I’m looking for the next generation of sci-fi writers having exhausted everything I can find by people like Ian M. Banks, Robert Heinlein, William Gibson, Jeff Noon, Joe Haldeman, Asimov, the James S A Corey partnership, James Blish, Andy Weir, Martha Wells, Arthur Clarke, Peter Hamilton, Orson Scott Card, and so on and so on.
I’m looking for new-ish voices in relatively hard, techie sci-fi, with political / espionage overtones. Space opera, distant future, interesting new tech ideas, not based in the near future but in different universes / point in time. Weird cultures, conflicts, high tension, advanced tech / machine intelligence etc etc.
Grateful for your suggestions!
by oceanicplatform
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You may find [this recent thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1bg104d/lesser_known_modern_authors/) from over in r/printSF helpful
I think Jeff Vandermeer is amazing! You might have seen the film, Annhilation, based on his book, with Natalie Portman.
You may like my just-completed novel, Planet Janie. Here is the back cover blurb:
I am compelled to inform you that the first communication from the biosphere has been received. The Ten Thousand Genera, as they call themselves, wish me to tell you that it is they who control your desires from the warmth and security of your gut, the mortal coil of life itself. This is as it is and has been since Luca, the Founder of the Asgard Archaea, arrived here when the earth passed through the tail of a comet billions of years ago. They want you to know that it is they who constructed us from the first single-cell organisms to all that followed up the evolutionary ladder to you and me and all living things.
Since that time, microbes have used cellular vessels like us to traverse the earth in search of a way to return to their home in the stars. Know, too, that their existence within us is now and has always been fraught with joy and peril, heartbreak and desire, ecstasy and fear, sorrow and longing—all the emotions that humans experience woven into the fabric of our being that we think are ours but are really theirs.
Come with us now to experience Planet Janie’s meteoric fall from grace and the glittering heights of ultra-chic Manhattan to way off the map and learn the secrets that hold the key to life itself. This then, is the transcript of the final times of Clan Smithii of the Archaea dictated from the colon of a beautiful dead girl in hopes that humanity can yet be saved.
Are you ready to face the truth?
I’m a new sci-fi writer with one self published novel, and if I knew where to advertise that would be amazing.
I have literally no idea and self-posting on reddit is frowned option and I don’t want to get GoodReads bombed again.
So yes, I’m not recommending my own book but if anyone could tell me where people go for scifi recommendations, I would probably sell my soul.