SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

I'm looking for recommendations for good independently and self-published books. Don't promote your own work here, just pass along what you've read and enjoyed lately.

J.P. Langsdorf "Into That Good Night".

Mark wrote: "J.P. Langsdorf "Into That Good Night"."

Tell me about it.

I liked Baldwin's Conditioned Response, Clark's Prophets of the Ghost Ants, and Aimery's Primae Noctis.

id suggest p.s powers books their good

I've recently read Treespeaker by Katie W. Stewart, which I'd happily recommend. She's a self published Australian author.

Check out the serial novel by SunHi Mistwalker and this book Gideon's Fall: When You Don't Have a Prayer, Only a Miracle Will Do

Into That Good Night, guy must save himself while being out of body (since real one was attacked and left in a coma).

Katie lives in Australia, but she was born in the UK, just like all us good fantasy writers *wink* ;)

I very much enjoyed Andrew Levkoff's The Other Alexander and A Mixture of Madness, historical fiction set in the latter days of the Roman Republic.

You Aussies! My favorite new writer of Science Fantasy is Kameron Hurley


D.M. Andrews (GoodReads Author) wrote: "Katie lives in Australia, but she was born in the UK, just like all us good fantasy writers *wink* ;)"

This is NOT one of my books, but it is self-published. I read it last year and really liked it. It's a fantasy by G.L. Breedon called The Wizard of Time.

Oh, and I also run a site where I've listed indie authors by genre (though they are all British!) http://britishindiefiction.blogspot.c... (there's a fantasy/sci-fi section)

I recently very much enjoyed sci-fi: Into the Vast.

In fantasy I really loved: Dragonfate: Dragon's Gold

Both were very well written (though Dragonfate has some formatting issues that I found mildly distracting).

Chris Shields' The Stewart' is phenomenal.

The Black God's War.

My review.

Jeff Garrity's Mars Girl is a great read, funny and exciting.

Since you're looking for books, you should check out Read an Ebook Week , March 3-9, 2013. There are plenty of ebook resources, and during REBW, lots of free ebooks to be had.

I've been a supporter of Read an Ebook Week since its founder, Rita Toews, approached me to apply my websmithing skills to improving the REBW website. I hope everyone who appreciates ebooks will stop by during Read an Ebook Week and check out the resources and deals available to you.

(re message 17) Is there a way for authors to donate or submit ebooks for Read an Ebook Week?

Steven wrote: "Since you're looking for books, you should check out
Read an Ebook Week
, March 3-9, 2013. There are plenty of ebook resources, and during REBW, lots of free ebooks to be had.

I've been a supp..."

Karen wrote: "(re message 17) Is there a way for authors to donate or submit ebooks for Read an Ebook Week?

Go to the About REBW page and you'll find an email for Rita Toews; let her know what you're doing, and she'll add it to the site's Deals and Steals list.

Yeah, I've put a bunch of my titles 50-75% off through Smashwords for REBW.

My current favorite self-published book is a foodie-fantasy called "Confessions of a Gourmand Or: How to Cook a Dragon" by Tom Bruno who is a former Harvard (and currently Yale) librarian.

Right now it's only available on Kindle, however.

It's semi-self-published (in that it started out as a series of Reddit posts and wound up as a book from a very small press) but Dathan Auerbach's Penpal is pretty great. Very different, very unexpected.

Myself, I'm a big fan of J.C. Cassels and her debut novel Sovran's Pawn...and keep hoping her next novel will come out soon. :-)

I thought Avogadro Corp was a great book. The author is a really nice guy too.

Dragon Fate, The Dreamweaver's Journey (re-read), The Dragon Within, Shadow of the Wraith, The Mage's Tomb. All fantasy except Shadow of the wraith.

For hard-core "space opera" SF (with mystery thriller overtones) try The Salvagers by John Godier. Just finished reading it -- good stuff.

For SF with a lot of humour I'd recommend the books written by this chap http://www.safkhetpublishing.com/auth...
He's not Pratchett yet but he's getting there

I'd also recommend this lady
http://www.amazon.co.uk/M-T-McGuire/e...

The first two parts of her trilogy are out and they are good

Not sure if you're looking for just SF/F, but here is a Mystery/thriller that I enjoyed.

The Devil's Grin by A Wendeberg. Very solid writing style.

You could go over to Book View Cafe (www.bookviewcafe.com). We are a pro author cooperative and there's a wide variety of good stuff there.

Sci-fi: I just finished Daimones by Massimo Marino, which I rather enjoyed.

Fantasy: House of Shadows by Walter Spence is a great book. I wish it were a little longer, but, even though it's not my usual fare, it was a great read.

Fantasy: The Master of Izindi by Dave Wallace is something a little unusual. It's a stand-alone fantasy, but with an Arabian Nights/Journey to the West sort of feel. I read it some time ago, and really enjoyed it.

I enjoyed The Song of Andiene. I've had less time for reading lately, and haven't stumbled onto much fantasy.

The wife reads a lot more, and has said she had fun with The Hero Always Wins, Broken Elements, Maggie for Hire, The Emperor's Edge, Touching Madness, Everfall, and Modern Sorcery. All indie books.

Jace Cameron's Snow White Sorrow was an entertaining read.

Especially Jace Cameron's mini-prequals to SWS; they were awesome.