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I'd like my reading list for next year to include more indie authors (instead of just reading the whole Discworld series on a loop like I usually do), and my fave genre is sci-fi.

So, I'm betting Fedi has quite the treasure trove of indie sci-fi authors, please say hello and tell me where I can find your books! Or if you're not an author, recommendations of people to check out obviously very welcome too.

Thanks!

(Boosts welcome & appreciated ♥️)

@thegiddystitcher I don't want to scroll through all suggestions to see if someone mentioned them, but I love Derin Edala's work. They mostly write web fiction, both short stories and novels. But they have recently self-published their sprawling sci-fi epic "Time to Orbit: Unknown" that I can't recommend enough. I regularly stayed up way too long reading it when it was still being released online.

derinstories.com/

books2read.com/u/38GwQ6?format

Derin EdalaDerin EdalaHi, I'm Derin. I write things. Child of a Wandering Star Tyk is a normal adolescent girl, interested in normal adolescent things – earning gems for her carapace, learning to be the best burrower for the hive, making her mother and father and half-mother and half-father proud of her. But Tyk was born under a…
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@glittercleric I think that's a new addition to the list so thank you!