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FREE SHORT STORY: Minotaur, a story of alien abduction. https://youtu.be/t-6Ih7iZMaQ?si=IeU9-liKHudabFaw

#bookstodon #audiobook #scifi @books @bookstodon

64d

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.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SFF #SciFi #YoungAdult

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“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/

#BackToTheFuture #BTTF #Movies #MichaelJFox #ChristopherLloyd #Cinemastodon #FilmMastodon #Quotes #Quote #SciFi

Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown and Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly from Back to The Future. Doc is holding a large controller in his hands as they are both staring in front of them in awe.

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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

Child on floor reading books at Green Apple Books in San Francisco. Surrounded by books in the children's illustrated book section.

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58d

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.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SciFi

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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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!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1083479

#scifi #ScienceFiction #LabourRights

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“[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

#Scottish #literature #scifi #Victorian #19thcentury

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https://theconversation.com/remembering-the-lost-father-of-american-science-fiction-and-his-scottish-roots-78968

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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.

@bookstodon
#fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks

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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An image for the 2025 Smashwords End of Year Sale, which is 25%-100% off for participating titles and runs from December 8th throughg January 1st.

In the lower right corner is a woman with dark hair and heavy clothes for the cold, reading a book.

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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!

#Scifi #Adventure #Bookstodon #ActionAdventure #eBook

The cover for Death In Transit by Jall Barret over a starfield with the following features highlighted:

* Strangers thrown together
* Cramped travel accommodations
* Space opera
* Friendly banter
* Adventure
* Solving problems
* Kindle, Kobo, Smashwords, and more!

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I couldn't resist doing some analysis of ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.

How much more likely were people to vote for books because they had read them in recent memory (recency bias)? You would expect that good books are spread out evenly across the years, but it's hard to remember books that you read many years ago! Turns out there was an even spread of books across 2000-2019. But there were 40% more books than expected from 2020-2024. (See first graph.)

Were newer books more likely to be lower down the list? I thought this might be lkely because votes for recently read books might spread out more. But that wasn't completely true. The bottom 40 of the list did lean new, but so did the top 20. (See second graph.)
How diverse were the authors on the list? Not very! Only 22 of the books were by authors with diverse backgrounds, by which I mean non-white or not hetero-normative. The top 20 were the least diverse, but it was pretty even across the range. Probably not surprising - people might connect most strongly with books that speak to their own experience. Would be fascinating to see more demographic info on the voters.
Most books were by authors from Australia (35), the USA (31), the UK (17) and Ireland (7). Ireland seemed to punch above its weight. New Zealand only had one author! (Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz).

There were very few non-fiction books, especially if you exclude memoirs and true crime. I count 4: Dark Emu, Stasiland, Sapiens and A Short History of Nearly Everything. And yet non-fiction accounts for something like 40% of book sales. I wonder if that is because a non-fiction book tends to focus on a particular subject, which would have less widespread appeal. It could also be that the type of people who vote in this sort of poll are book nerds, and book nerds mostly read fiction.

As a keen #fantasy & #scifi reader, I was disappointed. Project Hail Mary is the only full-blown scifi, but I wouldn't say it is a good representation of the genre. There is Hunger Games and Harry Potter, but both are young adult. The others (Cloud Atlas, Station Eleven, Piranesi, Never Let Me Go) feel borderline (I've not read the last two).
How did the list compare with my own ratings? I've read 57 of the 100 books, and I did rate higher books better, but the relationship was very weak. (See third graph.)

Highest ranked book that I didn't really like: #12. Where The Crawdads Sing. (Runner up The Dry.)
Lowest ranked book that I really liked: #86. Cloud Atlas
Highest ranked book I'd never heard of: #9. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

I've got 43 books to catch up on in the next few years, plus the favourites as voted by my friends. Never short a good book!

#Top100Books #ABCRN #RadioNational #Books #Bookstodon

Number of books in each 5 year period. Recency bias only apparent for the last 5 years.

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Average publishing year for each quintile. Newer books tend to be lower down the list except for the top 20.

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My average rating by quintile. In general I rated higher books better.

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FREE SHORT STORY! Saving Alan Idle, a story about a sentient computer program that previously appeared in Escape Pod. https://youtu.be/A7mEXacgd08?si=qwUY33Y2veBcgaTW

#bookstodon #scifi #shortstory @books @Books@mstdn.social @bookstodon

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读过 The Left Hand of Darkness 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
真是一款适合混邪同人女的abo

#scifi

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50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1789471

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…

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks

(Left) The cover of Starwitch, by Owen Tyme.

In the background is a red, orange and white nebula.

In the foreground is a line drawing of a red spotted newt, in white. The lines of the newt are outlined in black, to help it stand out. The interior is red, with an appearance similar to stained glass.

(Right) In the background is a red and orange galaxy, with a blue core, which bears a resemblance to an eye. It has the following text over it:

“First you turn my dog against me, then you steal my ship’s core? What’s next, pulling my teeth?”

“We didn’t ask for this! You attacked us! Why don’t you just let us go?”

“I might as well cover myself in tartar sauce, then go swimming in shark infested waters! My lieutenants would tear me to shreds, just the same!”

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

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50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1821081

The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She’s livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…

@bookstodon #author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks

(Left) The cover of Legacy of Newts, by Owen Tyme.

In the background dawn, as seen from space, above a blue world.

In the foreground is a line drawing of a red spotted newt, in white. The lines of the newt are outlined in black, to help it stand out. The interior of the line drawing has been filled with the image of a spiral galaxy in red, orange and yellow, with a blue color that shades to white at the center, which lines up with the newt's head. The galaxy almost looks like fire.

(Right) The background is a blue and orange nebula, with the following text over it:

“You gotta be real strong, real bright, real quick, or real lucky to survive drawing *attention*. Which are you?”

“I’m quick, Amelia is bright, Marta is strong and all three of us have been lucky, after a fashion: if we didn’t have bad luck, then I suppose we wouldn’t have any luck at all.”

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

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229d

Salut ! Nouvelle #introduction

Je suis Adrian, nouveau au #Quebec.
J’ai exactement 24 à 28 ans, et je suis ( @qaqelol ❤️)

Je suis #dev, côté backend, infra et devops. Je parle sans arrêt d’Elixir mais je fais d’autres trucs parfois promis :D

Autrement, je parle de
- #gaming
- #musique
- #lecture ( #scifi et #fantasy)
- télé (on regarde #StarTrek DeepSpace 9 en ce moment)
- #jdr en tant que forever GM (mais j’aime ça)

Je toot + en français mais je boost beaucoup d’anglais :P

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Chapter 22 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole and Krikor fight, bare-handed. Nicole has the advantages of speed and acrobatic training, while the ogre has raw strength.

As she predicted, the fight is relatively easy for Nicole, but the consequences are not and never will be...

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #actionadventure #fiction #fairies #webseries

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58d

*The Biggest Little Bill* - part tech satire, part civic noir - begins today!

Bill Hoppern is a Reno-area planner who just wanted to see his community grow. Everything was going fine until he finds himself up against a data-center boom, a wall of doublespeak, and his own middle age.

One for those bringing a conscience and a clipboard to the fight.

Read Part 1: "The Brushoff" now, with new scenes added every day this week. https://matthewreinbold.com/2025/10/27/BiggestLittleBill-01

#amWriting #ai #scifi #fiction #shortstory

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57d

https://communitymedia.video/w/h1jdbHm8xTj5VEDuCWAbBW
#lispyGopherClimate #technology #podcast #weekly

featuring @kentpitman @ramin_hal9001 @jns
Longterm #reliability , the #climateCrisis , technology and knowledge

Kent has found the source to his Cross referenced editing facility from Open University #lisp #lispm example.

#scifi #books with this theme? Ending of Cats Cradle?

On the #art side check, @prahou 's #unix_surrealism, https://photronic.art

Happy #lambdaMOO year! 35 years! https://lambda.moo.mud.org as always.

LISPY GOPHER SHOW banner, 000UTC anonradio.net
wading through wreckage

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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?

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books

(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) Text over a background of a woman in a parka standing near the exit of an ice cave.

The text lists traits of the woman from the cover, including green check marks and red 'x' marks, to mark qualities she does and does not possess:

✓ Amazing reflexes
✓ Regeneration
✓ Telepathy
✓ Incredible persistence

x Loving sister
x Sanity
x Any measure of mercy
x Stoppable

Oh, dear…

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

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50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1899894

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 it gave her. She’s unable to plot a course home, but desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever…

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks

(Left) The cover of The Next Horizon, by Owen Tyme.

The black silhouette of a man and woman hugging and kissing. The woman has lifted one leg, while the man leans toward her. They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side. The background in the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heat shape that surrounds the kissing couple. Everything is in shades of blue.

(Right) Deep space, displaying the edge of an orange and blue gaseous cloud from a nebula, while most of the stars appear golden in color. Floating in space is a square, red leather book with the image of a newt stamped on the cover. Over the top of everything is the following text:

“You can back down and cooperate, right now, or Marta will hit you so hard, you should reach a tenth the speed of light…”

“No one will ever find you again, but even if someone does, there’s no way they’ll have the capacity to safely slow you down, before you’re gone to them!”

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

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On Halloween, I released a new short film, Lajok The Night Dancer. ICYMI, here it is again, a revenge fantasy where dance, instead of guns or karate, enables the main character to get justice. It's based on the most popular character in Ugandan mythology. This is a small thread about the making of this film and you can enjoy it free on my #PeerTube channel @dilmandila

https://tv.dilstories.com/w/pvjR9o3oNJMBLHHUm9kpqW

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#film #sff #scifi #blender #b3d #vfx #horror #monsterdon

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Chapter 41 of The Next Horizon is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

On their way south, the Blackwells stop in Macclesfield and Mrs. Maccle cries with joy. The Maccles go with them.

Amelia follows the path she once took to reach Dugaria, noting how the outlying villages have been destroyed, with holes left in buildings by her spring-gonnes...

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #actionadventure #fiction #webseries

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Ebook 25% off on Itch.io: https://owentyme.itch.io/legacy-of-newts
Also in other stores: https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts

The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She's livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books #itchio #sale

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I'm a fan of 4A games and the Metro franchise, but I've never read the books. Finally, now I have one, I've wanted to read it for a long time, because I really love the Ukrainian game Metro. But first I'll read The Murderbot Diaries books, and then Metro.

#books #scifi #scifibooks

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@bookstodon I just discovered The Library Ladder https://m.youtube.com/c/thelibraryladder
A youtuber (also with a substack) talking about, mostly but not exclusively, SFF authors and books. Knowledgeable and calm, pretty nice to listen to. A little different from many other YouTubers.

Do you have any suggestions for interesting people talking or writing about Science fiction or Fantasy?
#bookstodon #SciFi #Fantasy

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