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Announcement: Healing Touch, by Missy Welsh

Healing Touch

QSFer Missy Welsh has a new MM sci fi book out: A routine mission from the Moon Colony to Earth ends in the five-man crew of the Swallowtail being transported to the other side of the galaxy. Met with hostility, captured, and tortured simply for being Human, the three survivors hold little hope for their futures. Captain Noah O’Keefe has lost his ship and his crew to alien forces he didn’t even know existed until a few hours ago. Chemically blinded and helpless, he can only rely on the kindness of strangers to escape a dungeon and try to recover … Read more

Google Time Lapse Showcases Climate Change

Fire Island

Google has released a stunning a new time-lapse video that uses satellite imagery to show the evolution of major destinations around the world over the last three decades. The images show both how certain areas of the world have exploded in terms of development. They also show the devastating effect of climate change on our earth. Via The Guardian: We can see, in these timelapse satellite videos, how the Earth is being torn apart by human acts. We can also see, in timelapse videos of Arctic ice, great glaciers melt before our eyes. Yet, are human beings capable of assimilating … 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 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

U=(N/T)M*G: MDMA

Yeah, I wrote those ridiculous letters for this post, knowing full well what they mean. And yes, I also know that knee-jerk reaction I had when I first read those letters in conjunction to anything having to do with medicine. For those that don’t know, MDMA is more commonly known as Ecstasy. I personally know of it’s short, sordid history as a party drug because my sister and a couple of my friends. I especially remember a party out in the desert of my junior year where I babysat a boy not much older than me while he was rolling. … Read more

Announcement: Lifehack, by Joseph Picard

Lifehack

QSFer Joseph Picard has a new FF paranormal book out: Regan has her ups and downs. Dumping her girlfriend: Down. Moving in with her loving brother: Up. Waking up to a plague of undead: REALLY down. After the undead began roaming the neighborhood, Regan lost track of her brother. She’s spent the last two years searching for him. In the meantime, she’s fallen in love, only to be told, “Sorry, I’m straight. And you’re a lunatic.” There’s a psycho out there somewhere who caused the outbreak, using nanotechnology, just for the fun of it, and Regan intends to hunt him … Read more

Supergirl Saves a Queer Girl’s Life

Supergirl

When young teens look at the TV and see someone that loves people like them, that’s more important than many people realize – even the creators themselves. So when Mary, a gay comic book shop worker in Indiana, met a young struggling queer girl who was a fan of the new same-sex relationship on Supergirl – it changed them both more than they could ever know. In the encounter described as ‘probably the single greatest moment’ she experienced working at the shop, Mary wrote how this young teen was considering killing herself. That was until she watched the CW show, … Read more

Technology: New Driverless Police Superbikes

Interceptor Police Bike

Imagine a super-fast, driverless motorbike flying across highways 24/7, issuing traffic tickets — via mobile apps — to the owners of any vehicle daring to break the speed limit. The design for these futuristic police drones already exists. It’s called Interceptor and could soon become a reality. “It’s only the natural evolution of technology,” Canadian mechanical engineer Charles Bombardier told CNN. By Karla Pequenino – Full Story at CNN

A Positive 2017

2017

Today’s topic is for everyone, and comes from QSFer Lex Chase: 2016 was a big Bucket of Suck. Let’s focus on the new. What are your goals for 2017? Lose 5 pounds? Drink more water? Write a short story? Call your Mom? Learn a new language? Learn how to cosplay? Cook your way through the Joy of Cooking? Go back to college? What is it? Let’s be positive in the new year! Join the chat

Announcement: First Contact, by Dawn Chapman

First Contact

QSFer Dawn Chapman has a new sci fi book out: With their journey from planet Letháo fraught with peril, the Aonise finally arrive at what they hope will be a new home. Earth offers a new start for the displaced race, and Kendro, King of the Aonise, desperately seeks a peaceful end to their voyage. However, once they make first contact, not all is as expected. Some humans are not as welcoming to the alien species, and their resettlement onto Earth is faced with resistance from splinter groups determined to drive the Aonise away from their planet. Coupled with internal … Read more

News: Car Free Bridges – The Future?

tilikum-crossing

From a distance, it’s beautiful — white spears with delicate white strands holding up an arched roadway across the Willamette River. It’s only when you get closer that it hits you: no cars. There are buses, trains, cyclists and walkers, but no cars and no trucks. This is a big new bridge across a major river in a major American city, and cars were left off the invitation list. It’s probably the first of its kind in a century. The Tilikum Crossing in Portland, Ore., is in a city and state that have been at the forefront of ambitious planning … Read more