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FOR WRITERS/READERS: Spec Fic Writers of Color

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Anastasia Vitsky: Let’s have a day devoted to spec fic by and about authors of color. If that’s you, pipe up and share what you write with us! If you’re a reader, let us know who your favorite writers of color are, and why. #ownvoices Writers: This is a reader & writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/profile/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat

FILM: Lesbian Erotica Meets Sci Fi in New Short

Experiment H21 is an adult short film featuring an all-female cast, exploring medical fetish and extra-terrestrial encounters. The story takes place in an alien medical room as two extra-terrestrial nurses perform erotic experiments on their patient.  The film runs for 13 minutes, and is a gift to anyone who loves science fiction or medical fetishes. With a soundtrack reminiscent of the X-Files, the colours, alien nurse costumes and medical bay design will captivate the imagination. You will be unable to look away. It is mysterious and erotic all at once, offering a sci-fi delight to fans. Experiment H21 was screened … Read more

Physicists Break the Rules of Light

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Physicists have built a ring in which pulses of light whip circles around each other and the normal rules that govern light’s behavior no longer apply. Under normal circumstances, light displays certain kids of physical symmetry. First, if you were to play a tape of light’s behavior forward and then backward, you would see it behave in the same way moving in both directions in time. This is called time-reversal symmetry. And second, light, which can move through the world as a wave, has what is called polarization: how it oscillates relative to the motion of the wave. That polarization usually … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Parallel Larry, by Jacqueline Rohrbach

Jacqueline Rohrbach has a new MM sci fi book out: Parallel Larry. And there’s a giveaway! Larry’s search for love didn’t include Greg, his regular waiter at his favorite restaurant. Always too busy daydreaming about a handsome doctor, Larry fails to notice Greg’s shy advances. But when Greg finally finds the courage to ask Larry out, he’s suddenly killed in a freak car accident. Only then does Larry realize how perfect they could have been together. No one gets a second shot at true love. Or do they? Inexplicably, Larry is drawn into a parallel reality, and in this new … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Escaping Mortality, by Sara Dobie Bauer

Sara Dobie Bauer has a new MM paranormal book out: “Escaping Mortality.” And there’s a giveaway! Their ocean journey was successful, and Andrew and Edmund found an Elder just in time. As they wished, Edmund is now a vampire like Andrew. They have eternity together, but first, they must visit Edmund’s ailing mother in the English countryside with their flock of immortals, including the Elder, who has taken an ominous liking to his new creation. When they arrive at Edmund’s family estate, his sick mother and her loathsome best friend await them. While ducking religious curses, Edmund struggles to harness … Read more

FOR WRITERS: That Weird Thing I Did

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Davina Jameson: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever researched for a book? What is the craziest thing you did in the name of book research? Did you bungee jump? Did you do a survival course? Did you get a college degree to research one character? 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 part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat

Climate Change to Kill a Quarter Million a Year

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In the coming decades, more than a quarter-million people may die each year as a result of climate change, according to a new review study. In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that climate change would lead to about 250,000 additional deaths each year between 2030 and 2050, from factors such as malnutrition, heat stress and malaria. But the new review, published Jan. 17 in The New England Journal of Medicine, said this is a “conservative estimate.” That’s because it fails to take into account other climate-related factors that could affect death rates — such as population displacement and … Read more

Me Me Monday!

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 we can comment on yours specifically –Check out the other posts and congratulate and share them too! And congratulations!!!

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Imminent Dawn, by R.R. Campbell

QSFer R.R Campbell has a new FF sci fi book out: Imminent Dawn. Art-school dropout Chandra would do anything to apologize for her role in her wife’s coma—including enroll in the first round of human trials for an internet-access brain implant. At first, the secretive research compound is paradise, the perfect place to distract Chandra from her grief. But as she soon learns, the facility is more prison than resort, with its doctors, support staff, and her fellow patients all bent on hatching plots of their own, no matter how invested they might seem in helping her communicate with her … Read more