Any writers on /m/scifi up for critiquing my middle grade scifi novel query? Here it is:
Sometimes you have to leave Earth to find home…
Meet Micah “Mike” Thomas, a 12-year-old boy whose life is thrown into chaos after his mother’s passing. He longs for a return to normalcy, but his grandmother, a female version of Elon Musk, has other plans. His new reality is a nightmare: friends desert him, grades plummet, and his dad’s emotional absence deepens. His sister, Jenn, drowns her grief as a social media influencer addicted to attention at any cost, while Grandma – intent on punishing Mike’s dad for her grief – tightens her grip on the broken family.
In search of a fresh start, Mike’s dad takes a new job in Santa Fe, but the challenges persist. His sister’s social media obsession grows, and his father remains emotionally distant. Even his trusty AI companion can’t fill the void. The new job brings a secret project – the world’s first space elevator – putting the family in the crosshairs of Grandma’s narcissistic rage.
Mike yearns for his mother’s return and a shot at a normal kid’s life, impossible when Grandma forces him to spy on his own dad. Beating Grandma at her own game requires a journey into the stars and into the heart of his family’s deepest pain. Mike will rescue the space elevator – and his family – from Grandma’s destructive designs, even at the cost of his AI best friend.
“MIKE.SIERRA.ECHO” is a 65,000-word Middle Grade hard sci-fi thriller set in Boston, Santa Fe, and Ecuador, 150 years into the future. It will engage readers who enjoyed “We Dream of Space” by Erin Entrada Kelly and “Rebecca Reznik Reboots the Universe” by Samara Shanker.
@rachelcleves I have contributed a three-favourite-book-list to Shepherd, an independent site for generating book recommendations.
Writing together as @RASinn, we chose three of our favorite co-reads this year that captured our shared experiences. Weirdly, none of them were #scifi.
The day before I decided to take a break and trim my trees, so I did! 💪🏻😄 A meditative exercise, I tell you. While pruning, I thought about the plot development of my #scifi book The Closed Tunnel.
Can I brag? Not only am I writing a book, but I have pomegranates in the garden 😂
Key takeaway: writing a #book is not always typing on a keyboard. 80% of the time, the story is born in your head.
NEAR-FUTURE NOIR THRILLER, set in a Pacific Northwest sodden with “broken weather,” combines lots of action and a colorful cast of characters for a highly entertaining read. B PLUS
This was a re-read. All I really remembered from 30ish years ago was enjoying it. It aged pretty well. Yes, the unconscious sexism made me roll my eyes. My favorite example? It costs a lot to bring colonists to settlements outside our solar system, so let's send pregnant women and have them just drop the babies off, thereby diversifying the gene pool! The solution is both ridiculous and elegant in its simplicity.
Going to be working on some new live-drawn art during tonight’s Monsterdon presentation! Watch and toot along while I draw a new portrait of Kyoto Ai as the Kilaak Queen during Destry All Monsters! Feel free to post some of your Kaiju art with the #Monsterdrawn hashtag. Show starts at 9 PM EST on Tubi and Mastodon!
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Day 2 of my #NaNoWriMo was quite productive. After a hard first day of writing & researching for my #SciFi book The Closed Tunnel, I was able to write freely based on the curated material.
I suppose #Research is one of the hardest parts of creating #ScienceFiction. I don't trust the first or even the fourth source I see on the web. My background in physics and the #space industry helps me to at least have an idea if an article is crap or not. 😄 @scifi@bookstodon
Happy to say that The Battle of Victoria Crater Part I and Part II are now online! The novella takes place in the desolate Martian frontier of Victoriaville, a brave community of settlers faces relentless threats from mercenary bandits working for a powerful Earth corporation, WTO. At the same time, life as a Martian teenager comes with some interesting challenges. This time, the light at the end of the tunnel comes with grim news – not only are the bad guys on their way, so are desperate refugees and a monstrous dust storm. Pete and Martin risk everything to rescue the plucky pioneers from certain doom. Martin learns in the grinding dust and darkness that victory is something you win, one step at a time.
This just went out to backers of the Tome of Intriguing Options #Kickstarter for Honor + Intrigue. It is an early access draft of our next H+I project; a monster book called Horrifying + Fantastic Creatures. If you were a backer, check your inbox/spam folder for the codes. For now, this is exclusive to backers. @ttrpg#ttrpg#ttrpgs#fantasy#scifi#sciencefiction