Self published Science Fiction and Fantasy Book recommendation?

[chongjasmine]

Read any good self published science fiction and fantasy books? Recommend them here!
I like emperor edge series by Lindsay Buroker.
Her first book, Emperor edge can be downloaded free from Smashwords and Amazon.
Do you have self published or indie authors which you will recommend?

 

[Lilmizflashythang]

You guys might like J. Giambrone's Transfixion. It wasn't my favorite, but maybe you'll like it. Dystopian fiction with a hypnotizing signal feed.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Trusted by Krista Wayment.

Also I really enjoyed Smith by Mike Devlin

 

[Nerds_feather]

I've read a couple that I can recommend (complete with links to reviews):

Loki by Mike Vasich: a modernization/retelling of the Norse ragnarok myth. (And keep in mind as a Swede who has read most of the original myths/sagas, I am an extremely hard person to please with this stuff.)

Adrift on the Sea of Rains; The Eye with which the Universe Beholds Itself; and Then Will the Great Ocean Wash Above by Ian Sales: best hard SF I've read in ages.

Another one that I'd recommend is 3024AD by DES Richard. I haven't reviewed it because he's a contributor to my blog, but it's quality space opera with an Elizabethan twist.

 

[cyprus7]

I've read a couple that I can recommend (complete with links to reviews):

Thx, Nerds. fyi - The Eye link is is kaput for me but the others work OK.

 

[tinkerdan]

The Healers of Meligna by K.J. Colt is a rather fresh and unusual fantasy series.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KZ76HI2/?tag=brite-21

I really enjoyed Endeavour: A Sleeping Gods Novel by Ralph Kern and J Scott-Marryat
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...eeping gods&sprefix=endeavor,digital-text,521

Fluency (Confluence Book 1) by Jennifer Foehner Wells
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L3U9OCG/?tag=brite-21

Gilded (The Gilded Series Book 1) by Christina Farley is a fantastic fantasy offering with Korean Mythology blended into it.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FN2KR3K/?tag=brite-21

Some of these are only free by way of kindle unlimited.

 

[williamjm]

I enjoyed The Duchess of the Shallows and it sequel The Fall of Ventaris by Neil McGarry and Daniel Ravipinto. It's a fantasy series focusing on a young woman trying to prosper and rise among the criminal underworld of her home city while trying to unravel some of the mysteries of her past. In some ways it reminds me a bit of Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora although the protagonist is more inexperienced and naive than Locke.

Most reason self-published book I read was The Volunteer by Peadar Ó Guilín which I also thought was good, although it's a bit different because it is concluding a traditionally published trilogy where the publisher dropped it after the second book. The series mostly takes place in a world with no edible vegetation where the only food to eat is from one of the dozens of sentient species who inhabit it. I would recommend the series, I've never read another SF series quite like it and it's always nice to see something original.

 

[chongjasmine]

Thanks for your recommendations.

 

[pkdfan]

I read 'The Fugazi of Room 39' by M. K. Cathcart a couple of weeks ago. It was one of the first indie ebooks i've read and i really enjoyed it. The whole book was threw on its head in the last few chapters kind of similar to The Man in the High Castle, which is always nice.

 

[ralphkern]

Just finished: Fear the Sky by Stephen Moss.

It is truly excellent. Great and original story (Essentially a cold waresque alien invasion thriller/terminator). Lots of research has gone into it. Minimal typos, a couple of homonyms and repeated words - but on par with what I'd expect of a big five book (The early reviews would suggest otherwise, I reckon he's had a re-edit done since those).

Best of all, by the time I got round to reading it, the sequel is out so we know the author hasn't lost interest in writing thankfully.

I would suggest an author to watch.

 

[chongjasmine]

Thanks for your recommendations.