Month: February 2017
ENTERTAINMENT: Glorious Midi Unicorn
We can’t stop watching this video. YouTube star Andrew Huang turned a photo of a unicorn into a MIDI notes musical composition. It is a weird 22-second adventure that’s also insanely entrancing. Huang shared the video on Twitter and it blew up ― clearly because people are just as fascinated by it as we are. By Jenna Amatulli – Full Story at The Huffington Post
Announcement: Where There’s Smoke audio, by Cari Z.
QSFer Cari Z. has a new audio version of her superhero/villain MM book “Where There’s Smoke” out: Panopolis is a rough place to be an average Joe. I came here looking for adventure and excitement, but nobody cares about one more normal guy in a city filled with super-powered heroes. The closest I’ve come to glory is working in a bank that villains often rob. But then I maybe accidentally-on-purpose helped a villain escape the hero who was trying to save the day. Imagine my shock when, a week later, that villain asked me out for coffee. One date turned … Read more
Glee Actor Chris Colfer Shopping Sci Fi Drama
Chris Colfer is taking it upon himself to craft his own TV comeback. The out actor and author has teamed with Sonar Entertainment to develop a pilot for the sci-fi drama Indigo that he would write, direct and star in. ‘Very excited for this! Fingers crossed,’ Colfer wrote on Instagram Friday (17 February). Indigo would be a far cry from Colfer’s Emmy-nominated role of gay high school student Kurt Hummel on Glee. Indigo explores the mysterious world of Indigo children — those who are misdiagnosed but wildly believed to possess extraordinary paranormal abilities — and the dark forces working to exploit their … Read more
Review: “The Beast Without” by Christian Baines
Title: The Beast Without Series: Arcadia Trust #1 Author: Christian Baines Genre: Gay Paranormal Publisher: Glass House Books Pages: 234 Blurb Reylan is everything a Sydney vampire aspires to be: wealthy, handsome and independent, carefully feeding off companions plucked from the gay bars of Oxford Street. When one of those companions is killed by Jorgas, a hot-headed young werewolf prowling his streets, Reylan reluctantly puts his cherished lifestyle of blood and boys on hold to help a mysterious alliance of supernatural beings track down the beast. It can’t be that hard… not when Jorgas keeps coming after him. But there’s … Read more
Announcement: Catalyst, by Fletcher DeLancey
QSFer Fletcher DeLancey has a new FF sci fi book book out: After disobeying orders and saving the planet of Alsea from invasion, Captain Ekatya Serrado returns home a hero and renegade, alongside Dr. Lhyn Rivers, now the foremost authority on a culture that fascinates and terrifies. They share a secret: they are tyrees, linked by an Alsean empathic bond that should be biologically impossible for two Gaians. The secret could cost Ekatya her career, but when both women are drawn into a high stakes political game, their tyree bond may be all that stands between them and the dangerous … Read more
FOR READERS: Dialects
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Angel Martinez: When reading dialogue and you come across regional dialects (or even made up dialects) – love it or hate it? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat
Science: De-Extincting the Wooly Mammoth
Did we learn nothing from “Jurassic Park?” A Harvard University scientist told The Guardian this week that his team is only two years from resurrecting some traits of the woolly mammoth, which went extinct during the last ice age. The goal is to create an embryo that’s a hybrid of the woolly mammoth and its closest living relative, the Asian elephant. “Our aim is to produce a hybrid elephant-mammoth embryo,” researcher George Church told The Guardian. “Actually, it would be more like an elephant with a number of mammoth traits.” Church explained to HuffPost last year that the process involves … Read more
Announcement: The Captain’s Harvest, by T.J. Land
Nine Star Press author T.J. Land has a new MM sci fi menage book out: The long-suffering crew of the Prayer have found a home. They’ve got a harvest. Now it’s time for a holiday. But while the captain was looking forward to a day spent lying on his back, he’d wanted it to be as a result of a prolonged food-and-sex coma, not arthritis… Adrift Book Five Nine Star Press | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Smashwords | Goodreads Giveaway Get book one, The Captain’s Encounter for free at NineStar Press & Smashwords! a Rafflecopter giveaway … Read more