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Fantasy

Review: Cast Off – R J Theodore

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Cast Off - R J Theodore

Genre: Sci-Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Lesbian Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book The Action Packed Conclusion to the Peridot Shift Trilogy Peridot is on the edge of annihilation. Once life-giving, the world’s Trade Winds are transforming people into soulless monsters. The surviving Alchemist gods neglect their followers or take advantage of them. Even worse, a delicate peace has been wasted, and everything and everyone is at stake, especially Meran, the mistreated embodiment of the planet. Captain Talis and the crew of Fortune’s Storm must try to do some good with what’s left of Peridot in the hope … Read more

New Release: Yule: Tales for the Winter Solstice

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Yule: Tales for the Winter Solstice

Speculation Publications has a new folklore/fairy tale anthology that includes LGBTQ+ tales (lesbian, poly): Yule: Tales for the Winter Solstice. During the cold winter months, we mirror the Earth as she lies quiet, waiting for the return of warm days. We gather around yule fires and perform rituals to lure back the sun. Drinking wassail, singing songs and exchanging gifts, some of us tell stories of the longest night. Stories of new love and old magick. Stories of the Holly King and his fight for the season. Of death and lives well lived. Of succumbing to the most feral parts … Read more

New Release: New Edge Sword & Sorcery #1

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery #1

Editor Oliver Brackenbury has a new speculative fiction magazine out that includes LGBTQ+ stories (bi, lesbian, non-binary, poly): New Edge Sword & Sorcery #1. Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling! Seven stories and four non-fiction pieces – 80 pages, ePub & PDF formats. Featuring new, original work by: Digital Format | Hardcover | Paperback Author Bio Oliver Brackenbury grew up around the corner from a five story deep cold war bunker, as one does, and can now be found living not far from a popular 1,815.4 ft tower in Toronto. He mostly writes … Read more

Review: True North – TA Moore

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True North - TA Moore

Genre: Holiday, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Despite what his co-workers say Belling, Montana paramedic Dylan Hollie does not hate Christmas. It’s just that as an ex-foster kid he learned early on that Christmas just didn’t have much relevance to his life. He’s seen no evidence since then that he’s wrong. That said, if Santa ever delivered a six-foot plus wall of hot muscle under his tree he’d be willing to reconsider. He’s even sourced an available one locally in the taciturn Somerset North and his impossibly blue eyes. So … Read more

Review: Salvage – R J Theodore

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Salvage - R J Theodore

Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Sci-Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian, Gay Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book Peridot is headed for its second cataclysm. War has broken ancient alliances, sealed borders, and locked down the skies. The Five, Peridot’s alchemist gods, have seen one of their number die and another fall in their efforts to protect their world from invaders beyond the stars. Defeated and diminished, they have ceased to answer the prayers of their people and have left the rapidly unraveling world to fend for itself. Talis and the orphaned crew of the lost airship Wind Sabre have a plan to … Read more

New Release: The Rosewood Penny – J.S. Fields

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The Rosewood Penny - J.S. Fields

QSFer J.S. Fields has a new sapphic fantasy romance book out (intersex, lesbian): The Rosewood Penny. The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction. On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive pegasus. Thanks to Marani’s mysterious invulnerability, this mostly works out well…until Marani and her quirky band of outlaws plunder the carriage of the very bossy princess Nuria. The princess’s carriage contains not just gold, but a dragonscale comb that … Read more

New Release: Coven Tales – Erik Schubach

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Coven Tales - Erik Schubach

QSFer Erik Schubach has a new FF urban fantasy out: Coven Tales. Detective Enid Vosh, a Malefica, or Witch, and recent graduate of the NYPD Academy, finds herself embroiled in a homicide case which points to a serial killer in the city. The victims all wind up being Elves who are hiding in the city as Sapiens, from the International Aelftus Assembly. Following the twists and turns in the case with her partner, Detective Rashid Sader, with the aid of Enid’s own Coven, the venerable Central Park Coven and improbably, a representative of the Elf Assembly, it is a race … Read more

New Release: In the Dark Heart of Winter – Mere Rain

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In the Dark Heart of Winter - Mere Rain

QSFer Mere Rain has a new FF fantasy out: In the Dark Heart of Winter. Isabeau is having history’s worst honeymoon. Heart-broken when her lover and best friend Margaret married and moved away, she accepted the proposal of a distant cousin, but she regrets this decision even before he insists on taking her to his cold and ruinous ancestral home. Horace does not seem to care about her, either, and soon she begins to wonder about his motives. Her fears are compounded when strangers arrive seeking refuge from the snow, and her husband’s behavior becomes strangely hostile. Vairya and Ranat … Read more

New Release: Destiny Dawning – E.J. Eden

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Destiny Dawning - E.J. Eden

QSFer E.J. Eden has a new FF sci-fantasy book out, The Vessel Games book 3: Destiny Dawning. Princess Chloe and her friends are on the run. The Commander sits on her father’s throne, and he’s determined to hunt Chloe down and snuff out the royal line—for good. They find themselves lost at sea with no allies, no plan, and vengeful pirates, mercenaries sent by the Commander, relentlessly pursuing them. New London teeters on the edge of destruction. Her people are starving, and the Vessel Games have morphed into something far more sinister than Chloe could have ever imagined. Every man, … Read more

New Release: Cian’s Song – Kashel Char

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Cian's Song - Kashel Char

QSFer Kashel Char has a new MM sci-fantasy book out, New Beginnings book 3: Cian’s Song. It’s the year 73 A.T.  Cian’s been denying the pull toward the moon for decades, and as soon as the Phoenicians designed and built a prototype fit for spaceflight, they followed the ship Cian spotted. But as soon as they land on the moon, they discover the Disciples of the Anunnaki have created a new kind of monster. He has his hands full and has to save a bunch of stupid humans before he can woo his mate, who is oblivious about him. Back … Read more