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FOR WRITERS & READERS: Religion in Queer Spec Fic

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FOR WRITERS/READERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Brad Townsend: I think it would be cool to have a discussion about religion in fantasy and sci-fi. In my circle of LBGT friends, religion, especially Christianity, is a no no topic. I pull heavily from it in my own book and I know it costs me readers – even though it’s got a strong dose of Norse Mythology mixed it and bears no resemblance to reality lol. In fantasy worlds, fantasy religions are often common and magical (like AD&D and other FRP games) and seem safe because (usually) they aren’t based … Read more

The Universe’s Strangest Objects (That We’ve Found So Far)

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There’s no questioning the fact that the universe is weird. Just look outside and you’ll see all manner of strange, self-reproducing flora and fauna, crawling upon a blue ball of semimolten rock covered in a thin, hard shell and blanketed by a tenuous film of gases. Yet our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at some of the most outlandish objects in space.  Nuclear Pasta The strongest substance in the universe forms from … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Ghost Walker, by Mary Rundle

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Ghost Walker

Mary Rundle has a new mm paranormal/mpreg book out in her Blackwood Pack series: Ghost Walker. The Blackwood Pack saga continues… This is part of an on-going series by Amazon Bestselling Author, Mary Rundle, and catching up on previous titles is advised. Readers of the past books will enjoy meeting old friends once more as the pack does what it does best ̶ caring for one another and helping shifters everywhere. David spent most of his life as a prisoner, beaten countless times as he was taught by the Sisters of the Four Gods. After learning the truth about what … Read more

FOR WRITERS: My Character, My Friend

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Jeff Baker: Writers, do you ever use your friend’s names in fiction? Why or why not? Have there ever been any real-world repercussions? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat

ANNOUNCEMENT: Fight Like A Woman, by J.S. Frankel

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Fight Like a Woman

QSFer J.S. Frankel has a new queer YA sci fi book out: Fight Like a Woman. Meet Kyle Sorton, teen, orphan, living a life of no purpose on a space station. Occupation: janitor. Future prospects: none. His only dream is to be someone. Anyone will do. Wish granted–sort of. An accident aboard his space station forces his flight, and his ship crash lands on an unknown world. Mortally wounded, he uses an experimental healing device called a Clavatar to transfer his consciousness to the body of an alien woman. When he awakens, he discovers that this woman not only has … Read more

Scientists Reverse Time (In a Really Small Way)

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Time goes in one direction: forward. Little boys become old men but not vice versa; teacups shatter but never spontaneously reassemble. This cruel and immutable property of the universe, called the “arrow of time,” is fundamentally a consequence of the second law of thermodynamics, which dictates that systems will always tend to become more disordered over time. But recently, researchers from the U.S. and Russia have bent that arrow just a bit — at least for subatomic particles. In the new study, published Tuesday (Mar. 12) in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers manipulated the arrow of time using a very … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Time Taken, by C.B. Lewis

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Time Taken

QSFer C.B. Lewis has a new MM sci fi/time travel book out: Time Taken. Time travel is a precarious business at the best of times, but when Qasim El-Fahkri’s mission to the past ends in violence, it has a ripple effect through every level of the Temporal Research Institute. Rhys Griffiths finds himself caught in the wake of the disastrous jump, his own career uncertain. With the Supervisory Board breathing down his neck, operatives demanding answers to baffling questions, and life outside of work bearing down on him, his only respite comes from Qasim’s company. As the professional slowly becomes … Read more

Me Me Monday!

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Me Me Monday

Welcome to M3: ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post so we can comment on yours specifically –Check out the other posts and congratulate and share them too! And congratulations!!!

Meet the Spider Named After Stormtroopers

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Stormtrooper Spider - Live Science

White-armored Stormtroopers in the “Star Wars” movies are practically identical and nearly impossible to tell apart. That uncanny similarity recently inspired a team of scientists who had discovered a new spider genus; the arachnids were so alike each other in size and markings that the researchers named them after the helmeted troops, calling the creatures Stormtropis. These eight-legged Stormtroopers belong to a family dubbed bald-legged spiders, which are native to South America and Central America. Like the Stormtroopers, the spiders “are very similar to each other, with some capacity for camouflage”; the sci-fi soldiers and the newfound spiders are also alike … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Stealing His Heart, by Connor Crowe

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QSFer Connor Crowe has a new MM paranormal book out: Stealing His Heart. Can the pack he’s been sent to rob become his new home, and the alpha he’s crossed own his heart? Felix is on a mission: steal a priceless artifact from the most dangerous wolves in the land. The reward? Freedom at last from the criminal syndicate that raised him and other orphaned omegas. When he stops to save a man in peril, the guards close in. Getting captured wasn’t part of the plan. Neither was meeting the intimidatingly sexy Pack Alpha. Soon, he finds himself questioning if … Read more