# Indie science fiction books

Starships and generation ships, near futures that feel a little too close, first contact, time loops and the question of what makes us human. Every science fiction book here comes straight from its author.

Page: https://bervet.com/showcase/genre/science-fiction

## Books

- [What Stone Keeps](https://bervet.com/showcase/what-stone-keeps) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Firing Order](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-firing-order) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Keller's Field](https://bervet.com/showcase/kellers-field) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Defensible Route](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-defensible-route) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Missing, Presumed](https://bervet.com/showcase/missing-presumed) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Last Manifest](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-last-manifest) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Wrong Sky](https://bervet.com/showcase/wrong-sky) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Nothing Given](https://bervet.com/showcase/nothing-given) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Who Holds the Standard](https://bervet.com/showcase/who-holds-the-standard) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [What the Station Keeps](https://bervet.com/showcase/what-the-station-keeps) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Way Out Closes](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-way-out-closes) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Road Called Good](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-road-called-good) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Inside the Window](https://bervet.com/showcase/inside-the-window) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Last Cache](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-last-cache) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Surveyors](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-surveyors) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Terminal Black](https://bervet.com/showcase/terminal-black) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [One Road Out](https://bervet.com/showcase/one-road-out) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Quiet Mathematics](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-quiet-mathematics) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Long Silence](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-long-silence) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Wrong Number](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-wrong-number) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Guttering Light](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-guttering-light) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Burning Lanes](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-burning-lanes) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Doorstep](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-doorstep) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Dimming](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-dimming) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Who the Door Admits](https://bervet.com/showcase/who-the-door-admits) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [What First Call Buys](https://bervet.com/showcase/what-first-call-buys) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Who Gets to Answer](https://bervet.com/showcase/who-gets-to-answer) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Deep Frontier](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-deep-frontier) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Ruins](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-ruins) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [First Contact](https://bervet.com/showcase/first-contact) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Cohort](https://bervet.com/showcase/cohort) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [First Run](https://bervet.com/showcase/first-run) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Running Dark](https://bervet.com/showcase/running-dark) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Bright Horizon](https://bervet.com/showcase/bright-horizon) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Long Light](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-long-light) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Long Charter](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-long-charter) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Signal](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-signal) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Wide Sky](https://bervet.com/showcase/wide-sky) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Widened Road](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-widened-road) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Closing Sky](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-closing-sky) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Dead Reckoning](https://bervet.com/showcase/dead-reckoning) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Wrong Side](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-wrong-side) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Opening the Span](https://bervet.com/showcase/opening-the-span) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [Shakedown](https://bervet.com/showcase/shakedown) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)
- [The Deep Edge](https://bervet.com/showcase/the-deep-edge) by R. S. Breed (chapter 1 free)

## What you'll find here

Science fiction covers a lot of ground. The books listed here tend to fall into a few families:

- **Space opera.** Big canvases: fleets, empires, crews who become family. Look for [found family](/tropes/found-family) and [underdog](/tropes/underdog).
- **Near future.** Our world a few years on, changed by one technology or one decision. Often the most unsettling kind.
- **Dystopian and post-apocalyptic.** Societies gone wrong, and the people who survive them or push back.
- **Cyberpunk and tech thrillers.** Corporations, networks, bodies and minds that can be edited. Often [morally grey](/tropes/morally-grey).
- **Time travel and time loops.** Tagged [time loop](/tropes/time-loop) when a character lives the same day again.
- **First contact.** Meeting something that isn't us, and what that reveals about us.

Science fiction with a lot of action sits comfortably next to [action and adventure](/showcase/genre/action-adventure); stories with levels and game systems are under [LitRPG and progression fantasy](/showcase/genre/litrpg-progression-fantasy).

## Finding your next one

- **Read chapter 1 first.** Science fiction often drops you straight into a world with new words. The free first chapter tells you whether the author makes that easy or hard, and whether you like it either way.
- **Filter by trope.** Under More filters on the books page you can pick a trope and leave out content you'd rather not read.
- **Try "Most finished".** Books ranked by how many readers finish the free first chapter. Nobody can pay to be there.
- **Read before release.** Authors give out free advance copies here. Ask for a place, read in your browser, and tell them what you thought.

## Writing science fiction?

List your book free, add your first chapter, and tick the tropes that fit. Say what kind of science fiction it is (hard or soft, dark or hopeful) in your blurb's first line. [How to write a blurb](/guides/writing-a-blurb) has worked examples, and [KDP keywords and categories](/guides/kdp-keywords-categories) covers being found on Amazon.

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