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Ten Years A Boogieman: Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender. (September 10, 2026)

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Ten Years A Boogieman by Jeff Baker Ten years ago in June I published my first Queer Sci Fi column. (“Why We Still Do This.” https://www.queerscifi.com/why-we-still-do-this/ ) Now, after about 122 months of deadlines, info dumps, fun projects and wonders I think it might be time to see what’s changed and what hasn’t. The country is still in a mess. When I wrote that first column, the Pulse shooting had just happened. In the intervening years, rainbow crosswalks were painted on city streets, especially one honoring the Pulse victims. Now in this era, those crosswalks have been painted over. But … Read more

New Release: Bound: For Greatness – Benjamin W. Feliciano

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Bound: For Greatness - Benjamin W. Feliciano

QSFer Benjamin W. Feliciano has a new queer YA sci-fi book out (bisexual): Bound: For Greatness. Fourteen-year-old Charlie Mintrose is a young man orphaned under mysterious circumstances. His placement with a new set of foster parents brings him from the crowded home where he lived in downtown Denver to the suburbs north of the city. With the help of his new friends Caleb and Ripley, he becomes involved with a government agency that protects the world from spirits by capturing them in books, and begins to unravel the details of his forgotten past. As Charlie learns to connect with his … Read more

Review: Field Notes From Earth – Ben Athem

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Field Notes From Earth - Ben Athem

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Jay Get It On Amazon About The Book Leth has spent centuries studying civilizations without ever becoming part of them. His latest assignment should be simple: observe humanity, document its behaviour, and maintain the distance required of every good researcher. Emotional attachment is forbidden. Interference is unacceptable. The people of Earth are subjects, not companions. Then he meets Finn, a marine biologist whose easy kindness draws Leth out from behind his careful observations. What begins as professional curiosity becomes coffee, shared routines, late-night messages, and moments Leth cannot reduce to data. For the … Read more

New Release: The Netherworld Witch – Lisa Acerbo

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The Netherworld Witch - Lisa Acerbo

QSFer Lisa Acerbo has a new FF fantasy romance book out: The Netherworld Witch. Mina Rubenstein has a secret. She doesn’t just sketch elves; her drawings transport her into the kingdom of Auralon. Once there, the princely Callon informs her the king has vanished, dark forces are rising, and Mina is the Netherworld Witch. According to the prophecy, only she can shape the ethereal darkness into anything imagined, find the missing monarch, and save the realm. Mina never asked for magic, let alone a destiny, but refusing Callon’s plea to save his father could doom Auralon. The only thing worse … Read more

Review: Aiden and the Alien Invasion – Damian Serbu

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Aidan and the Alien Invasion: Arrival - Damian Serbu

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It At Amazon | Publisher | Universal Buy Link About The Book 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 his … Read more

New Release: Gunmaker – Chris Gerrib

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Gunmaker - Chris Gerrib

QSFer Chris Gerrib has a new queer sci-fi book out (bi, gay, lesbian): Gunmaker. Martika Clybourne is the new legal consultant for the 433 Platinum Mining LLC on Gavin Station, a torus happily spinning inside the asteroid Eros. What was meant to be an easy job is turned upside-down when she’s called to investigate an officer killed by bullet wounds on a station with no projectile weapons. Her investigation turns up more corruption and shady business than she thought possible for such a small colony. But when the operations manager Shah dies of natural causes, two sides form: the officers … Read more

Review: Scallywag! – K. L. Mitchell

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New Release: Scallywag! - K. L. Mitchell

Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: KA Get It At Amazon | Publisher | B&N | Kobo | Apple | Smashwords | Universal Buy Link About The Book A tale of mystery, treasure, magical creatures, secrets, sea monsters, and high adventure. And it’s all true. You have this pirate’s word for it. Molly McCormick never set out to be a pirate. But when her family tried to marry her off to a wealthy old man to settle their debts, she resolved to strike out on her own. Taking a job aboard a handy ship disguised as a boy, she soon found herself on the other side of the world: the … Read more

New Release: Angelic Wrath – Devorah Leah Barrocas

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Angelic Wrath - Devorah Leah Barrocas

Devorah Leah Barrocas has a new FF dark fantasy out: Angelic Wrath. Nyx escaped the man who forged her into a weapon. She survived the trials meant to break her, discovered a power she was never supposed to possess, and learned that nearly everything she believed about herself was a lie. But freedom does not come without consequence. Haunted by visions of a frozen land and the parents she never knew, Nyx follows a trail toward answers buried long before she was born. What she finds is far greater than the truth of her own past. An ancient power has … Read more

Review: Come Away Again – Mere Rain

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Come Away Again - Mere Rain

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Romance (Bi, Gay) Reviewer: Jay Get It On Amazon | Publisher About The Book To save my brother, I made a promise to the strange and powerful lord of the woods. I didn’t keep that promise, and now he’s taken my little nephew. I swear I’ll get him back, no matter how dangerous the forest between the worlds may be, or how angry its lord. I succeeded when I was only sixteen, after all, surely I can prevail again. But as I stumble from one peril to another, I begin to think he was taking it … Read more

New Release: Summer and Shadows – Kathryne Lentes

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Summer and Shadows - Kathryne Lentes

Kathryne Lentes has a new FF paranormal/fantasy book out (lesbian, pansexual, poly, transgender), The Pact of the Veil book 2: Summer and Shadows. Sah has gone through a lot in three years. I mean how often does a person find out their sister disappeared, meet a hot detective, get bitten by a werewolf, and discover they are part of a legacy of shape shifters? She thought her life would calm down and she could enjoy a summer vacation in LA. But now she is mixed up with the Fae and a magical serial killer. To survive she must find new … Read more