#scifi books
New Spoiler Free Review for my book, The City Below the Cloud, from Merphy Napier!
Check it out! and don’t forget to share with your friends.
You can get the book from amazon here: The City Below the Cloud
and if you prefer audiobooks, I recorded myself reading the entire book and put it on youtube for free here: Audiobook
and if you’re interested in just getting the feel of the book, you can listen to the synthwave mixes I listened to while writing the book: Mind-melting Synthwave Soundtrack to The City Below the Cloud
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If you’d like to support a queer, non-binary author of color, buy book one of a ten-part sci-fi/romance series!
Thriving on Amazon (paperback and e-book)
Thriving on Barnes & Noble.com (paperback only)
Warren Cougar has always been passionate about outer space and the beings that supposedly live far beyond the realm of his knowledge. He works for an organization that deals with the possibility of the otherworldly, after all.
And then an alien by the name of Orthrive’poliea crashes into the lake near Warren’s cabin. Everything he’s dreamed about has become real, and now faces the likelihood of becoming a lab experiment at the grotesque hands of ETHOS.
Driven by his virtues and an instant powerful, enigmatic affinity for Thrive, Warren puts his life at risk to separate himself from ETHOS—to keep Thrive from falling into their clutches. It’s the right thing to do.
But when the journey toward Thrive’s freedom is further endangered by a looming threat far out of either of their control, the fight for survival doubles, and the chances of success fall sharply away. Whatever the right thing happens to be, it begins to look like the one thing that would break Warren’s heart the most.
Within the Thriving series, you’ll find
LBTQ+ representation
a diverse cast of characters
disabled characters and neurodivergence
an action-packed love letter to both classic and contemporary sci-fi
a slow-burn between the two main characters
A quick summary of the first five books (the M31Arc)—
The dramatic collision of Orthrive’poliea’s vehicle with a nearby lake upends Warren Cougar’s life more than he ever expected. Along with conspiracies, intergalactic war, and waking up two centuries in the future, he has to survive a hostile alien army and a semi-omnipotent sentient darkness doing everything in their power to destroy Earth and the rest of the Milky Way—and Thrive’s native galaxy, Andromeda. Navigating their way through seemingly endless battle after seemingly endless battle, Warren and Thrive also find they must navigate themselves as well as their growing relationship with each other.
Book two, Thriving: Destiny, will be out on June 1st, 2022*!
*subject to minor delay due to self-publishing
Information for writeblrs below the cut (which may not work for some)!
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Progress vs tradition, science vs survival… Which shall prevail? Come what may, beware the Daughters of Mars…
Here goes another book cover! This one’s for Guárdate de las Hijas de Marte (Beware the Daughters of Mars) by Mercè Homar Mas, soon to be published by Grupo Amanecer.
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thirty-three questions / ideas to write a sci-fi world
- does the story take place on Earth?
- when does it take place (future, present, past)
^ side note: it can take place in the past—think of Star Wars’ “a long time ago” - what is the government type?
- are there extraterrestrial species?
- what is the effect of the world to the plot?
- what are forms of new technology?
- is there a developed timeline?
- check out some sci-fi movies and series (Star Wars, Star Trek) and write down the scenes
- read some sci-fi books (Ender’s Game, Dune) and note the recurring themes and tropes
- sci-fi often crosses with dystopia. does your story touch other genres?
- what is the main differences between that world and ours?
- what languages are spoken?
- why did you decide on sci-fi?
- draw a map of the world
- draw some of the creatures
- fix together a playlist from different sci-fi movies and shows to create a background to your story
- what books is it inspired by?
- could the world be Earth-similar?
- what are the great events in this world’s history?
- how is the culture different?
- what foods are common? is it similar to the kind we eat now, or is more developed for activities such as space travel?
- what do people in this world wear?
- how far have people travelled in this world?
- what are common activities in this world?
- how is long-distance communication done?
- what is the main/Universal tongue?
- what are some funky/different trends in this world?
- how has technology advanced?
- draw out one of the most important places in this world
- are the names different? made up, for example
- what drives the people in this world?
- what is something about this world that is better than ours?
- what difference of this world makes it worse?
Grand Admiral Thrawn is an imperial military commander in the Imperial Navy before the Galactic Civil War. He is considered to be a master military strategist and his methods are considered ruthless by his enemies. The New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Timothy Zahn is writing a new novel about Thrawn. No novelist knows the character of Thrawn better than Zahn because he…
