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Indie sci-fi/fantasy recommendations

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As, uh, market research ;) , lately I've been reading a bunch of e-books written by my fellow indie authors. I've found a few that I can't recommend, but a lot of them have been quite good. I thought I'd start a thread to spotlight the good'uns from time to time. :)

My #1 recommendation so far is for M. Edward McNally's "Norothian Cycle". It's epic fantasy, set in a world chock-full of political intrigue and magic, but what makes me keep coming back is Ed's fascinating core group of characters. I challenge you to *not* like Tilda Lanai, Zebulon Baj Nef, and Princess Allison. :) The Sable City is the first book of four so far, and he's writing more, so get busy now.

I've just started Yvonne Hertzberger's Back from Chaos, Book 1 in her "Earth's Pendulum" series. It's pretty good so far, but I'm only 127 pages into the 600+ pages. This is also epic fantasy, but it seems gentler, which characters who are interested in doing the right thing. So far. We'll see how it goes. She has a second book out, too.

For sci-fi, I'm recommending The Dimension Researcher by Chris James, the first book in his "Second Internet Cafe" series. The premise involves time travel into parallel worlds. He's got a problem with punctuation in his quotes, but if you can ignore that, the story line is really good.

I'll update as I run across more. And feel free to post recommendations -- but not for my books, please. We're trying to broaden our horizons here. ;)
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Thanks for the recommendations, ali.

Would like to recommend Gifts in Sand and Water, a collection of short stories by Annie Bellet. You can get Winter's Bite, my favorite from among the stories, for free (click the name).

I loved a short, steampunk story called We Don't Plummet Out of the Sky Anymore, which I think I found on Smashwords, by M. David Blake.

Yesterday's Gone, by Sean Platt, is a zombie-apocalypse thriller written (successfully, I thought) to read like a tv series. I read Season One but haven't had time to go farther, but it was very entertaining.[/url]
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OMG, the Wool Omnibus.

I'm in the middle of Book 5. This is good. There's not much I seriously say OMG for. :)
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I agree! Wool rocks the house.
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