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FOR WRITERS: Queer as a Canary

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Olivia Wylie: It seems like the ‘queer character as canary’ trope is rife in sci-fi. From the Handmaid’s Tale to V for Vendetta, killing queer characters is used as a indicator that Something Is Very Wrong In This World. How do you feel about this? What stories buck the trend and show queer characters as warriors, strategists or generally getting some agency in SF/dystopian settings? 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 … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Purple Haze, by Kelly Jensen

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QSFer Kelly Jensen has a new MM sci fi book out in the Aliens in new York series: Purple Haze. Six months have passed since Dillon and Lang crashed into each other on a crowded street in New York City, changing the course of their lives. Now they’re living together as a couple, happy, in love, but not quite ready to say the words out loud.Dillon is about to embark on a new adventure-opening a private art school housed in the brownstone left to him by his father. Lang… Lang is becoming ever more aware of the futility of his … Read more

REVIEW: Azaran, by Jacki james

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Title: AzaranSeries: The Brotherhood of Ormarr (books 2-4 releasing this month)Author: Jacki JamesGenre: Paranormal/FantasyLGBTQ+ Category: GayPublisher: SelfPages: 139Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Azaran~I was born a dragon rider. A member of the Brotherhood of Ormarr, son of Cadmar, and the eldest of four sons. I was raised to defend the innocent and protect the secret of the dragons, but when I was eighteen, my parents were brutally murdered and the training and care of my brothers fell to me. My entire adult life has been spent helping my brothers grow into the strong, brave dragon riders … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Life Siphon, by Kathryn Sommerlot

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Kathryn Sommerlot has a new queer fantasy book out: The Life Siphon. A magical energy drain is siphoning life from the land and leaving a twisted, decaying wasteland in its wake. Safely isolated in his forest home, Tatsu wants nothing to do with the drain or the other citizens in the kingdom of Chayd. The only people he cares about are his childhood friend and her strangely prophetic sister, but there’s no avoiding the threat once Tatsu is arrested and taken to the capital. The Queen of Chayd offers Tatsu his freedom—but only in exchange for sneaking into the neighboring … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Skylar Mars and the Floating Islands, by Drew Seren

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QSFer Drew Seren has a new queer sci fi book out in his Skylar Mars series: Skylar Mars And The Floating Islands. Skylar’s past rises from a watery world.  After the destruction of Stars’ End, the school’s students are scattered across the universe. Skylar and most of his friends find themselves on the tropical paradise of Tursipia. Their peaceful studies are soon interrupted in ways they never anticipated. Secrets hidden deep under water force Skylar and his friends into action. Dark forces are at work on unimaginable things beneath the waves, but what Skylar discovers makes his distrust of the … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Symbionts, by MF Alfrey

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QSFer M F Alfrey has a new sci fi collection out that includes queer stories: Symbionts. Nice body. Think you control it? Think again. Eight stories. Eight realities. Eight ways to be enslaved. The symbionts are coming and not all of them come in harmony. A colony-wide blackout, but two engineers have a much bigger problem. Trapped by ghosts on a planetoid where escape isn’t what you would imagine. An alien spore puts humans to sleep and reshapes Earth. A drifting wreck slowly repairs itself, but every breath brings the survivors closer to death. An aerial assault on a bug … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Defending Their Bond, by L.N. Manning

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QSFer L.N. Manning has a new MM paranormal book out: Defending Their Bond. On the run for most of his life, Thomas “Bulldog” Baird is used to being alone. He never cared what people thought of him. He never had a reason to. After helping his friend, Jonathan, settle some old scores with his birth pack, Bulldog finds the one thing he never thought he’d have: a mate. A mate he’s not sure he wants to claim because of his own haunted past. Edward Rawlings has survived hell, living under a cruel and vicious Alpha who almost decimated his birth … Read more

SCIENCE: How Would Zombies Decay

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Like all living creatures, humans die and our bodies begin to decompose right away; indeed, there’s no stopping it, even for zombies. Of course, we know zombies aren’t real, but death and decay certainly are. In AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead,” returning Sunday, June 2, at 9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT, reanimated human corpses roam the world, terrorizing the living. Here at Live Science, we have a soft spot for the macabre, and we wanted to know just how closely zombies represent a real human corpse. So, what happens to a human body when it dies? “First will be the … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Judged, by Leona Windwalker

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QSFer Leona Windwalker has a new MM sci fi book out: Judged. Matty’s best friend Duane is missing- trafficked by the very aliens behind Matty’s own sentencing. When J’nah gets a lead on where he is, he sends J’nel. For J’nel, this is about more than duty. The smaller human male had fired up his protective instincts, Duane’s emotional fragility making him vulnerable to the very sort they sought to protect the rest of humanity from. Duane only meant to make atonement for his unwitting part in Matty’s arrest and sentencing. Being sold on the black market to an alien … Read more

REVIEW: Born Magic, by A.R. Moler

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Title: Born MagicAuthor: A.R. MolerGenre: FantasyLGBTQ+ Category: Gay/IntersexPublisher: JMS BooksPages: 86Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book Querteshan guardsman Jamal Fayed is on a routine patrol through the desert area known as the Burning when they discover an injured and unconscious man who looks to be from a nearby country, Perathea. Their two countries have a long history of animosity. When Nev ran from his master, he was fleeing for his life and any outcome seemed better than the death he was promised. But Nev has secrets, complicated secrets that involve both magic and his physical form. Can … Read more