Have any of you written any DRM-free, easy going, hopeful / not-too-depressing sci-fi books recently?

I'd like something new to read.

Please do share purchase links!

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@neil @mwl might have something you would enjoy. ;-)

https://mwl.io/fiction/sf

@neil this is absolutely a feed I would like to subscribe to (ideally on a monthly schedule)

@neil did you read the book by @strangeseawolf Herald Petrel?. It's really good

@neil I didn't write it, but have you read A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys? DRM-free here: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-half-built-garden It's like a more emotionally nuanced version of Cory Doctorow's Walkaway, with queer community building, river watershed anarcho-states, dangerous Reddit algorithms, utopian NASA scientists, and of course, aliens.

@neil

Have you tried Smashwords?

@neil would you enjoy young adult fiction? I've been reading lots of Philip Reeve / Mortal Engines stories lately.

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Some of my books are. Abby is more gentle fiction and nonfiction. Gail is more science fiction.

http://uncoveredmyths.wixsite.com/uncoveredmyths

@neil not my writing but check out @vicorva, they check all those boxes

@neil https://publicknowledgebooks.com/products/anna-kostreva-seeing-fire-seeing-meadows?_pos=1&_psq=anna&_ss=e&_v=1.0

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@neil I haven't, but @clacksee has. The Starship Teapot series is light, funny, and wonderfully quirky. They definitely fit your requirements. Most of them have audio books brilliantly narrated by @kayeluvian

The Devon Island Mars Colony series gets pretty detailed about the logistics of a Mars colony, so depends if that fits into your definition of "easy going".

You can buy DRM-free copies direct:
https://www.whitehartfiction.co.uk/collections/si-clarke

@seanwbruno @neil

Warning: look at Montague Portal, not Immortal Clay.

(IC is hopeful, but in a bleak and hideous way.)

@Tattooed_Mummy No; thank you!

@lown Thank you!

Well, I'm writing a sort of sci-fi story that's ...I want to say easy going? It's real rough though, haven't had anyone look at it, and very weird. Mostly just writing it as a coping mechanism for loneliness and general disempoweriness.

I don't much read books anymore.

@darwinwoodka No

@sarajw I'm not opposed to trying! Thank you.

@UnCoveredMyths Thank you!

@nyankat @vicorva Thank you!

@RPBook @clacksee @kayeluvian Thank you!

@mwl @seanwbruno Thank you, both!

@neil it even gets a mention on my blog 😉 https://www.tattooedmummy.co.uk/2024/08/wordy-wednesday-with-strange-seawolf.html

@neil My books are DRM free, sci-fi and (hopefully) funny. You can find them here:

https://books.farook.org