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Review: Jasyn and the Astronauts: Under The Ice Skies – Gwenhyver

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Jasyn and the Astronauts: Under The Ice Skies - Gwenhyver

Genre: Sci-fi/Fantasy, Adventure, Space Opera, Sapphic/Queer Romance, Swords & Sorcery LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Lucy Get It On Amazon About The Book A sapphic swords & sorcery space adventure! On a planet infected by ice, the power to create more is the last thing anyone needs… JASYN is an explorer with a talent for reaching for the stars and upending weather systems with her emotions. She spends her days dreaming of adventure, hiding her power of ice, and definitely not thinking about what it’d feel like to be the snow on her best friend’s cheek. ATALANTA is an archer and … Read more

New Release: Black Sails to Sunward – Sheila Jenne

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Black Sails to Sunward - Sheila Jenne

QSFer Sheila Jenne has a new queer space opera out (bi, lesbian): Black Sails to Sunward. In a world of frock coats, solar sails, and rigid class boundaries, Lucy joins the Martian Imperial Navy as a midshipman. Mars and Earth are at war, and Lucy hopes for quick promotion. But when she arrives aboard ship, she finds harsh officers and a crew on the verge of mutiny. And worse: her former friend, Moira—a commoner and a radical—is a member of the crew. It’s clear where Lucy’s duty lies. As an officer and a gentlewoman, she has to quell the crew’s … Read more

Review: You Are Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station – Mary E. Lowd

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You are Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station - Mary E. Lowd

Genre: Sci-Fi, Furry, Cozy Space Opera LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian, Trans MTF Reviewer: Lucy Get It On Amazon About The Book When an unexpected wedding invitation arrives, Anno packs her family up for a trip across the stars. There’s a lot of fun, touristy things to do on Crossroads Station, including spacewalks, cloud surfing on New Jupiter, and enjoying the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a place that’s home to many dozens of different species of alien. But there’s also a reckoning to be had with her larger family, who Anno hasn’t seen in eight years. She was born and raised in the … Read more

Review: To a Fungus Unknown – William C. Tracy

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To A Fungus Unknown - William C. Tracy

Genre: Sci-Fi, Colonization, Alien Contact LGBTQ+ Category: Various Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book Forty years after landing on Lida, the colony still isn’t finished. Agetha has survived many more battles than she anticipated when she first landed on her new home planet. She’s older and wiser, has gained family and lost loved ones. And yet her reward for four decades of service is to be pushed to the colony’s outer edges with the other aging Generationals. But that was only the beginning of her adventure. The biomass has spent years studying the intruders who landed on … Read more

Review: Spyder’s Trial – Korin I. Dushayl

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Spyder's Trial - Korin I. Dushayl

Genre: Sci-Fi, Erotica, Space Opera (Not Romance) LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Lesbian, Non-Binary, Poly Reviewer: Lucy Get It On Amazon | Publisher | B&N | Kobo | Universal Buy Link About The Book Spyder expertly guides the combat-crippled spaceship Truth to a “safe” crash landing at the bottom of an Aargine ocean. A salvage ship owned by a powerful criminal snags Truth and Spyder’s owner, the Lady Cassandra, negotiates safe transport for the ship’s passengers—her slaves, her prisoners, and her revolutionary recruits—as well as the tools vital for her work as a Dominatrix.  When Sypder finds himself swept up in a Piety Purist political plot to overthrow … Read more

New Release: Bloodhunters v1: Bad Blood – Xine Fury

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Bloodhunters v1: Bad Blood - Xine Fury

QSFer Xine Fury has a new queer sci-fi book out (trans MTF): Bloodhunters V1: Bad Blood. Fourteen thousand lives, gone in an instant. A ruthless terrorist on the loose. The largest bounty ever posted. IGP Earthstation 1 was the largest police station in the galaxy. Designed to deploy officers anywhere on Earth at a moment’s notice, this orbiting fortress was a symbol of protection to all those it defended. The aftermath of its destruction leaves the galaxy in turmoil. Crime rates soar. With the police too understaffed to pursue the woman responsible, a reward is crowdfunded for her capture. The … Read more

Double Review: Malena MCD – Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

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Malena MCD - Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

Genre: Sci-Fi, Space opera, Adventure, Police Procedural LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Poly Reviewers: Lucy, Ulysses (PRG) Get It On Amazon About The Book Mauve is a pet, a human pleasure slave. He is smart, ambitious, horny – and the only witness in a murder case. Or rather, he is ‘evidence’. Luckily, the crime was committed on Malicorn, where an unsolved murder would disturb its profitable reputation as the safest planet of the Empire. So Mauve ends up in the hands of the Malena MCD, the local Major Crimes Division, run by ex-space-marine Alexej Sirenkov and his brilliant wife Andrea. Unwilling … Read more

New Release: Consortium – Gina A. Pond

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Consortium - Gina A. Pond

QSFer Gina A. Pond has a new queer sci-fi book out, Survey book 4: Consortium. What if first contact happened, and nobody even noticed? Light-years away, years ago, something insignificant happened. Now, the spirits are restless. Loki has returned, seeking help for his people. Entire stations are being consumed, populations lost. No one understands why, and the threat continues to spread. Can Jack, Marsha and teenager Po carry the weight of saving Loki’s civilisation? This time, it may break them all. Get It At Amazon Excerpt Recording of Bridge ActivityUnity Fleet Ship JemisonUT 73891Library Record Number: L589Logged UT 73901—Possible Survey … Read more

New Release: Unity – Gina A. Pond

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Cover - Unity by Gina Pond - a round, red alien monster that's all mouth, with four eyes spaced equally around its "lips" and sharp white teeth inside its huge mouth, standing on white tentacles, on a green alien ground.

QSFer Gina A. Pond has a new queer hard sci-fi book out, Survey book 2: Unity. Jack Kirby just wants peace. Deeply scarred from a failed mission and struggling with the loss of his lover, Jack takes a job as a Religious Program Specialist on a remote PreCol station. There, he finds what he never expected: a family. Marsha, a complicated woman with a deep connection to the spiritual world. Jenny, a cheerful ensign with a dangerous past. Mark, driven to demolish the atavistic cult he was born into. Can Jack protect them all as they become entangled in an … Read more

Review: Temerity – Toshi Drake

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Temerity - Toshi Drake

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Can Gratch save his friends and keep his heart safe before the space pirates destroy everything? Commander Gratch is stressed. He needs peace after almost losing his friends twice to the space pirates. With the crew of the Padua taking time to rehabilitate and relax on the Asyran Moon, Gratch hopes that all will be well; however, a tiny niggle of suspicion rears its ugly head and all Gratch knows is paranoia. Not everything can be this perfect. All hell will break loose … Read more