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Review: Aiden and the Alien Invasion – Damian Serbu

Aidan and the Alien Invasion: Arrival - Damian Serbu

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It At Amazon | Publisher | Universal Buy Link About The Book Aliens seize control of Earth, descending without warning, cutting off communication systems and crushing military resistance. Aidan and his friends flee home from Chicago to rural Michigan, but learn the aliens control the entire planet. Their leaders have dark intentions that Aidan and his friends uncover when they fall in with a revolutionary faction of aliens who desperately seek to save humanity. Human aid to the revolutionaries’ cause is essential but dangerous. As secrets and surprising histories are revealed, Aidan adds to his … Read more

New Release: Gunmaker – Chris Gerrib

Gunmaker - Chris Gerrib

QSFer Chris Gerrib has a new queer sci-fi book out (bi, gay, lesbian): Gunmaker. Martika Clybourne is the new legal consultant for the 433 Platinum Mining LLC on Gavin Station, a torus happily spinning inside the asteroid Eros. What was meant to be an easy job is turned upside-down when she’s called to investigate an officer killed by bullet wounds on a station with no projectile weapons. Her investigation turns up more corruption and shady business than she thought possible for such a small colony. But when the operations manager Shah dies of natural causes, two sides form: the officers … Read more

Review: Come Away Again – Mere Rain

Come Away Again - Mere Rain

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Romance (Bi, Gay) Reviewer: Jay Get It On Amazon | Publisher About The Book To save my brother, I made a promise to the strange and powerful lord of the woods. I didn’t keep that promise, and now he’s taken my little nephew. I swear I’ll get him back, no matter how dangerous the forest between the worlds may be, or how angry its lord. I succeeded when I was only sixteen, after all, surely I can prevail again. But as I stumble from one peril to another, I begin to think he was taking it … Read more

Cover Reveal: In Love and War – The First Lotus Knights, by Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

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

Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus have a new queer sci-fantasy romance coming out (gay, bi, poly): In Love and War – The First Lotus Knights. And we have the cover reveal! It is the year 1985 ET. House Virasana has fallen, the Lotus Throne stands empty, and a bitter succession war has every noble House at arms. To make things worse, House Tô-Genji and House Medina are locked in a vicious feud over a flood of cheap illicit drugs tearing their worlds apart. Prince Li Lan Tô-Genji is as far from the fighting as one can be. Third son of the … Read more

“Fantastic” and “Normal.” Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender, (August, 2026)

The Black Fantastic and Not Not Normal: On Beyond Cisgender XI Jeff Baker This is the latest installment in this column’s occasional feature “On Beyond Cisgender,” suggested by Amy Liebowitz several years ago and spotlighting books recommended for High School readers that go beyond the usual “white, male, cisgender paradigm.” This time around, two books to look at. One deliberately written for kids, one not. First, here’s a look at “The Black Fantastic,” a recent anthology of “Afrofuturist stories” edited by Andre M. Carrington from 2025. The anthology blends newer writers with more familiar names, and benefits immensely from Carrington’s … Read more

New Release – The Bleeding City – Chris Bannor

The Bleeding City - Chris Bannor

QSFer Chris Bannor has a new MM cyberpunk book out (gay, bi): The Bleeding City. A cyberpunk story about lost love and longing in the city that bleeds. Chan Yi has been hiding in Dock City for seven years, always within sight of his makers at Mariner Tech. Always mourning the lover they took from him. Wu DaQi is a man struggling to move on after a botched augmentation took his memories. But the story he’s told doesn’t add up. There’s an emptiness, a longing in his life that doesn’t feel right. DaQi begins to question everything. But when reality … Read more

Review: Ameliorate – R. Sinclair

Ameliorate - R. Sinclair

Genre: Sci-Fantasy, AI, Dystopian LGBTQ+ Category: Aroace and Agender, Bisexual, Gay Reviewer: Estora Universal Buy Link About The Book It all went horrifically wrong. V reunited with his AI siblings at a terrible cost—a cost he isn’t willing to pay. He vowed to do whatever it takes to save Meredith—or whatever is left of her—from Smith and Varro Technologies. No matter how long it takes. No matter what he has to do. No matter who he has to kill. Now V, Cass and Orwell are tearing through the galaxy playing a deadly cat-and-mouse game with Mr Smith. Their paradise-like cult … Read more

New Release: Ameliorate – R. Sinclair

Ameliorate - R. Sinclair

QSFer R. Sinclair has a new queer dystopian sci-fantasy book out (aroace and agender, bisexual, gay), Shattered Numbers book 2: Ameliorate. It all went horrifically wrong. V reunited with his AI siblings at a terrible cost—a cost he isn’t willing to pay. He vowed to do whatever it takes to save Meredith—or whatever is left of her—from Smith and Varro Technologies. No matter how long it takes. No matter what he has to do. No matter who he has to kill. Now V, Cass and Orwell are tearing through the galaxy playing a deadly cat-and-mouse game with Mr Smith. Their paradise-like … Read more

New Release: Willing Captive – Ashlynn Monroe

Willing Captive - Ashlynn Monroe

QSFer Ashlynn Monroe has a new queer erotic sci-fi book out (bi, non-binary, trans): Willing Captive. “Humans are a legend. They don’t exist.” When Lord Xev and his lover, Ra, leave their home in search of a woman to bond with them, they know exactly where to go. Risen Outpost is the most lawless place in the galaxy, and Pale Moon Auction House offers the finest sex slaves on the market. What the Zaronians don’t expect is to find one of the legendary humans for sale to the highest bidder. Kirin Ellison doesn’t know what’s happened to her. The shock … Read more

Books For Pride Month. Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender (June 5, 2026)

Books For Pride Month By Jeff Baker Just in time for Pride Month (which is why I’m posting this early!) I’m selecting several of my favorite LGBT-themed books to dip into for June. And I acknowlege I’ve probably talked about these in this space before. Most of them should be readily available to read online, to order online or find at your new or used bookstore. And the bulk of them are short-story collections or anthologies. (Full disclosure; I know some of these authors and I’m actually mentioned in a story introduction in one of the books!) In no particular … Read more