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Me Me Monday!

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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!!!

Robot Learns the Meaning of Love

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Alex and Bina48

It’s been a typical week for typical college student BINA48. On Monday, BINA attended her robot ethics class. On Tuesday, the second-semester student had an excused absence to ring the bell at the stock exchange, and soon BINA will be assistant-teaching a kindergarten class and getting a face-lift at Hanson Robotics. So maybe BINA’s schedule isn’t that typical, and maybe the artificial-intelligence-driven robot isn’t the average college kid. But that hasn’t stopped the robot, which looks like the bust of a flesh-and-blood woman, from completing a Philosophy of Love course at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. Programmed … Read more

Out of the Past: LGBTQ Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror 2010 – present

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     As part of my ongoing history of LGBTQ+ speculative fiction, I’m in the process of doing interviews with authors, editors and reviewers who are working in different areas of the genre that I’m not as familiar with. I’m hoping to boost the signal on some of their projects, too so please check out their writings and other projects. There’ll be interviews with various folks on trans and nonbinary spec fic, indie queer romance, new trends and recommendations for short fiction and other fun things coming up as well as my essays on different aspects of the field. I hope … Read more

U+(N/T)M*G: Edge

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Out in a lonely spot, somewhere around the vast Australian desert, there sits a little machine one might mistake for a shiny table. And that machine did something our most powerful telescopes couldn’t do. It found the first stars. The EDGES is a highly sensitive radio telescope with only one job, to find the faint frequency signal from the one-hit wonders at the beginning of stellar formation. The blue ones which burned hot and died young in glorious nova, and seeded the Universe with heavier atoms. The deaths of those first cosmic pioneers gave rise to what we needed for … Read more

FOR WRITERS & READERS: Defining Who We Are

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Dictionary - pixabay

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: QSF is a very diverse group with a lotta knowledge. So I thought it would be fun to create a dictionary on the site of identity terms (orientation, gender, etc) – things like gay, transgender, enby, demisexual, scoliosexual, etc – with definitions and references 9ie: who submitted the term) as a resource for our writers and readers. So… please include in the comments below in a new comment post for each – any community or identity terms you are familiar with: Term: Definition (ok to post your name/FB link … Read more

Virgin Unveils Hyperloop that Will Travel 760 Mph

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Virgin Hyperloop

Virgin Hyperloop One has released a prototype for a levitating pod that is designed to zoom at speeds as high as 760 mph (1,200 km/h) through a Hyperloop connecting Dubai to Abu Dhabi, according to news sources. The 87-mile (140 kilometers) journey usually takes 90 minutes by car, but the Hyperloop will take a mere 12 minutes, thanks to its innovative track — a long tube that has had its air removed to create a vacuum inside, according to the Daily Mail. Virgin unveiled the pod — which will be accelerated by an electromagnetic propulsion system within the vacuum tube … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Accidental Awakening, by Damien Benoit-Ledoux

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Accidental Awakening

QSFer Damien Benoit-Ledoux has a new MM teenage superheroes book out: After high school juniors Quinn McAlester and Blake Hargreaves found themselves restrained in a hospital room after a freak accident in a dangerous cave, they had no idea how much their lives would change. Shortly after a man named Agent Victor Kraze questions the boys about their weekend activities, they are discharged from the hospital into the care of their parents and their normal lives. Life back in Portsmouth, NH soon proved to be anything but ordinary as unusual phenomena begins to manifest around them without their knowledge or … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Share Your Facebook Page or Group

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Every now and then, we ask authors to share the address of their Facebook page or group, so our readers (and other authors) can follow them. Please post 1-2 sentences about you and what you write, and then include the link. :) Have fun discovering new authors! Join the chat

FILM: “Guardians of the Galaxy” Star Lee Pace is Bi

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Lee Pace

Hollywood actor Lee Pace has come out, saying he has dated both men and women. The “Guardians of the Galaxy” star is currently preparing to star in the Angels in America Broadway revival, Pace gave an interview to W Magazine. In it, he was asked about his sexuality and dating life, which is where he made the revelation. But he said he thought questions about sexuality were “intrustive” and that he was surprised to be asked. He told the magazine: “I’ve dated men. I’ve dated women. By Joseph Patrick McCormick – Full Story at Pink News