Rambling Readers

Susan Kaye Quinn

Looking for a light, fun read that also happens to be on an alt-India steampunk fantasy world? With matriarchy, romance, sword fights and airships?

The first ebook in this trilogy (Third Daughter) is FREE (also in print and audio).

**IMPORTANT** I named them backwards just to confuse you: THIRD DAUGHTER is the FIRST BOOK. 💕

https://susankayequinn.com/series/royals-of-dharia

#steampunk #romance #fantasy #freebooks @bookstodon

trio of images, the three daughters of Dharia from the three books of the Royals of Dharia steampunk fantasy romance series by Susan Kaye Quinn

Looking a bit for some #books suggestions. I've been thinking of trying to fill out my #ebooks library more. I need to have a huge collection of stuff I'd be able to access on my tablet (which I can easily charge via solar power) if I lost access to a lot of things (such as Internet...)

What I'd really like to look for more of right now are particularly #Fantasy novels, but maybe a bit of #Scifi as well. But one thing I'd really like to look more fore is the stuff that is less "gritty." I'm tired of so many books focusing so hard on suffering, torture, good people driven bad, etc. More of the stuff where you know in the end the good guys will win and they won't compromise on what they know is right, even if it may be really hard along …

Looking a bit for some #books suggestions. I've been thinking of trying to fill out my #ebooks library more. I need to have a huge collection of stuff I'd be able to access on my tablet (which I can easily charge via solar power) if I lost access to a lot of things (such as Internet...)

What I'd really like to look for more of right now are particularly #Fantasy novels, but maybe a bit of #Scifi as well. But one thing I'd really like to look more fore is the stuff that is less "gritty." I'm tired of so many books focusing so hard on suffering, torture, good people driven bad, etc. More of the stuff where you know in the end the good guys will win and they won't compromise on what they know is right, even if it may be really hard along the way.

Maybe some cozy stuff too?

#Reading

SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers

Famous Fantastic Mysteries vol. 5, no. 5 (December 1943)

Before you judge have no evidence the panther actually attacked the woman, she seems completely unharmed. And if it did, well she's wearing leopard skin, and leopards and panthers are basically the same creature, right? Just different pigmentation.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries_v05_n05_1943-12.Popular_cape1736_edit

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

In a cave, a black panther is crouched over a woman, but is being speared from behind by a primitive-looking man.
Famous Fantastic Mysteries magazine cover from 1943.

Michael Whelan

THE GUNSLINGER: MOHAINE (2005)
Oil on Canvas - 25" x 40"

Interior illustration for THE LITTLE SISTERS OF ELURIA by Stephen King

“The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what looked like eternity in all directions.
1/3

#fantasy #fantasyart #sff #illustration #darktower #gunslinger #rolanddeschain #stephenking

Striding across a sun bleached wasteland, a haggard gunslinger casts a long shadow. Set high on the canvas near the horizon, his figure is diminutive in the vastness of the barren terrain. He has made his way a little right of center but his shadow almost reaches the end. Hardened lines in the sand resemble branching blue veins drawing the viewers eye back to the gunslinger. The sky above is tranquil beginning almost white on the left, a hint of the sun off-panel, and stretching in a long band of desaturated cyan.

Branwen OShea (she/her)

I started writing The Calling at the original heyday of dystopian literature (2011), and specifically wrote it to seem in the beginning like a “Dystopian, chosen one” trope that later gets usurped to “Hopepunk, no chosen one, everyone is responsible,” … 1/2

#hopepunk #scifi #dystopian #humanity #nonviolence #violence #peace #fantasy #FindingHumanitySeries

Image of a paperback and ebook of The Calling in front of a spiral galaxy. The cover features a teen exiting a massive elevator and looking out into a dark, arctic landscape. In the distance, a strange star in on the snow.

Umbra Ludus Productions

My newest piece titled: Into the Morning Sun

#steampunk #retrofuturistic #dieselpunk #scifi #fantasy #myart #digitalart #fantasy #ttrpg #art #MastoArt #fediart

Wendy Palmer

A release note about my latest book, The Use of Myriad Arts, a fantasy historical set in alternate 1850s with a m/f romance.
Includes content warnings and far too many footnotes.

#books #NewRelease #fantasy #Indie

http://wendypalmer.au/2024/11/16/author-notes-the-use-of-myriad-arts/

Juliet E McKenna

"a tale that cleverly uses the reader’s expectations to make the drama more intense. We are used to Dan being the investigator and sorting things out using his intelligence, strength and friends ... this time it feels Dan and his allies are the ones needing rescuing. "

The Green Man's War has a satisfied reader here - link to full, non-spoilery review 😊

https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/11/15/the-green-mans-war-by-juliet-e-mckenna

#books #Writing #SFF #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy

Emma Cox

Since there’s an influx of new users, I’d best do another #introduction

I am a mildly witchy creative living in Cornwall, UK. Making my mark in words, art and photography. 

Fantasy writer. Nature lover and history enthusiast. Often found on long walks in wild places.

#Writing #Writers #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #Art #MastoArt #Photography #Archaeology #History #Mythology #Folklore #Nature #NatureWriting #Landscape #StandingStoneSunday #Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #Reading

A close up of moss with thin red stalks and lime green heads.

Impressionist artwork of the sand and sea using minimal colours of blue and pale yellow.

A photo of me (dark haired female in a blue coat and black trousers) leaning against a standing stone in a grassy field

Miriam Robern

It's here, it's here, release day is here, and TorchLite is out in the world! Whew!

So proud of this project and so happy we're here at the finish line. Fly, fly my pretties!

You can grab your copy here: https://xineink.itch.io/torchlite

Reshares and retweets VERY appreciated! :D

#TorchLite #ttrpg #ttrpgs #Cortex #CortexPrime #CortexLite #fantasy #dungeon

RELEASE DAY!

TorchLite
a fantasy build for CORTEX Lite

- robust character creation
- monstrous challenge templates
- simple & flexible adventure design
- 236 pages, 9 peoples, 9 professions, 9 personalities, 541 SFX
- pay-what-you-want at itch.io

Michael Whelan

GATE OF IVREL (1975)
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas Board - 17" x 18"

The context for this commission—quite possibly lost in the long arc of our careers—was as C.J. Cherryh's debut novel. 1/3

#fantasy #fantasyart #sff #illustration #cjcherryh

Morgaine stands triumphantly with arms stretched overhead as she draws a gleaming sword from sheath. A gate frame her from behind. The central portal is filled with a field of stars and the outer edge of the gate is patterned with futuristic circuitry. On one knee before Morgaine, a warrior grips the handle and crossguard of a curved sword with the tip of the blade planted in the ground.

Neve Maslakovic

#writephant #selfpromo

Four of my books are in this Kindle Unlimited science fiction and fantasy promo!

#books
#bookstodon
#sff #sciencefiction
#fantasy
#indie

https://books.bookfunnel.com/Sci-fi_fantasy_Kindle_Unlimited_Books/iekkcdc40i

SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers

Fantastic Adventures vol. 7, no. 4 (October 1945)

Wow, that's a great monster. Whoever decided on putting all those bits together, bravo. And the eye is the best part.

If I had a note, it would be that the fight is over, right? You've given away the ending.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v07n04_1945-10_cape1736

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

Two figures in loincloths are fighting with axes on top of a dinosaur/sea monster with a vulture-like head. One has struck the other who is falling.
Fantastic Adventures magazine cover from 1945.

Christina McMullen

Hey friends, I'm looking for fluffy, cozy, sci-fi and fantasy book recs by indie authors. Minimal conflict. Light romance is fine, but not as the main plot. Found family works too. Triumph in the face of adversity is fine as long as the adversity isn't too fleshed out and traumatic. I just want comfort reads to hide in for a while and trying to find books amongst the AI crap is a pain
#BookRec #Bookstodon #IndieAuthor #SFF #Cozy #SciFi #Fantasy

Michael Whelan

Content warning Tasteful nudity, non-sexual

DANCING IN STRANGE SEAS (2023)
Acrylic on Canvas - 8" x 12"

The other day I woke from a vivid dream. I was stranded on a deserted island—but quite happy about it as I was swimming! 1/3

#fantasy #fantasyart #illustration #leftoversandpalettegremlins #dragon

Floating in a dark bubbly sea, a naked woman with flowing red hair spreads her arms wide, turning playfully to draw a transparently patterned cape behind her. Curious while passing by, a green sea dragon cranes its neck. Its sinuous body curves and rolls before finally looping back at the tip of its spaded tail. Foreclaws loll as it pauses between strokes, entranced by the aquatic dance. The woman holds out the ends of the jellyfish-like veil and it shifts in pattern as it flows in front of her. Leopard spots flare fiery in contrast passing over pale skin. Extending past her, the pattern morphs into abstract splotches much like the eyespots on a peacock feather, growing in size and shifting from green to blue to purple as the veil trails off panel.