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For Writers: Astronaut Blindness

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Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: I saw this article the other day and it fascinated me: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-mysterious-syndrome-impairing-astronauts-eyesight/2016/07/09/f20fb9a6-41f1-11e6-88d0-6adee48be8bc_story.html It seems like it could be addressed eventually with rotating space stations and centrifugal force, or maybe artificial gravity? I wonder how long is “safe” to be in a weightless environment? And what other things might space do to the human body? I smell plot bunnies! Join the chat

Sulu’s Husband and Daughter?

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As Starbase Yorktown faces an attack by the Swarm, an Asian man carrying a little girl in his arm is seen running for shelter amidst the chaos. The man, who has a wedding ring on, is believed to be Hikaru Sulu’s husband, and the child, the couple’s daughter. That, my friends, is the split-second glimpse of Sulu’s family you’ll see in the newly released Korean trailer for the upcoming ‘Star Trek Beyond’ film. By Nigel Tan – Full Story at Gay Star News

Science Trying to Answer Why People Are Trans

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Why are girls born as girls, and boys as boys? What about an individual who is biologically female but feels or sees oneself as male, or the other way around? Dr. Qazi Rahman who is a lead investigator into LGBT mental health at King’s College London revealed that science still can’t give a complete answer to those questions. ‘This is the key question at the moment,’ the scientist told The Guardian. ‘We know much more about how nature shapes sexual orientation, and my view of the science is that nurture does very little, if any, shaping of sexual orientation. We … Read more

Me Me Monday!

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Welcome to M3: ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post, so I can also share it over to our FB page (as opposed to this discussion group). –If you want, send me your book announcement info … Read more

Trailer: The Voyage Of Time

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Few projects in the history of filmmaking have spent as long gestating as Terrence Malick’s IMAX movie The Voyage of Time, which explores our universe “billions of years in the making” and took about as long to produce. But after decades of stops and starts and at least one lawsuit, the movie is finally set to come out this fall, in our own geologic period! Malick has always excelled more with imagery than narrative, and that’s become especially true in recent years, with 2012’s To the Wonder and this year’s gorgeous-but-puzzling Knight of Cups polarizing critics more than ever. But … Read more

For Readers: Non Binary Gender

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Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: What books do you like where masculinity/femininity, etc. is portrayed as a continuum, avoiding monoliths, and acknowledging class difference that cause those who occupy those spaces to view those outsides of them as “more” or “less?” How does that affect your view of characters who aspire, covet, or fetishize those other characters who live on the other side of their continuum? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat

Could Game of Thrones Help Push Marriage Equality in Northern Ireland?

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Game of Thrones is about dragons, death, destruction. It could also destroy Northern Ireland’s continuing reluctance to legalize same-sex marriage. LGBTI rights advocates are warning Northern Ireland’s booming film industry could be lost if the country refuses to treat its citizens and residents equally. The HBO show, which films in Northern Ireland six months out of the year, is just one prime example that could be moved if politicians refuse to pass a marriage law. Game of Thrones has boosted the country’s tourism industry alone by £8.6 million a year. By Joe Morgan – Full Story at SOURCE

Sulu is Gay!

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Hikaru Sulu, played by John Cho in the reboot of the Star Trek franchise, is revealed to have a loving same-sex partner with whom he is raising a daughter, in Star Trek Beyond, the Herald Sun reports: Cho visited Sydney to promote the third movie in the franchise successfully rebooted by JJ Abrams in 2009, along with cast mates Chris Pine (Captain Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Karl Urban (Dr McCoy) and director Justin Lin. He said the decision by writer Simon Pegg and Lin to make Sulu gay was a nod to George Takei, who played the character in the … Read more

Sci Fi Game Technomancer Includes Gay Scene

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The game industry is making progress in trying to get away from the stereotype that the only people that play are straight white men in their 40s living in their mother’s basement. And that can be seen in The Technomancer, a science fiction action RPG set on Mars 200 years after colonization. Unlike the majority of games of this type, this one features something different: a gay sex scene. By Joe Morgan – Full Story at Gay Star News

New Pics From Sense8 Season Two

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New photos have been released from season 2 of Sense8 that hint at what viewers can expect when the show returns on Netflix for viewers to binge. The series was created by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, best known for The Matrix movies. They are also the creative minds behind the films Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending. Full Story at Towleroad.com