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TECH: Today In Creepy Robots

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Boston Dynamics

We’ve seen Boston Dynamics robots open doors before, but this egress is different. Outfitted with an articulating arm and clamp similar to the one it used to wash dishes in the original video, we see the new SpotMini locate, recognize, and deftly operate a door handle, and then hold the door to let its arm-less sibling march through. It’s a more delicate operation than when the Atlas robot brutishly muscled its way through a push-bar door in 2016, which means we might have to reevaluate our original assessment of the new SpotMini as “slightly less terrifying.” By Joe – Full … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Vampire and the S.A., by J.P. Bowie

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The Vampire and the S.A.

QSFer J.P. Bowie has a new MM paranormal book out: Special Agent Bryan Walker is both excited and apprehensive when the director of the F.B.I.’s paranormal division chooses him to partner with vampire Viktor Karnov on a mission in Russia. Viktor is a legend within the ranks of the F.B.I., a perfectionist and a loner, and unimpressed with Bryan’s lack of field experience. The two don’t exactly hit it off on their first meeting, but after a forced trial run Viktor agrees to partner with Bryan. In Moscow they face a cabal headed by Alexander Krychev that threatens to bring … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Impact Story Ideas

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Impact

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: It’s just two weeks until the official start of the 2018 Queer Sci Fi flash fiction contest. This year’s theme is “impact”, so I thought we’d have a little fun and brainstorm ways “Impact” could be used in a story. Go! Note that all ideas posted here are free game for folks to use without compensation/recognition. Join the chat

QUEER HISTORY: Polari, the World’s First Gay Language

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Polari

“Bona to vada your dolly old eek!” That may seem like a string of nonsense words from Dr Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat or Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange but it’s a real-life greeting gay men in the UK would say to each other in the 1950s and 60s. It means “Good to see your nice face.” Until 1967, gay sex was illegal in England and Wales. To avoid imprisonment, gay men used Polari, a language that the Oxford English Dictionary says is “made up of Italianate phrases, rhyming slang and cant terms.” It had sprung up in the … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Infected: Throwaways, by Andrea Speed

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Infected: Throwaways

QSFer Andrea Speed has a new MM Paranormal book out in her Infected series: Former prostitute and street kid turned private detective Holden Krause is asked to look into the murder of Burn, a black-market dealer, who turns up dead near the infamous homeless encampment known as the Jungle. It’s a place Holden is familiar with—and his memories of it aren’t entirely bad. The settlement has been taken over by sinister people but Holden isn’t afraid to take them on. A big part of his PI gig is cover for his more dangerous vigilante crusade: exacting justice for the people … Read more

Deadpool 2 to Have Bisexual, Polyamorous Superhero

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Shatterstar

Deadpool 2 will feature a bisexual and polyamorous superhero, it has been revealed. Shatterstar, who has appeared in Marvel comics since 1991, will star alongside Ryan Reynolds’ pansexual Deadpool in the as-yet-untitled sequel to the 2016 smash hit.  His kiss in 2009 with gay superhero Rictor was the first same-sex kiss in a mainstream Marvel comic. By Josh Jackman – Full Story at Pink News

SPACE: Astronomers Detect a Swarm of Tiny Objects Orbiting an Alien Sun

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comets

There are tiny comets orbiting foreign suns. And human beings can detect them. Six times, about 800 years ago, dark things passed between the bright-yellow dwarf star KIC 3542116 and Earth. They were small in cosmic terms, about 330 billion tons (300 billion metric tons). That’s about the size of Halley’s Comet, or just one-245 millionth the mass of Earth’s moon. But they were big enough. They blocked a fraction of a fraction of the light that was streaming outward from that star. Eight hundred years later, the sensitive lens of the Kepler Space Telescope — a nearly meterwide piece … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Future Med

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Medicine - pixabay

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Victoria Stagg Elliott: Currently there are several medical procedures that are routinely carried out on infants and children (vaccination, circumcision, etc.) I don’t want to get into the merits of these procedures, but what procedures could you see becoming routine in the future for either adults or children and how could they form the basis of a really cool queer sci-fi novel? Join the chat

ANNOUNCEMENT: Lander, by J. Scott Coatsworth

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Lander - J. Scott Coatsworth

J. Scott Coatsworth has a new MM Sci Fi book out: Sometimes the world needs saving twice. In the sequel to the Rainbow-Award-winning Skythane, Xander and Jameson thought they’d fulfilled their destiny when they brought the worlds of Oberon and Titania back together, but their short-lived moment of triumph is over. Reunification has thrown the world into chaos. A great storm ravaged Xander’s kingdom of Gaelan, leaving the winged skythane people struggling to survive. Their old enemy, Obercorp, is biding its time, waiting to strike. And to the north, a dangerous new adversary gathers strength, while an unexpected ally awaits them. … Read more