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Chapter 40 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole and her team find themselves in a shared mindscape, in which Lyra and Gida pilot a shuttle, while the team prepares to be dropped at a fortress for a tactical assault.

The fortress is armed with antiaircraft blasters and it's a bumpy ride...

@bookstodon
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82d

My handmade Doctor Who scarf that I got as a birthday present a few years ago is getting some air 😁

@doctorwho

#SpeculativeFiction
#FantasyMemes #SciFiMemes #Fantasy #SciFi #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Opera #Hard #CottageCore #SolarPunk #Comedic #Whatever #GiveMeAllYouveGot
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove

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81d

Check out my scifi adventure story, Death In Transit. @bookstodon Mechanical issues aren't the only interruption in Lia Conway's unplanned vacation. Can her skills help her to build a new life?

On Amazon and more!

#ScienceFiction #Adventure #SciFi #FediBookFair #Bookstodon

Lia Conway's unscheduled vacation threatens to strand her in the middle of nowhere if she can't figure out how to get the transport working again.

Could the trouble provide an opportunity for the next phase of her life?

Find out in Death In Transit now on Amazon and more!

jallbarret.writeas.com/death-in-transit

Background image is Starry Sky Night Stars by Felix Mittermeier.

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Chapter 41 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Ogomid encounters reason in the Mindscape, finding him in a brightly-lit artist's studio, where he's sculpting.

The art is good, but completely lacks emotion of any kind, leaving the Ogomid untouched.

He asks Reason to betray Olyna, but they begin a logical debate on the subject...

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81d

Season's Readings 😊

@HeyLaiverd asked to read my stuff offline.

I thought why not make the first part of The Last Philosopher available to everyone.

Use QR or link in alt-text to get e-book, and feel free to share.

@reading @books @fantasy @bookstodon @humor @aiop

#WIPWednesday #AmWriting #IndieAuthor #Free #Ebook
#SpecualtiveFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Satire #Humour #Comedy
#Books #Novel #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm #BookLovers
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tynp5wgkwr0dkvmf3dzp3/The-Last-Philosopher-Part-One.epub?rlkey=n61zknkz05eakr809gcs19kzd&st=fymuxn6v&dl=0

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80d

Chapter 35 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

After some scans to satisfy the curiosity of a scientist and some discussion of restoring Irkith, Nicole assembles the Seventh Sage's life stone, playing right into the hands of Olyna, who hides within Reason...

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46d

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

Two soldiers on opposite sides, pixie Commander Stargazer Candleflash and human Sergeant Edwin Harris, find their fates forever entwined, first by revenge, but as they crash together in a dangerous rainforest, they’re forced to work together, just to survive. Will they make it or will their bickering get them killed?

@bookstodon
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(Left) The cover of Fey Fighters, by Owen Tyme.

The background is the stars of space, with nebula-like clouds, in blue. This has been divided into jigsaw puzzle pieces by dark lines marking the lines between pieces.

The foreground features an enormous, stylized phoenix, which is composed of fire. The phoenix looms over an Earth-like world heavily obscured by cloud cover.

(Right) The same world from the cover orbits a purple gas giant, with a stream of flame above it, which may be the phoenix, with the following text over the top:

“We’re in a human-made, goblin-enchanted spacecraft, powered by a dryad that’s under the mistaken impression she’s a nuclear reactor, half-piloted by a pixie and half-piloted by a human.”

“Is there anywhere we can go we won’t be shot on sight?”

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

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80d

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) Four images separated by black lines, with the silhouette of a woman wielding two swords laid over them. She's outlined in black and her interior is yellow clock-based imagery that spirals outward from the center.

The upper left quarter is a queen in a red, furred robe, wearing a gold and diamond crown. She has dark eyebrows and blond hair.

Upper right is a planet seen from orbit.

Lower left is a symbolic wire frame representation of the view inside a wormhole, in green and yellow.

Lower right is dandelions among grass.

The angle of the planet, one of the woman's swords, the yellow highlights of the wormhole and some of the dandelions form a line that draws the eye along a sweeping curve.

(Right Foreground) The following quote:

He admired the flawless beauty of the insane swordswoman’s fluid movements as Ida took desperate step after step, backwards!

He felt waves of mental energy pour off the panic-stricken troll, but the energy bounced right off of Nicole’s mind, as though she’d shut herself inside a solid, red-hot, steel box of rage!

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

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48d

Attention, authors and writers of: #Scifi #fantasy #speculativeFiction #AI #Robot
@cstross PLEASE FORWARD to others

Your work may have been used to train the #LLM used in this reported study. See toot at link. https://mastodon.social/@ErsatzCulture/115838841401363457

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45d

Chapter 50 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Olyna begins to lose herself in the future, while Ogomid finishes his discussion with Reason, convincing him to turn against the painted witch. That leaves her unable to think at all clearly, turning her mind fully illogical.

Meanwhile, the six pieces of the sage meet...

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65d

Things from the Flood. By Simon Stalenhag. Translated by Martin Dunelind.

You are a young Swedish teen, growing up in the aftermath of a failed industrial project that may have opened a portal to another world, but the poisoned and destroyed landscape is your playground, and the agonies of adolescence find a comfortable home there.

4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #sweden #scifi #adolescence #graphicnovel #tech #art

Book cover featuring a beat up android alone in the wilderness

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65d

No one is safe on Chewa Fal. Everyone from teenagers to senior citizens could go missing at any time. Can the Vay Ideal crew solve the mystery? @bookstodon

Find out today 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:

- Working class protagonists
- Thrilling mystery
- Improvised solutions
- Continuing adventure
- Ensemble cast
- Space opera
- Available on Kindle, Kobo, Smashwords, and more!

Image by Alexander Antropov on Pixabay

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65d

The NEW SCIENTIST Book Club is reading the science-fiction masterpiece THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain M. Banks. In this video, Iain’s friend & fellow author Ken MacLeod discusses everything from how the pair met as teenagers at school to Banks’s literary influences, & even his idea for a final novel set in the universe of the Culture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7OW6A8XCgg

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

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64d

My story "ReproTech RealWomb User Manual" is live on the Baffling Magazine Patreon! Just a quick meditation on platform capitalism, bodily autonomy, and the industrial progenesis of the next generation. The full issue drops for free on the 31st, but if you just can't wait and would be willing to donate a few simoleons to the cause of queer speculative fiction, go on over and give it a read!

https://www.patreon.com/neonhemlock

#SciFi #ScienceFiction

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All my books can be found on all major online distributors and ordered from Indie bookstores.

My main SFF series starts with The Calling:

In a future ice age, Bleu’s expedition team emerges from their subterranean haven to discover humans are no longer the dominant life form on Earth.

https://books2read.com/FindingHumanityBook1
#FindingHumanitySeries #hopepunk #scifi #fantasy

An image of a paperback and ebook of The Calling in front of a blue spiral galaxy. Overhead is a quote from a five star review, “A story we’ve been waiting to be told.”
The cover features huge elevator doors opening onto a nighttime Arctic scene. A teen in an orange parka, gun strapped to their back, looks out in wonder to a strange bright star on the distant snow. Below the image is the tagline: Humanity’s wake-up call. Answered it or face extinction.

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finished reading To Be Taught, If Fortunate 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Becky Chambers.

A small crew of scientists leave Earth, and their time period, forever to explore life on distant planets. But what will they do when Earth goes silent? An ode to science, discovery and the inherent worth of knowledge. The lack of interpersonal conflict under such trying conditions feels unrealistic.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SciFi

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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59d

Chapter 44 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole flies through the air, thrown free of Olyna's attempt to step on her by the extreme air pressure!

Seeking control, she uses a little known fact: self-image determined shape within any mindscape.

Nicole forces herself to believe she's a dragon and begins to change form...

@bookstodon
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61d

Free @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1462617

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 #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks

(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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📺 The #WatchPartyCalendar 📅 is out extra early this week 'cos I have places to go & turkeys to eat.

🦋 #Bluesky & #Fediverse 🐘🦣 have LOTS on 11/27-12/6 (Wed-Fri) 🦃

🚨 Note SPECIAL EVENTS!

details @ http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties ⌚️All times Eastern

#scifi #Westerns #Comedy #Music #Horror #Mysteries #Action #Movies #TV

Tx hosts!♥️ (separate post on bsky)
@rsmon77 @MatthewTitus88 @culturalgutter @FabULiz @noirdame @JohnnyDoesntCare
@MirrorAyako @Taweret @lilymarswrites @analgesicsleep @AnnOMalley

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59d

50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1559436

Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will they 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 #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks

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61d

Managed to get one last #blog in before Christmas. This #review is of Pantheon, an excellent animated series that very thoughtfully explores the potential and consequences of mind-uploading. It's on Netflix and well worth watching.

#AI #animation #scifi #SF

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57d

50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116

After experiencing 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 #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks

(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) 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. Over that is the following quote:

Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not!

“How dare you do this to me? Why?”

“I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.”

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

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58d

50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1604529

On a world long thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Hasty research links it to catastrophe and the so-called ‘Harbingers of Doom’, creatures 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 #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks

(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 white moon, on a background of the stars of space, with the following quote over the top of it:

“Idiot! You’ve likely killed us both, leaving us stuck out in the open like this.”

“We’ve got incoming. I know you’re angry and I suppose you’ve got every right to be, but we need to defend ourselves.”

“ ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’, for now, and then we decide what to do about the conflict between us.”

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

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44d

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

Zechariah Jacobs has angered a vast empire that spans a third of the galaxy, which is far too much for his planet to stand against, but in a clash of wizards and magic versus technology, it’s hard to say which will win.

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