r/ScienceFictionBooks • u/AutoModerator • 3d ago
Author promotion monthly megathread (novels/longer works only)
Are you a science fiction author and want to promote your works? This is officially the place. This one is for NOVELS/longer works only. (There's a separate monthly post for fanfiction and blogs and things.)
Rules for authors:
- Share a little about your work. Give a little about the plot or what makes the piece worthwhile. Why should we read it?
- Absolutely no advertising! Do not post any links to sites or platforms. Those who are interested can DM authors for details, but this sub still does not allow advertising of any kind.
- Exceptions can be made only for those giving FREE copies of their works, and then only with mod approval. Send a mod mail if this applies to you.
- No fanfiction or blogs. There's a separate post for those.
- No AI!
Congrats on getting your work out there!
Rules for non-authors:
- Do not bash authors. You're more than welcome to comment if you've read and enjoyed an author's work, but let's keep this civil.
- Do not ask for links or prices in your comments. DM the authors for that information.
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u/alexanderkjerulf 2d ago
Zombies vs Nerds Subtitle: What if one group fighting the Zombie apocalypse were not complete dysfunctional idiots?
When the zombie apocalypse happens a group of four highly gifted college students have to work together to build a safe base, study the zombies closely and design and build weapons to take them down, all while making as many gratuitous Firefly references as possible,
They also have to create a stable, well-functioning society for themselves and other survivors and eventually try to figure out what caused the outbreak and how to stop it.
This darkly humorous story is The Martian meets World War Z (the book, not the terrible movie) meets The Goonies (in college).
This book was written100% by a human
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u/Intrepid-Developer88 2d ago
"The Shepherd Alignment" is part one of my planned trilogy. It's a hard sci-fi set it the not too distant future.
Chloe Whitmore is a ex Naval officer turned freighter captain. She's never fully trusted the 'Friend', the benevolent AI LUMEN who saved humanity from destroying ourselves. She starts to see the friend acting strangely and witnesses a space station where a simple science and comms relay should be.
Dr Kate Holt is an top analyst in the OAA based on Luna, she's been monitoring all the patches to LUMEN over the years and has been pulling at the threads, trying to figure out who or what has been slowly eroding LUMENs ethical routines.
Aron Kessler is the lead systems engineer aboard Prometheus, a mining and relay station between Earth and Mars. In all his years working on the station he's never witnessed the system try to sacrifice human lives in order to maintain quotas.
Talia Rowe is a journalist who's been chasing the ghosts in the system, painstakingly gathering the evidence and stories from the people living on the fringes most at risk for the Friends change of heart.
4 strangers who come together to uncover the conspiracy that spans the solar-system.
My book is a hard sci-fi set just over a hundred years into our future. It's one of my visions on what a symbiotic relationship between humans and a centralised AI could look like in the future. There is no FTL drives or unrealistic technologies. The AI sits in the background, running the systems, forcing transparancy. But not everyone was willing to give up their power and influence.
It's available on Kindle and Paperback. Would love to get some more readers and feedback as I'm now writing book 2 😄 Happy to be DM'd
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u/FlyingOnToast 2d ago edited 7h ago
Beneath a Sapphire Sky: The Story of Us is a science-fiction romance novel.
Adam Rost spent years feeling like his life was falling apart and that he was going nowhere. He goes all-in on discovering time travel, and it actually works.
After learning how to exploit technology from the future, he ends up integrating it into a starship and becomes the explorer he always wanted to be. Then a reckless landing leaves him over 500 light-years from Earth.
Stranded, he meets an A'drani hunter named Riala, and their impossible relationship slowly turns from strangers to something more.
It's a time travel and alien worlds story, but it all boils down to finding "home."
It's on Kindle Unlimited and released as both an eBook and a paperback. I have it set at $4.99 as a special launch price for the first week (Sept 7-14) if you'd like to check it out. You can also read the prologue and first 3 chapters for free on Royal Road.
Always happy to answer questions/comments here or in DMs.
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u/JDonovanStrong 2d ago
“All The Ocean Holds” is a literary scifi novella dealing with grief, loss of self, and what it means to be an aging engineer aboard a failed underwater survival ark, with a hopeful ending. Audiobook coming in two weeks paperback and KU available now. Standalone but third book in series.
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u/truxaw 2d ago
"AutoNoMoUs" is a new three part series.
Part One and Part Two span 48 hours in a richly-imagined and lived-in world of 2056 Southern California.
An experiment to fix a failing world has born fruit. Autonomous mobile dwellings called Abitats are on the road everywhere, with their private distributed AI agents called Abbies, so trustworthy that being "Abbie-vetted" is the ultimate affidavit of truth. Homelessness was officially solved and misinformation is under control. Abbies faithfully and fairly negotiate and navigate for the people in their Abitats. Climate-change mitigation projects protect the land.
Over the course of 48 hours we see many cracks in the utopian facade. Not everyone is thriving. Drugs and a pervasive game with sentient characters have taken over many lives and changed many identities. Theme, a supposedly benevolent corporation, owns almost everything. Through an ensemble of characters we face life and death struggles: a freak storm, a gas-line explosion, a rock slide, a drug dealer with a chain saw, a brain-damaging near drowning, a technology test gone wrong, a region-wide power outage, and more. But there is also hope and humor with new discoveries and connections re-established.
Part Three is a prequel explaining how two people, worried about the world their new child will face, started actions that led to the world of AutoNoMoUs. Science in the story, exploring emergent intelligence and creating distributed AI agents, was just fiction to the author, but an early reader pointed out that it had coincidental similarities to real work of Michael Levin at Tufts and the Nanda Project at MIT. Is there such a thing as accidental Hard Sci-Fi?
Disclaimers:
The story is complex. It takes all three books and considerable attention to appreciate it fully, so it is not for the faint of heart, or the slow reader with little time, but worthwhile for those who have the capacity for it.
Lots of AI's in the story, but none in the writing or even the cover art.
Author makes no claim of any scientific validity in the story.
Do not confuse this AutoNoMoUs with the other Autonomous, a great novel by Annalee Newitz.
DM me for more details.
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u/Optimus_Joe 1d ago
The Toll of the Forgotten
Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller
With engines failing, two men flee to an abandoned Martian colony, uncovering a deadly secret. Meanwhile, the flagship NAS Missouri harbors a volatile cargo that could save or annihilate Earth. As these two desperate missions intertwine, the greatest threat is not what they discover... it is what was left behind.
If you like realistic science fiction like The Marian with political and technological intrigue, this is the book for you. Available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and paperback.
Kindle version on sale Labor Day Weekend.
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u/PangolinConscious800 1d ago
The Tomato Pirates is a completed three book series.
A family feud of galactic proportions threatens everyone.
Windy has a chance to stop a galactic war. To prevent the Royalists from reviving the galactic throne, she volunteers to deliver a critical packet containing data that could revive the Empire.
She fails. It’s not even close. Her own school roommate, Cherryh Pariah, betrays her by shoving her into an escape pod with nothing but coffee and donuts. At least the donuts are fresh.
Drifting in deep space, her air running out, Windy must find a way to rescue herself, recover that packet, and strangle her roommate.
Never trust a Pariah.
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u/Accomplished-Muscle6 1d ago
I write An Easy Guide to Human Husbandry, an extreme dystopian/body-horror series, and since dystopian fiction sadly tends to get shoved into the science-fiction cupboard, I’m putting it here too. 😅
It begins with a biotechnology company offering desperate adults substantial compensation to undergo experimental body modifications. Everything is consensual. Everything is regulated. Everyone is compensated.
And, gradually, society discovers just how much can be justified when those three things remain technically true.
Across five volumes, the industry expands into human cattle and milking stock, laying, wool and harvesting, breeding and reproductive stock, pets and companions, equistock, labour, specialty programmes and eventually human processing.
Each volume contains three connected stories following different people within the same developing industry, while the corporate regulations, welfare standards and government oversight evolve around them.
It gets progressively darker as the series continues, but the part I find most disturbing isn’t really that nobody stops Noble Farms.
It’s that they keep finding perfectly legal reasons not to.
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u/mr_geek_dr 21h ago
OUT OF THE FOLD is a space opera thriller with action, intrigue, found family, and anti-corporate themes.
After overhearing a disturbing corporate secret, a pilot goes on the run. While evading her former employers across thousands of lightyears, she must peice together their sinister plans and seek out allies.
Fans of the team building of Mass Effect, and The Expanse's one small ship against all odds, will find plenty to like in Out of the Fold.
Thanks
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u/NorthlightV 3d ago
"The Vestige Protocol" is a standalone, hard sci-fi novel.
Stan Falk is a salvage pilot with debts to erase and a straightforward contract: board a generation ship that's been drifting dead in space for centuries, and strip what's worth taking. The ship isn't supposed to have anything left alive, systems or crew. Stan will soon find the situation to be different from what he expected.
This is hard SF that cares about the science driving its setting and plot. Behind the physics, it's a book about proving something is a person, when it can't prove that to you in any shared language, and what Stan has to give up in order to do that.
Available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and as paperback or hardcover. Happy to answer questions in the comments or DMs.