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The novel Saint Elspeth by Wick Welker has been anointed an SPSFC 4 quarterfinalist by team Ground Control to Major Tom: https://sciencefiction.news/item/162 Aliens made first contact and Earth unleashed the nukes. 25 years later Elspeth Darrow runs the only hospital in Neo San Francisco.

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An SPSFC 4 team cloaked in mystery made Ceres Station Calling by R.M. Bradley a quarterfinalist. https://tinyurl.com/ceresstation It's hard to find love as a mining colony prisoner on Ceres. That doesn't stop Maeve from trying. Judges liked the intrigue, romance and hot-tempered ore.

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It's Friday. Do you even #writerslift bro? Tell us what self-published author we should be reading. Explain your reasoning. Earn extra credit if it's science fiction.

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Peripheral Prospectors has chosen The Ghost Gun by @gdlewis23.bsky.social as an SPSFC 4 quarterfinalist. tinyurl.com/ghostgareth onereadingnurse.com/2024/11/26/s... Judge: "I was trying extremely hard to finish The Ghost Gun before my eye surgery because I wanted to know how it ended."

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The Space Girls team chose The Artificial Structure Formerly Known as the Moon by I. K. Stokbaek as an SPSFC 4 quarterfinalist. www.lecari.co.uk/2025/02/spsf... AI favors some and starves others of food and knowledge. One of these Indigents becomes the unlikely leader of a revolution.

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Team Red Stars has advanced A Spectre in the Stream by Simon Tull as an SPSFC 4 quarterfinalist. eclectictheist.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/r... Long after the apocalypse an immortal with a second self protects a boy with a secret from bloodthirsty assassins.

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An SPSFC 4 judging team lost in the annals of time chose Mercy Rising by @bowengreenwood.bsky.social as a quarterfinalist. www.sffinsiders.com/blog/spsfc4-... A rogue telepath is caught between rebels and an Archon seeking to recruit her or kill her. Don't even get us started on the Hogs. #shudder

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My favorite book in the competition so far…

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I read the sample and loved it! Will be downloading soon for sure 🙌🏻

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The team Tar Vol On has chosen Time of the Cat by @tansyrr.bsky.social as an SPSFC 4 quarterfinalist. www.tarvolon.com/2025/01/14/i... In a future where time travel requires a cat, it's used mostly to learn more about a 1960s TV show. If you guessed "lighthearted jaunt" you are correct.

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The team Peripheral Prospectors has made Afterburn by @dandrewsauthor.bsky.social an SPSFC 4 quarterfinalist. onereadingnurse.com/2025/01/13/s... onereadingnurse.com/2024/11/10/s... One judge called this tale of psychological manipulation across space the "most compulsory read of the group."

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The Space Girls have selected On Impulse by Heather Texle as an SPSFC 4 quarterfinalist. www.lecari.co.uk/2025/02/spsf... A cop shoots her ex-partner in self defense and asks her tech-genius BFF to investigate. Now he's dead and she's a fugitive. Judges loved the pace and the protagonist.

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Bisection by Sheila Jenné has been chosen as an SPSFC 4 quarterfinalist by the Red Stars team. eclectictheist.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/r... www.amazon.com/Bisection-Sh... Two beings who share the same brain make first contact with an advanced alien species.

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WOOT! 🎉 Drowning Earth has made it to the Quarterfinals of the SPSFC 4 (Self Publishing Science Fiction Competition). I’m pretty pumped for the honor. Check out this glowing write up. 🚀🌟 #scifibooks sciencefiction.news/item/161/sps...

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A review for one of our @spsfc.bsky.social quarterfinalists. It's Drowning Earth by Sean Willson www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Today Lost Souls was cut from the @spsfc.bsky.social. I have enjoyed my time in the discord, meeting new writers, and adding to my tbr. Best of luck to the remaining competitors. Though I'm done this year, I'll continue writing and sharing the story! Signed hardcovers coming soon!

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Michelle McBeth, author of the SPSFC 2 quarterfinalist The Sphere, just hit goal on a Kickstarter for the final book in the series. There's still time to pledge for rewards. tinyurl.com/spherekick The Sphere was born from a friend's $100 bet that McBeth wouldn't do NaNoWriMo.

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Dito Abbott, author of the SPSFC 3 semifinalist Debunked, is giving people who join his newsletter a free copy of Sir Quidby's Debunking Field Manual (and Bathroom Companion). ditoabbott.com/debunking-fi... Rule 57: Never be the first into a crypt after someone opens a sarcophagus.

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This is a grand book, heartily recommended (and I'm still looking forward to jumping into the sequel)!

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SPSFC 3 semifinalist Erin Ampersand, author of Apocalypse Parenting Book 1: Time to Play, has a free 15,000-word story in the same universe available on StoryOrigin. storyoriginapp.com/giveaways/ca... Apocalypse Parenting is a LitRPG series about motherhood and saving the Earth.

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The Hand of God by Yuval Kordov was an SPSFC 3 semifinalist. Kordov just put the Dark Legacies series that begins with the novel on sale for the first time ever. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVH2L6SR One judge praised the genre-melding novel as "like nothing I've read before."

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Bill Sharrock and Edouard Artus, the author and illustrator of the SPSFC 4 novel Beautiful World Part 1, are giving away digital copies on their website to celebrate the release of Part 2. https://www.beautifulworldofficial.com/promo

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Ryan Southwick's novel Project Xerxes, a prequel to his SPSFC 4 quarterfinalist novel Enigma, is available as a free download on BookFunnel. https://www.ryansouthwickauthor.com/books/project-xerxes The prequel's "optional" but you know you want to visit Britta's homeworld.

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Al Hess, an SPSFC 1 semifinalist for Mazarin Blues and SPSFC 3 quarterfinalist for Yours Celestially, has both books as name-your-own-price downloads at Itch.io: https://alhessbooks.itch.io/ (Mazarin Blues is book 1 of Hep Cats of Boise.)

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Tim Hawken, author of the SPSFC 3 finalist Thrill Switch, is giving away copies of his novelette Spellraiser to people who sign up for his newsletter. https://www.timhawken.com/sign-up

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There's one more day to enter a 36-book science fiction and fantasy paperback giveaway at KingSumo. Authors include SPSFC 2 finalist N. C. Scrimgeour and SPSFC 3 semifinalist J. C. M. Berne. kingsumo.com/g/36jdp9m/ep...

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Cameron Coral, the author of the SPSFC 1 finalist Steel Guardian, is giving away free copies of the prequel to that book Steel Uprising on BookFunnel. https://dl.bookfunnel.com/ii96umprr6

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If you're wondering who runs the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition, it is not Hugh Howey. He built the contest with Duncan Swan in 2021 but they haven't been directly involved for a few years. #SPSFC https://spsfc.space/2025/02/05/let-me-speak-to-your-manager/ Hugh also built the Silo.

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The SPSFC now has an account on Bluesky! I wonder if anybody is talking about us here.

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