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TRAILER – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

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Trailer: Jurassic World

As already revealed in a tasty little featurette, Fallen Kingdom retains the two stars of the first Jurassic World film – Chris Pratt as dinosaur trainer Owen Grady, and Bryce Dallas Howard as former park manager Claire Dearing, who has since founded the Dinosaur Protection Group – but has a new director: JA Bayona of The Orphanage and The Impossible renown, with Colin Trevorrow, the director of Jurassic World, retaining a writing credit. According to EW magazine, Fallen Kingdom is set several years after the collapse of the dinosaur park in Jurassic World, when an erupting volcano threatens to wipe … Read more

REVIEW: Safety Protocols for Human Holidays, by Angel Martinez

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Safety Protocols For Human Holidays

As a security officer on an interspecies ship, Growlan Raskli’s experienced in heading off species-specific aberrant behaviors in order to keep the peace. But when her captain asks her to find out what’s bothering their sole human crew member, Raskli’s out of her depths. She hardly knows anything about humans and she’s not a psych doctor. Something’s definitely upset Human Jen, something to do with human holidays. The more time Raskli spends studying humans and interacting with the intriguing Human Jen, the more personal the assignment becomes. Determined to lift the dark cloud from Human Jen, Raskli will do whatever … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Safety Protocols for Human Holidays, by Angel Martinez

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Safety Protocols For Human Holidays

QSFer Angel Martinez has a new FF holiday sci fi tale out: As a security officer on an interspecies ship, Growlan Raskli’s experienced in heading off species-specific aberrant behaviors in order to keep the peace. But when her captain asks her to find out what’s bothering their sole human crew member, Raskli’s out of her depths. She hardly knows anything about humans and she’s not a psych doctor. Something’s definitely upset Human Jen, something to do with human holidays. The more time Raskli spends studying humans and interacting with the intriguing Human Jen, the more personal the assignment becomes. Determined … Read more

Norway’s Thelma: Best Lesbian Sci-Fi Film in Years

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Thelma

To call Thelma, Norway’s submission to the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, the best lesbian sci-fi film of recent years is accurate. But that also brings into focus just how rarely the genre makes it to the big screen. Young Thelma (Eili Harboe) has finally left her family’s remote lakeside home and is heading to college in Oslo, where she’ll find a whole new world of love and reality-deforming psionic eruptions. Thelma’s love is strong, you see. Strong enough to tear open the very universe. This is a film for everybody who wanted, metaphorically, a chance for Carrie White … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT & INTERVIEW: Jesus Kid, by Kayleigh Sky

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Jesus Kid

QSFer Kayleigh Sky has a new MM Sci Fi book out: Thirty years ago, an asteroid stuck the Earth. Now killer plants hunt the last surviving humans. Ori Scott is a young junkie running from his mother’s prophecy that he’d one day save the world from the killer plants. Her preaching made him a laughingstock and now he hides in his drugs. But he can’t hide the change in his veins. They are turning green, and the prophecy is dragging him into a dark struggle between invisible forces. Set up on bogus drug charges, Ori is taken to a secret facility where he becomes a test … Read more

The Third (Semi) Annual Me Me Awards

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Today the winners of the Rainbow Awards were announced. I want to give a hearty congratulations to everyone who won – this is your day. You buckled down and worked hard, and it’s a wonderful thing that you won the award. Oh, I know, it’s an honor to be nominated, right? And yeah, it actually kind of is, because it means someone else thought highly enough of you and your work to put me up next to all of those other great authors. But for everyone who didn’t win the award today, we’re bringing back the Me Me Awards again … Read more

Review: “Skin” by Christian Baines

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Skin

Title: Skin Author: Christian Baines Genre: Horror, Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Word Count: 45,000 Blurb: Kyle, a young newcomer to New Orleans, is haunted by the memory of his first lover, brutally murdered just outside the French Quarter. Marc, a young Quarter hustler, is haunted by an eccentric spirit that shares his dreams, and by the handsome but vicious lover who shares his bed. When the barrier between these men comes down, it will prove thinner than the veil between the living and the dead…or between justice and revenge. Review by Andrew: Baines’ slim novel Skin … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: graphic noiz manga 2, by Natsuya Uesugi

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graphic noiz manga 2

QSFer Natsuya Uesugi has a new MM manga book out: The nineteen year old, amateur manga artist Noiz is partnering with bestselling science fiction writer Shiro Ijima to create the Fissure manga. As work on the manga continues at a fever pitch to meet the publisher’s deadline, the writer persists on teasing the artist making subtle advances then pulling back harshly. Shiro’s aloofness only feeds the insecure artist’s attraction. When Noiz is beaten by punks for being gay, the encounter sends Shiro to the streets of New York City fueled by a past addiction that ends up ruining his reputation. … Read more

FOR WRITERS: When Editors Attack

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Dave Fragments: A truly daunting set of questions in so many ways – have you ever had an issue with an editor? Have editors asked you to remove scenes? Has an editor ever objected to the “gayness” of a story? Has an editor ever told you to quit writing because he/she thinks you are a hack and/or a bad writer? No names please. :) Join the chat