Sci-Friday Post - Where all the Substack nerds can be found
The curated list of space nerds
Image by NASA.
If you are looking for more Sci-Fi stories to read then you came to the right place!
I love the idea of Sci-Friday, where all sorts of science fiction authors try to help each other find readers and share their work, so I’m trying to make a repository of sorts, because finding actual fiction on substack is not as easy as it seems. Instead of spamming restacks, I’ll focus on growing and restacking this specific post, hopefully adding new people each time.
Without further delay, these are the science fiction writers I enjoy on substack, all corralled into a single place against their will. Please welcome these cool people to this great assembly of nerds, show them some love! I am saving every story you send me and I will read them all (I do have a backlog but I’m working on it)!
This week’s wonderful new additions:
Bookfairy, Keeper of the Ink - Start Here! She does plenty of SciFi, but this story I particularly liked: are we just shadows of ourselves?
Vincent S. Gehring - Start Here! A generational colony ship went dark centuries ago, now a salvager stumbles upon it and finds something he did not expect!
European Space History - Start Here! It might not be fiction, but hot damned if it isn’t nerdy! Somewhere there is a story in there about a lonely spacecraft waiting in orbit, dark, waiting for a signal that might never come.
J.J. Buchholz - Start Here! We all need a buddybot like that in our lives!
Didrik and Others! - Start Here! A collaborative piece between several nerds, each following a different thread and building on the last. Such a cool project!
Weekly spotlight of new projects (if you are on this list and have started a new series or project, let me know and I can highlight you here!)
The growing list of amazing authors on substack:
Science Fiction Stories - start Here!
A.M. Bowman - start Here!
swedendrift | writer - start Here!
The Galactic Writer - start Here!
SyntheticLife - start Here!
Kostia Dmytriiev - start Here!
Justin Burgess - start Here!
Memoirs of a Mad Scientist - start Here!
InspiredLewis - start Here!
J.W. Ellenhall's Stories Read & Written /Reviews & My Series - start Here!
James Kenwood - start Here!
Nick Winney - start Here!
Max King - not fiction, but perfect inspiration for stories and lots of new ideas to consider! Go Here!
Tretaxis Dispatches - start Here!
David T Etheredge - start Here!
Tehn Yit Chin - start Here!
Donald McHugh II - start Here!
Jenifer Jorgenson - start Here!
Ian Patterson - start Here!
Duncan Clark - start Here!
Chester Helms - start Here!
Li Mitchell - start Here!
Caitriana NicNeacail - start Here!
Zephyr 👽 Mezmeron - start Here!
Felix Thornfell - start Here!
Andrew Sears - start Here!
The Black Knight - start Here!
Evelyn K. Brunswick - start Here!
Richard Loader - start Here!
Sam J. Miller - start Here!
Owen T Badenoch - start Here!
SciFiVirteleon - start Here!
Maryellen Brady 💗📚 - start Here!
Sally Ann Melia - start Here!
Victor Jimenez - start Here!
F.O. Gameiro - start Here!
Jon Schindehette - start Here!
J. Michael Thomas - start Here!
F. P. Dawe - start Here !
Martin Grace - start Here!
Robert R. Fike - start Here!
FrankFlowers from ‘How to Avoid Acting Monstrous’ - start Here!
Daniel P. Douglas - start Here!
Help grow this list, send me all your favorite science fiction writers!
And if you are on the list and want a custom description next to your name or a specific link just boop me.
If you are interested in the mechanics of the list, my idea is to give everyone a fair shake, so new additions get a spotlight and get added to the top of the list the following week, but the list rotates so the last person gets bumped to the top each week.
Cheers for the mention! Always appreciated.
Hi Ciro — you asked readers to send science-fiction work for the list. I’m a Russian author writing moral techno-thrillers. Cradle is a dystopian SF novel about two brothers, freedom, mercy, and the price of immortality; this post includes an English excerpt and the complete-edition link: https://digitalgekko.substack.com/p/cradle-probably-my-best-novel-yet
I also have Immortals, a complete free novella about memory and whether a reconstructed mind is still the same person: https://digitalgekko.substack.com/p/immortals
If either fits Sci-Friday, I’d be grateful for a look.