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.

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…

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! :)

Uncanny Magazine is an online sci-fi/fantasy magazine that has a lot of great stories.

Edited to add their handle: @UncannyMagazine

@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 😅

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?

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.

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.

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. 😄

See @susankayequinn here and her books at susankayequinn.com/

#solarpunk and #hopepunk and #speculativefiction

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.

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!

Publish a list when done?

#Lazyweb

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 :) )

@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.

: 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

Hey #FediBookFair ,

I’m a SF writer writing in French published by @pvheditions . My books are under a CC By-SA license and available in every bookshop in France, Switzerland, Belgium.

My new novel, "Bikepunk" was released a few days ago (think Mad Max with bikes, written on an old typewriter).

See the #bikepunk hashtags and bikepunk.fr/

We are looking for partnership with #publishers in other countries to spread translations of the books.

Contact me or @ludomire

Bikepunk, les chroniques du flash, par Ploum

Bikepunk, les chroniques du flash, un roman de Ploum - Lionel Dricot

^bikepunk.fr

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!

See:

@cstross
@mwl - see the Orc series
@lilithsaintcrow - Afterwar is awesome
@zzclaybourne
@vicorva - I love her necromancer series

etc...

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

@tm_baumgartner

The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach is spectacular, I’ve bought a second copy specifically to lend out

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

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…

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.

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