As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

New Release: Inarora’s Excursion – Seraph Abell

Inarora's Excursion - Seraph Abel

QSFer Seraph Abell has a new queer urban fantasy book out (ace, bi, demi, gender fluid, intersex, lesbian, non-binary, poly, trans mtf): Inarora’s Excursion. Inarora Beservera, daughter of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of End’oria, never felt concerned by her father’s position. After all, politicians’ families were only targeted in the Corporate States of Naa’ran, right? She’s in for a rude awakening when Naa’ran Supremacists attack her and send her over 50 years into the past! Inarora finds her great-grandpas, who send a letter to the Council of Sorcerers to ask for help. While they wait for a response, Inarora … Read more

“We Mostly Come Out At Night.” On Beyond Cisgender IX. – Boogieman In Lavender

For this ninth (!!!) installment of the column’s occasional feature “On Beyond Cisgender,” we go into a recent YA anthology perfect for the Halloween Season. This feature is about books recommended for High School readers that go beyond the usual “white, male, cisgender paradigm,” an idea suggested by Amy Liebowitz, (thanks very much!) several years ago. “We Mostly Come Out At Night,” edited by Rob Costello, published by Running Press Teens, Hatchette Book Group in 2024 https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rob-costello/we-mostly-come-out-at-night/9780762483198/ features “15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels and Other Creatures,” to quote the cover blurb. Stories range from variants on a classic fairy … Read more

New Release: Teramar Beasts of the Field – T. M. Murray

Teramar Beasts of the Field - T. M. Murray

QSFer T.M. Murray has a new MM sci-fi book out, teramar book 2: Beasts of the Field. Beware the Collective. Set in modern New York and a fictional feudal planet, this new story from Teramar tempts the feral temperament of Internet connoisseurs through a lubricious story that puts the R back into romance. While young love struggles to find a foothold across the light years, a super computer’s journey toward sentience matures as organic sensations like taste and smell come alive. Named Jessica by her designers, the same A. I. quietly extends her influence within the famous families on Teramar … Read more

Review: The Switch – April McCloud

The Switch - April McCloud

Genre: Cyberpunk LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Trans FTM, Trans MTF Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book A hundred years in the future, in a world where technologically enhanced bodies are valued above organic ones, Complete Life Management (CLM) is selling perfection in the form of the latest and greatest bionic model, the Apogee. As an elite runner and inadvertent spokesperson for the humanism movement, NYPD Detective Naomi Gate has eschewed vanity upgrades. However, if she hopes to survive in New York City’s fierce criminal Underground and find her brother, she can’t show up in her … Read more

Review: Parallel Lines – Mark McElroy 

Parallel Lines - Mark McElroy

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance, Comedy, Time Travel LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book When Thomas’s constant indiscretions wreck his decade-long marriage to handsome Carter Lamm, he wonders how different choices might have made him happier. In a misguided attempt to help, Ed Williams, Thomas’s Big Gay Role Model, shares a technology that plunges users into alternative worlds: versions of the present day, shaped by different choices. Would Thomas be happier stepping on Legos while juggling a wife and kid … partnered to America’s favorite secretly gay action star … or married … Read more

New Release: Inhuman – R.M. Olson

Inhuman - R.M. Olson

QSFer R.M. Olson has a new queer sci-fi book out (bi, gay, lesbian), The Dark Between the Stars book 1: Inhuman. A remote resource planet. A mysterious illness. And a rescue team frighteningly out of their depth. It was supposed to have been an easy job: go in, kidnap or kill his mark, get out. Shine’s done plenty of jobs like this before, no problem. But when it all goes suddenly wrong, he has only one option left to save his skin. He finds himself an unwilling volunteer on a medical mission to a remote resource planet. It sent in … Read more

New Release: The Worlds Behind Her Eyelids – Alexa Lee

The Worlds Behind Her Eyelids - Alexa Lee

QSFer Alexa Lee has a new queer YA fantasy out (bi, demi, poly), Inescapable Escapism book 1: The Worlds Behind Her Eyelids. “Tell me, kid… How do you feel about desecrating a graveyard?” Suffocated by her narcissistic mother’s constant complaints, Grace retreats into the refuge of her mind. Her imagination becomes her only source of escape, and there she meets a grizzly treasure hunter, Mitch, with a history of rescuing strays. He takes Grace under his wing, allowing her to accompany him on his search for a long-lost artefact. Split between her mundane reality and the exhilarating new world she … Read more

New Release: The Death Bringer – J. Scott Coatsworth

The Death Bringer - J. Scott Coatsworth

J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci-fantasy book out, The Tharassas Cycle book four – The Death Bringer. AIK WILL NEVER BE THE SAME… AND NEITHER WILL HIS WORLD War is coming. Aik has become the Progenitor, and the Seed Mother has released him to transform the world for her alien brood. Silya and Raven, Aik’s former friends, are the only ones who can save him and the world. But what if the cure is worse than the invasion? As Silya rushes to prepare Gullton for the battle to come, she’s determined to save as many people as she can. … Read more

Looking At A Few Books (Yes, Just Looking!) Jeff Baker, Boogieman In Lavender

Looking At A Few Books (Yes, Just Looking) by Jeff Baker Not much this month. Just a glance over and recommendation of a few LGBT themed books that have come my way. And full disclosure, I have not actually read all of them, mainly the anthologies I just got in the mail. (I will post links, although I have no affiliation with the books themselves.) First off I just received series editor Charles Payseur’s “We’re Here; the Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022,” from Neon Hemlock Press. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books This edition edited by Naomi Kanakia and released in 2023. This is the … Read more

New Release: The End of Nobility – Michael Green Jr

The End of Nobility - Michael Green Jr

QSFer Michael Green Jr has a new queer fantasy out: The End of Nobility. It’s Ender’s Game meets Children of Blood and Bone set in a world where everyone has access to food, shelter, and magic, but the children still live in fear. The draft is in effect. When the army attempts to draft Dre and Alaan, the first and only twins, and Rye, the son of a disgraced soldier, they know something is wrong. By the time they realize how wrong, they are running for their lives with assassins after them. To survive, the twins will have to wield … Read more