Reddit mentions: The best superhero books

There's a lot of great authors publishing independently(self and small press) now, but it can be hard to pick the ones you'll enjoy out of the flood of new releases on Amazon. I'll link to a few of the authors and books I've enjoyed.

Super hero novels

The Blackjack novels by Ben Bequer are fun.

I also enjoyed Confessions of a D-List Supervillian by Jim Bernheimer. They share similar themes of a super-villain forced out of their comfort zone.

Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain by Richard Roberts is the start of a great young adult series about the daughter of super heroes charting her own path.

Fantasy and SF

Anything by Andrea K Höst is great. The Touchstone series is great comfort reading about a young woman who walks around a corner and ends up in another world. It's the most SF of her works.

Terry Mancours' Spellmonger series is a fun fantasy about a mage who retires to the backwoods but ends up in the center of a continent spanning conflict. It spends a lot of time on the details of living in a fantasy world, but there's plenty of action too.

John Conroe's Demon Accords is a contemporary fantasy about a cop turned holy warrior. Fun action/fantasy, a couple of the books focus on side characters for a change of pace.

Jack L. Knapp has a couple enjoyable SF series. I'm partial to his New Frontiers series about the rediscovery of a space drive technology and humanities expansion in to the solar system.

Military SF

Marko Kloos is great as mentioned by others.

Christopher Nutall has a ton of books, both SF and fantasy(I tend to prefer his fantasy).

As someone who publishes on Kindle, I can say that half my monthly income comes from KU. However, your success with it is going to depend on your genre, how well you promote yourself, and the quality of your work. There's a lot of really crap works on KU, after all.

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Now, some of my stuff might not quite qualify as HFY, but it definitely doesn't pull punches in the fun department.

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Memoirs of a Supervillain is the story of a supervillain's rise to power (and infamy), in his own words. It is the first of three planned books, centering on the adventures of the villain Iceblade. This is not the story of an antihero, vigilante, or someone who is 'just misunderstood'. He is an unrepentant villain. He also has a good bit of fun. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R9NWS8J

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Rules-Free VRMMO Life is my homage to the tabletop RPG concept of the Evil Campaign, in a VRMMORPG setting. When you're tired of heroic heroes heroing about doing heroic hero things so heroically because they are the heroic heroes, sometimes you just want to be Evil. This is the guilty pleasure kind of story that plays into that, like when you're stuck in traffic, and you just wish you had a bazooka mounted to your car to deal with people who get in your way. This story comes with warning labels, and the author officially doesn't care if you read the warning labels and are later offended. If you didn't read the warning labels, and are later offended, the author will point at you and laugh. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071VPRNDB

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Into the Black is a sci-fi Gamelit/Litrpg story, and one of the most HFY of my series, but it is not on KU. However, for those who are interested, it follows the adventures of Mirikon Mollen, captain of a freighter called the Starlight Raven, and his crew/harem as he makes a name for himself in the game world of Dreams Amongst the Stars. Through a mix of luck and moxie, he gets tied up in some of the major events unfolding in the game world. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071LT5WGL

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City of Champions Online is the closest to a 'heroic' story I get, and is a Superhero Gamelit story following the adventures of Vampyra, a vigilante in the game City of Champions Online. Follow her as she and her team, the Misfits, fight against a variety of threats from the mundane to the mystic and everything in between. A tale of a badass superheroine in a virtual world. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075SHXQS1

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Lewd Dungeon is a Dungeon Core gamelit story. Set in a world like ours, where a System Apocalypse saw monsters begin spawning and people gaining stats and levels, one man, an absolutely horrible excuse for a human being, was turned into a Dungeon, and gained god-like powers within his domain. That goes about as well as you'd expect. Definitely the only Dungeon Core story with a slime tentacle monster miniboss named Captain Hentai! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BB34DHF

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The Klapishae Affair is a short story I originally put up on this forum, and is some of my earlier work. It is a HFY-style first contact story. It is on KU, though, so free to read. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0739V6R6T

Funny you should ask. I'm a novelist in this genre as well, and I've done a bit of research on the market. As you might imagine, this is a fairly niche space. I'd probably be making more money if I wrote vampire romances, but you gotta write what you love, right?


Anyhow, the advice about the Fantasy>Superheroes category on Amazon is real good. There are a lot of books directly tied to licensed properties, like DC and Marvel characters, but I can't tell you much about those since I work in my own universe. There are also excellent lists on GoodReads. Here are some of the examples I used to figure out my keywords and categories (I haven't read any of these yet, but they're on my list):


Soon I will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. I hear this is awesome.

Confessions of a D-List Supervillain by Jim Bernheimer.

Good Intentions: A Supervillain Story by Michel Crider.

Meta by Tom Reynolds.

The Second Super by Logan Rutherford.

ULTRA (The Last Hero Book 1) by Matt Blake.


And, I hope this isn't a violation of the self-promotion rules (if it is, please let me know and I'll edit this out), but I can't help but add my own novel, The Hero Beat!

I haven't found anything quite like Mother of Learning but it happens to be one of my favorites since it hits everything I like in a book. One of my favorite aspects of MoL is how the main character progressively learns new things and get stronger. This is demonstrated a lot in the litRPG genre (which has a lot of ties with video game RPG style leveling up) so I think any fan of Mother of Learning would like litRPG.

Here are some good litrpg books on kindle:

1. Survival Quest. Book 1 in the Way of the Shaman series by Vasily Mahanenko. It is written originally in Russian but professionally translated into English. The main character is a prisoner placed into a Virtual Reality MMORPG to mine ore and soon he develops all kinds of unusual high level crafting and professions while finding continuous rare epic level questlines. It has tremendously fast pacing and keeps you on the edge of your seat. I really like the focus on the crafting aspects of MMORPGs and also how the main character chooses to take unusual and clever paths in completing quests and follows his intuition instead of relying on strategy guides and such (mainly because as a prisoner he is unable to access the outside internet). My only gripe is that there might a little too much Deus Ex Machina at times but really enjoyable read otherwise. 5 of the 7 books have been translated into English so far and the last two should be translated by the end of 2017. https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Quest-Way-Shaman-LitRPG-ebook/dp/B00VQRW14E/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1495212440&sr=1-3&keywords=way+of+the+shaman
   
   
2. Ascend Online by Luke Chmilenko. Book 1 in a new litrpg series. The main character joins a new immersive MMORPG and finds a rural village where he establishes roots. The NPCs are uncannily lifelike and he worries that when the main base of players reach the village they will abuse or treat the NPCs poorly. His real life friends meet up with him and they work hard to defend the village from an incoming army of violent players. Really cool story, the characters level up and gain new skills, magic, and abilities. https://www.amazon.com/Ascend-Online-Luke-Chmilenko-ebook/dp/B01M01ET8E
   
   
3. The Dragon's Wrath Series by Brent Roth - Really cool main character who builds his own village in VRMMORPG and starts caring for the NPCs as real people. He develops a unique fighting style and becomes really strong but his village becomes a target from other jealous players/guilds. Warning: This series might not finish though since the author has bad health and he has delayed book 4 for quite some time. Best series in the genre though. https://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Wrath-Virtual-Dream-ebook/dp/B00W2L8VGU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1495212376&sr=1-1&keywords=a+virtual+dream
   
   
4. Viridian Gate Online - https://www.amazon.com/Viridian-Gate-Online-Cataclysm-Adventure-ebook/dp/B01MU0DYXW/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1495212396&sr=1-2&keywords=viridian+gate+online
   
   
5. Project Daily Grind. Mirror World Series - https://www.amazon.com/Project-Daily-Grind-Mirror-LitRPG-ebook/dp/B01AF0Z3CE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1495742577&sr=8-3&keywords=mirror+world
   
   
6. Eden's Gate - https://www.amazon.com/Edens-Gate-Reborn-LitRPG-Adventure-ebook/dp/B01MV2A0L4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1495742620&sr=8-2&keywords=eden%27s+gate
   

I've been reading a lot this past week, after some time mostly doing other things...

Lair for Rent by Skyler Grant. Not bad, read if you want more in the Laboratory/Emma-verse.

Mastermind by Steve Kelliher. Great first litterpug, made me add his fantasy series to my backlog of books to read.

Hell's Ascendant by Benjamin Medrano. Great finish to another trilogy. Not litterpug, though Sting and Song qualifies. I recommend reading all of his books.

Orc Pirate by Simon Archer. Not litterpug, read it because I enjoyed Forger of Worlds. Enjoyable, though it is a harem power fantasy.

Tree Guardian by Andrew Karevik. Pretty good, second dungeon core novel following a seed of Yggdrasil.

Skyflare by Aaron Oster. Finally got around to this, it's alright, third book in the Supermage series.

Buryoku by Aaron Oster. Enjoyable cultivation novel, first in a new series. We'll see how it goes.

Manifest by Cody Whitfill. Very enjoyable, some interesting differences from similar novels. Looking forward to the next book.

Last but not least, I'm currently reading Gamer for Love by Daniel Schinhofen. A couple of the Alpha World books were not that enjoyable for me, but it seems like he's back on track and finishing off the series well with this one. I'm glad to see another series end.

Hey r/Fantasy!

New News from me is that I'll have a LitRPG Sci-Fi novella out as soon as I line up all my ducks. (they like to move around and quack) In the meantime you can look at me and what I've done.

My books are Science Fiction with dashes of fantasy elements. From the near future to the far fantastical ones. I like AI, GameLit, character driven stories. I consider myself a hard working self-published author.



For the BookBingo readers.

Crafting of Chess

• Slice of life / small scale SFF
  
  
• Self Published SFF novel
  
  
• Locality : Oregon
  
  
• Published in 2019
  
  
• LitRPG
  
  Intelligence Block
  
  *Self Published SFF novel
  
  
• Locality : Oregon
  
  
• Published in 2019
  
  
• Has many AI characters through out the novel, though not the MC
  
  
  
  My first book is The Crafting of Chess a teenage chess hustler plays a fantasy VR game to improve his life. A LitRPG that focuses less on combat and more on crafting.
  
  In Intelligence Block a Techno-Wizard performs and battles it out for fame until a mystery disrupts his settled life. All in a futuristic AI filled universe.
  
  
  I have a new eight thousand word short story you can get for 99 cents or free on Kindle Unlimited. Progression of Power It's a dungeon diving, progressive fantasy, female MC story.
  
  
  I love the craft of writing. I've done guest posts on blogs about strangeness in fiction and Crafting Believable Characters . I've written about use of tropes in LitRPG. As well as how Autism has effected my writing.
  
  My latest one is a guest post on Trauma in Fiction if you are interested in the craft of fiction writing. Or at least how I view it.

I have Flowertown and Confessions of a D-List Super Villain that can be lent. Both were very good. I'm sure there are many others, but it is so hard to search for the lendable titles on Amazon!

EDIT: Adding more lendable SF titles - only adding books that I liked a lot.

The Forever War

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011

Bob Moore, No Hero - this is currently free in kindle store

The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson

Warbreaker

The God Engines

13 Bullets

Agent to the Stars

Old Man's War

I'm the debut author of a superhero sci-fi novel called Anthem's Fall, and I'd like to reach out to the fantasy community here and offer up E-copies of my novel to anyone who might be interested in giving it a read.

The tricky part with being a debut author is that it's very hard to find readers. In that sense, I'd like to provide an e-book of my novel to anyone who wants to give it a whirl. I define Anthem's Fall as "Michael Crichton meets Marvel Comics". It's kind of a Dragonball Z/Superman/Thor type story aimed at an older audience. It currently has over 50,000 reads on Wattpad in its first month, but I'd love even more eyes on it.

Check the book out on my website http://www.sldunn.com/ or on Amazon at http://amzn.com/B00M7NPD28

Do reach out if you'd like a copy!

Idk if anyone recommended it yet but Van Allen Plexico’s “Sentinel SeriesSentinel Series ” is pretty good. Based on super heroes and aliens. Not LitRPG but a good read.

We've got a few ideas over at LitRPG Forum.

I write myself, but looking at your books listed/read, I'd recommend Endless Online. It's getting a lot of great reviews.

Good luck in your quest!

DOME is the story of Tye and four other teens that find themselves trapped in a mysterious impenetrable dome that has engulfed the Angeles National Forest. Inside, they soon discover that not only has the forest around them been changed into a completely alien environment but that they all have powerful new superhuman abilities. In their attempt to escape, they come to find out that the only way of freeing themselves is to complete three trials set up by the creators of their alien prison where they must combat powerful foes in order to push them to their absolute limits physically and mentally. If they fail, the dome will expand over the planet, terraforming their home and killing all life in the process.

As a story with a very diverse set of characters, pop culture references, action, deep themes about life, mental health, culture, and the struggles of taking responsibility while still being funny/fun, I think you guys would really enjoy exploring this wonderful world and be entertained by the story.

Linking it here. Reviews and sharing it with your friends would help a ton if you enjoy it! Thank you in advance!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QD1RXFY

Not sure what age range you're interested in but if your inner child enjoys super heroes I heavily recommend Confessions of a D List Supervillain. It's a story for adults with childish fun, the protagonist is a failed villain trying to save a world ruined by the heroes; there's plenty of underdog action and though I haven't read the sequels, they exist too.

https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-D-List-Supervillain-Jim-Bernheimer-ebook/dp/B004WE0D3E

This ebook from this wishlist, please!

I'd love to read it!

Thanks for the contest! You're AWESOME!

You should try some of the older, shorter SF adventure classics. Here are a few links to get you started. I can vouch personally that all of these are smart, fun and well-written.

• Hothouse by Brian Aldiss
  
• Nova by Samuel Delany
  
• Planet of Adventure by Jack Vance (much better than its cheesy name suggests)
  
• Titan by John Varley
  
  Edit: the best place to get recommendations of this nature is probably r/PrintSF.

Kid Sensation is a pretty good series, by Kevin Hardman. His writing get's better as time goes on, and you can get the first three books bundled for $7.99 if you are willing to take a chance on him. Otherwise they are either $3.99 or $4.99 for the ebook (you can also order them on Amazon if you want a paperback).

Kingdom of Heroes, by Jay Philips, is also pretty interesting. It revolves around the murder of a superhero, one of the strongest in the country, and the man they release from prison to find the perpetrator. Some people have compared it to Watchmen, and while I don't find it to be as good, there are a handful of similarities. You can get it here.

Sample.
The Course of Empire (Course of Empire Series Book 1) by Eric Flint
1632 (Ring of Fire Series) by Eric Flint
Northworld Trilogy by David Drake
Starliner by David Drake
Star Soldiers by Adre Norton
Oath of Swords (War God Book 1) by David Weber
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber
The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington Book 2) by David Weber
The Star Agency (The Star Agency Chronicles Book 1) by R.E. Weber
The Last Praetorian (The Redemption Trilogy Book 1) by Mike Smith
Hard Duty: Merkiaari Wars Book 1 by Mark E. Cooper
The Synchronicity War Part 1 by Dietmar Wehr
Dark Space by Jasper T. Scott
The Tank Lords by David Drake
Redliners by David Drake
A Desert Called Peace (Carrera Series Book 1) by Tom Kratman
Gunship by John Davis
With the Lightnings (Lt. Leary Book 1) by David Drake
Tales of Honor #1 by Matt Hawkins and Jung-Geun Yoon
The Fringe Worlds: (The Human Chronicles Saga Book #1) by T.R. Harris
Freehold (Freehold Series Book 1) by Michael Z. Williamson
The Last Roman (The Praetorian Series Book 1) by Edward Crichton
The Sea Hag by David Drake
Forbidden The Stars (The Interstellar Age Book 1) by Valmore Daniels
FCBD 2015: Tales of Honor by Matt Hawkins and Linda Sejic
The Philosophical Strangler (Joe's World Book 1) by Eric Flint
The Creatures of Man by Howard L. Myers
In the Heart of Darkness (Belisarius Saga Book 2) by Eric Flint
Northworld Trilogy by David Drake
Starliner by David Drake

While it feels like free stories should just be a thing, it is important to realize that it isn't and people don't usually write/publish/translate a book for free. Buy the book if you can. Also, I recommend Sector 8 (Perimeter Defense Book 1) to anybody that likes science fiction space battles.

The first book in my series Meta just got a positive review on Boing Boing yesterday (but don't just take their word for it, also take my word, the guy who wrote the book). http://boingboing.net/2015/01/23/meta-the-meta-superhero-novel.html

Other guys I know who write in the genre and are pretty popular are Kevin Hardman ( http://www.amazon.com/Kevin-Hardman/e/B00CLTY3YM/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_9?qid=1422141240&sr=1-9 ) and SL Dunn ( http://www.amazon.com/Anthems-Fall-S-L-Dunn-ebook/dp/B00M7NPD28/ref=zg_bs_9059889011_20 ). I think both of them have books for $0.99 right now so they're definitely worth a look for original superhero stories.

If you want some books where humans are super awesome, you can check out The Human Chronicles, or the Undying Mercenaries series. Both book series are Earth/Humans against alien antagonists. They are really good, defiantly worth a read.

The Mirror World series by Alexei Osadchuk is pretty good. It is one of the better written series I have come across since it doesn't focus too hard on the hard numbers of playing an MMO and utilizes the game as more of a vehicle for the plot. While the main character stumbles his way into a unique race and class the plot doesn't feel too grandiose for the genre beyond that and the characters are generally well written even though there is a couple of cringe worthy lines of dialogue here and there.

Having read both Dungeon Born and Awaken Online I would place it higher on my personal preferences. This is mostly due to the fact that I prefer my LitRPGs to be more on the Sci-Fi side of the spectrum and that the writing is on par with Dungeon Born but better than Awaken, IMO.

Cape High

a light read but still very good, it alternate between characters each book, but still maintain a overall plot

The Indestructibles

really nice too

Kid Sensation

Rise of the Renegade X

Please don't tell my parents i'm a supervillain

Wearing the Cape

Meta

Vicious

John Varley's Titan trilogy was pretty fun. Basically, a humongous alien in the shape of a spinning hollow toroid who calls herself "Gaea" IS the ecosystem with lots of different lifeforms living inside her. It's a fantastic series.

I would like to mention a great book about D-list super villains:

Confessions of a D-list super villain

You'll probably really enjoy Endless Online if you like the Sci-Fi bent. It is very compelling and there are 5 books out!

Endless Online: Oblivion's Blade: A LitRPG Adventure - Book 1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CSVWFNP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_-JfBDbT6V4H64

Van Allen Plexico's Sentinels series is a great read, particularly if you're a fan of old school Avengers.

I wrote a five-book series called Vanguard and that involved a lot of the tropes that you see in the comics (though no magic). Lots of Marvel influence in that one, particularly the X-Men.

There's also Kid Sensation by Kevin Hardman. I've only read the first book, not the others, but I really enjoyed it.

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John Varley is one my favorite authors I keep coming back to him time and again.

The following are my favorites. He also has a nice website [Varley.net](http://Varley.net "Varley.net") . You can actually get a decent feel for who he is on the site. He puts up what he wants and the hell with what anyone thinks. I think thats why I like him. lol

Mammoth is on my too be read list. I have it just not gotten to it.

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• Blue Champagne by John Varley (Blue Champagne)
  
  
• Eight Worlds by John Varley (Steel Beach,The Ophiuchi Hotline,The Golden Globe)
  
  
• Gaea by John Varley (Titan,Wizard,Demon)
  
  
• Mammoth by John Varley (Mammoth)
  
  
• Millennium by John Varley (Millennium)
  
  
• Picnic on Nearside by John Varley (Picnic on Nearside)
  
  
• Superheroes by John Varley (Superheroes)
  
  
• The John Varley Reader by John Varley (The John Varley Reader)
  
  
• Thunder and Lightning by John Varley (Red Thunder,Red Lightning,Rolling Thunder)

Confessions of a D-list Supervillian by Jim Bernheimer, which exactly what it sounds like and is great.

Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw follows an npc in an mmorpg that has gained sentience. My girlfriend hated this book because I kept waking her up with my laughing.

Bad Humors by Aaron Wright is a phenomenal novella that is kind of a cross between SF, fantasy, and a Lovecraftian Mythos.

Free with no gimmicks or silliness. Download. Read. Enjoy. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0752VJWVC https://www.books2read.com/u/mBMQpR

There's a stranger in town, and he just wants to be left alone.

But Dockside doesn't like strangers, and the dirty old town never leaves anyone alone. Not emotionally scarred top-secret ex-army cyborgs, and certainly not good cops with bad habits.

Join New Boston's most famous fixer for his first week in the most dangerous part of town. All he wanted was a quiet place to hide, but now he has to team up with the last good cop in Dockside if they expect to stop a gang war and protect the hard-working folks just trying to make an honest living.

It's good cop vs, bad cop, gang leader vs. mobster, and Roland Tankowicz vs. everybody in a high-stakes contest for control of Dockside. He may be brand new to the job, but the smart money is on everybody's favorite Army surplus cyborg as he doubles down on the deadliest game in Dockside:

ESCALANTE .

I really enjoyed "Lair for Rent" by Skylar Grant. https://www.amazon.com/Lair-Rent-Superhero-Dungeon-Core-ebook/dp/B07WP7S5DN?

Have you considered the LitRPG movement coming out of Russia?

• Play to Live series by D. Rus. Terminal cancer patient uploads himself into a sword & sorcery game that's becoming more real every day.
  
  
• Perimeter Defense by Michael Atamanov. EVE corp leader gets contracted to take a politician's place in VR-EVE-but-with-real-stakes.
  
  
• Way of the Shaman and Galactogon by Victor Mahanenko. In WotS, a criminal gets sentenced to gold-farm for the government, and sets out to buy his freedom. In Galactogon, 12 players race to discover a secret objective in a sci-fi game for a huge cash prize.
  
  It's less illegallyfreely available than you might be used to, but the first volumes of all of those are free on Kindle Unlimited, which is also free for 30 days.

Phantom Server Trilogy its pretty good. i don't to give spoilers out. i give it a 8 out of 10.

How about a novel heavily inspired by comic books? Confessions of a D-List Supervillain might be up your alley.

Might be. Might be.

See I consider stuff like these indie books:

Other People's Heroes

Confessions of a D-List Supervillain

Eye of the Wizard

Paranormals

Brave Men Run

When I got these they were Kindle Only :)

Try Varley's Gaea series. I reread it recently, it holds up pretty well.

https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Gaea-John-Varley/dp/0441813046

Interesting. The opening setup is almost a duplicate of Skyler Grant's The Laboratory, except the main character isn't a GLaDOS expy.

I think Seiple is likely to do a better job with the story tho, given how well Dire and Threadbare turned out; Emma kinda falls flat after the second book.

[Crimson Son] (http://www.amazon.com/Crimson-Son-Russ-Linton-ebook/dp/B00KZ87P2S/) - a fresh take on superhero stories which follows the snarky, quick-witted, but powerless son of a superhero as he tries to survive in his dad's world. Yes, this is my book. Yes this is a shameless plug.

Grunts

Confessions of a D list Supervillian

How to succeed in evil

Secret Six

Ohh. I see.

Cradle Series

Overgeared

Red Mage

The Gam3

Limitless Lands

Divine Dungeon

Mirror World

The Good guys

War Aeternus

Dest March

Bushido Online

Dark Elf Chronicles

Djinn Tamer

Hero of Thera

Morning Wood

The Two Week Curse

Party Hard

Axe Druid

Ryan DeBruyn
Equalize: A Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG (Ether Collapse Book 1)

The way of the shaman

Galactagon

I'll need to look those up. Also fun is The Human Chronicles by T.R. Harris. I really like Part I, but Part II is too God Mode Sue for me.

Sounds interesting. In the queue!

Oh, and AU link: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07WH3JQLK

Check out the Human Chronicles Saga

In the universe, humans are the strongest race

Fist full of sand and the sequel,

https://www.amazon.com/Fist-Full-Sand-Book-Cerulea-ebook/dp/B079F5NSZD

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K4V8HB9/ref=series_rw_dp_sw

Crafting of Chess and he has a sci-fi book that hits the gamelit feels but isnt' really Intelligence block,

https://www.amazon.com/Crafting-Chess-LitRPG-adventure-ebook/dp/B07P1YRHTX

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07S1HMJL4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

Spwinward dreamsate novel

https://www.amazon.com/Spinward-Artificial-Dream-State-Novel-ebook/dp/B01KQOSHYK

Bushido online.

https://www.amazon.com/Bushido-Online-Battle-Begins-LitRPG-ebook/dp/B0759XBQNW

Axillion99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BDDDBB6/ref=x_gr_w_glide_sout?caller=Goodreads&callerLink=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39138895-axillon99&tag=x_gr_w_glide_sout-20

Viral (Not really litrpg or gamelit but kind of fits.)

https://www.amazon.com/Viral-Piers-Platt-ebook/dp/B07DHZ8R6Y

Homebrew

https://www.amazon.com/Homebrew-LitRPG-novel-Metagamer-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B07BTL5RM4

This exists, and I'm through book 6's audiobook, but I can't say it's exactly good. It's readable and fits what you want, though. The entire premise is about upgrading things/people/everything, and every book is basically the next tier of struggle. The main character is an AI like GLaDOS (from Portal), and follows her and those she manages to capture/test/befriend.

Sector Eight (Perimeter Defense: Book #1) LitRPG series https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015JMSSJS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_0BrLDbEY150CK

if anyone is wondering.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14386306.Michael_Atamanov

The author is indeed an Eve player; http://magicdomebooks.blogspot.com/2017/06/michael-atamanov-interview.html

There are a number of Sci-Fi Lit-RPG stories out there. Two of my favorites are

The Game -- www.thegam3.com Aliens contact earth, turns out the galaxy is run based on RPG rules. The MC builds his own AI, and joins the game to try and carve a place for himself among the stars.

Phantom Server Trilogy MC receive an invite to try a new hardcore vr game far from earth.

Perimeter Defense Series

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For more traditional fiction

Troy Rising by John Ringo - A grocery store clerk leverages a black market human delicacy to forcibly uplift Earth. Lots of progression of Tech, crazy ideas, and space battles.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin

Anything by Joanna Russ

Floating Worlds and Great Maria by Cecelia Holland

The Shattered Chain by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Titan by John Varley

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Walk to the End of the World by Suzy McKee Charnas

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

Varley's Titan.


I don't see Titan mentioned here much. But you don't get much new creaturey than Titan.

The Human Chronicles by T.R. Harris is about as HFY as you can get

Also The Human Chronicles by TR Harris on Amazon.com

Link

It's this series.

The Fringe Worlds: (The Human Chronicles Saga -- Book 1)

The Phantom Server series and the Perimeter Defense series are both Space Opera LitRPG.

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