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Sci Fi

ANNOUNCEMENT: Surrogate, by Jeanne G’Fellers

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Surrogate

QSFer Jeanne G’Fellers has a new sci fi book out: Worker. Trade Agent. Serf. Etain Ixtii detests the labels others give her, but there are some things she must accept. She was genetically designed to do specific tasks. Her breeding instincts interrupt her life every forty-five days. But workers like Etain are taught not to question so when she returns from training questioning her home world Gno’s profit-based caste system, she risks her life. She doesn’t want to be an agent and doesn’t want to cross through the wormhole to never return. Why does she have to go? Can’t someone … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Bittersweet Rivals, by J.J. Lore

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Bittersweet Rivals

QSFer J.J. Lore has a new MM sci fi romance out: Dhavi is on his way to getting the professional respect he knows he deserves. He’s landed a corporate sponsorship to be the first paleologist to prospect on a faraway planet, and finding a spectacular fossil there will set him up for life. But when he discovers his worst rival, and former friend, is also going to be there, years of resentment ignite his temper. Breon is shocked to learn he’s sharing equipment with his old study partner on this important expedition, and he’s worried that the enmity between them will … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/INTERVIEW: Ghosts & Ashes, by F.T. Lukens

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Ghosts and Ashes

QSFer F.T. Lukens has a new MM sci fi romance out: Three months have passed since the events of The Star Host, and Ren is living aboard the Star Stream under the watchful eyes of the Phoenix Corps. Plagued by vivid nightmares that ravage the ship in his sleep, he struggles to prove he isn’t a threat and fears he has traded one captor for another. His relationship with Asher, whose efforts to balance his personal loyalty to Ren with his professional duties to the Corps are failing, fractures. Adrift without an anchor, Ren must return to his home planet … Read more

TRENDING: Dystopian Fiction

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Dystopian Novels

Save the light reading for later. In 2017, dystopian fiction is all the rage. Gloomy classics depicting societies gone terribly wrong have shot to the top of best-seller lists like Amazon‘s in recent months, including George Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, prompting publishers to ramp up production decades after the books were first released. Others have followed close behind, such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Some nonfiction works in the same vein have seen similar resurgences, including Hannah Arendt’s 1951 Origins of Totalitarianism. Longtime staples … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Touching Yesterday, by A.T. Weaver

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Touching Yesterday - A.T. Weaver

QSFer A.T. Weaver has a new MM time travel book out: Jeff Wilde is waking up from the best and worst five weeks of his life. He remembers his boyfriend breaking up with him. He remembers going camping. He even recalls hitting his head and waking up in 1927, decades before he was born, but now he’s woken up in the 21st century again. His boyfriend claims they never broke up and that Jeff has been in a coma for five weeks. As Jeff eases back into the 21st century life he thought he’d lost, he needs answers. Did he … Read more

Jeff Baker, Boogieman in Lavender; “For Identification Purposes.”

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Jeff Baker

Here’s the big question in writing LGBT fiction; what makes a story “gay?” Gay characters? Gay themes? And how does an author identify a character as gay? This has, I realize, been talked about before. Two obvious ways are number one, the “coming out” story, which as a literary device has been done to death and is somewhat out of fashion right now. Number two; simply have your main character make out/hop in the sack with a same sex character. This sometimes takes the whole thing into the realm of erotica, something I don’t write very well at all. Then … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Falling Hard, by Dale Cameron Lowry

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Falling Hard

QSFer Dale Cameron Lowry has a new MM anthology that includes speculative fiction: Nine of Dale Cameron Lowry’s best short romance stories, available for the first time in one book. Part 1: Falling Fast Warm up with whirlwind romances that last. Mi Alma — Ex-Mormon Alma Larsen doesn’t know the first thing about alcohol, so he hires bartender Damian Banks to help out at his winter holiday party. They build a friendship that simmers with sexual tension—and possibly something much deeper. Will this Christmas bring them both a love that lasts? Loggerhead — Soon after they fall in love, Jake makes Eric … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Fixit audio, by Erik Schubach

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Fixit audio

QSFer Erik Schubach has a new queer sci fi audio book out: The story follows Fixit, she’s out of this world! Literally as it turns out, as she mans a repair station on another planet, making sure all of the automated harvesters supply food to all the other people who live in the great floating cities of Tau Ceti Prime. When pirates attack and shipments are lost, can Fixit, fix it? And where does the alluring but cocky Sky Guard ranger, Vashon, fit into the mix? Buy Links Amazon Excerpt Fixit, she’s out of this world! The story follows Fixit, … Read more

NEWS: Gun From a Time Traveler?

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Time Traveler Gun

The Baltimore Police Department shared a Facebook post on Thursday that, for the most part, was pretty run-of-the-mill police fodder. It stated that police had pulled over a man and discovered a loaded handgun, along with some drugs, inside his car. Since the man’s criminal record prohibits him from owning a gun, the cops confiscated it. The only thing out of the ordinary? The gun looks like this (above). By Hilary hanson – Full Story at The Huffington Post

Announcement: graphic noiz book 2, by Natsuya Uesugi

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Graphic Noiz v2

QSFer Natsuya Uesugi has a new yaoi book out: Noiz is a 19 year old illustrator just graduated from art school and created his first manga, Disaster Code about the psychic boy, Mai. Noiz has a psychic secret of his own. He is excited to be showing his work at a comic convention in New York City. He eagerly sets up his table at the con. When no one stops by his table on the first day he starts to get discouraged. The famous writer Shiro Ijima is also at the con signing books in his bestselling scifi Fissure series. Shiro … Read more