Neil Brown

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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Apr 10 at 5:33pmWeb
Show threadSean 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷Apr 10

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

https://mwl.io/fiction/sf

Science Fiction – Michael W Lucas

Show threadMichael Lucas Apr 10

@seanwbruno @neil

Warning: look at Montague Portal, not Immortal Clay.

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

Show threadlownApr 10
@neil this is absolutely a feed I would like to subscribe to (ideally on a monthly schedule)
Show threadTats 🇬🇧🫖Apr 10
@neil did you read the book by @strangeseawolf Herald Petrel?. It's really good
Show threadlownApr 10
@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.
Show threadDarwin WoodkaApr 10

@neil

Have you tried Smashwords?

Show threadballetproof vestApr 10
@neil not my writing but check out @vicorva, they check all those boxes
Show threadSara Joy Apr 10
@neil would you enjoy young adult fiction? I've been reading lots of Philip Reeve / Mortal Engines stories lately.
Show threadUnCoveredMythsApr 10

@neil

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

http://uncoveredmyths.wixsite.com/uncoveredmyths

UnCovered Myths | Author

Abagail Brown (Survivor Fiction) Cracks In The Walls (Survivor Pair - 2021) Shadows In The Mirror (Survivor Pair - 2021) Abby Brown (Finding Self Fiction and NonFiction) A Bend In The Future (Finding Self Fiction - 2021) Kin Strife (Finding Self Fiction - 2021) Logging My Life (NonFiction - Life Planning WorkBook - 2021) Gail Brown (Science Fiction Adventure) Concurrent Earths (Short Story Collection - 2021) Galataria's Echoes (Alternate Universe - 2021) UnCovered Myths Author

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Show threadAlex HeadApr 10

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

🙂

Anna Kostreva, Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows

Show threadRussell PhillipsApr 10

@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

Si Clarke: sci-fi without the pew-pew

Show threadKay ElúvianApr 11
@RPBook @neil @clacksee SI's stories are just lovely - very whimsical, positive and just super-low-pressure. Perfect for chilling out with.
Show threadcyApr 10
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.
Show threadCatherine LundoffApr 10
@neil I run a small press and would happy recommend this hilarious sf novel that we published - available every where including, Kobo, the Zon. Blackwell’s, etc. https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781734360349?utm_source=Waterstones&utm_medium=pdp&utm_campaign=oos-link
Obviously, Aliens

Obviously, Aliens

Show threadFahim FarookApr 10
@neil My books are DRM free, sci-fi and (hopefully) funny. You can find them here:

https://books.farook.org
Show threadtrainguyromApr 11

@neil I recently listened to a couple of H Beam Piper's works on #Librivox which might fit the bill.

I started with The Cosmic Computer, followed by The 4 Day Planet

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20727
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19478

The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Project Gutenberg
Show threadNeil HopkinsApr 11

@neil @UnconventionalEmma Not by me, but I can recommend Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. The setting is depressing - a near future, repressive USA (which is turning out to be depressingly prescient) - but the theme is smart teens fighting back using their hacking skills to outwit the authorities. Available DRM free as an ebook or audio from here:

https://craphound.com/shop/

Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

Show threadEmma the Curious 🧐Apr 11

@neil It's not a book, and I haven't had time to delve in yet, but Tractor Beam is doing hopeful "soilpunk" sci-fi stories.

https://www.tractorbeam.earth/

Tractor Beam

A quarterly publication of soilpunk fiction: Radical visions rooted in soil

Show threadPaniPeoniaApr 11
@neil https://www.naffy.io/wydawnictwo-galart/little-sleepwalker-8Cv
20% off: WIOSNA
Little Sleepwalker - Monika I. Betley

Show threadjackApr 11

@neil I enjoyed Opt Out by https://roryprice.net/store/

One of the main themes is the importance of free software. We read it in a fediverse book club a few years ago and the author joined the XMPP group chat for discussions.

It also gets bonus points because it is released under a Creative Commons License

Store – Rory Price – Author