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NEW RELEASE: Mutiny – Erik Schubach

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Mutiny - Erik Schubach

QSFer Erik Schubach has a new lesbian sci-fantasy book out in the Worldship Files: Mutiny. When the Earth is threatened by a slowly expanding sun, mankind embarks upon a mission to send a mammoth Worldship to settle a new planet across the stars. The preternatural races step out of hiding to work with the humans to save what they can from their dying world. With the aid of the Fae, shape shifters, Vampires, and other creatures of supernatural lore, the Worldship, Leviathan, is complete one thousand years later. Lotteries are held and only twelve million souls are selected to make … Read more

REVIEW: Twenty-Five to Life – R.W.W. Greene

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Twenty-Five to Life

Genre: Sci-Fi, Apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Road Trip LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Demi, Gay, Gender Fluid, Lesbian, Non-Binary, Poly, Trans FTM, Trans MTF Reviewer: SI Get It On Amazon About The Book Life goes on for the billions left behind after the humanity-saving colony mission to Proxima Centauri leaves Earth orbit … but what’s the point? Julie Riley is two years too young to get out from under her mother’s thumb, and what does it matter? She’s over-educated, under-employed, and kept mostly numb by her pharma emplant. Her best friend, who she’s mostly been interacting with via virtual reality for the past decade, … Read more

REVIEW: Redshift – R.M. Olson

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Redshift - R.M. Olson

Genre: Sci-Fi, Space Opera LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Lesbian, Non-Binary Reviewer: SI About The Book It appears out of nowhere—one moment the sky is empty, the next, there’s a rent in the fabric of space itself. And nothing in the system will ever be the same.  In the far reaches of the Rim Mountains, itinerant field-scientist Aran Romeu is searching desperately for the cure to an incurable disease—one that’s slowly killing his best friend. He’s sworn to do whatever it takes to find it. But when the portal opens, and something comes through, he realizes that ‘whatever it takes’ will … Read more

REVIEW: College Days – Rebecca Cohen

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College Days - Rebecca Cohen

Genre: Fantasy, New Adult, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Lornyc is good at keeping secrets, because secrets can get you kicked out of College. Lornyc considers the undergraduate course, and most of the people on it, beneath him. He just needs to get through this year and then he can start his doctorate. Methian might be attractive enough, but he’s an annoying, fat-headed, sloth toad, and Lornyc doesn’t want him as a lab partner. In fact, Lornyc doesn’t want anything to do with him. Prequel to the Reagalos novels: enemies to lovers, … Read more

NEW RELEASE: Returning Heroes – Harry F. Rey

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Returning Heroes - Harry F. Rey

QSFer Harry F. Rey has a new MM MMM sci-fi book out, Galactic Captains book 6: Returning Heroes. And there’s a giveaway! Captain Ales has returned to the galaxy, forever changed as the powers have prepared for war. He’ll accept help from anyone if it leads to the mysterious Turo from whose cage Ales must free himself if he ever wants to return to the Red Moon. Meanwhile Daeron has been offered the deal of a lifetime by the ruler of the Seven Suns. Marry Osvai, the Kyleri prince, and become heir to the richest star-state in the galaxy while … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Shang Zhou Shuffle – Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

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The Shang Zhou Shuffle - Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

QSFer Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus has a new queer sci-fantasy book out (bi, gay) in the Virsana Empire: Sir Braden series: The Shang Zhou Shuffle. The Emperor cares for each and every one of his subjects, be they bartender or prince. Prince Ishikawa of Shang Zhou has embarked on a risky undercover adventure all on his own, and Yaden and Ivan are sent after him to make sure he comes out alive.  Working as the crew of a local pub, the three of them try to figure out why the local military is training Vox Populi terrorists. But this is … Read more

REVIEW: The Shang Zhou Shuffle – Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

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The Shang Zhou Shuffle - Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

Genre: Science Fiction, Space Opera, Adventure, Action LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book The Emperor cares for each and every one of his subjects, be they bartender or prince. Prince Ishikawa of Shang Zhou has embarked on a risky undercover adventure all on his own, and Yaden and Ivan are sent after him to make sure he comes out alive.  Working as the crew of a local pub, the three of them try to figure out why the local military is training Vox Populi terrorists. But this is a Lotus … Read more

Zenna Henderson: Quiet Rebel – Boogieman in Lavender

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For this fifth installment of this column’s occasional “On Beyond Cisgender” feature (a feature suggested by A. M. Leibowitz) about recommendations of books or stories for High School by authors outside the white, male, cisgender paradigm that has so often been the norm, the focus is on just one author, one who may not be so well-known as she was even twenty-five years ago. The lines between science fiction and fantasy are blurred. The definition of science fiction is even sort of blurred. Sometimes the better term is “Science Fantasy.” Zenna Henderson, very definitely wrote science fantasy. While spaceships and … Read more

NEW RELEASE: If I Were A Weapon – Skye Kilaen

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If I Were A Weapon - Skye Kilean

QSFer Skye Kilaen has a new FF sci-fi book out, All These Gifts book 1: If I Were a Weapon. See the future. Set things on fire. Fall in love? A superpowered sci-fi romance. When dying alien ships materialized across the Earth, their nanite infection knocked Deneve Wilder out cold. She woke up with the ability to see the future. Determined to keep anyone from using her visions for evil, she took to the road. Giving up everything was a small price to pay for freedom. The ship that hit Jolie Betancourt’s town gave her the power to set things … Read more

NEW RELEASE: KYN – Laurence Ramsay

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KYN - Laurence Ramsay

QSFer Laurence Ramsey has a new queer cyberpunk book out: KYN. OUR FUTURE IS QUEER: In a near post-dystopian future, an immortal assassin fights to defend civilization’s last city from the encroaching threat of mysterious invaders – all while struggling to protect those he loves from the twisted machinations of those he was bred to serve. Kyn is an Envoy, an elite assassin and messenger of the Unity. Trapped by a life of endless servitude and death, existentially lost and stuck in a self-destructive loop, Kyn is forced to confront his assumed place in the world when a routine assignment … Read more