scifi

111d

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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111d

@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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73d

Chapter 38 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

With most of the city evacuated, Nicole tries to convince Dalmas to leave, and eventually convinces him to accept being told why via telepathy.

She shares her plan and the dwarf leaves, then Nicole radios Olyna, to continue the hostage negotiations...

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

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113d

My short ebook Tea for Two is available for sale as of now! For over two centuries, Anna Kerroway has refused to upload her consciousness to the Matrioshka Brain. But with the Earth scheduled for demolition, it seems that now she has to... or does she?

https://books2read.com/u/boJkEL

#SciFi #ScienceFiction

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77d

Finished: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey.

Wow, that was a ride. I've posted before about having a hard time finding horror or thrillers that don't feel like their twists are predictable.

This is a sci fi thriller that didn't suffer from that problem at all. The twists are very good. I really enjoyed it. It was my book club suggestion so I'm curious what folks will think when we meet next week!

#SciFi #Bookstodon #Books @bookstodon #TheEchoWife

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107d

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

On a world long thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Hasty research links the full moon and catastrophe, revealing the existence of the so-called 'Harbingers of Doom', creatures from the moon that harvest souls. Can everyone survive or will they become part of the dark harvest?

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

(Left) The cover of dark moon, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

In the foreground, a redheaded witch and a dark haired wizard fight back to back, holding some rather large pistols. The witch is in a black dress and the wizard is in a black robe with golden decorations. Both looked a bit purple, due to the lighting. The witch's hair blows on the wind and she wears a necklace of bone beads.

Behind them, there's dust, mist and fog lit by twilight as a moon rises, framing their heads. Objects that look like shooting stars fall from the moon and there's a few visible impacts.

(Right) A poem, in two parts, on a background of the stars of space, with a moon between the two parts:

Witch and wizard fight,
The wizard thinks he’s right.
The grudge match ends,
But not quite as friends.
Survive the night they must,
Lest all the world be dust.

Prophesy foretold in stone,
Of the moon no one had known.
‘Harbingers of Doom’ harvest souls,
For the sake of their own goals.
A kingdom dead and long past
Collecting that it might rise at last.

Between the two halves of the poem is Owen Tyme's publishing mark, the yin and yang symbol that has the dots of white and black replaced with hourglasses.

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

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106d

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

After encountering the worst life has to offer, including the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.

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

(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme.

The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space.

The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline.

At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand.

The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather.

(Right Background) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color.

(Right Foreground) She sacrificed her life,
To save everyone from strife.
Feather against the heart,
Not knowing does really smart.

The necromancer calls,
And it really galls.
Dead, but not forgotten,
She thinks the necromancer’s rotten.

Judgment day delayed,
So she could use her blade.
In agony of soul,
Good or evil is this troll?

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

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115d

COVER REVEAL! 🚀📷 We are delighted to unveil SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL, a #scifi #romance novelette by award-winning author P.A. Cornell! Cover art by Kim Herbst! Launching February 3, 2026. Read all about this delightful book: https://www.starsandsabers.com/2025/10/30/cover-reveal-for-shoeshine-boy-cigarette-girl-by-p-a-cornell/
#books #scifi #romance #scifiromance #2026books

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107d

FREE SHORT STORY! https://youtu.be/SWfiY4wkEIU?si=SIyL_EWLPYrXpzU0

(Whole body transplants.)

#scifi #shortfiction #audio @books @bookstodon

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108d

Chapter 23 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole retrieves the next piece of the Seventh Sage, then takes a moment to deal with her feelings, in hr quarters.

As she cries about the lives she's taken, the Life Giver appears beside her...

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

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1y

Their only hope. #grickledoodle #starwars #thering #horror #scifi #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of Luke Skywalker watching R2D2 play a holographic recording of the girl from The Ring as C3PO is panicking and saying "Oh my GOD! Turn it off R2! Turn it OFF!"

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106d

Four stars:

Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr (1938) is the short story that inspired The Thing. It also feels like an influence for T. Kingfisher's third Sworn Soldier novella, What Stalks the Deep (2025), although it isn't mentioned in her afterword (while At the Mountains of Madness is).

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_11/who_goes_there.html

#bookstodon
@bookstodon #ShortStory #scifi #horror

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108d

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

Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, to improve their place in history, but Levi Jacobs, stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will the time travelers kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?

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

(Left) The cover of The Third Wish, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

A wizard in a black robe that glitters with hints of gold stands on a mountain and looks down at a city of sky scrapers covered in greenery. In his shadow lurks a creature with glowing red eyes.

In the background, the sun is setting and stars are becoming visible.

(Right Background) A table prepared for cooking, including some chopped green vegetables and a bowl of grated cheese.

(Right Foreground) Loosely mix the following in a bowl:
1 deposed prince
1 spy/scientist
1 spy/wizard
2 troll serial killers
1 alien pirate
Hatred of the current timeline
1 time machine

In separate bowl, place:
1 young wizard (bottom of bowl)
Weight of the World (on top)

Apply downward pressure to weight of world.
Add contents of first bowl.
Observe at safe distance.

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

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1y

I #AmReading Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/7e8262d9-508e-478f-bbd4-21434d4d1b2f

#scifi #AdrianTchaikovsky

Book cover for Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It features a broken cylindrical ship in space, with another ship flying nearby. In the distance there is a red planet with the light flare of a star peaking out around its edge. The starfield also includes patches of blue and red colored clouds of star dust.

There is a badge on the cover which notes the previous book, Children of Time, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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106d

Chapter 24 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole faces a most difficult challenge: politics.

The Heart Forge council refuses her request to visit the old penal colony, leading to an angry outburst in the bridge of Jigsaw City.

She decides to visit with the council, in person, and she brings Ogomid, who terrifies them...

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

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1y

As a storyteller, process has the following principles:

- Be kind
- Respect the reader by telling stories with integrity and authenticity
- Create dual-control universes where my readers’ imagination can play as much as mine does

To help introduce myself, I'm giving away free short scifi stories. Click below, pick one out for you:

https://inkican.com/free-smashwords-short-stories-hot-scifi-summer/ #sciencefiction #freebooks #ebooks #Smashwords #summer #summerreading #scifi #cyberpunk #introduction #introductions

Short Stories - Free - Smashwords

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1y

More special events on the #Fediverse & Bluesky 🦋#WatchPartyCalendar

JULY 19-25, 2024 📅

Look for schedule changes 👀

🔗details & updates: http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties All times Eastern

#scifi #Westerns #comedy #Music #Horror #SharkWeek #kaiju #Mysteries #Action #Movies #TVseries #ChristmasInJuly 🎄 #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

Thanks, hosts!👏🏽
@rsmon77 @MatthewTitus88 @culturalgutter @FabULiz @analgesicsleep @noirdame @JohnnyDoesntCare
@MirrorAyako @Taweret @revmagdalen @lilymarswrites

details & updates: http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties

details & updates: http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties

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72d

@bookstodon In New Names, Old Crimes, the crew of the Scampering Pete must solve the mystery of the disappearances on Chewa Fal. Buy the adventure today!

Available on Amazon and many more!

#IndieAuthor #SciFi #Adventure #ActionAdventure

The cover of Vay Ideal Book 2: New Names, Old Crimes by Jall Barret. On the cover, a red, metallic, rectangular ship flies high in the sky outside a walled city at dusk. Aurora fills the sky.

The book cover floats above an alien landscape. Text surrounding the cover highlights these features:

- Victims missing without a trace
- Impoverished working town
- Useful eWaste
- Action adventure
- Ensemble cast
- Space opera
- Available on Kindle, Kobo, Smashwords, and more!

Image by Sergei Tokmakov on Pixabay

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53d

Wow, is it time for the year-end roundup already? But I only just did the last one! Anyway, this year I published 4 short stories, mostly flash, and self-published one. I'm calling that an "equals" for my previous record until I see significant sales on the ebook. As of today I have one story scheduled for publication next year.

I'll go in reverse chronological order this time, because my final publication of the year is also a release announcement! "ReproTech RealWomb User Manual" is now available to read for free in Baffling Issue 22. A quick little meditation on platform capitalism, bodily autonomy, and the industrial progenesis of the next generation. And the most exciting news of the year: the gorgeous cover art for this issue was inspired by my story! Go check it out, I'm very proud of what my editor and I created together.

https://www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty-two

#SciFi #ScienceFiction

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104d

Chapter 43 of The Next Horizon is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Amelia finally sees Dawkin again and her heart sinks, because he's on a date with another woman, who happens to look a bit like Amelia, only more attractive.

She's jealous, then despairs, but her sisters convince her to speak with him.

Dawkin's first gut reaction is to slap Amelia...

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

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1y

It's ALMOST the weekend & since I'm posting early this week, here's the THU-THU #Fediverse & #Bluesky 🦋#WatchPartyCalendar for AUG. 15-22 📅

🔗details & updates at http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties 🕰️ All times Eastern

#scifi #Westerns #comedy #Music #Horror #Mysteries #Action #Movies #TV #SilentFilm #monsters #ninja #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

Thx hosts!❤️
@rsmon77 @MatthewTitus88 @culturalgutter @FabULiz @noirdame @JohnnyDoesntCare
@MirrorAyako @Taweret @lilymarswrites @analgesicsleep

@ AUG, THU - @ 6:30pm #RetroView: Girl Group Summer Playlist - on Mastodon @ 8pm #AlIStarTrek (5 eps nightly) on Mastodon @ 8pm [ Bluesky ] #DrivelnMob: NINJA / Shinobi no mono (1962) - Ninja films for Aug. @ 10pm [ Bluesky ] #FrightClub: THE BOOTH AT THE END (3 eps)

16 Aug, FrI @ 3pm #ShieldTV (2 episodes) on Mastodon
@ 515pm #Catitstu: MOONLIGHTING on Mastodon @ 7:30pm #FridayThrillerClub: THE UNTOUCHABLES [1987] (Summer of Gangsters) on Mastodon @ 8pm #AlIStarTrek (5 eps nightly) on Mastodon @ 10pm [ Bluesky ] #FrightClub: THE MUMMY; THE MUMMY RETURNS @ 11:59pm *NEW EVENT* #NightFlightFriday on Mastodon

17 Aue, saT @ 1lam #CultShelf: STREET TRASH (1987) with @rsmon77 on Mastodon @ 12pm #KungFuSat: BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) on Mastodon @ 2pm #ActionMatineeBSG: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (s2, e11-12) - on Mastodon @ 6:30pm #StewARama (music) with @rsmon77 on Mastodon @ 8pm *SPECIAL TIME* #ILikeToWatch: CHAIN LETTER (music video playlist) on Mastodon @ 10pm [ Bluesky ] #FrightClub: ROYAL HOTEL; ETERNAL DAUGHTER (horror/scifi movies) @ 11:10pm *1-WK HIATUS* #SymSat playlist on Mastodon

18 Aug, sun

@ 1pm #SundayFunnies: USED CARS (1980) w/ @MatthewTitus88 on Mastodon @ 5pm #RockfordTV w/ @MatthewTitus88 on Mastodon @ 6pm *NEW EVENT* #ElleryQueen75: HARD HEARTED HUCKSTER w/ @LilyMarsWrites on Mastodon @ 7pm #8lingsArrowsTV w/ @LilyMarsWrites on Mastodon @ 7:30pm #BaroqueSun w/ @MatthewTitus88 on Mastodon @ 8pm #AlIStarTrek (5 eps nightly) on Mastodon @ 9pm #Monsterdon: TENTACLES (1977) - on Mastodon @10pm [ Bluesky ] #FrightClub: VAMPIRE CLEAN UP DEPT (2017) @11pm #Catitstu: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (2006-2011) - on Mastodon @11pm #SilentFlickerSunday: STEAMBOAT BILL JR. (1928) w/ @analgesicsleep - on Mastodon

21 Aug, Wed

@ 12-12:05am #CultShelf with @rsmon77 on Mastodon
@ 6pm #MusComEnt: SAVED! (2004) on Mastodon
@ 8pm #AlIStarTrek (5 eps nightly) on Mastodon
@ 10pm #WestWed: LONE RIDER (2008) on Mastodon
@ 10pm [ Bluesky | #FrightClub (horror/scifi movies)

22 AuG, THU

@ 6:30pm #RetroView: BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE - on Mastodon
@ 8pm #AlIStarTrek (5 eps nightly) on Mastodon
@ 8pm [ Bluesky | #DrivelnMob: NINJAugust - Ninja films for Aug)
@ 10pm [ Bluesky | #FrightClub: THE BOOTH AT THE END (series finale)

19 aug, MoN

@ 8pm #AlIStarTrek (5 eps nightly) on Mastodon

@ 8pm #MondayActionMovie: HARLEY DAVIDSON & MARLBORO MAN ['91] w/ @SesameSquirrel

@ 10pm [ Bluesky | #FrightClub: TWINS OF EVIL (1971)

@ 11:15pm *NEW EVENT* #MartinMonday (Doc Martin) w/ @noirdame & @JohnnyDoesntCare

20 aug, TUE
@6pm #LaEsoterica: LADYBUG, LADYBUG (1965) on Mastodon

@ 8pm #AlIStarTrek (5 eps nightly) on Mastodon

@ 8pm #TVMysteries: LONGMIRE (S5, eps 2-3) - on Mastodon

@ 10pm #Archivedon (movies) w/ @jigmedatse (Fediverse event)

@ 10pm #Catitstu: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (76 eps) - on Mastodon

@ 10pm [ Bluesky ] #FrightClub: HAUNTED TRAIL (2021)

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1y

🥳 🎉 It's the weekend & the AUG. 9-15 weekly #Fediverse & #Bluesky 🦋#WatchPartyCalendar 📅 *UPDATE: New event #ElleryQueen75 *

🔗details & updates at http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties 🕰️ All times Eastern

#scifi #Westerns #comedy #Music #Horror #Mysteries #Action #Movies #TV #StarTrek #Longmire #BattlestarGalactica #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

Thx hosts!❤️
@rsmon77 @MatthewTitus88 @culturalgutter @FabULiz @noirdame @JohnnyDoesntCare
@MirrorAyako @Taweret @lilymarswrites @analgesicsleep @LisaMarieBowman

All times Eastern - details, links & updates at http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties

All times Eastern - details, links & updates at http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties

All times Eastern - details, links & updates at http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties

Starting this Sunday Aug 11th and going through Labor Day, I'll be hosting #ElleryQueen75 at 6PM Sundays. Episodes are available on Internet Archive and I'll check other sites as well. Stay tuned for episode info and link.

Follow your host http://mastodon.social/LilyMarsWrites and/or the hashtag #ElleryQueen75 for each week's episode information.

All episodes of ELLERY QUEEN (1975) are currently available at The Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/ElleryQueenSeries

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1y

MOVIE REVIEW: "ALIEN: ROMULUS"
'Alien: Romulus' ratchets up the tension for fans of the franchise.
#AlienRomulus #Alien #SciFi #Horror #20thCenturyStudios #Entertainment #Movies #Film #Cinema

https://hotchka.com/alien-romulus-review

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132d

Ontem, um amigo me mostrou uns jogos no Nintendo Switch, ao bater o olho na capa deste, pedi na hora pra ele baixar. É bizarramente legal. O design do personagem que controlamos soa bem cômico e tosco, mas toda a ambientação, cenário e trilha sonora remetem a clássicos da ficção científica. Sejam eles do Cinema ou da Literatura, principalmente daquelas obras dos anos 1950, Pulp, Space Opera.

A estética lembra muito daqueles cards "Mars Attacks!", mas há referências (chupinhadas) até do design do Xenomorfo de Alien. Vi comentários de que seria um "Lemmings no Espaço", mas não posso confirmar, pois nunca joguei este último.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1234180/Moons_Of_Darsalon/

#MoonsOfDarsalon #Games #SciFi #Steam #NintendoSwitch

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103d

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

She’s small and cute, but this half-demon New Yorker lives to exterminate demons, because they murdered her parents. The demonic curse preventing her from saying anything but “it’s a secret” only fuels her desire for revenge.

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

(Left) The cover of She Hunts Demons, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

Sitting on the roof of a building in New York City is a teenage girl wearing an old, black dress, fingerless, elbow-length black gloves and a battered, black top hat, with a blue rose attached to the band. The tearing of her clothes hints that she's recently been in a fight. Her hair is short, but messy. Her eyes are blue.

In her hands is a wakizashi, a short sword of Japanese design. The tsuba, or hilt guard, is in the shape of an opening, blue rose. The blade shines blue.

The image is black and white, aside from the details in blue, hinting at film-noir influences in the art.

(Right) An image of a dog with glowing, red eyes, with the following text laid over it:

“Will we ever be safe again?”

“Your people call you traitor, as do mine. Hunted by Heaven and Hell alike, there’s nowhere we could turn for peace.”

“Will our daughter ever know peace?”

“I pray she will.”

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

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