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M. A. Holland
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Reader/writer. Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. Probably misses his old glasses. #amrewriting: RAVEN QUEEN'S FLIGHT/RAVEN QUEEN'S RETURN, YA Ornithopunk Duology mrkhllnd80.wixsite.com/maholland
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As the resource-hungry Sovereignty expands unchecked, two sisters find themselves at odds: one a Sovereign pilot, the other a rebel mechanic. Their paths collide over besieged Iskar, where magically engineered weapons are unleashed by both sides—at devastating cost.

#SFpit #YA #NA #WIP #SFan
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An agent's guide to TIME'S SIGNATURE :

"A Mexican standoff between Slow Horses, Life on Mars and The Ipcress File."

"A perfect storm of espionage and time travel."

"The best novel of 2035!"

#agentguide #A #T #Q #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #writers
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Re-upping this post from earlier in the #SFPit event.

#A #Q #TT
Ipcress File x Life on Mars

🔫 High-stakes thriller
🔫 Time travel twist
🔫 Stale beer espionage
🔫 Weird science
🔫 Cold War subterfuge
🔫 Working class hero
🔫 Hunter to hunted
🔫 Antagonist from the future
🔫 Enemy turned ally
🔫 Proles vs privilege

#SFPit #A #Q #TT
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GIDEON THE NINTH x ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN

The moons of Jupiter are at war. He’s the Saints Reincarnated, destined to bring apocalypse to the moon that betrayed his. She’s a grunt in his enemy’s army. She chooses him. He’s so screwed.

SAINT OF DOGS: a space goth sci-fi rom-com
#SFPit #A #R #Q
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Cut off from a VR treatment that helps her OCD & writer's block, Emmy turns to the dark web—where the pursuit of wellness and healing spirals into obsession and addiction. #SFPit #A #Q #SSF #SF #OWN #LGBT #DIS
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A human rebel and a half-vesperian soldier are bound by a quantum link that could save their collapsing galaxy, but it requires an impossible sacrifice—and it's one neither may be prepared to make.
🪐 Enemies to Lovers
🪐 Fated Mates
🪐 Slow Burn
#SFPit #A #Q #SFan
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#SFpit #NA #Q #HR #F
Charlie will do whatever it takes to solve Lydia's murder, including:

🫖 drugging the mayor with magic tea
🔮 contacting the dead
🕵️ stealing evidence
🧿 breaking curses
🧠 losing her sanity
💋 seducing the man who killed her
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THE INVISIBLE LIBRARY x THE MATRIX

When their writer abandons them, characters in an unfinished novel become aware of their existence.

Struggling to find The End, they seek the help of a lonely bookworm who's always wanted to step into a book...

#SFpit #A ( #YA crossover ) #Q #F #HR #LGBT
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TAXI DRIVER x DOLLHOUSE

MKRATCATCHER is a modern-day Frankenstein story, only the monster is Lucy Fanshaw, a convicted drug trafficker who can't shut up about her favorite movies, and the federal government is about to order an entire army of her. Tough luck, Lucy.

#SFPit #A #Mil #WIP
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#SFpit #A #Q #HR #CH

Check out Knight's Notes for #Moonium - The Product of the Prophecy.
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INCEPTION x WEST WORLD x BRAINSTORM
When nanotech created to cure stroke victims leads to mind-bending virtual reality via shared dream states, its developer must call on a higher power to save herself and her found family from an evil that lurks in us all.
#SFPit #Q #A #HSF
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SAINT OF DOGS - a space goth sci-fi rom-com

Gideon the Ninth x Assistant to the Villain.

Axel met the woman he was made for. Unfortunately, she’s his enemy and it’s the worst possible time. (The apocalypse he’s starting.)
#SFPit #A #R #Q
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Thirteen-year-old Hannah has spent her entire life within the walls of Paradise, safe from those infected by the asteroid.

But a chance meeting with an outsider leaves Hannah changed—in more ways than one—and at risk of losing her loved ones forever.

#SciFiPit #SFPit #MG #NovelInVerse #Q
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PRIMER x HANNIBAL x BLACK MIRROR
In an instant gratification culture, a tech billionaire knows his consumer time machine will be a dream come true. When he rushes into beta testing before understanding the power he's unleashed, he finds that dreams can quickly become nightmares. #SFPit #SPub #A #HSF
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What if The Hills Have Eyes were a romance?

🎃Enemies-to-lovers
🎃Creepy subterranean tunnels
🎃Near-future dystopia
🎃Science fiction + romance + horror

#SFPit #A #Cli #Dys #SF #Q #agentsguide
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#SFpit #A #Q #SFan

The CEO of the biggest magical corporation is a murderer, and Ashy is out to prove it before she's fired – or worse, framed.

⭐️ If Sanderson designed technology
📖 Corporate satire
🧬 Software devs are wizards
🩸No magic, use wit

THE MINISTRY OF TIME x DUNE x THE GOD AND THE GUMIHO
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ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

#SFPit #H #R #LGBT #WiP

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i’ll take care of you.
it’s rotten work.
not to me.
not if it’s you.
As the resource-hungry Sovereignty expands unchecked, two sisters find themselves at odds: one a Sovereign pilot, the other a rebel mechanic. Their paths collide over besieged Iskar, where magically engineered weapons are unleashed by both sides—at devastating cost.

#SFpit #YA #NA #WIP #SFan
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Arcane X The Darkness Outside Us X Shadow & Bone

The heir to a starless planet plots against the pyromancy regime with help from a girl with celestial magic and a lovable alchemist.

🔥 #OwnVoices Chronic Illness Caused by Magic
✨ Friends to Lovers to 🙊

#SFPit #YA #F #Dys #Q
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the lioness does not concern herself with her rule against sharing writing snippets before the book is done

#SFPit #H #R #LGBT #WIP
Absolutely adore the message of both Peacemaker and Superman. I love what Gunn is doing with DC.
Agreed, this one is great!
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School Spirits X THREADS THAT BIND

Eva Ender’s life as a teenage Grim Reaper is as normal as inhumanly possible, until the night she’s sent to reap someone who doesn’t die

💀Ace Spec FMC
💀Found Family of Magical Misfits
💀A Mischievous Cat
💀Careless Gods

#PosterPit #Q #YA #F
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When luckless Mick agrees to be his mage best friend Eleanor's adventuring partner, it's to keep her safe. But after a mishap turns him into a dragon and plants the ghost of a god in his head, Mick must go from sidekick to champion before his existence triggers a divine war.
#PosterPit #W #NA #F #R
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A CURSE SO DARK & LONELY X
THE INHERITANCE GAMES

When a ballerina is kidnapped by fantasy fugitives desperate to recover their leader’s magic trapped inside her, she unearths their secrets to facilitate freedom, but bonds w/ them & falls for 1 instead

#PosterPit #Q #YA #F #M #R #FT