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In my first two books, Sol is Not Lost (admittedly sci-fi, but not sans sci) and For the Ages, the Planet Earth is significantly greener than it is today. The Sahara is home to 120 million people. Coffee and fruit are grown in Arabia. The West Texas Banana Wars are recent history. Coffee is grown in Texas. Coffee has been grown in Santa Barbara.In my prequel trilogy, crops are being developed which handle the transition of deserts beginning to green as they are now at something like 5% per year. Climate Change is hoax just like so-called fossil fuels designed to panic the public; creating false scarcity and thus higher prices for the manipulators. Peak Oil was a term coined in the 19th Century not long after commercial oil drilling started. Folks have already forgotten the Climate-Gate scandals where the fixers were caught red-handed changing data fitting their preconceived notions to please their masters. Anti-fracking groups and films are sponsored by competitors, i.e. Saudi-Arabia and Russia who have plenty to lose. Rockefeller and others championed the story that oil and hydrocarbons are all the product of dead dinosaurs and the foods they ate. Fossils are not typically found below 16,000 feet, yet oil is found at 20-30,000 feet.
In another of my sci-fi books, I have entrepreneurs drilling into the vast oceans of slightly brackish water found in the upper mantle in places where water is needed most like Australia, Indonesia, Chili, etc.. This water has already been discovered and it is only a matter of time before it is tapped to make the lives of hundreds of millions of people better. Why should oil be any different? One should not presume that all of the elements that make up our planet have all sorted themselves out gravitationally. Recent papers show how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in the pressures deep in the mantle can combine to make longer chain molocules -- hydrocarbons. This has nothing to do with fossils and could be a boon to mankind for several hundred years or long enough to bring something more practical than the inefficient and environmentally unfriendly eyesores of wind turbines and solar cells. I am all for improving battery technology to where the energy density might be double that of what it is today. Elon Musk has a group developing solid state electrolyte batteries which could just do the trick. Fusion energy should be pursued, but it is always just ten years away. Nonetheless, significant progress is being made there.
CO2 is not a pollutant -- it is plant food. CO2 levels are not anywhere near the danger point for human beings. 400 ppm is far less than the 1000-1200 ppm pumped into commercial greenhouses and the workers there do not keel over dead. One needs to be closer to 5000 ppm and that just is not going to happen. It has never happened on this planet that I know of unless we are talking about the primordial atmosphere before oxygen producing bacteria appeared.
Fear not! Greener is better!
Michael wrote: "In my first two books, Sol is Not Lost (admittedly sci-fi, but not sans sci) and For the Ages, the Planet Earth is significantly greener than it is today. The Sahara is home to 120 million people. ..."Hi Michael. Do you think your books could be regarded as Cli fi?
We are starting a campaign to get the whole book industry, from publishers to booksellers, to recognise Cli fi as a separate genre to sci fi. Have a look at 'The Voice of Climate Fiction' on Facebook for details. The deadline is the COP26 climate conference to be held in Glasgow in November, by then we will have contacted writers, publishers and book stores, click or brick, around the world.
Colin wrote: "Michael wrote: "In my first two books, Sol is Not Lost (admittedly sci-fi, but not sans sci) and For the Ages, the Planet Earth is significantly greener than it is today. The Sahara is home to 120 ..."I'm not sure you caught the drift of my comments above.
My books are primarily about how the powers that be, political, economic (same thing) will manipulate the truth or just come up with incredible lies and propaganda (such as the climate change hysteria) to push their true agenda. That agenda would be fleecing the public by using every available tool they have through books, television, movies, legislation, and the indoctrination of children from kindergarten to graduate school.
Part of the point of my books is to get folks to embrace a different paradigm from the one they have been fed their whole lives long enough to think critically about what they have blindly accepted. Please don't take personal offence, but I do not wish to be a part of the climate change propaganda machine. I have a solid background in science. I have witnessed more than one case of scientific and academic fraud so I can see what is going on. I know how to read data and I know how data can be misrepresented and manipulated.
I believe the climate change fraud has enough legs that I would much rather write my books to counter such nonsense and try to wake up more people in that regard.
Cheers!
Hi MichaelI thought you might welcome the idea of Cli fi being a separate genre from sci fi as it would enable you to identify the books you don't want to read.
We write stories based in the future, not a book of predictions based on current scientific knowledge. Ours are works of fiction designed to entertain and can be set within a range of possible outcomes, so I really don't see the antagonism towards any particular theory even if you think it couldn't happen.
It would seem to be in your interest to support the campaign in order to avoid being misled by the sci fi genre being applied to cli fi books. Cheers.
Michael wrote: "Colin wrote: "Michael wrote: "In my first two books, Sol is Not Lost (admittedly sci-fi, but not sans sci) and For the Ages, the Planet Earth is significantly greener than it is today. The Sahara i..."Cli Fi is short for Climate Fiction. It's fiction that has climate at its heart.
All the best.
All I can say is that we have enough climate fiction pushed in our faces from every angle that I don't see the need for any more.
Mary wrote: "Michael wrote: "All I can say is that we have enough climate fiction pushed in our faces from every angle that I don't see the need for any more."Colin wrote: "The Cli fi authors dilemma:
“We’ve ..."
The point I was making was not about the differences between science fiction and science fantasy, but the recognition that there a new genre of stories based around the possible effects of climate change upon the world. These could mirror either of the descriptions Mary mentioned but have an additional, underlying, reliance on climate predictions. We started the campaign to persuade Publishers and booksellers to accept that cli fi has a role to play in using literature to engage with populations in a unique way. To do that we have focussed on the COP26 conference as a time frame for the book trade to act. For more information, we are on Facebook at The Voice of Climate Fiction and Twitter #voiceofclifi
This seems to have stirred up a bit of controversy, so here is the book that started it all,
Colin wrote: "Hi MichaelI thought you might welcome the idea of Cli fi being a separate genre from sci fi as it would enable you to identify the books you don't want to read.
We write stories based in the futur..."
Sounds more like a subgenre to me, rather than a separate genre. It's science fiction in that it is set in a future world that differs from the present world in its technological/social/environmental backdrop. That's science fiction, generally. Of course, you could market it without SF tags if you wish, but in bookstores it would be shelved with science fiction.
Hi DaleThat may have been the case, but now we have million-selling authors writing Cli fi, Amitav Ghosh, Barbara Kingsolver, Ian McEwan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Margaret Atwood, Omar Akkad, and Paolo Bacigalupi. Plus a steadily increasing cohort of new authors writing something that is different in many ways from what most of the public perceive as sci-fi. Most cli fi is in a future only thirty to fifty years hence, well within the lifetime of many readers. There is little emphasis on space travel or alien life forms, and the situations are close enough to the present for political and moral dilemmas to be recognisable.
Many times we hear, 'We don't like SciFi.' So cli fi writers are missing out before a page is turned. That is why we have started this campaign to have major publishers and booksellers declare for a new genre of Climate Fiction, and do it as literature's contribution to the debate taking place at COP26 in November.
Please join us on Facebook , The Voice of Climate Fiction, or Twitter @voiceofclifi
Team wrote: "We like good sci-fi as a good one gives a glimpse of things to come. Book reviews help writers. We do free book reviews in almost all genres and not just golf. It doesn’t hurt to ask… Check us out ..."Did something change? When i tried to submit something i was given the cold shoulder -- something about you were not taking books at the time and that your reviewers did not really go for science fiction.
Michael J. Scharen
Colin wrote: "Many times we hear, 'We don't like SciFi.' So cli fi writers are missing out before a page is turned."Well . . . I doubt those million-selling authors are missing out on much. ;-) But I can see the point for less-fortunate authors. Still, I think the average reader would look at it as a subgenre of SF no matter what it's called because . . . umm . . . it is. Plus, there has been plenty of SF about near-future situations that don't involve aliens or spaceships. Changing the label may not help.
In fact, given how politicized the matter is, specific climate fiction branding may earn you as many detractors as fans. I know an occasional SF reader who would never pick up something about climate change, because she's so sick of the hype surrounding it. She compares it to Paul Erlich's The Population Bomb, the disaster-of-the-week when we were much younger.
Mind you, I'm not a climate change denier, and I can see where a well-researched and written climate fiction tale could be interesting. But for me, it would have to steer a careful course. I have enough of a background in the physical sciences to know that climate is a complicated subject. We've learned a lot about it and our models are pretty good by now, but that doesn't preclude surprises. Moreover, scientific understanding of the subject is one thing, predictions about the future are a much dicier matter, and how politicians bend science to suit their personal and party ambitions and how people generally perceive the subject is another story altogether.
Writing a really good story that takes all that into account would be quite a challenge. A climate disaster tale like The Day After Tomorrow wouldn't be much different from any other grade-B science fiction.
Sorry . . . I'm probably rambling now . . .
Dale wrote: "Colin wrote: "Many times we hear, 'We don't like SciFi.' So cli fi writers are missing out before a page is turned."Well . . . I doubt those million-selling authors are missing out on much. ;-) B..."
The climate change rhetoric might be many things, but it is not science. It took us a millennia to emerge from the Dark Ages and there is no compelling reason to return to them. The alleged Crisis is a fabrication -- a means of manipulating large numbers of people in order to invoke rule by fiat. It is a gateway for invoking arbitrary and capricious authority. THE END has always been right around the corner; going back as far as the pharaohs. It is nothing more than a ploy to frighten people into a state of blind obedience to so-called experts. I, for one, believe that human beings are better than this.
Michael wrote: "The climate change rhetoric might be many things, but it is not science."I understand your viewpoint. I disagree with it, at least in part, but I don't care to get into a debate or (worse) argument over it. Agreed that the rhetoric is not the science, and people can bend science into pretzels for their own purposes. At the same time, "it's a fabrication" cuts both ways. It's a fabrication to say that climate change signals the end of the world. It's also a fabrication to say that there's a grand conspiracy to control the world and force it back into a Dark Ages. (Aside: The "Dark Ages" are themselves something of a fabrication, as historians have long understood.)
But back to climate change fiction. If one wants to write something like that, more power to them. It should, of course, start with the current state of climatology. (Which is in part why I said this would be a sub-genre of science fiction.) And that is, in extremely brief form, this: (1) The planet is in a warming trend, as attested by multiple lines of evidence. (2) This trend correlates with increased greenhouse gas emissions in recent history. Correlation does not by itself imply causation, but (3) there is no other known mechanism that can adequately account for the observed degree of warming, while anthropogenic mechanisms can.
The sociopolitical surround, however, would be the real subject of the story: how people react, how they twist and bend the science to their own purposes, how political and monied interests play the game, etc. There are plenty of opportunities for deep social commentary, here. There is also plenty of room for speculation about how the planet and society evolves in the face of climate change. That's fine, too, so long as the story doesn't veer into grade B disaster fiction. That would ruin its value.
Aside: I agree that humanity is "better than this," too, although we might differ on what exactly "this" is. But it's kind of funny that immediately following that comment, we have the Christopher/Paul/Michael Show (posts 1281-1283) spewing their raw sewage into the middle of the thread in a pathetic attempt to make somebody pay them them to stop. Humanity may be better than this, but some individuals, it seems, are not. They could be, if they took a long look at themselves in the mirror. But will they?
The Marauders of Sazile - Deluxe EditionThe Marauders of Sazile is a fast-paced young adult space adventure. Looking for reviews.
No one knows who the Marauders are or why they're attacking different worlds. They appear out of nowhere to wreak havoc and then disappear just as fast. They never make an effort to communicate and never respond to any form of communication.
The Hocalie are ever so gentle but clever enough to hold their own against the worst enemy. But even they can't confront the Marauders without the help of Robin Mayfield, a young artist from Earth.
Epub and Mobi files available for free download at http://www.romanadrew.com/
If you want to trade, I will be happy to review your book. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, and similar genres are preferred.
Mi libro de Ciencia Ficción "VIAJEROS DEL TIEMPO", es un material escrito que nos introduce de lleno, no a la posibilidad, a la realidad de los viajes en el tiempo. Es mucha la certeza del escritor acerca de esta realidad científica, que en el capítulo veinte nos explica, pues lo que trata de lograr es, dice él, introducirnos "a la cultura de los viajes en el tiempo". De hecho, este escrito presenta capítulos que parecen tratar temas "ajenos" a ese tópico científico. Sin embargo, razona así que para viajar por los tiempos, se requiere estar muy sano y enriquecido con virtudes éticas, espirituales, emocionales, intelectuales y físicas para ser un individuo apto a esa hazaña. De esa forma que alguien "miserable", no puede conseguir esto. Lo cual (viajar por el tiempo) se explica por el autor del libro como tener La Estrella del Éxito, ya que ésta Estrella representa lo que algunos llaman: "EL PORTAL DEL TIEMPO".
Según lo que dispongo en información, en Costa Rica, mi país natal, No se han escrito trabajos de Ciencia Ficción, por la falta de científicos o hombres de ciencia capaces de llenar ese molde, de escritores ricos en argumentos de Ficción Científica. Cuándo escribo ese trabajo literario, uso la imaginación, que por cierto poseo muy creativa, para estructurar un manuscrito de alta calidad. La forma cómo me doy crédito para redactarlo, es diseñando un "deporte" al que llamé: "Imaginación". El libro lo constituye una colección de cuarenta partidas de dicho deporte. Se dice allí que, en los deportes, del tipo que sean, hay siempre un ganador y un perdedor; pero en este juego o deporte imaginativo "todos salimos ganando".
El material escrito del cual les comento enriquece la imaginación y la pone a interactuar en algo nombrado: "Riqueza de cultura para los viajes en el tiempo".
Significa lo narrado ya, que la certeza que irradia "VIAJEROS DEL TIEMPO" nos deja de cara a una realidad verdadera, y nos prepara para en el futuro llegar a ser Nosotros (hablo de usted y yo) los próximos viajeros del tiempo...
Writing Tip: Your Wrap-Around Story Has To Make SenseCyberdawn: Beginnings
Many movies have what I would call a Wrap Around Story, or Story Enclosure, that amounts to the excuse for the rest of the story. The Fifth Element would be one example; big bad amorphous evil coming to destroy Earth, and that is the excuse for the adventures. Great movie, but the wrap around is rather weak, undeveloped, and cannot stand on its own. Now take Lord of the Rings; simple wrap around story, destroy the Ring before Sauron destroys the world as he once tried to do before.
I saw a movie once (City of Ember, I believe) about another one of those "last city of Man on Earth" stories. No details on the whys and wherefores, and it was obvious that the author or scriptwriter had no idea what it might be either. How did 6 billion people get reduced to a thousand, why bury the city instead of putting it at the top of some mountain, why have such an elaborate means of leaving the city (and why after the river rapids so obviously flowed DOWN towards the way out did they suddenly find themselves ABOVE the city on the outside, but that's another issue). Because there was obviously no planning of what had happened to Humanity to bring them to this state, elements of the main plot became inconsistent.
The point is, the story enclosure has to be fully developed and detailed enough to stand on its own. It is the framework upon which your main story is hung, so if it cannot stand then elements of the plot which it supports may begin to unravel, holes in the story appear. You don't have to reveal the whole backstory of the enclosure in the novel, but the author should at least know himself what it is in full detail; by knowing the reasons behind why things are happening, the story will have more cohesion and the reader will sense a better unity within the story (and maybe even begin to guess the full backstory himself).
It is far better to have too much background details on your world than not enough. Everything must have a reason, a logic, a history. No hand waving or generalities. You will even find that this extensive note-making will inspire interesting additions to your plot that you hadn't planned on; just remember to map things out in a series of logical consequences based on your secret backstories.
Your readers will love you for it.
Mark Anthony Tierno
I've just self-published my latest Drowned World novella, "Three Pearls". This is set in a post-apocalyptic (but not dystopic!) future where climate change has devastated the planet, raising sea levels, destroying civilization...but still, life goes on.There are two species of human existent: Land People, who we would recognize as human, and Sea People, genetically altered to for an amphibious lifestyle. They have gills as well as lungs, can expand their hands and feet into flippers, and have long, stinging hair.
In "Three Pearls", a young Sea Person, Elisa, must deal with severe personal trauma as she navigates coming of age in her nomadic tribe. She experiences many changes, from adopting an abandoned child to feeling the first stirrings of romance. Please check it out and leave a review!
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Pearls-R...
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The Starbarian Saga Kickstarter
From author Robert Jeschonek, The Starbarian Saga is an exciting new series of space opera epics, combining savage action with exhilarating interstellar adventure every sci-fi fan is sure to love! Until now, this pulse-pounding series--think Star Wars meets Conan the Barbarian--has only been available in limited ebook runs, but not anymore! Back this Kickstarter project to get exclusive softcover and hardcover copies of the first two books in the series, Horde's Challenge and Horde's Power, available here for the first time and MONTHS before accessible to the general public. Backers can also find other out-of-this-world rewards, including collectible stickers, a cameo role in one of the Starbarian books, and even a special writing workshop where you can learn to write weird, cool, and freaky fiction just like The Starbarian Saga. Plus, if funded, count on at least 4 more Starbarian books coming your way soon!
This campaign has backing levels for everyone--whether you just want a taste of the Starbarian Saga through an ebook or you're ready to blast off with both books in hardcover, you can find the perfect price and reward to get your Starbarian fix. Can't find exactly what you're looking for? No problem! Add on any reward to a pre-existing backing level to get the perfect package to get your epic reading adventure off to the right start! http://kck.st/36Ledtu
From author Robert Jeschonek, The Starbarian Saga is an exciting new series of space opera epics, combining savage action with exhilarating interstellar adventure every sci-fi fan is sure to love! Until now, this pulse-pounding series--think Star Wars meets Conan the Barbarian--has only been available in limited ebook runs, but not anymore! Back this Kickstarter project to get exclusive softcover and hardcover copies of the first two books in the series, Horde's Challenge and Horde's Power, available here for the first time and MONTHS before accessible to the general public. Backers can also find other out-of-this-world rewards, including collectible stickers, a cameo role in one of the Starbarian books, and even a special writing workshop where you can learn to write weird, cool, and freaky fiction just like The Starbarian Saga. Plus, if funded, count on at least 4 more Starbarian books coming your way soon!
This campaign has backing levels for everyone--whether you just want a taste of the Starbarian Saga through an ebook or you're ready to blast off with both books in hardcover, you can find the perfect price and reward to get your Starbarian fix. Can't find exactly what you're looking for? No problem! Add on any reward to a pre-existing backing level to get the perfect package to get your epic reading adventure off to the right start! http://kck.st/36Ledtu
A trail of bodies have been found on sixteen different planets in the Galactic Council. The local law officers on each planet are struggling to find any significant evidence, so they contact the Council to ask for the Guardians to help. Profilers in the Council predict the next attack will be on a planet in the Black Systems. The problem is, Guardians are forbidden to land there. Masquerade: a murder mystery set in a different galaxy.
Hi All!I'm Maria Ereni Dampman, author of The Governor's Daughter, the first book released in the Daughters of the New American Revolution series.
A dystopian/spec fiction set in an alt world in the year 2045 America where the Capitol rioters succeeded, The Governor's Daughter tells the story of Emma Bellamy, the privileged daughter of the revered Governor. It's a story of a young woman finding her voice and standing up for what she believes despite the life-or-death consequences.
The Midwest Book Review called it "a notch above The Handmaid's Tale" and reader reviews are trickling in that all pretty much agree with that sentiment. I would love more reviews both here and on Amazon where my book is available in both ebook and paperback. I look forward to meeting you all!
https://www.amazon.com/Governors-Daug...
This is the new promo for my website michaelsbookcorner.com.
It is not a hard sell, but hopefully entertaining for the space geek in all of us.
Cheers!
Michael
Maria wrote: "Hi All!I'm Maria Ereni Dampman, author of The Governor's Daughter, the first book released in the Daughters of the New American Revolution series.
A dystopian/spec fiction set in an alt world i..."
Hi Maria, how are you? Are you looking for reviewers for your book? If so, I'd love to read and review it in exchange for a physical copy, as I don't really have a good way to read ebooks. My review would be published on Goodreads and my book blog. I can also be reached by email at: justabookishblog@gmail.com
Thank you!
Liar’s Legacy:In order to defeat the evil Polemonians and free his home-world, Ben Novak searches the galaxy for the legendary warrior Sevdis Minare, who is not everything he seems to be….
The first three episodes of Liar’s Legacy are available for free on Kindle Vella. I hope you have fun reading it!
Sci-Fi "Apex Five" is newly repped for TV, and we would love more ratings/reviews! Free through 29 July!Blurb: On far-future Earth, the only solar-powered human Rohem embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will reveal the danger of humanity's sudden forward leap in technology.
https://www.amazon.com/Apex-Five-Plan...
The Legend of Burroughs' Rangers by JA BlandA story of Apocalyptic Survival.
The Legend of Burroughs' Rangers
Sticks and stonesmight break my bones.
But go to the hospital, you say?
Now that's crazy!
It's just a flesh wound.
Give me a shot of vodka
and a good night's rest
and I'll be fine by morning.
I swear!
Health Reformation: Murder, Medicine and Rehab in the Age of Pandemics
After the world weathered numerous pandemics, health care has become free. No costs. No denials. No threats. But what's the catch?
Jason will find out soon enough when he has to visit the hospital to deal with a new and crippling malady.
A scifi/dystopian novel
I have one Sci-fi YA book named Trial that is available on amazon!Trial
You never know what life’s going to throw at you. Some people want to live peacefully, including Evette Baker, but the world has other plans for her, better yet CH:36279 does. A liquid substance lost in transportation to a government facility and into the hands of 17 year old Evette. She is now able to bend the will of objects' energy with her own two hands, but don’t be deceived by the looking glory of it. The substance is always in a contest to fight with her, trying to rip her part physically and mentally. While all of this is arising, someone who looks and beholds the same power she does comes stalking into the city. The people she thought she could trust the most are turning into the most deceiving. Love plays an evil game if you aren’t even aware you’re in the frolic. I mean, how can she trust anyone else if she can’t even trust herself?
Vanessa wrote: "I have one Sci-fi YA book named Trial that is available on amazon!Trial
You never know what life’s going to throw at you. Some people want to live peacefully, including Evette Bake..."
Hi Vanessa, how are you? Are you looking for reviewers for your book? If so, I'd love to read and review it in exchange for a physical copy, as I don't really have a good way to read ebooks. My review would be published on Goodreads and my book blog. I can also be reached by email at: justabookishblog@gmail.com
Thank you!
my name is melissa and I have published my first book! I have written a lot but finally found the courage to publish my first fantasy erotica romance book! its in preorder right now and I've posted 2 chapters, but I'd love some reviews when it comes out on the 9th! thank you :)
I now have two sci fi - mystery books on Amazon. Masquerade, and The Spyrian, written under my pen name of Kitty Cooper. Both are part of my Guardian Chronicles series which is set in a different galaxy. Although part of the series, both are stand-alone novels. The Guardian Chronicles novels revolve around four guardians, the combined military-police force on the planet Gaeiza. Gaeizaans aren't human, they're sollenite, but they are bipedal, mammalian humanoids who possess bio talents. Guardians are trained to use these talents to a high degree. Mostly they use telepathy to communicate over large distances, but they can also use telekinesis and teleport short distances without machines.
When the earth is destroyed by natural disasters, the world's oldest profession becomes the world's ONLY profession. Or so the rumor says. Find out for yourself in my novel, Once Upon an Ending.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1729708331/...
Writing Tips: Write the Market or Write Your SoulThis tip concerns the dilemma of write the market or write your own. My own take on it is this: if you write what the market currently demands, you will always be behind it, never in front, and never doing your best.
Write what you love, write what you know yourself to be best in, write where your soul lies. Only then will you be doing your best and writing something worthwhile. Write something that you love, and you will enjoy it, do your best, and not get bogged down by depressive "it's just another job" thoughts; the sort of things that will always get in the way of your best. And what's wrong with enjoying yourself? Have fun with the work and it will shine through into something people will enjoy reading and remember for long after.
But write the market, and you may not be doing something that you like, which will show in the decreased quality of your work, and you risk the current fad changing by the time you get that book out. Or you'll have to rush something out to keep up with said current trend, and a rushed work is a bad work. Though ironically, if you're writing what you love instead of the trends, then you may find yourself working harder and faster, getting a really good book out in half the time than if you tried something you didn't like nearly as much.
No, best to write what you love and try and start a trend of your own, or at least a little following. Follow a trend and you'll always be compared to that which started it, but follow your own self, and you'll only be compared to... yourself.
Mark Anthony Tierno
A review of my novel "Blue Planet Mission" by Asiel Laviehttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Gemini of the Sleeping GodsI am Hyperphant.
I wrote a sci-fi book like none other you have read. Without spilling too many fossilized beans, I will leave it at this; Gemini hearkens back to the science-fiction of old if Halo and Conan had a two-headed love child that then had incestual relations with Dune and maybe a hook-up with The Black Company and a love/hate thing with Malazan.
Oh and there are barbaric-hivemind halflings and AI sorcerers if you ever wanted to see Bilbo with a loincloth or a primitive world with glass walkers and laser-gun arms. Fun indeed.
I am looking for reviews in exchange for FREE BOOK. If you wish one please notify me via psionic telecommunications or simply a message.
Book Blurb;
Under the undying gaze of the red sun Bask and amidst the machinations of mortals, the traveler known as The Wanderer carries with him both a message and the relic of a fallen god—weaving into his chaotic odyssey a cast of expatriates, both willing and unwilling, their journey seeking answers at the misty fringes of the known world.
Awoken in the yawning abyss of a phantom empire, a pale warrior claws free of a millennia-elder grave to challenge any who stand in his way—even the legacy of his own creators—before an exigent task; to hunt down the construct of his rival and destroy it before it can complete its portentous mission.
The first installment in the science-fantasy series The Books of Bask, brings a new flavor of the fictional epic as primordial wills clash across the gulfs of time in a wild and astral world dense in barbaric tribes, terrifying technology, and the ancient bones of hypercivilizations.
Hello Folks,Free on Amazon this weekend.The Sunstones: The Road to Altair
New author, new everything. Trying to find my way to a review.
The Re-Emergence: An Augment Saga NovellaFrom the Grave of the Gods
Hi all, new to the concept of groups on Goodreads. Here are my first two books in my epic sci-fi adventure series, The Augment Saga.
My debut novella, The Re-Emergence, is out now and available, and the first full length novel in the series, From the Grave of the Gods, is available to pre-order for release on the 1st November.
Hi all! I’m publishing the first novel in my series on December 13, 2021. I would love to share ARCs with readers who might be interested. Below is the synopsis. It is also displayed on Goodreads so you can add it to your bookshelf!
::The Lost Pleiad by Kelly Branyik::
She set out on a journey to find home and ended up finding two. Which one will she choose?
Anya Allen has always felt out of place on Earth and strangely felt more connected to the stars. Stargazing has been a life-long hobby for Anya but there is one constellation she favors above all others; The Pleiades.
As befuddling as this connection was, she still spent years convincing herself everyone felt just as lost in the world. But at 30-years-old, her strongest desire to belong takes her on a journey to discover who she really is and her true place in the Universe.
As her online research awakens her introspective curiosity, she discovers truths about the star cluster that evokes a possibility she only vaguely suspected; she might not be from planet Earth.
Motivated to get answers, Anya seeks assistance from a duo of lightworkers, who introduce her to metaphysical travels that will shoot her to the one place she had only ever imagined. As her abilities to move between two worlds intensifies, so does a budding romantic bond with one person who knows and accepts her better than anyone, Sam.
Suddenly, Earth was feeling like the home she had always yearned for.
Their deepening love threatens to disrupt Anya’s desires to visit a world unknown and find the place she truly belongs.
Through a series of interstellar travels, Anya finally finds the home she has always longed for but which world is she actually destined to live in?
Kelly wrote: "Hi all! I’m publishing the first novel in my series on December 13, 2021. I would love to share ARCs with readers who might be interested. Below is the synopsis. It is also displayed on Goodreads..."
Hi Kelly, how are you? I'd love to read and review your book in exchange for a physical copy, as I don't really have a good way to read ebooks. My review would be published on Goodreads and my book blog. I can also be reached by email at: justabookishblog@gmail.com
Thank you!
(By the way, the cover is gorgeous!! XD)
The Great ConvergencePhilosophical sci-fi + social satire
Hi, there
I've just published my debut - weird as it gets novel. Below please find the blurb. Would love to hear some comments - if possible. Thanks in advance :)
Free chapters available at: https://thomaskast.space/chapter-01
Blurb:
10.000.002 A.D. A cantankerous scholar slipping into obscurity is out for revenge.
He time-travels to the year 2022 to stop his nemesis, Scott — a successful scientist at a competing university — from thwarting his research into the origin of a mysterious phenomenon, the Great Convergence. Shrewd and ruthless, Scott will stop at nothing to defend his tenure track. The feud quickly spins out of control and the damage to reality grows unchecked.
Caught in the crosshairs are three characters responsible for triggering the Great Convergence: an art-hating professional art critic who, unbeknownst to him, spontaneously switches between universes wreaking havoc as he goes; a talentless artist whose sculptures act as trans-universal portals; and a schizophrenic astrophysicist trying to avert the invasion of alternate versions of himself from different realities. As their paths converge, the apocalyptic event takes place and the inescapable tragedy of human existence unfolds.
A subversive philosophical science fiction and a social satire, the Great Convergence will take you out of your comfort zone, exposing the absurdity of many ethical and intellectual ideals.
Hi, everyone! Jonathan Lee here, author of Different Vessels. Here's the blurb for the book:
The greatest frontier of the unknown lies within...
Rising from the wreckage of a crashed ship, a man explores a world that is at once strange and familiar. When he encounters the inhabitants of that world, he learns some uncomfortable truths--and a few uncomfortable things about himself. When he is faced with choices to make in the present, will he defer to the past? Or will he embrace a new future? Who he was, is, and will become is the journey of a lifetime that he never expected.
Different Vessels is an exploration of the human condition through the lens of a man at odds with his own forgotten past. A tale intended to be both entertaining as it is thought-provoking. Traverse across the mysterious landscape of a man's soul in a SciFi adventure story where Total Recall meets American History X.
My debut novel, Robert Wilson and the Invasion from Within is a blend of science fiction and a political thriller. Here is the blurb; I hope you check it out!As the world confronts an invasion from an alien empire—which has embedded spies in global institutions—the decisions of one man may determine humanity’s fate.
Alien conqueror, Anton Frozos, sends Robert Wilson, a top graduate of a spy-training program, to Earth to gain influence and prime the planet for its eventual conquest. Robert uses his advanced knowledge and technology to amass significant power and fortune in the business world. However, Robert has concealed aspects of his past from Frozos, which may complicate his loyalty.
When Frozos’s forces arrive several years later, Robert must decide whether to support the man who has lifted him from a life of enslavement or defect and ally with Earth. This choice forces Robert to insert himself into the political process, opposing American President Nick Neverian, as the planet decides whether to forcefully resist invasion or accept Frozos’s demands. Robert’s own past with President Neverian, a one-time ally and now foe, further complicates his decision-making. As the crisis builds, will nations be brought to the brink of war? Will governments be toppled while the world reckons with Frozos’s army amassing in the sky?
Greetings, all!I'm a journalist/author who's delighted to be here. I have several spec fic (mostly horror/fantasy, but at least one YA) short stories out in various anthologies (check out my author page!) and a first novel coming out in 2022, a humorous pop-culture-meets-fantasy tale that's got a little mystery, a little romance, a great big diva and so many mangoes, called "Tune In Tomorrow." Looking forward to sharing conversations!
This is Isaac Nasri, sci-fi author to short story collection, Heart of the Scrapdog, and my debut novel, Into the Violet Gardens. The synopsis to the cyberpunk novel is displayed below:The year is 2024. A ruthless cartel dominates Latin America, and the FBI's Troy Levi gets commissioned to intervene. A cyborg for the bureau's Virtual Division, Levi delivers a devastating blow to the cartel's power but encounters a wave of social resentment in the aftermath.
As the people's feelings for cyborgs grow bitter, former black-op cyborg ally and CIA operative Soriana Salazar finds herself caught between sides. Eliminating the cartel destabilized the region, fueling anti-cyborg sentiments in neighboring countries and afar. But tough decisions await Salazar after civil unrest forces the agency to sever all cyborgs ties. And that's only the beginning…
Betrayed by the government, hated by the people, a vengeful league of cyborgs spawns a sinister scheme of liberation. And While Levi searches for Solace amid the turmoil and Salazar seeks balance, both will have to take a grave stand if they hope to stall the impending chaos.
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It was published this year on August and was credited a 5 star award on Reader's Favorite. Despite modern, Into the Violet Gardens blends cyberpunk themes into the reality of our contemporary society and told in multiple character POVs
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finds Olga, Toivo and their dolphins in a race against slave traders to free their friend, Shela. What will the be willing to sacrifice to save her?
Something unusual is happening around Tau Sagittarii, and it’s not what you think.Pushing Planets is a new hard SciFi book that will challenge your imagination. Fans of Asimov’s Foundation and Sagan’s Contact will love this gripping and original hard science fiction novel. Packed with big ideas, unexpected twists and a clever mix of actual science and bold fiction, Pushing Planets will take your mind from the New York City of the 23rd century to Mars, Titan and the Tau Sagittarii system.
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