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@mikeb-eoepublishin.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 10:56 AM

An Immortal's wish♾️
Alien worlds👽
Life reshaped🧬
A Queen's gift👑
Crusade against entropy⚔️

eiepublishing.com
books2read.com/u/bMMlJa

Get #TheQueeninTime E-book today and walk in her majesty's light✨

🪐📚 💙 📚🪐

#booksky #SFF #nerdlings #indieauthor #ebook #scifi #NoAI #promo #writingcommunity

The Queen in Time, Michael Bandru, indie books, indie author, book, cover, book cover, scifi, science fiction, philosophical, new series, e-book, pink crystal pod falling through the clouds into a volcanic crater holding a strange parasitic growth of living stone under a sky of extremely dense clouds
@triempery.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 10:55 AM

#WIPSnips The word for October 8 is LIZARD

There are no lizards on Ibis 2. Other than the nomari and humans, only invertebrates inhabit the planet. But Kate recalls lizards in other places... and the reptilian cold-bloodedness is not inappropriate.
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #SFF

Text excerpt from NOMARA, a science fiction WIP by L.L. Stephens. In this snip, Kate puts together just what kind of appeasement is going on between the human kumbhs and the dominant nomari. Kate controlled her deep surge of revulsion. Hadn’t she seen the signs? Heard the glassmakers explain it? They’d explained only a small part. A sliver. The kumbhs of Eshuun actually picked some of their sons—and maybe their daughters too—to be raised, apart and in special ways, to be mated to the nomari. Her stomach turned sour. She had thought—had hoped—the process would be more like what she had observed at the Kumbh Kaldarim, a youth gently raised in his own house, perhaps catching a queen’s eye, with matters to be arranged by his parents and people concerned for his well-being. Or had that, too, been a misplaced assumption on her part? A sacrifice, she realized, watching the elder women of the Kumbh Pattaim as they hovered about Ureyt and the two nomari scribes who, along with two scribes from the kumbh, recorded the transaction. These women are offering the boy in return for favors from the ruling race. It made an obscene kind of sense. Young men, like cattle on Old Earth, like the twining wrist lizards of Bodette’s Planet, had become a form of currency. And the kumbhs, very clearly, traded human flesh. How far did it go? Did they offer to foster children displaying promising skills in their trades, send their own daughters or sons off for marriages of alliance, or to be bonded into the work forces of neighboring kumbhs? As for the nomari... male bodies were currency. Stringers, she thought, I want to get out of here. I need to get to someplace clean.
@thebinarybutterfly.onlineOct 8, 2026, 10:27 AM

I just got an update email telling me that half and quarter star ratings are now a thing.

So there's no reason now to not buy a copy of my book to then rate there!

www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

#SelfPromo #Indie #SFF #Author

@jason-h-abbott.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 10:04 AM

“No Quarter, No Return”

No one can beat the level 256 kill screen ghost. Art by me for October’s #SciFanSat theme of SPIRIT! Authors, 14 days remain until submissions are due on October 22nd. Full details at scifansat.com/landing.html!

#SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

A science-fantasy horror illustration of the level 256 kill screen ghost of urban arcade legend since 1980. It is a simple, 2-D cartoonish sheet-style ghost of 8-bit raster graphics and neon mazes brought to a phantasmal electron wireframe 4-D reality of purple video distortion. Its victims — and none skilled enough to unlock the level 256 glitch ever escape it — are said by some to compress inward into nothingness at its touch, starting with a scream from an impossibly widening mouth folding in upon itself.
@tjwolfauthor.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 9:39 AM

"Kindness" in SCI-FI: often acts as a Revolutionary Force that defies Cold Logic and Survival-of-the-Fittest Rules -- a Weapon against FEAR to Save the Day. In THE DRAGON'S GLARE, Una reminds Ashcroft at the Kim Lau Memorial Arch: "People in Chinatown ... are Americans". #SFF #scifi #booksky #books

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@claytongrahamscifi.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:37 AM

FREE Science Fiction Ebooks
storyoriginapp.com/to/mLPnMlG
#scifi #SpaceOpera #ian1 #SFF #kindle #sciencefiction #fantasy #Booksky #SciFiBooks

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@adregem.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 5:11 AM

From Miraculous Horrors: The big lizard thing is after them and they've taken refuge in the truck. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SFF

It paced, whipping its long, fat tail from side to side, leaving deep ruts in the sand. Rain ran from its armored body in sheets. “You’re going to have to shoot it,” Dainn said. “Me?” said Yago. “You’re the fucking muscle. You shoot it!” The animal snorted, lurched past the rear windows, and vanished behind the truck. “Oh, fuck,” said Yago. “Did I close the back door?” Silence followed. Then a creak, a small thing, like a hinge in need of oil. The back of the truck sagged. Something fell. A lot of something. Loaded canvas bags, boxes, and crates. “Fuuuuuuuck,” Yago said.
@parisvivian.myatproto.socialOct 8, 2026, 1:41 AM

In the meantime, you can read Book 1! It’s got

• Phytopathological mystery 🥀
• Sapphic photography lessons 📸
• An immortal who collects receipts 🧾
• A bunch of plant and fungus-based technology 🌺

#ScienceFantasy #SFF #QueerBookSky 💙📚🪐📚🌈

Itch: parisvivian.itch.io/a-summer-with-the-immortal
Kobo:

@parisvivian.myatproto.socialOct 8, 2026, 1:35 AM

In 70 days’ time, a story of

• Winged humans (pterosaur-harpy w/ butterfly colours) 🦋
• Eco-politics 💚
• A boy dealing w/ his radicalized conspiracist mom 📍
• And voyages to ancient ruins in the hopes of saving an altered forest 🔦

is hitting stores!

#ScienceFantasy #SFF #QueerBookSky 💙📚🪐📚🌈

@fracturecosmology.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:10 PM

General arrangement of the MV Tallow, compiled from published canon. Civilian bulk hauler. From Who the Door Admits (The Cairn).

fracturecosmology.com/blueprints/mv-tallow

🪐📚 #scifi #booksky #scifiart #sff

Fracture Cosmology archive image: MV Tallow — Blueprint
@philbaileyauthor.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:55 PM

COVER REVEAL(s)!
I'm delighted to announce my two new dystopian sci-fi novels, "Opportunia" and "The Eyes of a Nocturne Child", coming later this month.

I've just received the cover designs and I'm happy to share them with you.

continued . . .

#BookSky #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #dystopian

The cover for "Opportunia," depicting a man in an impoverished town, looking toward a wealthy, gleaming city on the other side of a high wall. Story Synopsis: Gordon Yates is a gifted engineer, deeply dissatisfied with his life on Earth. When offered a chance to move to Opportunia and spearhead a groundbreaking project, Gord doesn’t hesitate. Leaving behind the rigid structure and limitations of Earth, Gord envisions a utopian paradise on a planet without government or regulations, founded on absolute freedom and unfettered capitalism. When Gord’s new employer decides he is no longer useful, he finds himself unprepared for the relentless struggle to survive in a desolate world, where his worth is solely determined by his transactional value. Gord’s dire situation forces him to question his deeply held beliefs and confront traumatic events from his youth on his arduous path toward genuine freedom. Opportunia dramatically contrasts an idealized perception of absolute personal freedom with its dystopian consequences. The cover of "The Eyes of a Nocturne Child," which depicts the curled-up corpse of an alien, floating in space near the sun. Story Synopsis: Despite being haunted by the death of an alien child, deportation officer Theo Beaumont is proud to serve The Regime in its mission to clear Earth of extraterrestrial immigrants. When The Regime cancels its deportations and starts hunting down and killing all remaining immigrants, Theo suppresses his doubts and continues his work, until his world is upended by news of a hidden sister, locked away in a psychiatric institution for her illicit relationship with a humanoid extraterrestrial. A gripping story of shifting perspectives, found family, and a flawed man’s quest for redemption, The Eyes of a Nocturne Child reveals the power of family and love in a world fraught with blind hate and ignorance.
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:52 PM

In Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe’s free SF poem “Recollection,” a ship carries 60 million frozen embryos away from a drowned Earth. Its half-human, half-silicon caretaker holds the memory of a home the children will never see. https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/recollection/ #SFF #Poetry

@salemah.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:35 PM

8/31
Vicious 📖🎧4⭐️-everyone in this book was a terrible person aside from Sydney and Mitch. But it was fast paced and an easy read. I doubt I’ll be finishing the series though. #Booksky #SFF

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@jceberdt.euOct 7, 2026, 7:05 PM

Some more stills from my Godot tool and the next pass on the 'Really Big Tank'. #WIP

#siencefiction #worldbuilding #godotengine #blender #openscad #indieauthors #tanks #SciFi #booksky #sff
#TotalWar

jceberdt.eu/more-rfs/

@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:52 PM

P. H. Low’s “Home/Body” is free to read: an exhausted architecture student enters a house that reshapes them room by room. Upstairs, a door opens onto different worlds, waiting for one that calls to them. https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/home-body/ #SFF #ShortFiction

@starfarerscafe.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:00 PM

Book Review at Starfarer's Cafe! "2054" by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
#SciFiReads #specfic #sciencefiction #sciencefictionbooks #sff #sffchat #scifisky #speculativefiction
starfarerscafe.com/2026/02/19...

@martiandiaries.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:45 PM

New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Out October 2026 buff.ly/yNDc7D1

Here's a useful list of new releases for sci-fi and fantasy readers. Click each book title for links to Amazon and read fuller book descriptions.
#SciFiBooks #Fantasy #SFF #NewReleases #BookSky #ReaderSky

@starfarerscafe.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:00 PM

FREE STORY at Starfarer's Cafe! "Dark Starlight": There's a reason you shouldn't walk alone.
#SciFiReads #specfic #sciencefiction #sciencefictionbooks #sff #sffchat #scifisky #speculativefiction
starfarerscafe.com/2026/03/22...

@annbirdgenaw.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 3:59 PM

x.com/allauthor/st... Cyborg Contact by @terrybirdgenaw.bsky.social #scifi #sff #clifi

@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:50 PM

Daryl Gregory’s The Porcelain Sisters (Oct. 27): Ruth is saving for college while caring for Isabel, her sister who lives as a haunted doll. When Isabel’s porcelain body breaks, they seek a witch who can repair it. https://tachyonpublications.com/product/the-porcelain-sisters/ #Fantasy #SFF

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