience and your courage. I think there’s a lot to that right now, I think a lot of people are responding to the movie because it strikes chords they wouldn’t otherwise recognise.” - Michael J. Fox
'Back To The Future At 40: Michael J Fox And Christopher Lloyd On Why It Still Resonates' 🔗 https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/back-to-the-future-40-michael-j-fox-christopher-lloyd-interview/
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Chapter 30 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city
Nicole meets the ambassador from the Eastern Coalition and the get along just like a raging inferno consuming a house full of people...
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Remember lying on the floor reading? I read science fiction and went to other worlds in my mind.
My first was The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet written by Eleanor Cameron in 1954.
It's set in Pacific Grove California & on Basidium, a tiny habitable moon of Earth, invisible from the planet in its orbit 50,000 miles away.
I need to get back to those worlds.
Photo from inside Green Apple Books in #SanFrancisco #SciFi #Books
@charliejane @annaleen @cstross @scalzi @pluralistic
finished reading The Cruel Stars 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by John Birmingham.
Action space opera that doesn't take itself too seriously. Humanity has become a diverse species dangerously dependent on digital & genomic enhancement - a zealous puritan strain plans to change that. A few too many characters to begin with - none of them I connected with, and many of whom die - but they come together nicely.
My novelette All Rights Reserved is available now for 50% off in the SmashWords End-of-Year Sale! An uploaded consciousness is appropriated as intellectual property and enslaved in a far-future corporate dystopia. If that sounds like your jam, it's going for only $0.99USD!
“[Milne’s] cryogenics story, ‘Ten Thousand Years in Ice’, in which a survivor from an ancient advanced civilisation is revived in the present, unintentionally became one of science fiction’s great literary hoaxes”
Robert Duncan Milne (1844–1899) was born #OTD, 7 June, in Cupar, Fife. He emigrated to the USA & became America’s first full-time writer of #sciencefiction
Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon
Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics and piloting it gave her. She’s left unable to plot a direct course home. She’s desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever and The Book is in her way…
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New release coming! Ebook available June 12 and paperback on June 19.
https://books2read.com/PrincessOfKurg
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50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1733647
Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, a great wizard, 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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@bookstodon A medical emergency leaves the passengers of the Scampering Pete fending for themselves! They face pirates, mechanical issues, and more in Death In Transit!
Available on Amazon and more!
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