Ship-log inserts. AI-voice dialogue blocks set in monospace. Star-charts and tech diagrams at 300 DPI. Hard SF or space opera or cyberpunk — we format science fiction the way Gollancz and Orbit do.
Drop your manuscript and we run the same 30+ checks Amazon does, line by line, in under a minute. You get a clear /100 score, every failure point flagged, and the exact fix for each one. Whether you book us, do it yourself, or hire someone else — running this first means you don't pay for a service you didn't need.
"Will my science fiction novel pass KDP review?"
Accepts .docx, .pdf, .epub · up to 200 MB · files never stored, deleted after 24h
Run the KDP Readiness Score →The format choice that matters most. We can deviate if your project needs it — but here's the working benchmark.
Acceptable alternatives: 6×9 in or 5.25×8 in · all are KDP-approved trim sizes
5.5×8.5 is the working SF trim (Asimov reprints, Becky Chambers, Adrian Tchaikovsky). Slightly taller than a romance, slightly slimmer than epic fantasy — matches the SF shelf perfectly. If your book runs 150k+ words or has heavy diagram content we'll push you to 6×9.
SF diagrams and star-charts are vector-redrawn and pre-flighted at 600 DPI for print.
The six things that make science fiction novel formatting different from generic novel formatting.
Captain's-log entries, intercepted comms, datapad readouts — set in a distinct monospaced display face inside a bordered block. Reads as a document, not narrator voice.
AI character dialogue set in monospace or small-caps depending on your house style — visually distinct from human speech without breaking the prose flow.
Vector-first redraws of any system map, ship schematic or tech diagram. 600 DPI for print, SVG for Kindle 9+, PNG fallback for older devices.
Hard-SF authors sometimes want real footnotes for the maths. We set them as bottom-of-page footnotes on print, hyperlinked pop-ups on Kindle — and they survive reflow.
Chapter-header treatment differs per POV — useful in space-opera ensemble casts. The reader knows whose head they're in by the header style alone.
Tech-glossary, faction list, timeline appendix — scannable two-column on print, hyperlinked from first-use on EPUB.
Whatever the book type, this is what every order includes.
KDP-compliant margins, mirrored gutters scaled to your page count, 0.125-inch bleed where needed, embedded fonts, 300 DPI image pre-flight, semantic page-break logic.
Optimised for every Kindle device including phone reading. Clean chapter recognition, working drop caps, scene-break ornaments, properly-linked TOC, semantic ordered/unordered lists.
Spine width auto-calculated from your final page count. Cover supplied to KDP-template spec for paperback, hardback or both. Full-bleed art tested against KDP's print profile.
Side-by-side viewer to comment on specific pages. Most books need none; complex non-fiction sometimes needs both. Additional rounds £19 each.
If KDP rejects your file for a formatting reason, we fix it free. We've never had a rejection — but the guarantee is the principle.
You send a Word file (or PDF, Google Docs, RTF, ODT, EPUB, plain text). We send back finished files. No software to install, no learning curve.
From £69 for print-ready PDF. £119 for print + Kindle. Picture-book and complete packages from £179.
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