#demon engine

[aroaessidhe]

read in 2025: sci-fi honorary mentions

(also in a bit more of a scififantasy direction for some)

Demon Engine

The Javelin Program/The Antarctica Conspiracy

Hammajang Luck

A Necessary Chaos

These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart

This Gilded Abyss

The Cosmic Color

Cage of Starlight

Magica Riot

read in 2025

[minia-annulificis]

Death guard Myphitic Blight haulers. I don't love when my monopose models look the same, so I added the extra face plates from a foetid blight drone to two of them to differentiate them.

[wiltking]

40% into demon engine by marten norr and i really want to like this, but im considering dnf'ing. the ideas are super interesting, the ocean themed lore is cool with its ancient demon creatures and the magic system that allows people to use it in different ways, and i love the mystery of its history. the concept of a guy with 180+ ghosts in his head tormenting him at all times is awesome. the whale jail. the way three of the main characters are trans. but it just feels clunky to me, i find myself bored more often than not, and the way the trans guy treats the trans girl kind of pisses me off. there have been some fun scenes but so far some of the most interesting stuff exists in these character's backstories and not the current ongoing story progression. and i'm really sad about that.

[bryszket]

I want to give a big old wet salty nasty barnacle-encrusted CONGRATULATIONS to @martennorr -- his novel, DEMON ENGINE, published by us earlier this year, has been nominated for five Indie Ink Awards!! <3333333 If you read and enjoyed DEMON ENGINE, it would be an incredible help if you went and voted for it in its nominated categories, as this is a vote-based award! This is a totally free way to help this book get some more visibility. ^^

How the Indie Ink Awards work: Nominated works get voted on by fans, and the top 10 books receiving the most votes in each category go on to be read by a panel who make the final call, based on their impressions of the text X the amount of votes the book has received.

DEMON ENGINE is up for the following awards: Best audio narration, Best friendship, Best setting, Writing the Future We Need: LGBTQ+ Representation, Writing the Future We Need: Trans or Nonbinary Representation

Okay, but what is it? DEMON ENGINE is a nautical t4t dark fantasy following Sally Delavega, a talented, washed-up sea-demon binder who must work together with the Navy that destroyed his life for that One Final Job. What is the hated Navy using as their carrot? The financial means to finally banish the hundreds of ghosts nonstop screaming in his head...

It's sad, it's sick, it's funny, and If you haven't had a chance to check this book out yet, it's also reduced for the rest of the month, both on our Itch and Payhip site, and the audio especially, narrated by the author himself, is fucking fantastic. If you want to review it, and/or see if you like it enough to vote for it, but don't have the cash, I am happy to send you a copy if you shoot me a DM. <3 I really hope some of you will go check out this book, and if you already have and enjoyed it, vote for it in the categories you think it is deserving. <3

Thanks, all!!

[queenofalldreadboiis]

I painted an entire helldrake, my patience is neverending

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

Mary from Demon Engine is demisexual!

[scholar-of-yemdresh]

Two 2025 Trans SFF Books I'm Excited For

It's pride month and after my bitter bitching I get to talk about queer shit that makes me happy.

First up: Run Like Hell by Eria Brand comes out end of June. Body horror, action-y fast paced cyberpunk with a trans woman lead. Heck yeah!(the woman on the cover is the mc she looks badass as hell🤘🏾) Save me trans lady led squishy horror cyberpunk (dare I say biopunk) save me!

Demon Engine by Marten Norr. Okay this one dropped last month but I just found out about it. Post-post apocalypse Nautical dark cosmic/body horror fantasy, with a trans man MC. Now I was unsure about rocketing this one up on my TBR until I saw the author advertise it as "platonic t4t" and I was sold. I will say for as original and intriguing the premise is, the title is..not so. All that to say if there are in fact no actual engines made of/powered by demons I'll be sorely disappointed.

[svartabergetart]

Night lords Hel spiders Votex Apocalypse Missile Launcher barrage.

The Hel spider use different types of missiles to fight the endless war.

The simple frag missiles against infantry.

Vortex against tanks and fortifications.

Storm against air and space targets and mostly they are using one type, to be most effective.

The missiles are screaming as the demon engine fires them and it can not fire them on the move, because of the power and the spider do not have the strength.

But also because of the demons targeting system, that are combined with the rest of the Araknophobia legions horrors. But its still a chaotic demon, but a demon is still a ancient horror with the guide of the chaos marines.

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