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ANNOUNCEMENT: Persisting on the Edge, by E. Robert Dunn

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Persisting on the Edge

QSFer E. Robert Dunn has a new book out in his Echelon’s End series: Persisting on the Edge. Persisting On The Edge. A doomed globe has become the refuge for the Aidennians. Commander Capel and his crew of the Pioneer 4 notice their life-raft world is undergoing changes. After checking meteorological data, the crew learns that a severe spatial firestorm is coming which will raise planetary temperatures to eventually become superheated. The world’s tri-suns are found to be on a countdown to detonation. The only course open to the Aidennians is to repair their impaired ship and evacuate. Get It … Read more

Me Me Monday!

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Me Me Monday

Welcome to M3: 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 we can comment on yours specifically –Check out the other posts and congratulate and share them too! And congratulations!!!

Steven Universe Character is Intersex, Non-Binary

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Fans of the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe already know that it’s one of the queerest kids’ cartoon series ever. But it’s getting even queerer now that its creators have revealed that a major character, Stevonnie, is both intersex and non-binary. In a recent public service announcement (PSA) on Cartoon Network’s Instagram, Stevonnie flips through their own Instagram while discussing positivity and negativity on social media. Near the beginning of the PSA, Stevonnie’s Instagram profile says, “I am an experience. Intersex, non-binary, they/them.” The text is on the screen so briefly that if you blink, you’ll miss it. But this … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Hexxed, by Shannon West

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Hexxed - Shannon West

QSFer Shannon West has a new MM paranormal book out, the first in the Witches of the Big Easy series: “Hexxed.” And there’s a giveaway! Self-exiled to New York for the past two years, Nic Gaudet never planned to return to New Orleans. But with the mysterious death of an old man named Abel Delessard, a member of a family of Cajun witches who were his own family’s greatest enemies, it seems he has fallen under suspicion of murder. He’s been accused by none other than the man’s grandson—and Nic’s former lover—Thibeau Delessard. Nic is furious and travels to confront … Read more

FOR READERS: Anti Heroes

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Ryane Chatman: Have we talked about anti heroes? Who’s your favorite? Why do you like them? Please include links. 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

SPACE: Watch The First Solar Eclipse Ever Filmed

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Solar Eclipse

Magicians are known for making things disappear, but when the sun vanished from the sky on May 28, 1900, it happened not through a sleight of hand, but because of a solar eclipse. There was magic in the air that day after all — movie magic. Nevil Maskelyne, a performing magician who also happened to be a pioneering filmmaker, preserved the spectacular event — as the moon passed between Earth and the sun — on celluloid, from a location in North Carolina. More than a century later, Maskelyne’s film of the eclipse has been digitally scanned and restored in a … Read more

REVIEW: Dead Camp, by Sean Kerr

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Dead Camp

Title: Dead Camp Series: Dead Camp Book One Author: Sean Kerr Genre: Parnormal LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Publisher: eXtasy Books Pages: 282 Reviewer:Melissa Brus, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Eli is an ancient vampire with an ego the size of a planet and a sex drive to match, but his tumultuous past left him broken, so he hides from humanity and cowers from love, left to endure the crushing guilt that haunts his every waking moment. Even his best friend, Malachi, a ghost who is hopelessly in love with Eli, remains unaware of all that transpired in … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Tales From Olympus: Alfheim, by Erik Schubach

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QSFer Erik Schubach has a new FF fantasy book in his Tales From Olympus series: Alfheim. As Artemis looks on, the Olympians, under the threat of attack of two incoming Titan vessels, must flee their home and abandon their Citadel on Olympus. Kara, the Wild One, First Valkyrie of Asgard heads out into space to draw a line to dare the Titans to cross. A plan is devised that may allow for the rapid charging of the Citadel’s Jump Drive. But for the plan to succeed, they need to forge a pact with the only planet with people not of … Read more

#OWNVOICES: Gay Authors

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On Saturdays on the QSF Facebook group, we’re now doing an #ownvoices day. Each week, we’ll feature a different group of writers who don’t get the attention they should. Today, we’re featuring authors who are gay and who write gay characters in speculative fiction. #ownvoices If you’re a gay author, tell us about yourself, your experiences as an author, and the spec fic books you write (especially those with gay characters – with links, please). If you’re not, you can still participate – share your favorite gay authors and their spec fic works that include gay characters. Note: This is … Read more

Marvel Trans Film Star – Spider-man is Inherently Trans

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Spider-Man: Far From Home actor Zach Barack has opened up about becoming the first openly trans actor to appear in a Marvel film. Barack told Variety that he is “kind of losing my mind a little bit,” about appearing in the superhero sequel. “I don’t know that it fully has [sunk in],” he said following the film’s US release on Wednesday (June 26). “I don’t quite have the capacity to explain how meaningful it is to me.” The 23-year-old’s role in Spider-Man: Far From Home is his first in a major film. He played a friend of Peter Parker’s who … Read more