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New Release: Sondrine: Ghost Assassin of Bijou – Jacqui Greaves

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Sondrine: Ghost Assassin of Bijou - Jacqui Greaves

QSFer Jacqui Greaves has a new queer sci-fi book out: Sondrine: Ghost Assassin of Bijou. Climb aboard for a murderous journey through the known universe with the cantankerous menopausal ghost assassins of Bijou and their sometimes fickle partners, the belosa, sentient cuttlefish-like spaceships, in a series of fun, character-driven space operas. Ghost assassin Sondrine and her belosa partner Alta land on the planet Polemor, only to be caught in the crossfire of a local rebellion. Fuck! Alta is injured and the pair are forced to hide in the blue desert while she recovers. If they’re to have any hope of … Read more

Review: Veggie Burgers to Go – Karenna Colcroft

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Review: Veggie Burgers to Go - Karenna Colcroft

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Serena Get It On Amazon About The Book After three months, vegan Kyle Slidell is getting the hang of being a werewolf, and of being the predestined mate of the pack Alpha, Tobias Rogan. Now Tobias is bringing Kyle to a gathering of alphas at the home of the regional leader, where their pack will receive full recognition and Tobias will formally declare Kyle his mate, cementing their bond permanently. But their happiness is dampened by conflict with Alpha Saul Hughes, who has the power to control all other werewolves–and a grudge against … Read more

New Release: The Second Life of Jameson Duggins – Simon Doyle

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The Second Life of Jameson Duggins - Simon Doyle

QSFer Simon Doyle has a new queer near-future sci-fi book out (gay): The Second Life of Jameson Duggins. Jamie Duggins is dead. Theo Fletcher knows that. He was there when Jamie fell from the clifftop, seconds before Theo could confess his love. But that doesn’t stop him from doing something he knows he shouldn’t, in the depths of his late father’s basement lab. Piece by piece, he brings Jamie back to life, with the help of their experimental neural interface and a 3D printer. He might have synthetic skin, but he looks like Jamie and thinks like Jamie. So why … Read more

Review: Salad on the Side – Karenna Colcroft

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Salad on the Side - Karenna Colcroft

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Serena Get It On Amazon About The Book Heavily crushing on his attractive neighbor Tobias, Boston newcomer and vegan Kyle Slidell is thrilled when Tobias agrees to a dinner date. But while picking strawberries in the community garden for their dessert, Kyle comes face to face with something he couldn’t anticipate: A wolf. In East Boston. Who attacks him. Kyle awakens in Tobias’s living room in a world he barely understands, but he learns three things: He is now a werewolf, Tobias is the Alpha of the pack Kyle’s attacker belongs to…and Kyle … Read more

New Release: Feral Rising – Michael Solis

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Feral Rising - Michael Solis

QSFer Michael Solis has a new YA superhero book out: Feral Rising. Alé Aragón wasn’t supposed to come back. Once written off as powerless, he survived a horrific encounter that should have killed him—and returned changed. Now reclassified and thrust into the spotlight, Alé has become the face of a growing movement for Deficient rights in a world split between those who celebrate his survival and those who wish he had stayed dead. When a brutal attack rocks Alé’s school, the prefecture responds by tightening its grip to restore order. Alé is recruited into a top-secret security program that he … Read more

New release: Toxic Medicine – Cody Sisco

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Toxic Medicine - Cody Sisco

QSFer Cody Sisco has a new queer sci-fi thriller out (poly, trans MTF, pan): Toxic Medicine. They criminalized his mind. Now they need it to survive. Victor Eastmore has mirror resonance syndrome, a cognitive difference that his society considers a disease and polices like a crime. So-called Broken Mirrors are classified, medicated without their consent, and sometimes permanently institutionalized. Victor has spent his life afraid of losing his mind and freedom. In Toxic Medicine, the fateful final installment of the Resonant Earth queer science fiction quartet, Victor ascends to chief of his family’s company, BioScan, even as it faces bankruptcy. … Read more

Sources of Inspiration: Ghosts

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Ghosts and goblins; how I love the term, the season, and the imagery those words conjure. Creepy, cozy, and cute mingle and become one in visions of tiny green monsters cutting capers, and white sheets with enormous black holes, which often are somehow endearing pop into my head.  I’ve read some marvelous stories about goblins; the tricks they’ve played, luring people into traps or marriages. Vernon Lee, E.F. Benson, and Sarah Monette blurred the line between ghost and vampire in beguling tales. Dark Shadows did an intriguing job of ghost and vampire alike, playing up the tragedy and terror.  For … Read more

Review: Dragon’s Ending – Joy Lynn Fielding

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Dragon's Ending - Joy Lynn Fielding

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Jay Get It On Amazon About The Book Dragon history was easy. This particular dragon? Anything but. I was sent to Dragon’s Ending to uncover lost dragon history. What I found was Dominic Bedwyr. The heir to one of Britain’s oldest dragon-shifter families, Dominic has a reputation for turning heads and causing trouble in equal measure. He flirts. He provokes. He has an infuriating habit of appearing when least expected and interrupting my research. And each time I think I’ve worked Dominic out, he proves me wrong. Because behind the studied indifference, I … Read more

New Release: The Heart’s Retreat – Shannon Blair

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The Heart's Retreat - Shannon Blair

QSFer Shannon Blair has a new MM fantasy romance book out (demi, gay, pan, poly, trans FTM): The Heart’s Retreat. Centuries ago, Aspen, the woodlands’ divine Heart Tree, disappeared, twisting His lands into a corrupted shadow of their former glory and sending rage-filled werewolves to hunt His elven children. Now His punishment has passed beyond the woodlands’ borders. If its spread cannot be stopped, all the world will suffer. Gar has served his native swamplands as a soldier for almost half his life. Chosen to lead one last attempt to locate Aspen, he fears the dangers lurking in the woodlands’ … Read more

Theodore Sturgeon’s “World Well Lost.” Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender.

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Sturgeon’s World Well Lost by Jeff Baker First things first: Theodore Sturgeon was (as far as I know) straight. The fact that I feel it necessary to make that statement would probably make him annoyed. And possibly make him laugh. Sturgeon, (1918-1985) an esteemed writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery and even westerns, published his story “The World Well Lost” in the June 1953 issue of Universe Magazine. Keep that date in mind: 1953. This was one of the first if not the first sci-fi/fantasy story to present a sympathetic view of “homosexuality,” in the person of “The Loverbirds.” … Read more