#young adult science fiction

[doctaaaaaaaar]

Why everyone who likes sci-fi or fantasy should read Iron Widow by @xiranjayzhao​ as told by memes:

Everyone should go read it right now. Please.

[charliejaneanders]

This is amazing news!

My YA debut Victories Greater Than Death is part of a program where libraries bring together groups of teens to "study powerful works of young adult literature," and an amazing 29 libraries have signed up!

[owilder]

Find the Word Tag

Thank you for the tag, @lady-grace-pens. I’ve been waiting to finish editing my current chapter before participating. Now that that’s all done, I’ll have a go. All examples featuring these words will be from my recently edited Chapter the Fifteenth.

I don’t know enough Writeblrs, so I invite whoever stumbles across this reblog to join in, if they so choose. Your words are: have, fun, with, this, loves.

Without further ado, here are mine:

Light

“How about I teach you to juggle instead?” she replied, pouring a jumble of hard translucent rubber balls from a [          ] in her satchel onto the sand. Their rainbowed surfaces glimmered under the light of the moon and the stars, making the balls look more like giant soap bubbles.

No

“Oh, no,” Sol laughed. “I learned from my father. I used to be part of a circus troupe back in [       ], specialising in acrobatic archery.”

More

She rotated it in her hands and tried again; then, when it did not open, she rotated it a little more and tried again. Finally, she heard the dull sounds of wood scraping against wood and the hiss of air flooding into the formerly airless bottle.

But

Her blatant disrespect of his privacy and personal space had already put him on edge; but it was her accusation and her complete obliviousness of what he had sacrificed and why he had sacrificed anything in the first place that pushed him over.

Scream

Her scream brought [          ] to his senses.

- Part the Second, Chapter the Fifteenth, The Locked Bottle (C.R. Book the First A New World)

(Brackets indicate omitted words or names that I'm not at liberty to divulge yet.)

(These sentences and all work related to it are copyright O. Wilder and are timestamped to prove ownership. Do not repost.)

[mariannedonley]

A Chat with Author Fae Rowen by Jann Ryan

Fae Rowen discovered the romance genre after years as a science fiction freak. Writing futuristics and medieval paranormals, she jokes that she can live anywhere but the present.

From our archives: A Chat with Fae Rowen Fae Rowen discovered the romance genre after years as a science fiction freak. Writing futuristics and medieval paranormals, she jokes that she can live anywhere but the present. As a mathematician, she knows life’s a lot more fun when you get to define your world and its rules. Punished, oh-no, that’s published as a co-author of a math textbook, she…

[starsandsplats]

My Two New Sci-Fi Novels

My Two New Sci-Fi Novels

My two new books, Caged Animals and Escaped Animals have just been released! They are now available as paperbacks or e-books on Amazon. I’m extremely proud of the story told in these books (they’re parts 1 and 2 of a series called GRUNTS.) It took me two years to write it and close to another year to finalize them and get them out to the public. The other thing that I absolutely love about my…

[dduane]

For the holidays: get Diane Duane’s whole (ebook) store for $44!

 With the Shortest Day upon us (in the northern hemisphere anyway), and the festive season in full swing, we thought it’d be nice to give folks a year’s-end chance to grab a whole pile of ebooks—more than two million words’ worth*—for not a whole lot of money.

Maybe you want to give somebody a gift of lots of reading. Or maybe you want to give yourself a present. (And why shouldn’t you? After the last couple of years everybody’s had, you certainly deserve something nice!) There’s a list at the Ebooks Direct “I Want Everything You’ve Got” page of all the goodies you’ll get... including the updated/revised New Millennium editions of DD’s award-winning Young Wizards series, and the groundbreaking (and also award-winning) Middle Kingdoms LGBTQ-centered fantasy series.  

As always, all our books are DRM-free and can be moved from device to device at your pleasure. If your computer or e-reader crashes, if you change platforms, or if you just plain lose your ebook files, we’re happy to replace them for you free. (And why not? You’ve already paid for them once. It’s not like we’ve got a space program to support or anything...) And if you want to send one of these packages as a gift, just email our support address and we’ll sort that out for you.

So if you want to take advantage of it and get our whole ebook store for $44, here’s all you need to do.

Go to the following page and follow the directions—

https://bit.ly/HolidayEBDWholeStore

(Our apologies in advance to our UK friends, whom we can’t include in this offer due to Brexit. More info about that over here.)

Meanwhile,thanks for your interest! (And to those who decide to avail of this offer, thanks in advance for your support of small independent online book businesses.** It’s much appreciated.)

*Oh, all right. 2,685,698 words...

**Especially from the author who’s going to have to go have a spinal MRI right after the New Year. Looks like a few decades spent in a typing chair can take their toll...

ETA AGAIN: Having bumped this.,.. please note that the discount is still in place. We’ll put something more detailed up about this tomorrow. But since @neil-gaiman was kind enough to reblog it, it seemed likely that the post would be in circulation for a while... and so we left the discount running. ...Hey, it’s still the holidays, right?

RIGHT?

:)

(....Also: if over the last few days you somehow paid $55 for the package instead of $44, contact the store (quoting your order number) and we’ll refund you the $11.)

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[celepom]

The Infinity Particle

By Wendy Xu

In this gorgeous graphic novel by Wendy Xu, co-creator of the award-winning Mooncakes, a young inventor falls for a lifelike AI and confronts questions of freedom and autonomy. Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin’s assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots—she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA.

Still, there’s something about Kye that feels almost too human. When Clem and Kye begin to collaborate, their chemistry sets off sparks. The only downside? Dr. Lin is enraged by Kye’s growing independence and won’t allow him more freedom. Plus, their relationship throws into question everything Clem thought she knew about AI. After all, if Kye is sentient enough to have feelings, shouldn’t he be able to control his own actions? Where is the line between AI and human? As her past and Kye’s future weigh down on her, Clem becomes determined to help him break free—even if it means risking everything she came to Mars for.

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This book meant a lot to me. It's been a long, hard year, in a series of extremely difficult years. So it was nice to read some science fiction where All This ends, not in doom, but in a better future. Reading "The end of late stage capitalism & the age of billionaires" as part of the history/world building of the story felt like a breath of fresh air. As well as seeing actual A.I. instead of the thieving aggregates we're currently subjected to.

I also related to both Clem & Kye with their respective abusive parents, and taking the step to run towards your own future and sense of self. SENA is also adorable, and I'd love to have a little friend like them.

This is my favourite of Wendy Xu's books thus far, and one I'll probably return to whenever I need a pick-me-up.

[everbluems]

It’s a lonely thing carrying the body of someone dead and loved. Like a vase you know will never again hold flowers.

— Morning Star by Pierce Brown

[innocenthedgehog]

Writeblr Intro

Hello everyone! I'm Tom (he/him), and I decided to join Writeblr to make some more writing friends. I have no idea how any of this works, but let's give this a go and see what happens!

My Writing

I mainly write YA sci-fi, though I'm open to a bunch of other things

I started writing seriously in April 2021, messed around with a few projects, finally finished a first draft in 2022, shelved it, and have been project hopping ever since. But I've finally found a story I have passion for, so here's hoping purgatory is over!

I'm a pantser

I like third-present, first-retrospective, pretty prose, specificity, pulpy action scenes, unique worlds, sympathetic characters, disaster characters, sympathetic disaster characters

WIPs

Beneath the Burning Sky

I call this story Berg for short, after my friend was very mean and called it ice Dune lol. This is my main focus, and a book I hope to traditionally publish someday. I have no idea how much I'm allowed to share with that caveat, so I'll probably avoid major plot things.

Genre: YA sci-fi sapphic romance

Status: Currently drafting, approximately 25K

Description: When they're both stranded in the frozen wilderness by an attack on their planet, Lana (a village hunter) tries to bring Sierra (the president's daughter/rising star of the stage) back home. Rivals to lovers, class conflict, winter survival. Lana may have a long-lasting crush on Sierra from watching her performances on TV. Also sentient flying snake aliens which are very friendly. Mostly. I promise I will write an actual blurb soon lmao

To Dream of Brighter Shadows

This has a very complicated history which I won't go into now, but in it's current form, it's a project I desperately want to write some day. The discovery writing I've done for it so far is by far my best prose.

Genre: Adult literary sci-fi

Status: Discovery writing

Description: A university student struggling with burnout and undiagnosed neurodivergence uses VR cybernetic implants to try and rebuild her old life.

Space Spies

This is entirely vibes right now, but it'll probably be the book I write when Berg's first draft is done.

Genre: YA sci-fi thriller

Status: Brainstorming

Description: Think Cherub/Gallagher Girls in space. May or may not include aliens.

The Ether Cycle

I will not let this distract me.

Genre: Adult? epic fantasy

Status: I will not acknowledge this exists. Though I may have the start of a magic system. And a world. And a conlang.

Description: A world made of floating islands, trees that are impossibly tall, reverse waterfall elevators, magic airships, teleporters, matchlocks? There is no plot.

Can't wait to make some friends here. Please like/reblog/friend me if you like the sound of any of this. I'll be sure to post some WIP intros and some excerpts soon!

[caribeandthebooks]

Caribe's YA Fantasy & Science Fiction TBR - Part 2

[charliejaneanders]

Marcus Aurelius crashed my attempt to make a cool tableau to let y'all know that my YA threequel PROMISES STRONGER THAN DARKNESS is out in paperback today 😹🚀🎉🎸⚡💕💃

[tallysgreatestfan]

It is going to come out in 2024, it is finally going to happen!

This book kindled my love for science fiction and social commentary, and set me on the path of finally accepting how different and weird I am.

Oh my god, I am so beyond happy. Finally (hopefully) people going to see just how good this is

[marsmachtmobil42]

Title: The Fever King (Feverwake #1)

Author: Victoria Lee

Page length: 375

Synopsis: In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia. The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks—refugees Carolinia routinely deports with vicious efficiency. Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister’s offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. But then he meets the minister’s son—cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful—and the way forward becomes less clear. Caught between his purpose and his heart, Noam must decide who he can trust and how far he’s willing to go in pursuit of the greater good.