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Announcement: By That Sin Fell the Angels, by Jamie Fessenden

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By the Sin That Fell the Angels

QSFer Jamie Fessenden has a new book out: It begins with a 3:00 a.m. telephone call. On one end is Terry Bachelder, a closeted teacher. On the other, the suicidal teenage son of the local preacher. When Terry fails to prevent disaster, grief rips the small town of Crystal Falls apart. At the epicenter of the tragedy, seventeen-year-old Jonah Riverside tries to make sense of it all. Finding Daniel’s body leaves him struggling to balance his sexual identity with his faith, while his church, led by the Reverend Isaac Thompson, mounts a crusade to destroy Terry, whom Isaac believes corrupted … Read more

Discussion: Habitable Planets for Man

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earth like world

Today’s topic comes from QSFer Jim Comer: Dole’s Habitable Planets for Man and Niven’s puckish defiance of Dole’s limitations: How unlike Earth do we want to make our worlds? What schemae do we want to use to design our histories? Do Spengler, Diamond and Toynbee still apply? How do worlds differ if sex is different? I’ll break this down a bit. Carl Sagan postulated that there would be many habitable planets out there, and many alien civilizations. But just because a planet is habitable doesn’t mean it’s comfortable. So what kinds of worlds should we be creating for our fiction? … Read more

Announcement: Schrodinger’s City, by Matthew P. Buscemi

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Schrödinger's City

QSFer Matthew Buscemi has a new Sci Fi book out: On the surface of a sphere twenty kilometers in diameter, beneath a sky of swirling blue that offers light without a sun, there lies a city like no other. Hodgepodge personalities eke out something akin to survival, even a meager form of community. But City’s streets have begun to change abruptly, and one individual has left City of his own free will. A path through frightening chaos leads either to opportunity or the further erosion of City’s bleary existence. A philosopher and a waitress both seek answers, in their own … Read more

QSF Merchandise Available on RedBubble – And A New Contest!

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Red Bubble

We’re partnering with a site called Red Bubble to offer Queer Sci Fi branded merchandise. You can now buy a shirt, mug, mousepad, and much more with the QSF brand – and every purchase helps support the site. smile emoticon And to kick it off, we’re also doing a contest that ties in with our upcoming Graphic Novels week – running from August 25th-30th. We’ll supply you with a Photoshop “blank” of the Queer Sci Fi “Q” that you can decorate as you want. Give us a paranormal themed Q. Or one that drips fantasy. Or horror. Or sci fi. … Read more

Me Me Monday!

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Welcome to 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 at … Read more

Announcement: Agate – Then and Now, by MD Grimm

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Agate

QSFer MD Grimm has a new Fantasy book out: Time travel. For mages, it violates their number one rule: what the Mother has written, let no one unwrite. The Mother writes the destinies of the creatures on the world of Karishian. If her writings were undone, it is feared that Creation itself could be undone. The Dark Mage Morgorth takes this rule to heart, but there are others who do not. Morgorth is about to claim a stone of power when it is stolen from him by a female mage he hasn’t seen in decades. As they struggle for the … Read more

Discussion: Shared World SF

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sci fi world

Today’s topic comes from QSFer ‘Nathan Smith: I’d love to see a discussion of shared-world sf – sort of like Geroge R.R. Martin’s “Wild Cards” series, where multiple authors tackle the same setting and use each other’s characters, etc. I know there are a few of these kinds of places out there – common worlds where you can build your own story in a shared world. So my questions for today – do you know of any, and have you written for or read any of them? Does the idea of writing in someone else’s world appeal to you? Can … Read more

Announcement: Pact Arcanum, by Arshad Ahsanuddin

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Pact Arcanum

QSFer Arshad Ahsanuddin has a new paranormal graphic novel coming out on 8/31: For millennia, the Sentinels have hunted the vampires with steel and magic… Alexandria, Egypt, 2008. Antonio is the Wind of Fire, the strongest Sentinel of that element, the most powerful spellcaster of his generation. Edgar is a capable Fire Sentinel in his own right, and serves as Antonio’s lieutenant. Together, the two of them were chosen for a very special mission: to scout out the vampires’ greatest citadel in preparation for the Sentinels’ final assault. Their actions that night will set in motion a destructive chain of … Read more

Announcement: Star Clash – A Space Anthology, by Vera Loy

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Star Clash

QSFer Vera Loy has a new sci fi anthology out: “Then they came. Humans. They looked like us, walked like us, but never have such a brutal, bastard race existed … We will fight. We will end them, or we will die trying.” In Vera Loy’s science fiction anthology, a war threatens to annihilate two species; a mercenary travels to Avalon to fight zombies; and a crime-fighter chooses to cross the line, the line between right and wrong. Featured Stories: Star Clash, Emerald Warrior, Io Colony, Black Death, Kaia, Crime Fighter, Guns and Guys. Note: Io Colony has LGBTY characters; … Read more

Angel’s Bits: Rejection Sucks, Sometimes

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Unless you have self-published exclusively, rejection is a universal experience for authors. It’s not fun. It can hurt when you thought you’d found the perfect home for a story that’s been polished to within an inch of its literary life. I’m sympathetic up to a point. Yes, I cried when I received my first rejection many years ago and I’ll allow you that. One good cry. Then it’s time to suck it up, buttercup, and make that which did not kill you help you become a better author. I have a box full of rejection letters from the bad old … Read more