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New Release: Mercury Rising – R.W.W. Greene

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New Release: Mercury Rising - R.W.W. Greene

QSFer R.W.W. Greene has a new queer alt-history sci-fi book out: Mercury Rising. Alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty The year is 1975 – Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have sacrificed their lives to stop alien invaders. Brooklyn, however, just wants to keep his head down, pay his mother’s rent, earn a little scratch of his own, and maybe get laid sometime. Simple pleasures! But life is about to get real complicated when a killer with a baseball … Read more

New Release: Salvage – R J Theodore

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Salvage - R J Theodore

QSFer R J Theodore has a new queer sci-fantasy steampunk book out: Salvage. 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 set things to rights, … Read more

New Release/Giveaway: Contact Audiobook – M.D. Neu

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Contact Audiobook - M.D. Neu

M.D. Neu has a new MM sci-fi audiobook out, A New World book 1: Contact. And there’s a giveaway. A little blue world, the third planet from the sun. It’s home to seven billion people—with all manner of faiths, beliefs, and customs, divided by bigotry and misunderstanding—who will soon be told they are not alone in the universe. Anyone watching from the outside would pass by this fractured and tumultuous world, unless they had no other choice. Todd Landon is one of these people, living and working in a section of the world called the United States of America. His … Read more

New release: Rarely Pure and Never Simple – Angel Martinez

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Rarely Pure and Never Simple

QSFer Angel Martinez has a new MM sci-fi book out: Rarely Pure and Never Simple. Variant children are vanishing at an alarming rate. It will take a uniquely mismatched pair of trackers to untangle a web of conspiracy and misdirection to find them. In his isolated cabin, variant Damien Hazelwood avoids human contact as much as possible to prevent attacks of blind berserker panic. But his rare talent as a locator makes him the go-to contractor for tricky missing person’s cases and when agents bring him a troubling contract involving missing variant children, he finds it impossible to refuse. Licensed … Read more

New Release: 99 Days Later – Matt Converse

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99 Days Later - Matt Converse

QSFer Matt Converse has a new MM sci-fi book out, 99 days book 2: 99 Days later. While the world awaits the aliens’ return in 99 days, Mitch pines to see one alien in particular. Will Claytone return? If he does, is it crazy for Mitch to dream of a future with him? Will he pass the IQ test the aliens said they will mandate? One thing is certain: in 99 Days, planet Earth—and Mitch—will never be the same. Get It At Amazon Excerpt Planet Earth will never be the same. As he watches the spaceship disappear into the sky, … Read more

New Release: Endurance – Elaine Burnes

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New Release: Endurance - Elaine Burnes

QSFer Elaine Burnes has a new FF sci-fi book out: Endurance. What if you were stranded. On a spaceship. Four light years from Earth. With a hundred tourists. And you are the captain. Then things start to go wrong. Welcome aboard the Endurance. It’ll be the trip of a lifetime. For five years, Captain Lyn Randall of the Endurance has ferried tourists around the solar system for Omara Tours. Now, as she takes in the rings of Saturn for the last time, she’s looking forward to indulging in simpler pleasures like flying antique airplanes over her childhood home in Montana. … Read more

Review: New Life in Autumn – Michael G. Williams

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A New Life in Autumn - Michael G. Williams

Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book RETURN TO THE MEAN STREETS OF AUTUMN Valerius Bakhoum is dead and buried. Too bad he’s still flat broke and behind on the rent. Unsure what to do with himself—and of who he is—Valerius resumes his career as a detective by taking up the oldest case in his files: where do the children go? Throughout his own youth on the streets of Autumn, last of the Great Flying Cities, Valerius knew his fellow runaways disappeared from back alleys and other hiding places more than anyone … Read more

For Readers and Writers: Coffee or Ke’vefo?

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sci-fi coffee - deposit phosos

FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Scott: Is it coffee or ke’vefo? When you read sci-fi, do made-up words for food throw you off? Authors, do you use them? Why? Writers: This is a reader/writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

Review: El Nuevo Mundo – Brian Yapko

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El Nuevo Mondo - Brian Yapko

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: SI Get It On Amazon About The Book In the year 2066, the artist haven of Santa Fe, New Mexico emerges as ground zero for the conquest and destruction of Earth by the evil Zolteots. Nick Clements and Daniel Vigil-Cruz — a writer and an artist still deeply in love after 12 years together — become the improbable fulcrum through which Earth might survive. As they weigh what must be done to save our planet, they are forced to confront shocking truths which will transform the Earth — as well as their future together … Read more

New Release/Giveaway: Save the World Anthology

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Save the World

Other Worlds Ink has a new book out in the hopepunk cli-fi Writers Save the World anthology series: Save the World. And there’s a giveaway. Climate change is no longer a vague future threat. Forests are burning, currents are shifting, and massive storms dump staggering amounts of water in less than 24 hours. Sometimes it’s hard to look ahead and see a hopeful future. We asked sci-fi writers to send us stories about ways to save the world from climate change. From the myriad of stories we received, we chose the twenty most amazing (and hopefully prescient) tales. Dive in and find out … Read more