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337d

I've finished: Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

It was hard watching Tantan struggle to come to terms with what was done to her.

It was interesting to see how the midnight robber helps her cope.

Add some wonderful aliens to contrast the limitless stupidity of the humans and you get a challenging and compelling mix of SF&F.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/078b070d-e3a0-455b-8ad7-36b3b562886b

@bookstodon@a.gup.pe @bookstodon #SFF #bookstodon #amReading #Audiobooks @audiobooks

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336d

BCS #443 ebook out early today at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by Chris Willrich and Adrian Ward, cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing all replies personalized. Thank you!)

https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-443/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-443-ebook/dp/B0FTW4M96B/
#fantasy #sff #litmag #ebook

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336d

New stories: the Patrick Samphire and RJ Taylor stories in BCS #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue are live today, alongside the James Morrow and Will McMahon stories and McMahon podcast released last week, behind cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-442/
#fantasy #sff #litmag #shortstory

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325d

finished reading Slade House 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by David Mitchell.

Every nine years, people disappear into a house which otherwise can't be found. The author's usual layering of stories across different time periods gradually reveals the truth, though it's not particularly clever this time around. Dark arts & illusions, bit creepy, not really my thing.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SFF

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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324d

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/

The Secret of the Sapphire Sentinel
NOW AVAILABLE!
Sequel to THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN
A Nebula & BSFA Award Finalist
J. DIANNE DOTSON
"Beautifully immersive"
"Fun and fantastic!"
"Colorful, exciting, and brimming with life"
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Secret or the Sapphire Sentinel
"Filled with courage and determination"
The Exciting Sequel to Nebula & BSFA Award Finalist THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN
by Jendia Gammon, writing as J. Dianne Dotson

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170d

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
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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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323d

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

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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323d

#introduction time again.

Hi everyone! I'm Elizabeth. I am a freelance editor, specialising in SF/F.

When I don't have my nose stuck in a book, I can be found playing TTRPGs. At the moment, I'm playing in a campaign of Mouse Guard.

I am also the caretaker of one cranky grandma of a dog, of whom you can expect the occasional photo.

#books #sff #fantasy #ttrpg

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322d

BCS #444 ebook out early at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring scary stories for Halloween by Peter Darbyshire (new Angel Azrael) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (sequel to Ignyte Award Winner).

(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium. Thank you!)

https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-444/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-444-ebook/dp/B0FWYBMMRF/
#fantasy #sff #ebook #litmag

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168d

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...

@bookstodon
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35d

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…

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

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

The black silhouette of a man and woman embracing. They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side. The background is the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heart shape that surrounds the 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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96d

New release coming! Ebook available June 12 and paperback on June 19.

https://books2read.com/PrincessOfKurg

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The cover of Princess of Kurg, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a spiral galaxy with a pink color, which has been divided into hexagonal jigsaw puzzle pieces.

Near the top is an attractive woman's face framed by light blond hair that's almost colorless. She has blue eyes and looks directly ahead. Around the edges of her face, she fades away, allowing the background to be seen to either side of her head.

Below her is a group of seven hexagonal brassy coins arranged in a circular fashion, each showing a different scene at the center.

The central coin shows blood spatter on a black background. The top one has a red-haired fairy with insect wings, in a dress that looked like an upturned red flower. She stands in a forest with glowing points of light along the forest floor. Upper right shows the eye of a pink-scaled dragon. Lower right shows a monkey in a tree, eating a banana. The bottom shows a white swan floating in water, beside a reflection of the moon. Lower left is a smiling snail with little red hearts near its head. Upper left displays an alien saucer ship beaming someone into it, presumably an abduction in progress.

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276d

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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275d

finished reading Wind and Truth 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Brandon Sanderson.

An absolute brick of a book - possibly the longest I've ever read. Could certainly have been shorter (successful authors get way too much latitude), with too frequent changes in PoV, and while I appreciate his use of mental health to disrupt tired fantasy tropes, after three weeks of amateur therapy I was a bit over it. But he does pull together sprawling plotlines to a satisfying climax, with an appealing set up for a fresh take on the second half of the series.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SFF

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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191d

Chapter 20 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Queen Aurora walks a world of natural wonders, which is inhabited by primitive humanoids. She regrets that fact, wishing her people could take the beautiful place for themselves.

As she's about to leave it, for the last time, there's an incredible discharge of life energy...

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

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275d

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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274d

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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170d

Chapter 29 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole meets diplomats from the Northwestern Empire, who will help her during negotiations with the UNSG and the EC.

Unfortunately, they're nobles and infuriatingly classist, something Nicole can barely stomach dealing with, which gets her blood boiling...

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

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248d

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…

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

(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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314d

Scary BCS, for Halloween!

"Tithe the Bones, Sell the Blood" by @aahabershaw , BCS #368:

"The cards were crisp, almost brittle in Cédric’s hands; he ran his thumbs along the corners as he shuffled, feeling where he’d marked them during the game with the same needle in his ring he’d used to draw the blood to let him keep gambling. It all came down to this hand, this moment. The moment he was going to cheat the dead at their own table."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/tithe-the-bones-sell-the-blood/
#fantasy #sff #shortstory

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310d

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...

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310d

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

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273d

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

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275d

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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309d

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
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