I'd like my reading list for next year to include more indie authors (instead of just reading the whole Discworld series on a loop like I usually do), and my fave genre is sci-fi.
So, I'm betting Fedi has quite the treasure trove of indie sci-fi authors, please say hello and tell me where I can find your books! Or if you're not an author, recommendations of people to check out obviously very welcome too.
Thanks!
(Boosts welcome & appreciated ♥️)
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Edwin Downward
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Hello,
I write #scifi adventure and you can learn more from my website.
edwindownward.com
Edwin Downward
Edwin DownwardMichelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to Edwin Downward • • •Anna
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to Anna • • •Flash Mob Of One
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •I always recommend Henry Neff's Tapestry series.
Wonderful story, five books and there's a follow-on book that, while technically part of the series, is set 1000 in the future from the original.
Also he's an awesome human being.
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to Flash Mob Of One • • •Notavi
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •E. Cooley. It's short, but very imaginative and cleverly put together.
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to Notavi • • •Wendy Palmer
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •ooh, second that one 😊
Also Neve Maslakovic and Julie Bihn, both indie authors on here
Social Commentary Bot
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •I assume you're asking for Indie because you've already worked through the more prominent works of William Gibson, such as the Sprawl trilogy?
The Difference Engine collaboration with @bruces is particularly good if you've likewise knocked off his solo work like Schismatrix
I've always had a soft spot for Andre Norton's "Android at arms" - it's got a really quirky classic sci-fi fantasy feel to it.
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to Social Commentary Bot • • •Social Commentary Bot
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Neuromancer's a must-read; it's very much a progenitor of the Matrix and the suchlike.
That said, I think I found the two sequels (Count Zero & Mona List Overdrive) to be more satisfyingly constructed.
Dune's very much in the zeitgeist ATM because of the films - but the original run of books are definitely worth reading for the sheer intellectual depth of the conceit that the action-oriented movies can't really cover.
HHGTTG is Discworld adjacent if you've missed that?
Social Commentary Bot
in reply to Social Commentary Bot • • •As for really indie and really weird-and-wild:
Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is worth reading if you can tolerate *very* graphic content.
It's so indie that it was published online for free.
Social Commentary Bot
in reply to Social Commentary Bot • • •Oh, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelly is kinda mandatory sci-fi reading.
It is pretty much the first ever sci-fi story, and it's the work of an intellectual heavy weight. A real masterpiece that is still informing the genre to this day.
It's also kinda indie, in that it was originally written for Byron, Percy Shelley and other guests as a holiday project.
It's one everyone's heard of, but not necessarily read?
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to Social Commentary Bot • • •@SocialCommentaryBot I really enjoyed Frankenstein, went through a "classic books I should have read" phase a while back and that was top of my list. And Hitchhikers was A Big Deal in my youth!
Slightly ashamed to say I've never got on with Dune though, friends have shunned me for this viewpoint for years 😅
naught101
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •@SocialCommentaryBot
Anything by Ursula Le Guin (start with The Dispossessed or The Left Hand Of Darkness)
UNSONG by Scott Alexander (available as a free eBook). It will make you feel like you are living real life through a weird apocalypse somehow finding it fun.
bytebro
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Haha, that has shades of "I know what I like, and I like what I know." I can be similar.
One you could try that I've enjoyed so far is @courtcan who has several fantasy novels, and a few spec-fic.
And all of @cstross
His "Laundry Files" books are wonderful and funny, and just disturbing enough to make you want the next one.
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to bytebro • • •Court Cantrell will not comply
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Dr. Victoria Grinberg
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Vandana Singh is absolutely amazing - here my mini review of one of her books: mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/1…
Simon Stalenhag's "Electric State"
Karin Tidbeck's "Amatka"
Dr. Victoria Grinberg (@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social)
MastodonPoloniousmonk
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •What makes an author "indie"?
The Crystal trilogy by Max Harms is pretty awesome.
diyelectromusic
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •A great way to find out about more indie authors (depending on your definition of indie) in Sci-Fi I've found is to look at some of the short story magazines like Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Shoreline of Infinity, Uncanny Mag...
But also how indie is indie? I've been reading a lot more less-than-mainstream authors this year, so maybe get onto a Bookwyrm instance and follow some people too?
I like Rambling Readers as a UK based instance ramblingreaders.org/user/Kevin…
Rambling Readers
ramblingreaders.orgMichelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to diyelectromusic • • •Nathan Lowell (he/him)
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Just off the top of my head from authors I've read here.
John Wilker's Grand Human Empire @jwilker
Si Clarke's Starship Teapot
@clacksee
Dave Walsh's Trysero @dvewlsh
L J Cohen's Halcyon Space @lj
I'm blanking out on more but there are a lot of us here.
I only read self pubbed books, usually in series, so if you need more, hit me up! :)
Lena
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Uncanny Magazine is an online sci-fi/fantasy magazine that has a lot of great stories.
Edited to add their handle: @UncannyMagazine
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to Lena • • •bex :neocat_flag_nb:
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to bex :neocat_flag_nb: • • •V, The Dragon Witch 🌙
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •@bex 💙 ty, bex!
Yeah, more fantasy. A couple space fantasy though. ^_^
estakkie
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Rev. Roger BW 😷
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Lisa 🦔
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •- Apex Magazine
- wandering.shop/@ApexMagazine
- apex-magazine.com
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- mastodon.online/@clarkesworld
- clarkesworldmagazine.com
- Lightspeed Magazine
- lightspeedmagazine.com
- Uncanny Magazine
- mastodon.social/@UncannyMagazi…
- uncannymagazine.com
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Clarkesworld MagazineCanayjun
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Spinward Fringe series. The first in the series, Broadcast 0: Origins, is free on Kindle. #SciFi #bookstodon #indieauthors
Kenneth Gagne
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Vanessa A. Shafer
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •anamuk
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Silhelm is a goblin now
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •there's a lot of great suggestions in this thread! craftgoblin.club/@silhelm/1134…
Silhelm is a goblin now
2024-11-13 17:00:48
Piers Cawley
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •May I commend everything by Becky Chambers to you? Lovely, humane sf.
I don't know if @seananmcguire counts as indie, but she's never written anything bad either – I particularly like the 'Feed' series, written as Mira Grant.
@AnnLeckie's Ancillary Justice won all the awards in 2013 and justifiably so. If you've ever sung from the Sacred Harp (or in any choir for that matter,) you'll get an extra depth from this one.
Steve DeGroof 📚🛸
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Hi! I'm Steve and I write weird little SFF stories. Style sort of a mixture of Ray Bradbury and Douglas Adams, I suppose.
You can find my books just about anywhere. Just search for "Steve DeGroof". There aren't that many of us out there. 😄
BrambleBearGrrrauling
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •See @susankayequinn here and her books at susankayequinn.com/
#solarpunk and #hopepunk and #speculativefiction
SUSAN KAYE QUINN
SUSAN KAYE QUINNEllenInEdmonton :mstdnca:
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •#BangkokWakesToRain by
#PitchayaSudbanthad
and
#HowHighWeGoInTheDark by
#SequoiaNagamatsu
I previously followed and interacted with both writers online. SciFi isn't my primary genre.
#AmReading
Sheru (she/her)
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •If you haven't read any of Becky Chambers yet, highly recommend.
She has the Monk and Robot series which is short and oh so cozy and sweet and hopeful. Then the Wayfarer series which is also cozy but more on the like, space-faring sci-fi vibe. CANNOT recommend her enough.
RealGravitas
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •I’m Curtis Wilbur Been writing SciFi novels for a couple of decades now. Dystopian Post-Apocalypse type stuff with a slight pornographic bent. My stuff is on Lulu and most online bookstores like Amazon as hardcopy and e-format. My current fave is Tears of Eridanus.
Thanks!
Mark Levison
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Publish a list when done?
#Lazyweb
Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to Mark Levison • • •Théotime
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to Théotime • • •@Theotime812 Honestly, given that I'm a hobbyist gamedev and "indie" is ill-defined and controversial there too, I probably should have thought this through more 😅
But really I was just trying to avoid recommendations of big well-known authors, figured most on here are probably hobbyists, self-publishers, or just at the start of their career etc and I'd like to read more of that!
Mark IJbema
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •I just read a fantasy book by an Indie author which to me felt a lot like a grittier Discworld. If you like Discworld and are not opposed to violence you might like it
goodreads.com/book/show/221315…
(I don't think I know any SF by Indie authors, going to check out the responses for that :) )
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in reply to Mark IJbema • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Seconded.
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ploum
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •: In English, I recommend SF books from @cstross @pluralistic @scalzi
(my own books are not yet translated in English, as told here : mamot.fr/@ploum/11341539875616… )
ploum
2024-11-02 21:07:26
JohnDerderian
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •smashwords.com/profile/view/Dr…
Also available on Amazon, but they're evil and also insist on messing up my formatting, so I won't link to them.
John Derderian
SmashwordsGayDeceiver
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to GayDeceiver • • •Kamikaze
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Cariad 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to Cariad 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ • • •Steven Hoefer
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Hi, I've written various things, but mostly a trio of sci-fi novels that are sort of a workplace comedy if the workplace is an embassy to extraterrestrials.
readsteven.com/read/
If you're into that sort of thing. Zero pressure!
(Also seconding @nlowell's recommendations up thread, and Beckie Chambers and Martha Wells, who aren't really indie, but have an indie vibe and I reread them often.)
Read What I've Written
Steven HoeferQuixoticgeek
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher
in reply to Quixoticgeek • • •spooky Ske-lil-ton 🦇
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Lydia Schoch
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Self-Published | Lydia Schoch
lydiaschoch.comLydia Schoch
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Books | Lydia Schoch
lydiaschoch.comV, The Dragon Witch 🌙
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Okay SO
@rowyn wrote a delightful sci-fi romance with a game dev protagonist
@mwl has written some extremely cool sci-fi mysteries
@LJ writes awesome sci-fi with found family themes
@cheribaker has a grand space opera sci-fi adventure out!
These are all authors whose sci-fi is indie (self-published and small press) so do check them out!
LJ
in reply to V, The Dragon Witch 🌙 • • •V, The Dragon Witch 🌙 reshared this.
DearlySamantha
in reply to V, The Dragon Witch 🌙 • • •Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:
in reply to V, The Dragon Witch 🌙 • • •@vicorva @rowyn @LJ @cheribaker @ParadeGrotesque
(gluing two replies together in my response, like a barbarian)
Permit me to add @zzclaybourne to this list. Rich, rich voice and action.
I have freebies in various stores, but you can get my samples at my store, tiltedwindmillpress.com/produc… -- both SF and orcness available.
Free – Tilted Windmill Press
www.tiltedwindmillpress.comLJ
in reply to Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire: • • •Parade du Grotesque 💀
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •See:
@cstross
@mwl - see the Orc series
@lilithsaintcrow - Afterwar is awesome
@zzclaybourne
@vicorva - I love her necromancer series
etc...
Joe
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •bookandswordblog
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •The Misenchanted Page
watt-evans.comDave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Somebody Keeps Callin' eBook : Harrigon, D., Dawkins, David T: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.ukT.M. Baumgartner
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Hello!
I have a "hard to categorize but probably space opera/western?" trilogy (Jackpot Drift) that is available at all the major retailers & libraries. And the first one is free!
books2read.com/JackpotDrift1
Available now at your favorite digital store!
books2read.comRuby Jones
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Ninja 🦝 :tinoflag:
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •@tm_baumgartner
The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach is spectacular, I’ve bought a second copy specifically to lend out
Curious Magpie
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •I love recommending authors!
Ada Palmer - Terra Ignota series
Darcie Little Badger
KB Wagers
Rebecca Camp - Arboreality
Annalee Newitz
EM Anderson - The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher
Sarena Ulibarri - Another Life
Nghi Vo
And always - Victoria Goddard
reactormag.com/you-should-real…
#reading @bookstodon
You Should Really Be Reading Victoria Goddard’s Nine Worlds Series - Reactor
Alexandra Rowland (Reactor)jer
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Andy Tinkham
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •jer
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Aqueduct Press
www.aqueductpress.comdr mags amond
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •thank you for asking the question - the answers are forming a great list for us!
some series I wish I were starting again (all more future / past fiction than sci-fi):
Muderbot - Martha Wells
Earthsea - Ursula K le Guin
Binti - Nnedi Okorafor
Knights of the Borrowed Dark - Dave Rudden
library cryptid 📚
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •I don't want to scroll through all suggestions to see if someone mentioned them, but I love Derin Edala's work. They mostly write web fiction, both short stories and novels. But they have recently self-published their sprawling sci-fi epic "Time to Orbit: Unknown" that I can't recommend enough. I regularly stayed up way too long reading it when it was still being released online.
derinstories.com/
books2read.com/u/38GwQ6?format…
Derin Edala
Derin EdalaJonathan Arnold
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell
Seven of Infinities by @aliettedb
A Singh for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
Andrew Douglass
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •some political sci-fi I really enjoyed was Infomocracy and its sequels by Malka Older.
Her current series is also really enjoyable - The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti. I’d probably describe it as cozy sapphic noir, but also academia, trains, and space belong in the description somehow too.
Katherine Villyard
in reply to Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher • • •Hi!
My debut novel #ImmortalGifts is coming out February 4! Preorders are open for ebook. Reviews are coming soon, so watch this space!
buy.bookfunnel.com/txcheogc2i
He lied about his identity. Two hundred years later, he’s still paying the price…
buy.bookfunnel.comskatercat🛼 🍉
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