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New Release: These Bright and Perilous Designs – Felicia Martínez

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QSFer Felicia Martínez has a new queer multiverse sci-fi book out (ace), a retelling of a Greek myth: These Bright and Perilous Designs. A layered, lyrical, and heartbreaking novella. In the near future, a grieving son uncovers the secret journal entries of his genius mother—and the life and love story she tells is layered across multiple universes. In one universe, Phaedra falls in love—tragic and doomed—with Hippolytus. In another, the pair are brilliant and misunderstood software engineers whose creations threaten the world. In ancient Greece, in the near future, in every world, some things remain true: Phaedra and Hippolytus’ love … Read more

New Release: Can’t Hold Us Down: Tales of Defiance & Hope Anthology

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Can’t Hold Us Down: Tales of Defiance & Hope - Archer Kay Leah

QSFer Archer Kay Leah has a new queer specfic anthology out: Can’t Hold Us Down: Tales of Defiance & Hope. Resistance. Defiance. Endurance. Welcome to the Can’t Hold Us Down: Tales of Defiance & Hope charity anthology, where LGBTQA+ characters not only embrace the love in their life, but they’ve got the courage to last and their souls all but scream, “They can’t get rid of us – we’ll always be here.” Come snarl with the shifters as they serve up FAFO and make new connections in Protect Your Community (Details Inside) and Defiant… Travel with inquisitive minds as they … Read more

New Release: In The Field With Janet 201 – Felice Picano

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QSFer Felice Picano has a new queer sci-fi collection out (Bi, Gay, Gender Fluid): In The Field With Janet 201. The new short story collection from the Ferro–Grumley Award- and Lambda Literary Award-winning legend features five sci-fi short stories set in the universe of his City on a Star trilogy. What if conscious A.I. chooses not to destroy us but instead tolerates us, guides us, or simply walks away? The five stories in this collection explore those possibilities through a cast of A.I. characters as they navigate their complicated relationships with humanity: some bound to us, some collaborating, some indistinguishable … Read more

New Release: Heaven Will Submit – Bastian Voss

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Heaven Will Submit - Bastian Voss

QSFer Bastian Voss has a new MM BDSM sci-fi book out: Heaven Will Submit. In Neo-Victorian London, sub Justin finds his perfect alpha dom, Alec. But when a real heaven is created, the country fractures. First vs Third. Loyalty vs betrayal. Dom vs Sub. In this world of excess, riot and lust, where dominance is the ultimate prize, Alec may yet kneel before his perfect sub. For Justin is not powerless. Heaven Will Submit is hardcore, politically argumentative, sexually uncomfortable in places, morally messy and difficult to categorise. It explores explicit BDSM, coercive and ambiguous consent, and pushes sexual boundaries. … Read more

Review: Feral Rising – Michael Solis

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Feral Rising - Michael Solis

Genre: Sci-Fi, Superhero, YA LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book 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 … Read more

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

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

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

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

Review: In Love and War – Beryll and Osiris Brackhaus

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In Love and War - The First Lotus Knights, by Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

Genre: Sci-Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Bi , Poly Reviewer: Serena Universal Buy Link About The Book A swashbuckling adventure? An epic romance between three men? Characters that feel so real they virtually jump off the pages? A succession war between competing noble Houses except it’s set in space? Diplomatic complications and interplanetary rivalries? Sign me up! It has been a while since I have read such an amazing story, and I was spellbound by this one from the first page. I followed the adventures with bated breath and even when the three heroes (for that is what they are) … Read more