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Magical Boy Basil 2 Kickstarter

Magical Boy Basil

Magical Boy Basil, a cool queer superhero web comic, is starting its kickstarter for issue two. Join the Kickstarter I did the first one of these – it’s a really cool comic. More about it: Magical Boy Basil is a free-to-read webcomic that updates every Friday. It’s an LGBT+ story about a group of undercover teenage magicians that battle monsters in order to maintain the balance of the universe. Magical Boy Basil is created by Jill Marie Hackett (writer) and Rebeckah Murray (artist). Both Rebeckah and Jill graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2010. Magical Boy is … Read more

Will Elon Musk Really Build the World’s First Hyperloop?

hyperloop

The beleaguered transit system in the Northeast may receive a boost from one of the most ambitious entrepreneurs in the world. Elon Musk tweeted Thursday that The Boring Company received “verbal” government approval to begin building an underground Hyperloop, saying it would take 29 minutes to go from New York to Washington, D.C. Musk did not say whether this verbal approval comes from the individual cities themselves or from a federal authority. An Amtrak ride on the Northeast Regional line from D.C. to New York currently takes three hours and 20 minutes, according to the passenger railroad company’s website. By … Read more

Review: “Teresias Bound” by Rebecca James

Title: Teresias Bound Author: Rebecca James Genre: Trans Sci-Fi/Fantasy Publisher: Self Publish Length: Novel Blurb Aiden is a man in a woman’s body. His dream is to fly to Aquarix where the elusive Fluens–the only species capable of changing his life record and physically making him a man–reside, and for years he’s been working at a seedy brothel in Solarias to save enough money to make that dream a reality. Lydo, the prince of Teresias, has spent his youth leading his father’s army and avoiding his responsibilities on his home planet. On brief leave during a dangerous mission, he stops … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GUEST POST: Wehr Wolff Castle, by B. Bentley Summers

Wehr Wolff Castle

B. Bentley Summers has a new MM paranormal/horror book out: During the rise of Nazi Germany, Hagen Messer joins the Royal Air Force as an American soldier who specializes in tracking. He’s attached to British commandos and given a seemingly simple mission—to find a captive and destroy a dam—but everything goes awry. Hagen’s plane crashes into Germany’s Wehr Forest and he has to use his extrasensory abilities to track the captive to nearby Wehr Wolff Castle, a secret Nazi base where vile experiments are being conducted. Hagen and his surviving team members must sneak into the castle and devise a … Read more

TECH: Humans One, Robots Zero

Tech - Robot

Yes, Robots may have come for your job, and if no, they may be coming for it soon. But here’s a bit of bright news. They may not be very good at it. A security robot keeping a watchful eye on an office in Washington DC fell into a fountain and ended it all. Maybe it was a faulty design. Or maybe the poor thing was just bored to death with its job. Either way, it’s a small slice of hope for humanity. The company that made the robot took it all with grace, tweeting: “Security robot, yes. Submarine robot, … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Teresias Bound, by Rebecca James

Teresias Bound

QSFer Rebecca James has a new trans MM sci fi book out: Aiden is a man in a woman’s body. His dream is to fly to Aquarix where the elusive Fluens–the only species capable of changing his life record and physically making him a man–reside, and for years he’s been working at a seedy brothel in Solarias to save enough money to make that dream a reality. Lydo, the prince of Teresias, has spent his youth leading his father’s army and avoiding his responsibilities on his home planet. On brief leave during a dangerous mission, he stops at a brothel … Read more