Smashwords - Free Scifi Summer - My short stories are FREE from Smashwords July 1-31, 2025! Grab a free story from any of the eighteen below:
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#freestuff #free #freebies #giveaway #frugal #scifi #Sciencefiction #books #booksforkids
I have a new patron-only post up on Patreon! New schedule, same brilliant repartee! Gain access to free copies of three short ebooks for as little as $1USD/month! #SciFi #WritersLife
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Chapters 27 and 28 of "A New Faith" are up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
Parts 1 and 2 are available to #download (or read online) for #free in #DRMfree #PDF and #EPUB formats
#solarpunk #hopepunk #clifi #book #bookstodon #novel #fiction #scifi #climate #adaptation #migration #mystery #thriller #booksky #amwriting #authorsky #WritersCoffeeClub #WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers #PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction #climatefiction
My novelette All Rights Reserved is available now for 50% off in the SmashWords End-of-Year Sale! An uploaded consciousness is appropriated as intellectual property and enslaved in a far-future corporate dystopia. If that sounds like your jam, it's going for only $0.99USD!
Thousands of years from now... humans have long since left a depleted Earth, and much of what we know about it is forgotten or confused.
But the arts are thriving, and two drama graduates find something unexpected when they make a pit stop to find parts to fix their tea machine...
An Unscheduled Stop: a short story inspired by Orford Ness
https://www.draliceviolett.com/an-unscheduled-stop/
Palisade Green, sequel to Atraxian Blue available as ebook https://books2read.com/u/3RrNwn or print https://books2read.com/u/m0XB6y
Renny thought he'd escaped from his father. He thought he had his addiction under control. Then a bot turns up on his doorstep with a message that changes everything.
You are walking at a nearby park when suddenly a beautiful being with pointy ears asked you question in a language that seems alien. What will be your first thought or yoyr first words?
Tags: #Fantasy #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Elf #Vulcan #Warcraft #DnD #StarTrek #LordOfTheRings #Fae
You finished your lunch meeting and on your way back to your office when suddenly a handsome being with pointy ears asked you question in a language that sounds elvish and a voice that is soothing to your ears. What will be your first thought or your first words?
Tags: #Fantasy #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Elf #Vulcan #Warcraft #DnD #StarTrek #LordOfTheRings #Fae
Hydra's Wake is back!
Come crash land into the best creature feature around!
https://books2read.com/u/mZMOBe
Available today from your favorite bookstores!
#Kaiju #Hydra #Steampunk #Scifi #Fantasy #Horror #Monsters #Bookstodon
This photo reportage is genuine, created in a real Homo sapiens brain, and produced without any AI rubbish: an #expedition to a distant #planet where strong evidence of life had been found: the planet Elder 0815, part of the famous Mosslich-system. https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/d242349d-fa59-4af8-a834-c93d580a4039
#NatureMatchCuts #mosstodon #lichensubscribe #moss #MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography #natureWriting #sciFi #spaceFlight #ReconnectWithNature #biodiversity #dinosaurs
#Introduction that I'm never happy with:
I joined Mastodon during the Second Great Twitter Migration of 2022, if that's what we're calling it.
You may know me from:
@alexicon@tech.lgbt (Oct 2022-Sept 2023)
@alex@firefish.lgbt (RIP) (Aug 2023)
@alex@xim.ca (Sept 2023-May 2024)
@alex@kitty.social (May 2024-Oct 2024)
@alex@anarres.family (Oct 2024-Aug 2025)
I'm a neurodivergent (AuDHD / GAD / cPTSD[?] 
), ace/aromantic pan/aegosexual, 40s year old from #Ottawa, #Canada. 🇨🇦
Interests include:
• #scifi (including #StarTrek & #DoctorWho)
• #Linux
• #history
• #genealogy
• #politics
• #travel (when I can afford to)
• ....way too many special interests.
(Please don't reply to the introduction post. Mentions or DMs are OK.)
I have a new patron-only post up on Patreon! This holiday season, why not give the gift of Xauri'EL Zwaan? Pledges start at just $5USD and include free copies of three short ebooks!
👋I’m K. Llewellin
I’m a marine scientist turned sci-fi author & I write futuristic space opera. My stories dive into politics, war, & what happens when humans aren’t the good guys. I love creating strange & unusual races, so expect plenty of alien intrigue alongside starships & battles.
I’ve published 3 novels so far:
*A Candle Amongst the Stars
*Warriors Made of Glass
*Sins of the Gods
If you’d like to check out my first novel👉 https://books2read.com/u/38vVwB
My story "ReproTech RealWomb User Manual" is live on the Baffling Magazine Patreon! Just a quick meditation on platform capitalism, bodily autonomy, and the industrial progenesis of the next generation. The full issue drops for free on the 31st, but if you just can't wait and would be willing to donate a few simoleons to the cause of queer speculative fiction, go on over and give it a read!
Hallelujah Baby Klaus!
Lust auf Sauerkrautfelder, Lauerschweine und insgesamt schönen Quatsch...but in space?
Es gibt jetzt eine neue Folge von #RaumschiffPaprika auf allen Streamingdiensten.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mLsaBmr8b54H3xZhdKz2NxwXSZvzUt9Kg
Fresh newsletter incoming in one week! Want to catch up on past missives and get a sneak peek at what you're missing? Check out the archive and subscribe today for a free ebook!
Time for a new #introduction post after the move!
I'm Sar, a 50yr old nerdy guy from Northern Ireland. I love IT, and am into tech and all things computing.
My hobbies include playing #WorldOfWarcraft, reading about World Of #Warcraft and thinking about #WoW
Seriously though, my *other* hobbies also include:
#Astronomy
#Linux (alternating between #Bazzite & #ArchLinux)
#Gaming on #Steam, #PS5 & #Switch (mainly on PC though, see above!)
#SciFi such as #StarWars, #Startrek, #Babylon5, #Marvel & #DC etc
Also a screenshot junkie #VirtualPhotography
I'm also awaiting the results of my #Autism diagnosis as I write this, and am also fairly confident I have #ADHD as well, giving me the #AuDHD super-deluxe wombo-combo 😂
I decided to make the jump to this self-hosted instance at the end of 2025 after many happy years on masto.ai/@sar, and have no regrets.
Yet.
#introduction
Hi, I'm Marianne, AKA Noodlemaz!
I've actually been here since 2022 but my old instance just got shut down (med-mastodon refugee). Please follow me again here 🙃
I'm a science communicator based in London, UK.
I'm in London's nerdiest choir, Ready Singer One - we do music from video games, film and TV!
My PhD was in cancer biology; molecular pathology of cancer.
I love games, nature, SciFi friends (hi!), music etc. and look forward to chatting here 
#videoGames #sciFi #London #choir #choralSinging #music #cancer #scicomm #videoGamesMusic #birds #medMastodon
Wow, is it time for the year-end roundup already? But I only just did the last one! Anyway, this year I published 4 short stories, mostly flash, and self-published one. I'm calling that an "equals" for my previous record until I see significant sales on the ebook. As of today I have one story scheduled for publication next year.
I'll go in reverse chronological order this time, because my final publication of the year is also a release announcement! "ReproTech RealWomb User Manual" is now available to read for free in Baffling Issue 22. A quick little meditation on platform capitalism, bodily autonomy, and the industrial progenesis of the next generation. And the most exciting news of the year: the gorgeous cover art for this issue was inspired by my story! Go check it out, I'm very proud of what my editor and I created together.
Alys considered the chip in front of her. A tiny low power particle accelerator. Barely 10KeV.
In the Great Collapse that followed the riots of 2032, Big Science - indeed Big Anything had gotten a bad name. A few projects survived - the LHC, Sea Sweeper, and a few others. But the rest? As dead as low orbit.
That was what had triggered the riots and the then the Collapse. LEO had undergone a Kessler event, and all space launches had been banned. Eventually the weather satellites had failed, and it only took a few major events for the giant multinationals to become the target of everyone's hate.
That had been twenty years ago - Alys had been a kid at the time - and they were predicting that launches would not be able to resume for another ten years at least.
So she considered her chip. A little low power accelerator like this could not achieve much. But it could ionise light atoms. Maybe....
A few weeks later, she had her circuit set up. One thing that the tiny chips had enabled was cheap small scale chip fabrication. So now she had an array of these chips with a feed for hydrogen, and a thermocouple array. And her collision chamber.
She started the hydrogen flow, and turned the circuit on. A second later the power metre started to climb. 5.5 volts, and 5000 milliamps.
She disconnected the dummy load, and routed the output into the circuit's input. And unplugged the external power.
The power remained stable.
It was not much, but it was a start.
She picked up the phone, and dialled the head of the department "Dr Fulsom? Can you come down to the workshop, please? I've got something to show you."
Naturally it was Dr Heather Fulsom that got the credit - at first. But Alys de Jute was the one who went down in history.
"Is there a way to fix a broken heart?" asked the robot.
The human was a little stunned but then shrugged, "Eat ice cream and cry a lot."
"I am not capable of those things."
"Hm... a fling? Or a new hobby?"
"Those do not seem logical solutions."
"Can you simply not delete the memories?"
"I... find myself unable to."
"Sounds like logic isn't the answer."
"So what can I do?"
"Have you ever tried painting?"
"No."
"We can start there."
I've got a new patron-only post up on Patreon! Want to influence the future of my release schedule? Pledges start at $1USD/month, which includes free copies of two short ebooks (with more to come!)
