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Sources of Inspiration: Rituals

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Clasping my hands together. Muttering words filled with meaning I don’t consider, as I chant them as fast as an army recruit doing push-ups. Walking in a circle, my hands linked with others as we move together. Singing the same words I chanted in a chamber, where they echo, looking up at art, meant to express the divine. Offering any number of things on an altar as an act of sacrifice.  These are just a number of things which can be part of a ritual.  Rituals offer insight into a person, a place, or a culture. Rituals re-imagined can develop … Read more

Cover Reveal: In Love and War – The First Lotus Knights, by Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

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In Love and War - The First Lotus Knights, by Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus have a new queer sci-fantasy romance coming out (gay, bi, poly): In Love and War – The First Lotus Knights. And we have the cover reveal! It is the year 1985 ET. House Virasana has fallen, the Lotus Throne stands empty, and a bitter succession war has every noble House at arms. To make things worse, House Tô-Genji and House Medina are locked in a vicious feud over a flood of cheap illicit drugs tearing their worlds apart. Prince Li Lan Tô-Genji is as far from the fighting as one can be. Third son of the … Read more

“Fantastic” and “Normal.” Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender, (August, 2026)

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The Black Fantastic and Not Not Normal: On Beyond Cisgender XI Jeff Baker This is the latest installment in this column’s occasional feature “On Beyond Cisgender,” suggested by Amy Liebowitz several years ago and spotlighting books recommended for High School readers that go beyond the usual “white, male, cisgender paradigm.” This time around, two books to look at. One deliberately written for kids, one not. First, here’s a look at “The Black Fantastic,” a recent anthology of “Afrofuturist stories” edited by Andre M. Carrington from 2025. The anthology blends newer writers with more familiar names, and benefits immensely from Carrington’s … Read more

Review: Virtually Guarded – Karenna Colcroft

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Virtually Guarded - Karenna Colcroft

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Demi, Gay, Trans FTM Reviewer: Jay Get It On Amazon About The Book Newly-changed werewolf Ren Torres flees from pack members who assaulted him when his first shift from wolf form to human revealed him as a transgender man. Injured and terrified, Ren runs to the home of the Anax, ruler of all werewolves in the United States. There, Ren finds sanctuary—and his destined mate. On the eve of the annual gathering of the U.S. werewolf leaders, the Anax’s guard, Xavier Pelly, has traveled with the Anax to the secondary home where the gathering will … Read more

Review: Symbiosis: Salvation – Mark Z. Harrondale

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Symbiosis: Salvation - Mark Z. Harrondale

Genre: Sci-Fi, Dystopian, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book What am I? That’s the question Riel has been running from his entire life. T.A.D.—the corporation that became a totalitarian regime—dissolved Europe’s nations, erased its borders, and engineered a replacement. New Europa. One language. One order. Every mind connected to SOLACE, an artificial superintelligence that believes, with quiet certainty, it is keeping humanity safe. In Echelon, obedience has never felt so much like choice. T.A.D. calls itself progress. But progress has always had owners. Nineteen years old. Never Integrated. In a world where that … Read more

Review: The Shivering Ground – Sara Barkat

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The Shivering Ground - Sara Barkat

Genre: SF, Dystopian, Slipstream, Eco-Fiction, Gothic Horror LGBTQ+ Category: Ace, Gay, Non-Binary. No one in this collection identifies themselves to the reader as any specific identity. Two characters exclusively use they/them (one is a human character, one is a character from another species that transitions to human; that romantic relationship could be read as m/m or m/enby) & the ace character is not announced but there’s an ace/queerplatonic relationship that could be read as friendship or romance. Reviewer: Tony Get It On Amazon | Publisher | B&N | Kobo | Author Site About The Book The Shivering Ground blends future and … Read more

New Release: Aidan and the Alien Invasion – Damian Serbu

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Aidan and the Alien Invasion: Arrival - Damian Serbu

QSFer Damian Serbu has a new MM sci-fi romance out, Arrival, book one: Aidan and the Alien Invasion. Aliens seize control of Earth, descending without warning, cutting off communication systems and crushing military resistance. Aidan and his friends flee home from Chicago to rural Michigan, but learn the aliens control the entire planet. Their leaders have dark intentions that Aidan and his friends uncover when they fall in with a revolutionary faction of aliens who desperately seek to save humanity. Human aid to the revolutionaries’ cause is essential but dangerous. As secrets and surprising histories are revealed, Aidan adds to … Read more

New Release: Every Almost – Elizabeth Hale

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Every Almost - Elizabeth Hale

QSFer Elizabeth Hale has a new FF sci-fi romance out: Every Almost. What happens when a stranded engineer from 1990 gets six months of free passage on a starship full of rescued space animals? Charlie Wickett has a knack for fixing anything you put in front of her. She’s got the job she’s wanted since she was nine years old, her sister sharing her apartment, and a life in California she built herself, out of nothing, on purpose. It’s a good life. Captain Reyna Solas of the Emberkind CV-0417 is just trying to get through her day, thank you very … Read more

New Release: Demonic Reign – Devorah Leah Barrocas

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Demonic Reign - Devorah Leah Barrocas

QSFer Devorah Leah Barrocas has a new FF dark sapphic fantasy out: Demonic Reign. Nyx was not raised to be merciful. She was forged in the dark, made into a weapon, and taught that obedience was the only thing standing between survival and slaughter.’ When she enters a brutal series of trials to prove herself, survival becomes more than simply winning. Every victory demands a price, every alliance carries a risk, and the mysterious woman she should keep at a distance becomes the first to make her question what she has spent her life becoming. To stay alive, Nyx must … Read more

New Release: Omega Captive of the Bad Boy Dragon – Wendy Rathbone

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Omega Captive of the Bad Boy Dragon - Wendy Rathbone

QSFer Wendy Rathbone has a new MM paranormal omegaverse book out: Omega Captive of the Bad Boy Dragon. Can my life get any bleaker than living on a breeding ranch in dragon country? I thought not, until a menacing alpha rents me at a party. I’m terrified. At first. But soon I begin to wonder: Did he rent me or rescue me? Cassius is a set omega. In a world of shifters, he has no beast and cannot shift. Sets are outcasts with no rights and his pack sells him to the dragons for some quick cash. Malin is a … Read more