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SCIENCE: Using Lasers to Guide Aliens to Earth – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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Earth Laser - MIT News

We could build a laser that could send signals to extraterrestrial intelligence. Not we as in the staff of Live Science. (That’s probably beyond our skill set.) But we as in humanity. A new paper published yesterday (Nov. 5) in The Astrophysical Journal has found that humanity could feasibly build an infrared laser hot and bright enough that — if we shined it directly at nearby exoplanets — alien astronomers should be able to detect it using sky-watching technology not too much more advanced than our own. (Presuming they’re out there, of course.) [9 Strange, Scientific Excuses for Why We … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Trysts & Burning Embers, by Angel Martinez & Freddy MacKay

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Trysts & Burning Embers - Angel Martinez and Freddy MacKay

QSFers Angel Martinez and Freddy MacKay have a new queer paranormal entry in their Lijun series: Trysts & Burning Embers. Fire. Water. Burn. In the two months since the All Hallows’ Eve party, Tally has courted Haru, buying expensive gifts, taking the two of them to upscale restaurants and trying to find a balance in earning Haru’s fragile trust while being new parents to the Cohen joeys. Tally sees hope in the new domesticity the family has settled into, despite having some bumps along the way. Gifts and treats have satisfied Haru’s otter, but the human half remembers the brutal … Read more

FOR BOTH: Transgender Day of Remembrance

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Transgender Day of Remembrance

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scot Coatsworth: In honor of “Transgender Day of Remembrance”, let’s discuss your favorite trans characters and tales in speculative fiction. And on the writing side, what can we be doing better when we write trans, enby and gender fluid characters? Join the chat

SCIENCE: We’re Getting Close to an Artificial Brain

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Neurons - Pixabay

Scientists just activated the world’s biggest “brain”: a supercomputer with a million processing cores and 1,200 interconnected circuit boards that together operate like a human brain. Ten years in the making, it is the world’s largest neuromorphic computer — a type of computer that mimics the firing of neurons — scientists announced on Nov. 2. Dubbed Spiking Neural Network Architecture, or SpiNNaker, the computer powerhouse is located at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and it “rethinks the way conventional computers work,” project member Steve Furber, a professor of computer engineering at the University of Manchester, said in … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Daughter of the Sun, by Effie Calvin

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Daughter of the Sun

Effie Calvin has a new FF/pansexual fantasy book out – Tales of Inthya book two: Daughter of the Sun. Orsina of Melidrie is a paladin of the Order of the Sun, sworn to drive out corruption and chaos wherever she finds it. She has been ordered to leave her home and travel around Vesolda in search of a great evil she is supposedly destined to destroy. But after two years of fighting monsters and demons and evil gods, she does not seem to be any closer to her goal—or ever returning home. Aelia is the Goddess of Caprice, the personification … 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!!!

VIDEO GAME: The Missing – Horror With a Queer Love Story

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The Missing

LGBTQ horror fans should check out The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories, a new puzzle platform game in which a lesbian woman struggling with her identity has to repeatedly tear her body apart to find her missing girlfriend on a treacherous island. The plot may sound like a grisly misogynist fantasy, but its twists reveal a surprising psychological depth and thematic coherence that will resonate with some queer gamers. The game’s first screen announces, “This game was made with the belief that nobody is wrong for being what they are.” Its second screen then warns players of … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Wayward Prince, by Hanna Dare

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The Wayward Prince

QSFer Hanna Dare has a new MM sci fi book out: The Wayward Prince. Spaceships, daring heists, and interstellar intrigue! Since murderous AIs drove humanity from Earth more than a century before, people have been rebuilding civilization. That doesn’t mean the galaxy is anywhere close to being civilized. A liar and a scoundrel – and he’s the good guy. The thing that Captain Sebastian Garcia values most of all is his ship, The Wayward Prince, and like most of his possessions, it’s something that he stole. Now the ship’s original owner has found Sebastian and he’s looking to collect what he’s … Read more

After the Zombie Apocalpse

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zombie - pixabay

It’s easy to take for granted the basic luxuries we’ve come to expect in modern society. But what if a zombie apocalypse, or something similar, quickly destroyed our comfortable way of life and we were forced to start over? In AMC’s “The Walking Dead” (which airs Sundays at 9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST), now in its ninth season, characters have survived years after the zombie apocalypse began and are now working to expand their simple communities into a stronger, more capable and civilized society. “You’re gonna be evidence that we’re making a civilization,” Rick Grimes, one of the show’s main … Read more