Helllooooo everyone and we are finally concluded with the third annual Self Published Science Fiction Competition! Aka #SPSFC3 on social media this year!
Today the winners are announced so go share the love from @theSPSFC on X/Twitter and blast the news everywhere you can think of!!
I would like to add that the winner – third place were literally separated by less than one tenth of a point and this was just SO NAILBITING! If you have an ulcer from waiting and watching these six fine books do battle, you’re not the only one!
While we do apologize for the slight delay in announcing the winners, let’s focus on the books now and I do encourage everyone to check them out!!!
Banner credit to TheShaggyShepherd and runnerup/winner image credit to Scott @ BookInvasion!
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Sixth Place
Dark Theory by Wick Welker
A robot yearns to remember. A thief struggles to forget. A galaxy on the verge of collapse
Fifth Place
Children of the Black by W.J. Long III
Humanity has survived. On the far end of the universe, with Earth little more than a faded memory, they thrive on worlds where once they were enslaved. In the millennia since, these persistent beings built new societies, but when the two greatest nations among them met for the first time, there was war. The all-consuming conflict bent the wills and morals of both powers beyond recognition, leading to levels of experimentation and cruelty once thought impossible. Yet, in a universe drowned in blood, an opportunity for peace is seized.
Fourth Place
Memoirs of a Synth: Gold Record by Leigh Saunders
Tour guide, emissary, diplomat, thief — and a long-lived, genetically engineered Synth — Brianna Rei travels the Hundred Worlds, hiding in plain sight. She knows her survival depends on staying one step ahead of the bounty hunters who have nearly exterminated her kind.
Third Place
Three Grams of Elsewhere by Andy Giesler
A reclusive empath confronts his role in the war that fractured the United States
Runner-Up
Thrill Switch by Tim Hawken
Detective Ada Byron is pumped to finally be assigned her first murder case… until she sees the crime scene. Someone has been killed exactly the same way as her father was seven years earlier. To see if this is a copycat, or something more sinister, Ada must work with her personal nightmare Jazlin Switch – the programmer who murdered her dad. What follows is a mind-bending, heart-stopping ride through the dark side of reality and the virtual world.
THE WINNER
Kenai by Dave Dobson
A planet steeped in mystery…Jess Amiko is long past her days as a space marine, with all the glory of that time tarnished beyond repair by what came after. Trying to rebuild from the ashes, she’s taken a job as a security guard on Kenai, a lonely world far from the Council systems. It’s supposed to be easy duty – quiet and peaceful, on a docile world with no real threats, watching over an archeological dig at a site built by a race long vanished. Betrayed and attacked by forces unknown, and finding that nothing on Kenai makes sense, Jess is plunged into a desperate fight for survival that leads her deep into the mysteries of Kenai’s past, and deep into the hardship and paradox the planet imposes on all who call it home.
P.S. SQUEEEEEE CONGRATS TO OUR SLUSH PILE BOOK!!!!
The top three were SO CLOSE and each one SO deserving, and it’s just a bit extra special when your team’s book wins!!
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