Swords and Spaceships for December 4: A Celebration of Indie Books

This is rural cyberpunk that gets back to its roots of transhumanism in a group of people who are seriously dehumanized and disenfranchised by the systemic oppression promulgated by corporations. A runaway New Woman ends up in small town West Virginia where she gets caught up with a couple of dead-enders surviving their pointless jobs with the liberal use of drugs and virtual reality.

Michael Duckett has worked for The Future Group for years, despite having no idea what his company does or even what he does. But when he’s suddenly fired, he takes his place as his roommate Stephanie Dyer’s partner in her detective agency. As it turns out, The Future Group has been harboring a horrible secret for decades, something that could fill the world with indescribable horror.

While he’s supported by a loving family, Darshima is a young man struggling to balance tradition with his desire to make his own place in the world. Then an utterly brutal invasion of his world by an unknown enemy finds him abducted and enslaved on a distant world. As he fights to survive, he must look inside himself to uncover a secret that could free his people and break this empire.

With governments all over the world denying the reality of climate change, an underground network of climate scientists springs up to share and preserve data. But the deniers are willing to kill to silence the exchange…

This is a hopeful and uplifting multi-genre anthology of stories about the magic of writing instruments and communication, and the strength of the communities that they create. Stories by ZZ Claybourne, Rai Rocca, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Dawn Vogel, Joy Givens, and many more!

A young, Jewish trans man takes refuge in the Houston basketball arena when a hurricane devestates the city. His fears regarding his fellow refugees take the form of the ghost of his great-grandfather, who fled from Nazi Germany as a boy.

Two transgender elders must learn to weave death if they are to save their land and their people from an evil ruler.

After a nameless young woman is given a warning by her grandmother’s dreamskin, her world begins to unravel. Her skin color starts to peel off, the city she lives in suddenly decides to destroy the train in which the people bury their dead… and the living start randomly becoming invisible.

900 Vennans have come to the massive space station of tradepoint for business and cultural exchange–and their homeworld is destroyed in their absence. It’s up to a young diplomate named Gredin to engage in a new direction of barter, for the survival of her people.

An anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction about hope, community, and queer joy in the face of disaster. Contains 23 stories, 2 poems, and a roleplaying game.

The Valentine’s Day installment in Buhlert’s In Love and War space opera serie is about soldiers who were on opposing sides of an intergalactic war… until they fell in love and decided to go on the run together. Right now, they’re just trying to have a romantic dinner, but they get caught in a turf war between gangasters. These are DELIGHTFUL.

The future and developing technology brings with it all new kinds of crime that these authors are trying to imagine. Who writes the laws, who investigates, and who is the actual criminal? “The laser’s way is both a scalpel and a gun.”