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Ben Brock

B. A. Brock has lived most of his life in the Pacific Northwest. He graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in 2007 at Portland State University--which he mostly uses to contemplate how we can achieve a civilization more closely aligned with Star Trek. When not writing, Brock spends his time reading/reviewing novels, training for marathons, and bemoaning the fact that the world has yet to make a decent gluten free donut.

Review: “No Enemy But Time” by Angel Martinez

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Title: Open for Business (No Enemy But Time) Series: Brandywine Investigations Author: Angel Martinez Genre: Urban Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: M/M, Cis Publisher: Mischief Corner Books, LLC Pages: 488 Blurb When humans forsake the temples, the gods need to find other employment. Hades opens Brandywine Investigations after his divorce and his subsequent move to the modern world. If he was hoping for boring infidelity cases and lost dogs, he’s sorely mistaken as murder and mayhem find his agency and his extended family at an astonishing rate. Includes: Canines, Crosshairs & Corpses: Brandywine Investigations #1 No Enemy But Time: Brandywine Investigations #2 … Read more

Review: “The Lurid Sea” by Tom Cardamone

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Title: The Lurid Sea Author: Tom Cardamone Genre: Erotica LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Pages: 182 Blurb: A steamy bacchanal bending through time and space, replete with the occasional God, mythic creatures, and oh-so-many men. For centuries the godling Nerites luxuriated in a shifting sexual paradise, hopping from one bathhouse to another—from disco-era Manhattan to Feudal Japan and back to where it all started: ancient Rome. When the dark shadow of his half-brother, the sinister Obsidio, descends, his deadly kiss leaves bodies cooling in steam room corners. Nerites must adopt a new role: as defender of these hidden … Read more

Rabid Reader Recommendations–R3 Wednesday!

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WELCOME to Rabid Reader Recommendations, or R3 WEDNESDAYS! We host this discussion the first Wednesday of every month; it’s a great opportunity to recommend and discuss works you have enjoyed in queer speculative fiction. For June’s R3, the theme is: Spec Fic Kitchen Sink! (Works where all the myths, magic systems, and histories and technologies are true and possible. Example: Starcraft. They have faster-than-light travel, psychics, weirdly impossible biological organisms, and huge everything.)   HOW IT WORKS: The works have to be QUILTBAG Speculative Fiction. They have to be related to the theme. This is a reader discussion. Don’t recommend … Read more

Review: “Triptych” by J. M. Frey

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Title: Triptych Author: J. M. Frey Genre: sci-fi LGBTQ+ Category: bi/pansexual, nonbinary Publisher: StrangeFuse Pages: 286 Blurb IN THE near future, humankind has mastered the arts of peace, tolerance, and acceptance. At least, that’s what we claim. But then THEY arrive. “You know…” she said slowly, so softly that Evvie almost didn’t hear it. “You know those movies where the aliens come to Earth, and they… I dunno, they try to steal our natural resources, or create a nuclear winter so they can turn the Earth into slag, or they melt the polar ice caps and New York is under … Read more

Review: “Canines, Crosshairs & Corpses” by Angel Martinez

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Title: Canines, Crosshairs & Corpses Series: Brandywine Investigations 1 Author: Angel Martinez Genre: Urban Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: M/M, Cis Publisher: Mischief Corner Books, LLC Pages: 488 (for 1, 2, &3) Blurb WHAT’S A Lord of the Dead to do? Hades’ bride of several thousand years has served him with divorce papers and she doesn’t just want him out of her life, she wants the palace and the dog, too. Hades’ nephews and his faithful ferryman, Charon, are determined to find their uncle something to distract him before he expires of brooding misery. Tiberius Snyder had a good future, until his … Read more

Review: “And God Belched” by Rob Rosen

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Title: And God Belched Author: Rob Rosen Genre: Scifi, Humor LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Publisher: MLR Press Pages: 212 pages Blurb IN THIS riotously funny romantic adventure, Randy and his younger brother, Craig, find themselves in a different universe, on a strange planet, desperately searching for Milo, a handsome stranger in imminent danger, all while being chased by the heavily armed local authorities. And that’s just the start of this epic journey. But what else does fate have in store for our brave heroes? And can one human save two worlds, the handsome alien he’s fallen in love with, his entire … Read more

Rabid Reader Recommendations — R3 Wednesdays!

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WELCOME to Rabid Reader Recommendations, or R3 WEDNESDAYS! We host this discussion the first Wednesday of every month; it’s a great opportunity to recommend and discuss works you have enjoyed in queer speculative fiction. For April’s R3, the theme is: Cops and Robbers! (Speculative fiction PI’s, detectives, criminals, spies, etc. Financial thrillers would be cool too.)   HOW IT WORKS: The works have to be QUILTBAG Speculative Fiction. They have to be related to the theme. This is a reader discussion. Don’t recommend your own works–get someone to do it for you! Please include a Goodreads link or something comparable. … Read more

Review: “A Shadow on the Sun” by Sera Trevor

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Title: A Shadow on the Sun Author: Sera Trevor Genre: Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Cis, M/M Publisher: Amazon Pages: 271 Blurb Light cannot always illuminate— sometimes the truth lies in Darkness…. Prince Theryn and his loyal knight, Sir Atrum, are both bound by duty: Theryn serves the kingdom of Glinden, and Atrum serves his prince. Although they harbor a secret love, a relationship between a prince and his servant is forbidden. Things change when the king promises Theryn’s hand in an arranged marriage to the volatile Prince Lyar of the Soltaran Empire, who needs Theryn’s Light magic for some sinister religious … Read more

Review: “Surrogate: Hunted” by Jeanne G’Fellers

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Surrogate: Hunted

Title: Surrogate: Hunted Series: Surrogate Author: Jeanne G’Fellers Genre: Scifi LGBTQ+ Category: bisexual+, polyamorous, cis Publisher: Supposed Crimes, LLC Pages: 372 Blurb  Sequel to the epic, world-spanning Surrogate. Alien Scum. Royal Concubine. Destroyer of Traditions. Alyward Etain Ixtii detests the hate-wielding labels others place on her, but there is one label she wholeheartedly embraces—Mom. With her husband, Leigheas, their five children, and her goddaughter relying on her, Etain manages a careful balance between her family, her diplomatic career, and her problematic, opinionated breeding instinct dubbed She-Beast. But balance can’t help when Etain and her Human goddaughter, seventeen-year-old Brigit Feney, must … Read more

Review: “Aerie” by Jon Keys

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Aerie

Title: Aerie Series: Chinjoka Saga Book #1 Author: Jon Keys Genre: Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Publisher: NineStar Press Pages: 202 Blurb:  Askari, Dhala, and Gyam grew up as childhood friends during happier days for the Chinjoka, an Iron Age people with the ability to shapeshift, but now they must learn their place among the tribe while dealing with both a devastating plague and war with the Misiq. Ena is a young warrior for the more savage Misiq, a tribe whose cruelty exemplifies their deity—the Angry God. The Misiq, also shifters, have declared a genocidal war against the Chinjoka, blaming them … Read more