#sci-fi lit

[cutxfingers]

Creating an anthology, one novella and one short story secured, and another author dying to work with us, and we’ve only been up and running for nearly two months. I want to do this full time it’s going so good

[tygerland]

Variant covers from the 2019-2020 comic book series Blade Runner 2019, using designs and concept art ↬ by Syd Mead ↫ created for the original 1982 Blade Runner film.

[luthqrs]

"You have to understand... I'm a nerd." EMILY PRENTISS in CRIMINAL MINDS 2x16 | ‘Fear and Loathing’

[distantobserver0]

"We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night".

- Ursula K. Le Guin

[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)

Buy ebook NOT on Amazon here or here.

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!

[ziggyschutz]

The fall from hopeful revolutionary to prison labourer is a hard one. Fer's world has shrunk from the whole damn universe to this anonymous asteroid and the four other convicts who share it with them. It's a fitting end, for someone who used to wish on stars but now can only seem to collect endings.

My first novella, TWICE SPENT COMET, is coming out December 3rd of 2024!

If you like space mermaids and found families, you might want to check this one out~

(and if you read an older version of this story, it is now about twice as long and so much better. reworking this was a lesson in healing, for me. i'm so excited and also so nervous for it to enter the world... i cannot wait to hear what you all think)

Goodreads || From the Publisher || Preorder the Ebook Paperback preorders are coming soon!

[whereserpentswalk]

You're the daughter of a nobleman living on a remote frontier world. You're at the edge of human and alien space, doomed never too see any of the great nations and planets of humanity. But the king of your planet is part of a powerful religion, and you sometimes get inner world technology that you otherwise wouldn't that way.

Because you're attending university in the city, away from the peace of your father's palace, in a city where even aliens and robots can be commonplace, your father got the church to send a guardian to protect you. You're a bit disturbed by the idea, but it's probably the most alone you'll ever be allowed to be in the city.

The guardian is a human enhanced with technology to be the perfect soldier. She's tall, slender but muscular, and vaugly masculine at least compared to the women you're used to seeing in your father's palace. She would have been kind of attractive if she was fully human, but you're reminded that she's meant as a tool to protect you, her body has bits of machinery sticking out of it, and her eyesballs were replaced with deep red robotic eyes with black edges instead of white ones. She always wears a suit of black power armor with holy symbols on it, you don't think she's allowed any other clothing.

She's submissive to you the way a gaurd dog is submissive. She obeys basically any order you give her other than to go away. It's weird how dehumanized she is despite her mostly human body, her face doesn't even emote, it's just this blank expression, with these wide paranoid eyes. It's hard to explain her to any freinds you meet at school, why there's this kind of creepy pale figure in black armor always standing over you.

As time goes on you do start to apricate her more and more. She's not like other servents, when you tell her to turn around she does, when you tell her to stand back she does, and she never asks to do anything you don't ask for. There's been a few times when you've needed her protection, useally just from catcallers, but there is worse you've needed help from, you're still nobility, and all your father's rivals would still be happy to see you dead.

As time goes I'm you start to talk to her more. Despite not expressing emotions she still has them. It starts just with her helping you in school because she's technically been to all your classes. But soon you just start talking about the subjects, she's actually surprisingly smart, and very curious about things that she never had a chance to learn about before. Once she's comfortable talking to you she starts asking about things. Eventually you start showing her shows you like, and reading stories to her, because it feels like she never had a chance to do those things before. Despite how powerful she is there's something very innocent about her, she's paranoid, but when she's comfortable she's excited to learn new things.

Eventually when you're more comfortable talking about your pasts she tells you she was captured as a child by the church during a war between the church and its enemies, she was strong, and obeyed threats well, so they turned her into what she is now so that she could be useful. It's been a long time since that, her body doesn't age anymore, she barely knows how it feels to still be human. You decide to start praising her more, and telling her how nice she looks, and how lovely she is, though her face doesn't emote she seems to really enjoy it. You start petting her head and cuddling with her. And even though she's taller than you you let her rest in your arms. You don't think she's ever gotten that kind of affection, it's really nice for her to finally have that, to be loved just for existing. If she could still cry, you think she would have when you held her, and when you called her lovely.

Things slowly chance. You find yourself talking to her more, and thinking of her as more of a human. Eventually you start sleeping in the same bed together, and you're ok with seeing eachother naked. She doesn't have genitals or breasts anymore, the church doesn't like it's little fighting dolls to have any parts they consider lewd, but she likes cuddling you naked, and her willingness to serve you includes giving you pleasure, even if you could never do the same for her. Despite how inhuman she is, there's something beautiful about her body, and something comforting about slowing rubbing her with your hands, and gently feeling the bits of machine that come out of her skin.

No priest would marry you, and no law would even see her as anything but your property. But when you look out from your apartment window at the city lights below, and the flare of starships above, it feels as if you were ment to be there together.

[lets-get-lit]

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

- Frank Herbert, Dune

[bedbabayka]

If you thought that Comrade Sharikov and Mr. Hyde were similar in character and appearance, then... you're right. Read these novels and see for yourself. BUT! Recently, while replaying the plot of both stories in my head, I noticed another similarity. Namely, the division of living space. Damn documents, papers! Without them, there would be no conflict in the stories. 

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

And remember kids, the next time someone tells you, "George R. R. Martin wouldn't make Jon Snow the typical fantasy hero because that's cliche".....

Oh yes he would!

One viewer wants to know what character would you play (on the show)? GRRM: If I could magically clap my hands and become a different person, it would be cool to play Jon Snow who's much more of the classic hero. Everybody wants to be the classic hero! ABC Interview, 2014

GRRM: And the character I’d want to be? Well who wouldn’t want to be Jon Snow — the brooding, Byronic, romantic hero whom all the girls love. Meduza Interview, 2017

In fact he already has ☺️

[phaedraismyusername]

Hi hello I have been knee deep in a genre binge so here are some literary sci-fi books that deal with loneliness as a core theme

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

Translated from French this book follows the youngest girl in a group of 40 women who are being kept in a cage underground in an unknown place, for unknown reasons, until one day they get the chance to escape triggering a search for answers and survival on a desolate surface.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

This is a very subtle dystopian story about a group of people who spend their childhoods at an extremely secretive english boarding school, the course of their relationships, and where they are at the end of their lives. There's a subtle feeling of wrongness from the first chapter and the author spends the rest of the novel very slowly revealing the reasons why.

Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma

The super short form pitch for this book is 'Fleabag if there was an option to yeet herself to another planet'. Iris is in a long term relationship with depression, kind of hates her pointless job, sometimes hates her family, and is generally overwhelmed by the weight of existence, when she hears about Nyx - earth's first space colony - and thinks that just maybe it could be the answer to all her problems.

Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon

When the population of a company sponsored colony finds out they have been designated a failure and the people are to be packed up and shipped off to another planet to try again, one little old lady decides that for the first time in her long life she's going to break the rules - she's going to stay and live her best life alone on the planet, and finally get some peace and quiet. What could go wrong?

Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley

Skyward Inn is an odd little book set in a future where Earth has come into contact with an alien world that quickly surrendered to humanity. The story follows a small group of kind of unlikeable people who live behind the walls of the 'western protectorate' - a place in the moors that's decided to isolate itself and live like the old days with rudimentary technology for a simple life. Until strangers appear and things start to get... weird. Slower, stranger and with more body horror than you might expect.

[tygerland]

Blade Runner 1982

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers edited by Lydia Rogue

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What would the future look like if we weren't so hung up on putting people into boxes and instead empowered each other to reach for the stars? Take a ride with us as we explore a future where trans and nonbinary people are the heroes.

In worlds where bicycle rides bring luck, a minotaur needs a bicycle, and werewolves stalk the post-apocalyptic landscape, nobody has time to question gender. Whatever your identity you'll enjoy these stories that are both thought-provoking and fun adventures.

Mod opinion: I hadn't heard of this book before, but it sounds really interesting and I hope to check it out somewhat soon. Update: It Is really interesting. If you want a big collection of trans sci fi and also cool bicycles check this out!

[elvensemi]

[NSFW] [Sci Fi] [Space Opera] [Omegaverse Aliens] [Catholic Space Dragons]

Eden'tza, a mid-level political bureaucrat in charge of managing alien immigrants, knows five things.

Teniel Cae is a political terrorist who led a cult that threatened to destabilize the government of his home planet.

Teniel Cae is a religious leader turned exile.

Teniel Cae is a one-in-a-billion biological weapon with capabilities that stress the understanding of modern science.

Teniel Cae is a menace, and

Teniel Cae is coming to Eden's backwater home planet that still struggles for attention on the galactic scale.

Now Eden has to deal with this political mess and personal disaster, and must do it perfectly… no matter how charged the tension between the two of them gets.

A Place Among the Stars is an erotic space opera and soft science fiction, inspired by the fridge logic of omegaverse. It's the story of a religious and political exile who just can't seem to stop causing problems, and of the stone-hearted bureaucrat forced to deal with those problems.

It's also about weird alien sex.

Hi, I'm ElvenSemi and I write webnovels online through Patreon (available monthly) and Ko-fi (available for one-time purchase)! Two updates (SFW and NSFW) every month, plus bonus and behind the scenes content, polls, and more.

Interested in what I'm hawking but no $$$? I'm also on Ao3, and have a free eBook coming out in May! Follow me here or on Patreon to be alerted when it's released!

[anewstartrekfan]

Song: Big Bluff

[brokehorrorfan]

Bottleneck Gallery will release a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 24x36 giclee print by Karl Fitzgerald today, May 8, at 12pm EST. The hand-numbered edition of 75 costs $60.