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FOR WRITERS: Brainstorming

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Robin Harper: FOR WRITERS: Brainstorming. That magical time of creation where you let your imagination go and dream up the impossible! There are many techniques, and a thousand pieces of advice on how to do it, and how not do to it! What works best for you? Any methods that completely failed? How do you take the hard drive of your brain and squeeze out it’s riches onto paper to start forming ideas? Join the chat

ANNOUNCEMENT: Pandora, by Marguerite Labbe

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Pandora

DSPP author Marguerite Labbe has a new queer horror/sci fi book out: Haunted by the screams of the men he murdered, ex-Marine medic Riff Khora is serving a life sentence on board a prison ship. Seeking more punishment for his crime, he strikes a deal with the corrupt Captain Vidal—an exchange of pleasure and pain—and forges a new life leading the team that surveys space wreckage for salvage. Ship engineer Zed Jakobsen’s psychometric abilities make prison a sentence worse than death, and the barrage of emotional stimuli is an unending torment. His only regret is that he didn’t kill the … Read more

SPACE: Another Super Earth Found

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Super Earth

It seems like only yesterday when scientists announced the discovery of yet another “super-Earth.” Last year, a half-lava, half-rock world, dubbed 55 Cancri e, was found around 40 light-years from Earth and was determined to be twice the size of our home planet. And now it has happened again. Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have announced the discovery of a new super-Earth, designated LHS 1140b, orbiting the habitable zone of a small red dwarf star, LHS 1140, about 39 light-years away. (It’s 4.2 light-years from our sun to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri.) By Lee Speigel – … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Shifting Currents, by L.M. Brown

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Shifting Currents

QSFer L.M. Brown has a new MM fantasy book out: Can a merman and an Atlantean, separated by centuries and prejudices, find love together? Merman Delwyn is an Oracle of the past. He loves nothing better than observing the comings and goings of those who lived centuries before he was born. His favorite time period to visit is when both Atlantean and mer inhabited the sunken city of Atlantis, and his guilty pleasure is watching lovers come together in passion. Secure in the knowledge that no one can see him when he’s viewing the past, nothing can prepare Delwyn for the … Read more

TECH: My Flying Car is Finally Here!!!

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Kitty Hawk Flyer

I ordered it back in the seventies while watching The Jetsons… As engineers tinker away at perfecting self-driving cars, Google co-founder Larry Page is preparing to release a personal flying vehicle. An ultralight aircraft called the Kitty Hawk Flyer has been unveiled in a YouTube video that shows it zipping over a lake while commandeered by a single rider. The electric, propeller-driven prototype is the work of Page’s Silicon Valley startup company, Kitty Hawk, which announced that the vehicle will go on sale later this year. By Nina Golgowski – Full Story at Huffpost  

ANNOUNCEMENT: Angel’s Feather, by Alina Popescu

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Angel's Feather

QSFer Alina Popescu has a new MM sci fi book out: How far would you go for the one you love? How much of yourself would you sacrifice? Trapped on a decaying Earth and cut off from the rest of the Universe, humans are no longer allowed to leave their planet. Break this one law and you die: a penalty enforced by flyers, aliens who look like angels of long-lost religions. Michael, the flyers’ leader, is the Punisher who carries out every public execution. Adam, a young human with near-perfect memory, is committed to rebuilding Earth and a true believer … Read more

VIDEO: The Addams Family Goes Gay

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Gay Addams Family

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious, and spooky and finally gay! Yes, Proud Unicorn brings you their final LGBTI recreation of the famous film The Addams Family. Get ready to see highly devoted Gomez Addams like you’ve never seen him before. There is no love like the love between two men or two women. But in this case and point two men. By David Calderon – Full Story at Gay Star News