Welcome to week #3 of my Self Published Sci-Fi Saturday, where I’ll introduce you to five new self published SF authors! Check out week #1 and week #2 if you missed them. Take a look at these awesome looking books, and I hope you find something new to add to your TBR:
Scott Arbuckle
Scavenged
“This is top-notch science-fiction.” –Renaissance Writer
The year is 2032. In the wake of a catastrophic alien invasion, mankind has been reduced to a race of slaves. When Orion Danes is abducted and cruelly experimented upon by the sinister alien race known as the Greys, he is given powerful but horrifying cybernetic augmentations that transform him into a killing machine. Now finding himself on the outermost fringe of the world of men, Orion is quickly losing himself—and finds a tether to his fading humanity through the companionship of a fellow victim of the Greys’ vile experiments: an insightful psionic named Lyra Vaughn.
Through a web of shifting alliances, Orion and Lyra encounter others who, like them, have resolved to strike a blow against the Greys and restore peace to their lives. But when a life is so badly damaged, can it ever be truly repaired?
Experience the award-winning Best Young Adult Novel of 2019. In this critically-acclaimed sci-fi debut, Scott Arbuckle crafts the compelling and emotional tale of a young man trying desperately to salvage his humanity in a ruined world.
Best Indie Book Awards, 2019 Winner, Young Adult Category
Buy the book: Amazon
SCOTT ARBUCKLE was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1981. In elementary school, he wrote many stories and poems, and won a Young Authors award for a fantasy short story. Scott’s favorite subject was English, and he planned to become a writer. In high school and college, Scott studied Theatre Arts and Language Arts, and also developed an interest in fantasy and science-fiction role-playing games, a hobby that stayed with him into his adult years. Scott now lives in central Kentucky with his wife, London. Together, they enjoy supporting zoos and aquariums while traveling around the eastern United States.
Find Scott: Twitter | Facebook
Kate Baucherel
Bitcoin Hurricane (SimCavalier Book One)
Meet Cameron Silvera, a feisty cyberterrorism expert battling technothreats and high-tech attacks that threaten society on a daily basis.
Cameron runs a threat intelligence agency in 2040s London. While defusing a routine cyber attack in a city bank, the team uncovers a warning of chaos to come. How will Cameron’s team, and their friends and families, prepare to battle the oncoming storm?
Kate Baucherel’s debut thriller novel is an exciting read of cyber security and conspiracy fiction, featuring the charismatic Cameron Silvera juggling everyday life and the very real threat of cyberterrorism.
Hacked Future (SimCavalier Book Two)
In the 2040s, techothreats and high-tech attacks threaten society on a daily basis. In this much awaited sequel to Bitcoin Hurricane, Cameron Silvera and the cybersecurity team at Argentum Associates are busy dealing with the fallout of several apparently unrelated data breaches.
Evidence mounts pointing to real-world perpetrators of the hacks, unexpected connections are uncovered, and a mystery man in a police morgue may hold the key. As the investigations reach a climax, Cameron and the team find themselves facing danger unexpectedly close to home.
Kate Baucherel’s second thriller novel is another exciting read of near future cyber security and conspiracy fiction, featuring the charismatic Cameron Silvera juggling everyday life and the very real threat of cyberterrorism.
Tangled Fortunes (SimCavalier Book Three)
The Argentum Associates team responds to urgent calls for enhanced security at nuclear installations following a terrorist attack. As evidence grows of a sophisticated breach, Cameron, Ross and their colleagues join an international fight against a growing cybercriminal network with a global reach.
Buy the books: Amazon | Galia Digital (UK only)
A sci fi fan since first seeing the Daleks from behind the sofa, KATE BAUCHEREL works day to day with new emerging technologies to solve business problems. Sometimes her imagination gets the better of her, and the fictional worlds in her writing are rooted in the possibilities already at our fingertips. Her work includes the SimCavalier near future, high tech scifi thriller series and several short stories in the Harvey Duckman Presents… anthologies. She also writes non-fiction, most recently ‘Blockchain Hurricane: Origins, Applications and Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency’ (Business Expert Press, 2020).
Find Kate: Twitter | Linkedin | Facebook | Instagram | Goodreads
EM Harding
Moon-Sitting
The Moon fell into the Ocean and the Waves wept.
Infinity was once home to a thriving civilisation. That is, before the Moon arrived. The enormous, spherical structure brought with it death and destruction, wiping out most of the population with a series of earthquakes and tsunamis.
Since then the Moon has sat silently on the southern edge of Infinity’s mass continent.
Lucky Marsh is one of three moon-sitters charged with monitoring the Moon, acting as a living alarm system for Infinity’s last city. They must watch, but never touch: that’s the golden rule of moon-sitting. However, for the ever-curious Lucky, that rule has become increasingly difficult to abide.
Her nightmares compel her to do more. Her feet betray her while she sleeps.
Buy the book: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon Canada | Moon-Sitting Info
EM HARDING is a queer Welsh author. They hold a BA in English with Creative Writing and an MA in Applied Linguistics (both from the University of Birmingham) and run a writing group known as “The Writeryjig Clubamabob”. Moon-Sitting is EM’s first novella and first foray into the world of self-publishing. It’s available globally on Amazon in ebook and paperback formats.
Find EM: Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
Jesse Pohlman
Protostar: An Automatic Apocalypse
Lahira Ocean is the Captain of the Messenger, a cutting-edge Cruiser defending Humanity and its allies against an alien race called The Orphans. After a hectic battle at the planet Gagarin, Lahira awakens from a two-week long coma to find two strangers carefully awaiting her recovery. The first is clearly from the upper echelons of Earth’s government who calls himself Herodotus Fork; the second is distantly familiar to Lahira as a woman named Amber, an ambassador from the Automatons, a ‘species’ of alien who are fully artificial intelligences. Neither are happy to be sitting over her hospital bed.
Lahira is suspected of being involved in an unprecedented attack on an Automaton: During the Battle of Gagarin, Lahira’s ship emitted a strange signal which seemed to corrupt the mind of an elder Automaton, and Amber has been assigned to levy judgment about what happened. Unfortunately for her, the chaos of the ensuing melee led to the Human receiving serious injuries: She was mentally connected to a computer system which shorted out. These injuries – along with others lurking deeper under the surface of her thoughts – have induced retrograde amnesia, meaning she cannot fully explain the events leading to her role in the brawl.
Ultimately, Lahira has to confront her actions during the Battle of Gagarin while recovering from her wounds. She can’t even remember the conflicts she charged into with her top crew-mates, and digging into her recent past only brings up reasons for guilt to weigh her down, making the depths of her pain medication’s buzz more and more enticing. She finds herself in theological debates with a machine who has just as much faith in God as any 25th century Human she’d ever met, in ethical arguments with spies over how wars are fought, and in romantic entanglements with those she’d never imagined she’d developed an interest in.
By the time the conspiracy unravels, the masterminds responsible for Lahira’s turmoil have presented themselves, and Lahira’s ship is assigned to guarantee Humanity’s innocence in the attack. After finding herself to be all-too-Human, can she establish her species’ friendliness to strange alien entities who appear, at least on the surface, to be vastly superior to her? How will she survive the latest round of chaos in one piece?
Buy the book: Amazon
JESSE POHLMAN is an author from Long Island, New York, and former Teacher and Teaching Assistant who writes Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, where he explores themes ranging from ideological struggles to the search for peace. You can find more of his work at www.JPohlmanWriting.com.
Find Jesse: Facebook | Twitter | Website | Amazon
P. L. Tavormina
Aerovoyant
On planet Turaset, droughts ravage farmlands, cyclones rip through coastal cities, and with every barrel of oil the combustion industry pumps from the ground, the climate worsens. Alphonse has just refused a council seat because taking it means serving that rapacious industry. He leaves the city to seek solace in the wilderness, and there, a power to live the past awakens within him. Alphonse walks the steps of his distant ancestors on long-dead Earth, soon growing plagued with memories of its collapse, and he’s left with a troubling certainty: He must infiltrate the combustion industry to secure proof of its treachery, or Turaset will be next to fall.
Alphonse finds an ally in Myrta, a farmgirl who sees air, every molecule in every pulse of breath or blast of exhaust. With her talent, she can evade the patrols on the industry’s grounds. Together, Alphonse and Myrta can prove the industry lies about emissions. They can convince the councils to shut down fossil fuel use permanently.
But people in the industry have grown wise to Myrta’s power—and now she’s marked for death.
Buy the book: Amazon
P. L. TAVORMINA is a North American middle-aged mammal living during Earth’s Anthropocene. Dr. Tavormina has identified human disease genes at the University of California and catalogued ecological changes in the wake of petroleum disasters at Caltech. Now, she’s writing fiction to make climate science more broadly accessible. Additional short stories from the world of Turaset are freely available at pltavormina.com.
Aerovoyant is going on my tbr!
And that cover is sooo good!
The Sim Cavalier series looks very intriguing! And cyberterrorism is not such a far-fetched idea even now…
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What a fabulous collection of books, Tammy! I particularly like the look of SimCavalier and Scavenged:)). Thank you for sharing these titles…
Thanks Sarah, I love the look of these too:-)
Baucherel’s series seem so interesting!! Thanks for sharing!
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I like the sound of Kate Baucherel’s series. Technothrillers with plenty of cyberthreats. Fun stuff, if sometimes a bit too real.
I agree, this sounds like fun:-)
Some really interesting titles here, Tammy! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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These all look pretty interesting, thanks for bringing them to our attention! 🙂
I agree, there is a lot of cool-looking self published out there:-)
This is a great post with some really intriguing books.
Lynn