#adult scifi

[dmfo]

DMFOart Oct. Newsletter/ WIP. Several CyberMoo's is being setup for Daedalus Industries Dairy program. dmfoart.blogspot.com http://patreon.com/dmfo http://dmfo.gumroad.com

#dmfo #plugsuit #adult scifi #cowgirl #catsuit #eroticart

[stardustandrockets]

Do you have a favorite book with bisexual rep?

I read Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell last February for the @rainbowcrate book club. Did I understand everything in the book? Not at all. Did I love the absolute chaos of the characters and their journey? For sure!

This political intrigue space opera follows Prince Kiem, who has an arranged marriage bomb dropped on him, and Jainan, an ambassador from another planet whose partner just died and who Kiem is betrothed. What happens next is a string of communication issues, problems due to the miscommunication, an investigation into Jainan's late partner's death, a few attempts at effective communication that go... not so well.

Usually, books that are extremely political are hard for me to follow and I lose interest, but that wasn't the case for Winter's Orbit. The world building was so well fleshed out and I loved how big a role culture plays. In this universe, sexuality is a fluid thing and gender expression is shown through the items they wear. No one questions it. This made for such a refreshing reading experience!

I adore Kiem and his chaotic bisexual energy so much! He was

incredibly kind and perceptive—the perfect match to Jainan's careful guardedness and intensity. And, while the miscommunication trope usually incites me with rage, it paid off so well in the end. Don't get me wrong, I was still absolutely screaming in my car while listening to the audiobook. That's what happens when you get both POVs.

Seeing Kiem and Jainan connect on such a deeply emotional level was everything. I adored watching them grow, uncover the past, and move past it together.

CW for past abusive relationship (mental, physical, gaslighting) discussed between characters and seen in flash backs, violence, torture

• For a full list, check StoryGraph

#winters orbit #everina maxwell #space opera #science fiction #scifi #adult scifi #rcdec22 #rainbow crate #rainbow crate book box #lgbtq reads #lgbtqia #bisexual books #bisexual representation #read queer all year #stardust reviews books #stardustandrockets #backlog from january #january 22

[scholar-of-yemdresh]

It's frustrating being a person who's really only interested in diverse adult science fiction and fantasy books and has no interest in YA/kidlit or romance.

Frustrating because on one side the people who are into primarily adult sff are only talking about the generic medieval euro cishet mantasy slop; the Wheel of Dragon song light storms by Brandon Mcwhite dude, then the other side is primarily only about YA or "NA" romantasy.

I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. It's near impossible to find diverse adult sff book people that aren't like 90% into YA/ YA books masquerading as adult with majority of the adult books they read are romantasy smut 💀

So as relatively romance/sex repulsed asexual and someone who doesn't care for narratives centering teens/kids, I'm just in my lonely little SFF corner. I can't interact with the broader book fandoms because both sides of it don't interest me much

It's the same issue I have with anime/manga fandom which is 99% about infantile battle shonen and then Berserk as the token adult manga. For God's sake where are the grown adults interested in adult stories where the only thing that marks them as adult is smut?

I like to read about adults with adult problems I also like to read about queers & POC in Interesting fantasy/sci-fi worlds

#books #bookblr #adult sff #adult fantasy #adult scifi #diverse adult sff #bookstagram #booktwt #probably doesn't help that most of the books I'm into aren't that popular #are they are well known but not among the types that'd be in fandom spaces so there's no significant fandom to interact with #i even do like an occasional token white medieval euro fantasy or two but even those ones are don't have fandom communities #so rip me even the white cis sword dude fantasies i like ain't nobody talking about them! #thoughts on things

[jessread-s]

✩🪐✨Book Box:

I know I am so late posting this, but I got my first ever Illumicrate book only box in April and I just HAD to share this photograph of their special edition of “Some Desperate Glory” with you! 

I am obsessed with the hidden quote underneath the dust jacket and the foil embossing on the hardback. Not pictured is the endpaper artwork done by @carlydraws.illustration, but you’ll have to trust me when I say that it is out of this world! I love that there is a different design on the front and the back! I am so excited to read this one at @booksdogsandcoffee91’s recommendation!

The book at a glance:

✨ Standalone science fiction novel debut

✨ Diverse, complex, queer identities

Please check the content warnings before reading! 

Cross-posted to: Instagram | Amazon | Goodreads | StoryGraph

@illumicrate

#some desperate glory #emily tesh #standalone #debut novel #lgbtqia books #sapphic romance #queer romance #queer books #lgbtq representation #sapphic books #science fiction books #scifi #sff #adult scifi #adult books #adult lit #adult literature #illumicrate #book subscription box #subscription box #booklr #book blog #book blogger #bookish

[malu897]

OH MY GOD PEOPLE Please please PLEASE

WATCH SCAVENGERS REIGN

This show is EVERYTHING people beg mainstream adult animation to be, is deep, emotional, inteligent and FUCKING BEAUTIFUL

I Will forever curse WBDiscovery and HBOMax for not promoting this

#adult animation #animated series #cartoon #adult cartoons #adult swim #warner bros #scifi #2d animation #world building #aliens #scelulative biology #streaming #art #robots #cartoon network #cartoon news #Warner animation #scavengers reign #Youtube

[soranatus]

I just wanted to make a post showcasing some of my favorite illustrations by Keith Thompson for the Leviathan Trilogy.

The art went so hard in these books, it’s crazy. The plot is basically an alternate universe WW1 about the major two powers, the Darwinists, and the Clankers. The Darwinists genetically engineered animals to fight for them creating huge flying whale battleships, while the Clankers made huge robot mechs and powerful guns. A few historical people and places show up in these books, like Nikola Tesla.

But my favorite parts of the books were the art, truly breathtaking, it was beautifully grotesque at times. But that’s not unexpected, after all Keith Thompson helped create the design of Moder from The Ritual!

#art #illustration #illustrations #illustrated book #fantasy #scifi #steampunk #YA #Young Adult #keith thompson #Scott westerfeld #Leviathan #Leviathan Trilogy #Leviathan Series #Behemoth #Goliath #deryn sharp #Dylan sharp #Prince Alek #aleksander of hohenburg #historical fiction #tw body horror

[carvente]

I’m really digging Scavengers reign, a must watch If you love speculative evolution/biology.

#scavengers reign #adult animation #scifi #speculative biology

[scholar-of-yemdresh]

One of the things I dislike the most in far future science fiction is when the author cites artists, figures and events from our modern times or older.

It takes me out and suspends my disbelief because how you be telling me that in hundreds, thousands, TENS OF THOUSANDS of years into the future NOTHING happened? There were no great musicians, painters, poets, politicians writers etc that came up and would become cultural touch stones? That bitches are still glazing Caesar in the year 15,000 AD? Come on now!

And to be fair there is a cornel of realism to that, even now we talk about art & events that happened centuries ago. And even millennia ago with the likes of Aristotle...but are we talking about stuff from 10,000 BC?? The neolithic? Okay yes we don't have proper records of that time but the ice age to now is the same measure of time as from now to the time some of these far future sci-fi novels. Outside of specific niche fields of study ain't nobody talking about Gr'og the cave painter.

It's an issue I'm having with the Sun Eater books, and I guess that's the unfortunate rub of Dune's heavy inspiration(just bc Frank Herbert got away with it in the 60s when the genre was newish and the standards lower doesn't mean you can copy it into the 21st Century). It's 20k years in the future why are you talking about Plato and the like?. Why isn't Hadrian quoting the poetry of his time period? Why isn't he talking about the great generals of 17,000AD?

So it was extremely refreshing to read August Kitko and the mechas from space, and the characters talked about invented music & artists of their time period. Or the older art they referenced would be from 3 centuries ago... which would still be 300 years into our future!. It adds texture and history to world, culture does not stagnate for 600 years it grows and changes.

I'm not saying never reference modern things/our classics but don't ONLY do that make up things for the future if you can come up with gene spliced slug buses you can make up a famous poet that'll be popular in 19,000AD.

#science fiction #sci fi #books #booklr #adult scifi #sun eater #christopher ruocchio #empire of silence #august kitko and the mechas from space #the starmetal symphony #alex white #Lore from yem'dresh #thoughts on things

[charliejaneanders]

This is amazing news!

My YA debut Victories Greater Than Death is part of a program where libraries bring together groups of teens to "study powerful works of young adult literature," and an amazing 29 libraries have signed up!

#books #ya scifi #ya fantasy #ya fiction #young adult science fiction #young adult fiction #young adult #writing #victories greater than death #dreams bigger than heartbreak #promises stronger than darkness

[serien-grl-22]

What they have learned

Aurie: I'm stronger than I ever could have imagined. Scarlett: I can live my life the way I want. Zila: My feelings matter! Cat: I am loved. Saedii: There is a better way. Kal: I am not my father. I can chose my own path. Finnian: I am not a burden. Tyler: Murder is okay if you say sorry.

#aurora cycle #aurora rising #aurora burning #auroras end #auri o'malley #kal gilwraeth #saedii gilwraeth #tyler jones #tydii #scarlett jones #fin de karran de seel #zila madran #cat brannock #young adult #books #fantasy #scifi #jay kristoff #amie kaufman

[hedgehog-moss]

do you ever read scifi or fantasy in french? i am trying to read more sff that was originally published not in english but it's not easy to find ���

I do! It’s not my favourite genre but one of my friends loves it so I read a bunch of SFF books every year ahead of her birthday to try and find a gift for her. I’m glad I do this because it’s allowed me to discover N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy which was amazing, and I don’t know if I would have picked it up otherwise!

Here are some French-language authors I’ve read or plan to read (unfortunately English translations are few and far between :( I bolded the names for which I found English translations—if you read in another language you can check out the non-bolded authors, there are often translations available in other languages long before English ones)

When it comes to classics you've got Pierre Boulle (Planet of the Apes of course; also Garden on the Moon, which is (deservedly imo) less known), Jacques Spitz (La Guerre des mouches—it was translated but not into English), René Barjavel (The Ice People, Ravage, Future Times Three—I read them a long time ago but I remember them as very sexist even by French classic standards), Bernard Lenteric (La nuit des enfants rois), Alain Damasio (La Horde du Contrevent—maybe too recent to be a classic but it’s everywhere. I was surprised to find no English translation!), Bernard Werber (I feel like he rehashes the same 3 ideas again and again but some of his earlier stuff was fun), Alexandre Arnoux (Le règne du bonheur), Jules Verne of course, Stefan Wul (Oms en série which was adapted into the film La Planète sauvage—Fantastic Planet in English. I like the film better!) And some I haven’t read: Georges-Jean Arnaud, Serge Brussolo (I liked his Peggy Sue series when I was in middle school but it spooked me so much I haven’t dared to pick up any of his SFF for adults, like Les semeurs d’abîmes), Élisabeth Vonarburg.

Newer authors: Estelle Faye (L’arpenteuse de rêves, Un éclat de givre—I tend to like her worldbuilding more than her plots); Sandrine Collette (The Forests—if you count speculative fiction as SFF) (I didn’t like it at all personally but others might), Jean-Philippe Jaworski (I really liked Janua Vera; didn't like Gagner la guerre but it was mainly because I have a low tolerance for rape scenes in fantasy books) (he’s about to be translated into English according to his editor), Stéphane Beauverger (Le déchronologue)

More authors I haven't yet read: Pierre Pevel (The Cardinal's Blades—I've been told it's "17th century Paris with dragons"), Romain Lucazeau (Latium), Laurent Genefort (Lum’en), Christian Charrière (La forêt d’Iscambe), Roland Wagner (La saison de la sorcière), Aurélie Wellenstein (Mers Mortes—I love the synopsis for this one), Magali Villeneuve (La dernière Terre, trilogy)

And non-French, non-anglo SFF authors: Maryam Petrosyan (my review of the Gray House last year was that I understood maybe 1/3 of it but I liked it anyway!), Hao Jingfang (haven’t read her yet), Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (idem), Jaroslav Melnik (I’ve read Espace lointain (originally Далекий простір) but didn’t like it much), Andreas Eschbach (The Carpet Makers), Walter Moers (I read The City of Dreaming Books back when I was still learning German and found it very charming), Liu Cixin (I loved The Three-Body Problem but The Dark Forest was so sexist it made me not want to pick up the third volume), Lola Robles (El informe Monteverde, translated as Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist), Elaine Vilar Madruga (Fragmentos de la Tierra Rota), Tatiana Tolstaya (The Slynx), Karin Tidbeck (Amatka), Emmi Itäranta (Memory of Water, The Moonday Letters), Angélica Gorodischer (I’ve read Kalpa Imperial and found it only so-so but it always takes me a while to warm up to characters or a setting so I struggle with short story collections. I’ll still give Trafalgar a try) Also my favourite fantasy book as a kid was Michael Ende’s Neverending Story, I was obsessed with it. I re-read it in the original German a few years ago and it was still great.

#ask #book recs #i feel like sff has long had a poor reputation in france. like it's seen as 'not real literature' #not necessarily by readers but by literary awards and mainstream outlets that promote books #the genre doesn't get a lot of attention from those so it's hard for authors to become well-known #it's often seen as a genre for kids and teenagers—i know i had an easier time finding sff books by french authors when i was younger #scifi for primary school kids like christian lamblin's le survivant or philippe ebly's space operas in bibliothèque verte #or sff for middle school kids: the peggy sue series; linus hoppe by a-l bondoux; more recently the nuées series by nathalie bernard #but yeah in the adult sff aisle of nonspecialised bookshops it's mostly anglo authors + always the same handful of french ones

[anoelleart]

Intro 💃🏾✨

Hi! I'm Alyssa (she/her). I'm a scientist, artist, and writer. I've decided to throw my writing into the void and see what happens!

I'm educated as a scientist, but I spend my free time drawing, painting, writing, and playing music. I've been writing my whole life, but I first shared my work on Wattpad. I started writing consistently again a few months ago. I primarily write science fiction/fantasy with a touch of romance.

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My current WIP is titled "The Protolith."

[Stock credits: Cathleen Tarawhiti, Faestock, Digital Curio, Phoenix Rising on DeviantArt]

This novel follows Charlotte, a biracial medical student and noblewoman who seeks to bring honor back to her disgraced family. This second world fantasy takes place in a world scarred by an ancient, unexplored meteorite, in an Empire where the traditional theocracy and sexually liberated culture are constantly at odds. Follow Charlotte as she faces unexplained magicks while haunted by past, romantic affairs.

I'd love to meet other authors! Pls reach out if you have similar interests so we can be friends : )

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The Protolith

Posts:

WIP Intro

Blurb

Book Cover

The OCs & Character Intros

Thoughts on "Representation in Fantasy Settings": 1 2 3

Part 1 Playlist for Chapters 1-6, 7-12, 13-19

Chapters:

The Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Excerpts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (not chronological)

[I only post the first scene from each chapter, so please click the "read more!" link to read the entire chapter]

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#writing #writers on tumblr #writer blog #fantasy #scifi #romance #women of color #lgbtq #gaslamp fantasy #current wip #wip #protolith #new to writerblr #writeblr #dark academia #forbidden romance #adult fiction

[neanderthyall]

Its been so long since i read the series, but the lunar chronicles rocks so hard

#its easily one of the best young adult scifi series #idk it just feels so well planned out and intentional compared to so many other YA #like it's not revolutionary but its genuinely well done and very enjoyable #and its characters are sooo good #definitely would recommend #the lunar chronicles #marissa meyer #cinder #scarlet #cress #winter