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Review: Specimen – C. Quince

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Specimen - C. Quince

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance Arc LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Supporting cast has some additional LGBTQ+ Reviewer: Rari Get It At Amazon | Publisher | Universal Buy Link About The Book David Cortez, a decorated US Marine, is now on the run from his own government after escaping a top-secret CIA lab when an experimental medical procedure turned sour. While lying low in Mexico, an assassin sent from British Intelligence tracks him down. However, Sonny from MI6, a British-Iranian with a cockney accent, offers David a choice: join his team, or be killed. David chooses to work with Sonny, not only because he wants his life … Read more

New Release: Surviving Sentience 2040 – Sharon A. McDonell

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Surviving Sentience 2040 - Sharon McDonell

QSFer Sharon A. McDonell has a new FF sci-fi book out (Bi, Gay, Lesbian, Poly): Surviving Sentience 2040. Comma is a robot—but to survive, she must pass as an intelligent, caring, human adult. Otherwise, the anti-AI extremists who destroyed the supercomputer she once inhabited, leaving her with only 1% of her memories and sentience, will eliminate her for good. When a university professor is murdered, Comma becomes the prime suspect. But since her robot form is university property, she will be erased while her creator and mother figure stand trial for murder. With time running out, Comma must uncover the … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: Warrior Queen – Mikala Ash

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Warrior Queen - Mikala Ash

Mikela Ash has a new queer steampunk mystery out (Bisexual, Nonbinary, Transgender, Poly): Warrior Queen. A volatile cauldron of magic, love, and the empire may be on the edge of a precipice, but witches, humans, and automatons indulge in pleasures of the flesh. Victoria has been dubbed by her adoring public as their Warrior Queen. Destroying her Continental enemies is nothing to the challenge she faces now. For years, the Lunarians, goblins from the moon, led by the powerful witch Mon Ilson, have been murdering humans and stealing the bodies for his followers to “adopt.” Beautiful witch Selena Whiteheart, Mon … Read more

Review: Back 2 OmniPark Anthology

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Back 2 OmniPark Anthology

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Crime Fiction LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Back 2 OmniPark, edited by Ben Thomas and Alicia Hilton and published by House Blackwood, is an anthology of horror short stories that explore the mysterious backstory behind OmniPark’s creation.This anthology features brand-new exclusive stories by some of the biggest names in the horror genre ⁠- including Jonathan Maberry, Laird Barron, Hailey Piper, Brian Evenson, Kristi DeMeester, John Palisano, A.C. Wise, Gwendolyn Kiste, and many more award-winning masters of the macabre. Each story in this anthology reveals more … Read more

Review: Gold! – Fyn Alexander

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Gold! - Fyn Alexander

Genre: Futuristic Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It At Amazon | Publisher About The Book Fifteen hundred years ago, Earth became a very dark place to live. A cabal of evil men was attempting to make the population into Serfs ruled over by the cabal. Five families decided to leave Earth and find a distant planet to begin again. A group of pioneers traveled to Pleione in the Pleiades star cluster, but the original intention of a utopia soon disintegrated into a world not much better than Earth. The basis of the new system is run … Read more

Review: Worldburner – J. Warren

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Worldburner - J. Warren

Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon | Publisher About The Book Awakening aboard a ship far from home, Akari Tatsuro finds himself missing his memories and surrounded by unfamiliar people. He must decide whether to trust them before they discover his secret: he is a telepath in an era when male telepaths are rare and considered a menace to the galaxy. Does Akari’s forbidden ability hold the key to the lost power of an ancient relic? Guided by unexpected allies, he races against time to control his talents and … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: Specimen – C. Quince

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Specimen - C. Quince

QSFer C. Quince has a new MM sci fi romance out, Prism Agents book 1: Specimen. David Cortez, a decorated US Marine, is now on the run from his own government after escaping a top-secret CIA lab when an experimental medical procedure turned sour. While lying low in Mexico, an assassin sent from British Intelligence tracks him down. However, Sonny from MI6, a British-Iranian with a cockney accent, offers David a choice: join his team, or be killed. David chooses to work with Sonny, not only because he wants his life back, but because he feels a kinship with the … Read more

C. L. Moore’s “No Woman Born.” On Beyond Cisgender X – Boogieman In Lavender

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NOTE: This occasional series was inspired in 2019 by a suggestion from A. M. Leibowitz about a reading list for High School beyond the straight, white, male paradigm. In this edition, we won’t talk about a book, but rather about one story. We’ve met C. L. (Catherine Lucille) Moore several times in this column and in this feature. Moore (1911-1987)is the science-fiction and fantasy writer for the pulps from the 30s through the 50s in an era where women writing in that field were seemingly rare or concealed; whose use of initials was not meant to hide her femininity but … Read more

New Release: Dungeon Hunter: Act I – Lazarus James

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Dungeon Hunter: Act I - Lazarus James

QSFer Lazarus James has a new queer LitRPG book out (ace, bi, gay, lesbian, non-binary): Dungeon Hunter: Act I. Is it aliens? Demons? Alternate dimensions? Black holes are rippling into existence around the globe, and Lee Castillo’s panic attacks are back. Just this morning, he’d been practicing how to tell his ex-best friend and flatmate Axel that he was potentially thinking about maybe moving out sometime soon or something. And then the world as everyone knew it ended. ~System Loaded. Dungeons Active~ Now, Axel’s personality has flipped on its head, all comms are down, and there’s a foreign desire compelling … Read more

New Release: Occam’s Dream – Lauren Jane Barnett

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Occam's Dream - Lauren Jane Barnett

QSFer Lauren Jane Barnett has a new queer time travel book out (lesbian, non-binary): Occam’s Dream. Dream Analyst Ursula is experiencing painful visions of an unknown desert. At first, her therapist, Jill, suggests it’s only a dream. But as the visions become more intense, both realise there is more at stake. Get It At Amazon | Publisher | B&N | Apple | Bookshop.org Excerpt In. And out. In — CRACK. Her brain twisted and split. The sound was sucked from her ears. A bright, harsh yellow ruptured the darkness of her eyelids. Her heart stopped. Her lungs halted. A single … Read more