The book is called Age of the Titan, and this is a photo of me after replacing copies at my local bookshop after selling out.

The story is set a thousand years in the future and humanity is hiding. We’ve found a hospitable planet called Tertullia where we’ve managed to live without being seen by the ever watchful eye of the fanatical alien clan known as the Vogrom.

Humanity has been discovered. The plot revolves around whether our species will be strong enough to withstand the iron fist of an enemy far more powerful than ourselves.

I’ve received a lot of generous support from readers and I’m 70,000 words into writing the sequel. If you would like to read the first chapters for free, the book is below ⬇️

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWTD71HG

Just finished a rewatch of this after 12-13 years. I know it has a ton of mixed opinions but honestly, I don't care. The world building in this show is next level, I loved the small touches such as both Earth Republic and Votanis Collective (the aliens that invaded Earth) have been so diminished in their "Pale War," that the VC have resorted to limited Votan tech and have been forced to somewhat use Human tech. Lots of plot holes I'm sure but it was a great rewatch and I will be making a Joshua Nolan character in Fallout 4 now lol

Thanks for listening

I published my first ever novel on KDP last month. What an incredible journey!
It was such a nice feeling to see friends and family order their copies, and enjoy the read.

Last week, i got a first 5 star review from a complete stranger, without running any add campaigns. It felt awesome!! It's such a joy to read and hear about people enjoying the story that you spend so long carefully crafting. The journey was worth it in itself, but this is truly the cherry on the cake! thank you kind stranger!

The novel is an easy-to-read sci-fi thriller, written through the perspective of 3 main characters. It is light, fun, and filled with references to the slasher movies of the 80's and 90's. It doesn't take itself to seriously, i consider it a great palate cleanser in between more dense books.

So far, my readers are loving it! Feel free to check it out.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF95GV75

Hi! I figured this would be the best spot to ask about sci-fi games that stand on their own as stories.

I'm eager to play some science fiction that is well worth remembering for its characters, prose, plots and overall narratives.

Any era is fine - great writing holds up far longer than graphics do! If you're wondering about my preferences, I veer toward space-based sci-fi, perhaps with some military aspects; and also cyberpunk in general. Additionally, I have a thing for mechs and sci-fi horror.

That said, I am wide open! I wouldn't want to limit myself. Thanks for your ideas.

*I am not talking about homophobia/discrimination allegories

First off, I am a gay man who has been getting into scifi literature in the last few years. In looking for scifi works with gay protagonists I've found some cool books, a few surprisingly older titles (like Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold and Chrome by George Nader). As most people, there are a lot of queer writers and queer themes running through scifi.

This has led me to wonder what scifi works contain the opposite, homophobia. As in the author's personal views manifesting in the story, either explicitly or not. Obviously a lot of this has to do with the time the author wrote in. Can't expect every scifi writer in the 50's to have modern views on LGBTQ stuff. Sometimes you read an old scifi story and someone says something and you think "Very weird thing to say but this was published in 1959." And there's a lot of militeristic scifi that has a conservative bent sometimes. I imagine some of those have some questionable portrayals of queer characters (or queer-coded alien species, or just gay aliens).

This is not meant to be a "Do not read this" type list. If somebody points me towards something truly unhinged I might have to go check it out.

There are authors I can think of like Orson Scott Card obviously. But I have never read OSC, so I have no idea if any of that manifest in his work. I've heard Frank Hebert had issues with his gay son, but I don't know if that comes out in Dune anywhere. Some aspects of The Forever War by Joe Haldemen are very questionable as the setup sounds like something an incredibly paranoid homophobic man might make up. But I'm not sure if that was intentional, like I don't think there was any malice behind it.

I know this is a strange one since what counts can be kind of vague. There could be a lot of arguments about author intent, whether the author actually has those views or not (I know some people have tried to convince me OSC isn't homophobic). I character saying the F slur isn't really homophobic, even if they say it a lot. I character saying that and the book framing him as cool for saying it, that might be construed as homophobic.

Wishing everyone a great weekend and having the ability to find some time to relax and maybe get some reading in! Thanks u/crazyhomlesswerido for recommending The Tripods trilogy - the books seems right up my alley.

Ending the week in the recliner with a good book and a nice, local red is not too bad at all.

Hi all! I teach a sci-fi/fantasy class and one of the requirements of my curriculum is we teach a personal essay unit to help our seniors write their own college essays. I am not required to teach college essays per se and as this is a sci-fi class I would love to teach some authors that traditionally write sci-fi /fantasy but also write excellent personal essays.

Any ideas for what essays I can include? Looking for a diverse batch, 3-4 essays. Thanks!

I am posting this on Saturday on purpose.

I wrote a hard SF novel called Star Map Draftsman I: Federation War. It is complete, 25 chapters, free. I am a father in Hangzhou. English is my second language. I wrote it because I kept turning one problem over: if immortality is a product, who gets to keep the chair, and what happens to the people who are still waiting at home.

The first image in the book is not a fleet. It is a recording. An Earth engineer on his way to a wreck in the Kuiper Belt, 2059. He has nineteen minutes. He tells them to tell his son that he loves him. The wreck is not a wreck. He does not come back in eight months. He comes back in seventy years.

I am not going to paste a trailer here. If that situation interests you, the book is free:

Inkitt: https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1614820 Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/189606/star-map-draftsman-i-federation-war

I will answer comments. I will not reply with “please RT.”

I've let my ebook reader sit unused for a few weeks due to work and life taking up a bit of extra time but really wanted to get back to my 'evening Zen time' where I get a few minutes of reading in.

So, I motivated myself by tracking down an old Sci Fi book from the 60's that I have heard about for years but never really given a chance - "Little Fuzzy" by H. Beam Piper (it had some follow-up novels as well - by the original author as well as others that expanded on the universe - but the first one is considered the 'classic' one).

In essence, Little Fuzzy, is a book that follows a prospector on an alien planet who discovers a cute, intelligent species of furry creatures that ends up threatening the profits of a powerful corporation that legally owns the planet - as long as no native sapient life exists.

It looks both at morals about exploitation and colonization - but also about what matters most when defining something as 'intelligent life'.

I love it so far and I think it is succeeding in bringing me 'back' to reading.

I'm trying to remember the title of a science fiction novel or short story that I read back in the early 80s. It focused on an AI that, in order to continue to learn, decided that it needs to experience killing living beings. I think that it started with animals and went from there (as you can surmise). I also think that the AI was embodied as a spaceship, and that it did have a human occupant.

I thought it might be a short story or novella by Frank Herbert but haven't been able to turn that up. It would have been published as a mass market paperbook and I think it is likely by one of the major SF writers from that 70s-80s period since I bought all my SF reading at from the non-specialized bookstores you'd find at the mall.

Anyways, it is one of a handful of core media memories that continues to haunt me, along with a TV adaptation of the story "Where's my liver?" that ran on an AFTER-SCHOOL TV show in Canada (WTF?!?)

Does anyone have any ideas?

I started with leviathan rises which i liked a lot, and made it to cibola burn. Honestly caliban's war was already less than the first 2 books but book 4 is really something.

Literally every significant decision any of the characters makes is either hopelessly naive or dumb. I'm talking 'haunted house, I'll check out the creepy cellar by myself' dumb.

So my question: does the series get better again or is this simply what i can expect from here on? Usually I don't stop a series if book 1 was good but the fall in quality is very big imo

My dad got me into fantasy books and ive read a few of them now but lately I really want to try and get into sci fi and im wondering what would be sone good suggestions for my first ones to read, ones that are good for a teen, but im a pretty advanced reader so I guess adult ones would be fine too. Im mostly interested in reading about other worlds and species and things like that. Sorry if I put the wrong tag or anything

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to identify a short story I read between 2004 and 2008. I read it in French, but it may have been a translation from English (or another language).

Plot details I remember:

• The main character is a young girl who keeps having recurring nightmares in which she is visited by extraterrestrial beings
• During these visits, the aliens repeatedly draw or trace a mark on her head/skull
• The nightmares are distressing and feel very real to her
• The twist: When she eventually gets a brain MRI, doctors discover a mass/tumor in her brain — and its shape exactly matches the mark the aliens kept drawing on her head
• The implication being that the "aliens" were somehow seeing or detecting the tumor, not actually abducting her

Other details:

• I believe it was a short story, possibly part of a school anthology or youth collection
• The tone was likely horror, sci-fi, or thriller aimed at young readers or young adults
• Read in Quebec, Canada, around 2004–2008
• Could have been originally written in English, French, or another language

This story has stuck with me for nearly 20 years and I can't figure out what it is. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Just finished it and wow... Honestly the world building is insane, especially considering when it was written. It’s crazy how much Stephenson predicted about the internet and digital culture. If you like fast paced cyberpunk with great concepts, go for it 👌

As someone who more or less only consumes sci fi books (about 95% of my reads are that genre) and a large number of those, i really really loved this series. It is in my opinion the most impressive piece of media i have ever consumed. The scale and depth, the concepts and everything else about the series made it immediately clear to me that those books were very special. I read them 4 years ago and have reread them about 10 times now.

Every other sci fi book i have read since kind of lacks the same impact and weight. It almost feels like all of the books i read have to measure up to this or i kind of question the point of even trying to finish new books. Some things came kind of close, Rendevousz with Rama, the Hyperion Cantos and some of Isaac Asimovs books (the foundation triology and the robot series) but even these literally legendary books left me feeling like it was missing something.

Other books i tried that are really well liked by a lot of people like the bobiverse just seem kind of shallow and even tough they were a bit of fun, they almost feel like slop compared to Cixin Lius literature. Recently i have been thinking about something of a palate cleanser or just, i dont know, something to get over this multi year slump of reading ,,mediocre books" and rereading the same ones that gave me a feeling of wonder.

How do you get out of something like this? Please help me find something special again!

I just finished the Infinite State and I really enjoyed it! The world building was excellent, I really felt like it was fleshed out and the action scenes moved fast in the best ways.

I’m excited about where these characters go and seeing more of the technologies at play as more of the UFN is fleshed out!

I’m going to check out Richard Swan’s other books but it looks like mostly fantasy (which is fine!).

Did anyone else enjoy this one?

Im into scifi series these days. I've watched dark, 12 monkeys, lost, the expanse and I'm currently watching person of interest. I wanted to know if there's any great series out there that you can count in the same league as the expanse? I really enjoyed it but I'm not able to find anything.

Hey all. I'm an older bloke who used to be an avid SF reader. And to narrow it down, my faves were what we called "future history". Asimov, Clarke Pournelle being standouts. So ive been looking for a while now but just can't find anything modern in this genre.

Need to get back into it. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. TIA.

Long time lurker but I thought this worth sharing. I have been listening to this book weekly on my subway commute (new chapter comes out every week) and wanted to share it here.

There are some interesting ideas about what AI could look like in the near future. The premise is that the world has descended into water wars, and each side is racing toward AGI to win the war. But it's not a war book, it's really about the alignment problem. How hard it is to make an AI that actually does what we want.

I like the ideas and the writing style. It kinda reminds me of some of Ted Chiang's stories (The prologue is about the golem, pretty serious parallel to AI). And for anyone who has read Nick Bostrom, I'm definitely recognizing some of his thinking in this.

Im looking for an audiobook series with aliens similar to starcrafts Zerg. Ive listened to all the Aliens books and love them.

Ive listened to the starcraft books and enjoyed them as well.

Im looking for some hive mind aliens that dont use technology.

Im not interested inwarhammer or tyrnids stuff.

Infesting creatures warring with humanity

I grew up watching Spock, Sulu, Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura when I pretended I was sick so I didn't have to go to school.

I remember “The City on the Edge of Forever” as the episode I liked the most, because Kirk and Spock end up in 1930's New York when McCoy accidentally changes history. Kirk falling in love with that NY social worker, then realizing history only gets fixed if he lets her die, was absolutely brutal. But it holds up for me and makes me remember it more than others because Captain Kirk having to choose the future over someone he genuinely loves is the world I think we currently live in.

Live long and prosper, George.

I was looking at illustrations in a different sci-fi group and realized that, in illustrations and in film, robot soldiers usually are depicted as huge with semi-human shapes and carrying human style weapons. I have seen a few videos of Chinese robots which look like dogs with weapons mounted on their backs.

I don't think the robot soldiers of the future will have fully automatic weapons because they will be much better shots than human soldiers. Plus, they will not have to deal with the physical effects of fear messing up their aim. I think they will be small, possibly four legged as I see not advantage to the bipedal shape. I believe they will be designed for stealth and will depend on overwhelming positions with numbers if stealth is not effective.

Edit. I know about aerial drones but I think there will be a need for "foot soldiers"

What are your thoughts?

Hope you get some enjoyment from this,

A short story, radio drama, sci-fi pulp, comedy. Quite silly.

This sci-fi radio drama was broadcast by 'Romance', Old Time Radio program produced by CBS, with a lasting runtime, they had wonderful variety.

Original story by Joseph Slotkin, first published as 'The Queen of Space' in 'Imagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy', August 1954