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Discovery Makes a Great Christmas Present

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Discovery

Hey all… If you’re looking for something unique for Christmas this year, may I suggest “Discovery: The Second Annual QSF Flash Fiction Contest”? The book includes more than a hundred flash fiction stories, covering the gamut from sci fi to fantasy to paranormal to horror – and each of them is just 300 words long. There are some amazing stories in the collection, and it makes a perfect bathroom reader. Even better-each sale helps support the QueerSciFi site! You can get the paperback for under the tree here: Amazon Paperback If you want an eBook copy for yourself, you can … Read more

The Top 10 Gay Superhero Fantasies Fans Would Love To See Become Reality

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Following the news that a real-life Lex Luthor appears to have taken a knife to a mural showing Batman and Superman locking lips, PinkNews takes a look at the works of gay superhero fan fiction. Whether its Iron Man and Captain America getting up close and personal, or the aforementioned DC icons flying off into the Metropolis sunset, it seems that some fans are desperate for their favourite superheroes to become more than just team mates… Batman and Superman Rich Simmons piece shows the DC legends locked in a passionate embrace, much to the dismay of a possible damsel in … Read more

Announcement: Kaminishi: Four Seasons, by Jan Suzukawa

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Kaminishi: Four Seasons

DSPP author Jan Suzukawa has a new fantasy/historical book out: Michael Holden and Shintaro Kawakami have put Shintaro’s yakuza past behind them and started a new life together in Tokyo. For Michael, the relationship is the joyous reunion he dreamed of. The love he traveled through time for is his again, and this time it’s for good. But echoes from that summer long ago are never far away—and for the two men, winter is on the horizon. From the past to the present and as the seasons turn—love always comes around again when the cherry blossoms bloom. Sequel to Kaminishi … Read more

Discussion: Racism and Bigotry in Fiction

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District 9

Today’s topic comes from QSFer Tim O’Leary: I work with someone who seemed perfectly nice in every way. Funny, charming, etc. And three months into knowing him, we were having a casual conversation and he nonchalantly revealed through a story he was telling that he was a raving anti-Semite. But what was most chilling was how calm and natural he was about it. So it made me think about fantasy and sci-fi with different races. Obviously we’ve seen examples of racism in Star Trek and shows like that, but usually the racism (bigotry against Klingons, etc) is overt and obvious. … Read more

News: Adorable New Fairy Tale Gives Cinderella A Transgender Twist

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Jamie – A Transgender Fairytale

‘Jamie – A Transgender Fairytale’ is the latest video from Olly Pike, a UK-based performer and activist. His YouTube channel, Pop’n’Olly, aims to teach children issues effecting the LGBT community and encourage tolerance and understanding. He aims to do this with the help of original animated videos – and a talking balloon named Pop. Orignal Post at Pink News

Discussion: Using Music in Speculative Fiction

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Yellow Dancer

Editor’s Note: Angel is hoarding her bits today, but hopes to share them with us again next week. Today’s topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: Music! What are the ins and outs of using song lyrics in a story, or novel as temporal or emotional touchstones. Is licensing involved, or only after a certain point? Does it detract from a story by anchoring it too much in a certain time and place? Great questions. I’ve used songs in stories, only to have the lyrics yanked out over publisher concerns of copyright issues. What’s your experience with music in stories? … Read more

Announcement: Shifter Born, by AT Weaver

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QSFer AT Weaver has a new paranormal book out: After seeing his family betrayed and executed during the French Revolutionary War, Marrok De Clarency, an immortal, natural-born shifter makes his way to the New World. As he moves from place to place across the American wilderness, he finds not only the means to his revenge, but love. Even as the world progresses around him, he prefers the quite life away from cities and homesteads in remote areas. He gives his heart again and again, each time hoping that this time, he’s found his mate. A chance encounter in the woods … Read more

“A Little Bit Langston” by Andrew Demcak

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Genre: Gay YA Science Fiction Length: Novel   James has a pretty boring life. Sure, his mom is nuts, and also sort of interesting, but that’s par for the course for adults, who all seem a bit off. He’s in high school, but he still has problems with reading, and his best friend, Paul, seems to have a few problems as well. But people pretty much leave them alone, and all in all, he has nothing to worry about—just the average life of an average teenager. Until one day when he blacks out, and wakes up to find he’s written … Read more

News: New Giant Telescope Aims to Answer the Question: Is There Anybody Out There?

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Lima telescope

On a remote hilltop 8,000 feet above sea level in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists hope to answer one of the most fundamental questions facing humankind: Is there life elsewhere in the universe? That’s one of various goals of the Giant Magellan Telescope, or GMT, now in the early stages of construction and scheduled to start scanning outer space in 2021. Once it does, it’s expected to offer views of the farthest depths of the universe ever achieved. With seven curved mirrors giving it a record optical surface 80 feet in diameter, the GMT will have the sharpest images of any … Read more

Announcement: A Little Bit Langston, by Andrew Demcak

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A Little Bit Langston

QSFer Andrew Demcak has a new paranormal book out: Being different can be dangerous, and discovery can be deadly. High school freshman James Kerr is finding out he’s not quite like his classmates. Around the time he realizes he’s attracted to his best friend, Paul Schmitz, James starts channeling a dead writer’s poetry and also discovers he has an ability to manipulate energy—a super power. Before James can figure out why this is happening to him, tragedy strikes in the form of Paul’s abusive father, and James is sent to a government-run school, The Paragon Academy, which specializes in juvenile … Read more