#Scifi book

[leebrontide]

Apparently we're doing these again, so

Names in Their Blood is fully for sale as of TODAY!

After a spring they barely survived, the superhero team the Sentinels, and their family, head to rural Minnesota for long awaited reunions and a chance to finally start to heal. But when they realize that genetically altered people have been going missing from the small town that houses the US's only full service hospital for genetically altered people they have to decide who they can trust- and fast, our thousands of people could die.

Buy on Amazon paperack or ebook now! (audiobook to come)

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Also available for special order from your local independent book store!

The first book in the series is FREE right HERE or HERE (or in paper form from Amazon or from your fav independent bookstore)

Also I made a Uquiz that I think is a lot of fun, here.

Reblogs welcome! I'm deeply proud of this book and I'm so so excited to finally share it with you all!

[desertmousy]

muderbot saying “i learned to leave” just horsekicked me in the chest holy shit

[gipki]

5 days left for Nova and Mali's queer sci-fi anthology, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Art History!! More than 50 artists came together and wrote a love letter to queer pulpy sci-fi. You won’t wanna miss it! We're almost funded!

GET YOURS HERE!!

[gaywriting]

The Brightness Between Us review

The Brightness Between Us by Eliot Schrefer (2024)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✖️

"It arrives. The brightness between us." (p. 387)

This is the continuation of the story of The Darkness Between Us and follows humanity's last hope; spacefarers Ambrose Cusk and Kodiak Celius and them trying to rebuild on their exoplanet named Minerva. Life on this unfamiliar planet haven't been kind and many of their children have perished, all but one son, Yarrow, and one daughter, Owl. Together the small family must find a way to survive and eventually find a connection from a far distant past to help in a horrible crisis threatening their lives.

I finished this book in january 2025. Apparently one of my favorite books had gotten a sequel and no one thought to tell me. the first book was also the first book i posted a review of (Link!) and the reason i wrote that post was to put focus on a LGBT+ book that i loved and that is out of the ordinary from the usual mlm stories that get attention in the online book community.

this is the story of a family trying to survive in a harsh environment and the loneliness that is with only having each other. Akin to the first book, it deals with hoplessness in a situation you can't control and the insanity of loneliness. It is, though, a very different book, as the first book mostly took place during Ambrose and Kodiaks travel through space and this sequel is 18 years after they landed and is mostly revolving around them and their children. In the first book the only pov character is Ambrose and we never hear Kodiaks inner thoughts at all, but this book had multiple povs. We mostly follow Owl's thoughts, their headstrong, adventure-hungry daughter, who longs to explore their homeplanet. But we also get a look into Kodiak's mind, as well as Yarrow, the older son with a gentle heart, but dark mind 🎆 it is a story of space survival and a family that loves each other, but how a tough situation puts that love to the test. in this sequel, Schrefer managed to answer the questions the first book left us with, build on the world further and round off the story where you're left emotional and in need of 30 chapters more to know "but what happens then??" 😱

If you read the first book, The Darkness Outside Us, then i can definitely recommend the sequel! Sci-fi is not my genre at all (i'm def more into dragons and magic) so the fact that i vouch for this should speak for itself. But if it interests you, who also likes LGBT+ literature, then this is a must read! 💫

[kjudgemental]

It's not a proper 80s/90s cyberpunk novel unless you have to read it five times just to work out what the fuck's going on with the plot and it still gives you whiplash even then

[rachel-sylvan-author]

"Clean Sweep" by Ilona Andrews

Thank you @yayyyybooks for the rec! ❤️ I have had this on hold at my library for MONTHS!! Worth the wait. 😎

[elliepassmore]

Snow Crash review

3/5 stars Recommended if you like: hard sci-fi, dystopian sci-fi, tech bros, sword fighting, VR

TW statutory rape

So...let's have this be the last time I'm fooled by pretty colors and Sumerian cuneiform (also the last time I take a book recommendation from another book). This book and I did not get off to a good start, what with it opening with a million random words thrown together with exposition on what those words meant. Then I got used to it, then Stephenson had to bring in the anthropology and linguistics.

Now, normally I love seeing those things in books. I love both of those subjects and studied them in college and on my own time. That being said, Snow Crash is like if a tech bro was court mandated to take linguistics 101 and anthropology 101, only paid attention 33% of the time, then retold his tech bro buddies all about ancient civilization and ancient languages after having a couple of beers. This is, perhaps, a bit mean, because Stephenson does get some of it right. But then he goes off the rails and while I understand this is sci-fi....well, the basic facts are just plain wrong. Go off, but at least base it in fact.

A slight rant, so perhaps skip these next two paragraphs if you don't want to read about me complaining about linguistics and anthropology more, I'll try to make it brief. Stephenson was off to a good start talking about Sumer and Sumerian religion, he actually stays pretty on track with Sumerian religion, interestingly enough, but then he goes and starts talking about how Sumer was stagnant and yet somehow everyone spoke Sumerian and how me dragged Sumerians out of cave-man-hood.....except, Sumerian wasn't the first language. It's just the oldest language we have written attestation for. People could speak, and were modern humans, well before Sumer became a thing. Hell, Akkadian and and some form of Proto-Old-Chinese (among others) were both spoken at that time, the Sumerians just got to writing first. (and let's not even get into the "cave man" concept)

Further, Sumerian didn't just magically vanish, what happened was a series of smaller and larger civilization collapses caused by a whole host of factors, through which Sumerian gradually went from being the predominately spoken language of the area to a language spoken almost solely religiously due to the influx of newcomers and conquerors to the region combined with certain conquering dynasties forcibly migrating native Sumerians to the outskirts of the empire (where they had to interact with the natives there, who definitely did not speak their language) and bringing other cultural, linguistic, and ethnic groups into the traditional Sumerian heartland. Also, more minor, but there were not "tens of thousands" of languages being spoken in the 1980s. We have approximately 7000 languages today and while we are losing languages at a rapid rate, we are not losing them that quickly. Language, and by some extension culture, was the whole basis of this book and Stephenson just got so much of that basis wrong that, while I enjoyed a decent portion of it, I just couldn't get over the incorrectness of it,

Okay, back to the regularly scheduled programming. As far as plot goes, it was actually pretty interesting following Hiro and Y.T. as they got tangled up in web after web of this conspiracy. There were so many moving parts that seemed disparate from one another and yet somehow connected, and I really enjoyed seeing how it all came together. I liked how things built up and I think the showdown with Hiro gets a good climax, but stuff in the real world fell a little flat. I would've liked to have a firmer resolution with things, even if it left some things open ended. As is, it just feels like a let down.

Hiro was a hard character to get into. He's just kind of there for the beginning part of the book, a problem which is compounded by the sheer amount of lingo and information being dumped on readers at the beginning of the book. He turns out to actually be a pretty chill dude later on and even when he was confused, he at least seemed to grasp things quickly, so there wasn't too much just standing around and questioning things.

Y.T. was a bit easier to like from the get-go, though her lingo is just as confusing as Hiro's. 15 definitely seems young to be doing a lot of the things she's doing, and while I know her mom works long hours for the Feds, I'm surprised she has 0 clue what her daughter is doing. I liked Y.T.'s spunk and tenacity. She could get freaked out at times, but she was a go-getter and immediately jumped into doing anything she was interested in or thought would help.

While I did spend a good portion of this review complaining about the technical linguistic and anthropological side of the book, I did enjoy some of the book. The problem is, is that combined with the factual problems, the book reads too much like your stereotypical hard sci-fi that's easy to make fun of because the authors are using a gazillion weird words to enforce the 'futuristic' idea. Things like "franchulate" I can see where it comes from; 'Kouriers' are on thin ice, but whatever, they're trademarked; but there was a lot of stuff that I thought was just unnecessarily in "sci-fi lingo." All of this put together, plus the very ending of the book, reduced my overall enjoyability.

[zestykaktus]

Help Me Find This Weird Book

I read this novel back in elementary and I cannot find it for the life of me. I need to know that it's real and I'm not imagining it lmao.

what I remember:

placed in a future where cats evolved alongside humans. they are still normal looking cats but they can talk and the world has developed specialized tools for them to do things humans can like write

the main character what a human girl going to school/university who was friends with one or two very learned scientist cats

they were learning how to like meld with objects? Like they could phase into/through them and sort of become part of those objects. I remember the MC doing this with a structural project she was working on and being able to feel all the stress points of the thing she was building.

the MC put her arm through a wall and threw up when she opened her eyes and saw it for the first time

characters spending time on a train

cats could be (and were) professors

Any possible leads and/or RBs are highly appreciated. This has been bothering me for literal months.

[theinyshlobster]

currently reading;

project hail mary by andy weir

476 pages

genres;

science fiction

note: reading as a "monthly TBR challenge" from bookishreality on discord ^_^

[lightyearsandbeyond]

3 - Michael Lordes (rough draft as it is written)

Inside the office of the Minister of Intelligence for the Nagap Federate life was quiet and rigidly structured. Outside the window, a thousand plus feet below her office on the 112th floor, structure had been obliterated. Police sirens coalesced with loudspeaker shouted commands and the roar of an incensed mob to create a nightmarish noise. Bottles, rocks, in some instances gym weights were…

[leebrontide]

After a spring they barely survived, the superhero team the Sentinels, and their family, head to rural Minnesota for long awaited reunions and a chance to finally start to heal. But when they realize that genetically altered people have been going missing from the small town that houses the US's only full service hospital for genetically altered people they have to decide who they can trust- and fast, our thousands of people could die.

OK! I now have NON AMAZON buying options for Names in Their Blood, right in next to the FREE download option for the previous book, Secondhand Origin Stories. I've set the price for Names in Their Blood ebooks at $5 on both sites.

Gumroad download/buy option

Itch download/buy option

[desertmousy]

Howdy ✦ A lot of you know me from my Dune fanfic but I'm here to tell you about the original space opera I've been working on since March 2024. Well, I finished it late last year [!!!!] and it's coming out this spring and I'm offering advanced reader copies to people interested in reading and reviewing an achillean science fiction romance [summary and trope list under the cut] ↴

⟡ you can get on the list for an early copy here ⟡

Two centuries ago, House Henly of Aurethia and House Volkov of Griea penned an engagement, promising a ​u​nion between rival houses and their respective homeworlds.

Elio Henly has been preparing for marriage his entire life. As the Henly heir, and future steward of Aurethia, he will inherit great power, including control of a lucrative trade route and ownership of the most precious substance in the greater universe — Avara. The mysterious blue crystal native to Aurethia is the sole treatment for parsec sickness, an epidemic ravaging space travelers within the Greater Universe. But when he meets Cael Volkov, the charming heir of the outfitted military planet, Griea, everything he thought he knew about his homeworld, his family, and his heart is turned upside down.

Cael Volkov has been raised to conquer. Champion in the Griean Tupinaire, commander of the Royal Reserve, and son to the mighty Legatus, Cael knows his mission is simple: gain the Aurethian heir’s trust, learn everything he can about the forest moon, and prepare to take it by force. But the longer he spends with Elio Henly — the quiet, brilliant Aurethian prince — the more he questions everything he was taught and begins to push back against the duty seeded in him by a lust for vengeance.

➵ if you like Captive Prince but want it in space

➵ if you like the swordfighting in Dune but want more romantic tension

➵ if you like Endor and Hoth but want more Padme and Anakin

➵ if you like romantasy but want more science fiction

➵ if you like arranged marriage but want it to be queer

I would not have written this 155k fever dream of a book without the Dune fandom [especially my feydpaul brethren; this book is a feydpaul ripoff]. You'll will always have my sword [and my heart] ✹

p.s. artwork by akito [@/akkito_ on ig]

[janice-seagraves-author]

Exodus Arcon 3 in 1 #threebooksinone #scifi #sciencefiction #aliens #spa...

[taranhunt]

Because Tumblr is a safe space for this sort of thing I will admit that I went to see My Bloody Valentine in theaters when I was a teenager. Because I had a massive crush on Jensen Ackles.

Because I watched Supernatural.

Because I loved Supernatural.

(^ Taran Hunt, at the devil's sacrament, confessing that she partook of the fouled Eucharist.)

Anyway I went to see My Bloody Valentine, which is a stupid gory explosion of a movie, and nearly got kicked out of the theatre because I was laughing so hard. I was not laughing AT the movie, to be clear. I loved it when the bloody axe came flying in 3D at our heads. I delighted in the severed limbs. Horror is fun!

I wanted to put some of that gleeful horror into The Immortality Thief. I had a rule: whenever things got boring, I challenged myself to invent the most hilariously awful thing Sean could face at that very moment--and then I made him face it. what's the worst thing you could find in a supposedly abandoned spaceship? something vaguely humanoid and definitively malevolent. how about later on, when you know you're facing monsters--what's worse than the monsters?

in conclusion: in my opinion--as someone who directly benefits financially from the sale of copies of The Immortality Thief--this book is an excellent halloween read. FURTHERMORE, the ebook is on sale from 10/26 to 11/4!

[bluesstorycorner]

Just some oc stuff. I wanna post here more often but idk how to even gain an audience here lol, so I might be on and off trying to figure things out. I also have ARC applications and pre-orders for my book, so I'll probably post about those soon.