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New Release / Giveaway: The Flying Mermaid – Eule Grey

The Flying Mermaid - Eule Grey

QSFer Eule Grey has a new YA sapphic fantasy novel out: The Flying Mermaid. And there’s a giveaway. Craw city has always been magical, at least to Luce. No boring war could ever make her love her seaside home any less. There’s the beach, where she and Adu can mess around and cause trouble, as well as the ancient songs they love to sing. Legends state that a vengeful mermaid named Sea Mother will protect the children from war. Why worry about politics and fighting? Nobody would risk the wrath of an angry sea serpent. Would they? So why are … Read more

Review: OverLondon – George Penney & Tony Johnson

OverLondon - George Penney & Tony Johnson

Genre: Comic Fantasy, Crime, Mystery, Satire, Steampunk LGBTQ+ Category: Ace, Bi, Gay, Gender Fluid, Lesbian, Non-Binary Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book A Rollicking Comic-Fantasy Whodunnit with a Tudor Twist! Priests from OverLondon’s Church of Vengeful Acquisition are exploding. Is the cause divine retribution, ballistic undergarments or something more sinister? If only the city had a professional private investigator… Luckily, notorious pirate—turned privateer—Captain Alex Reign, has just narrowly escaped the hang man’s noose to establish the Reign Agency in Drury Lane. She needs cash fast and will take any job, even if failure means facing an inconveniently … Read more

New Release: Lake Drive – Joe Baumann

Lake Drive - Joe Baumann

Joe Baumann has a new queer weird sci-fi book out (bi, gay, lesbian): Lake Drive. One day at the height of summer, a group of restaurant employees in a small college town in northern Missouri wake up to a world that has changed: random people have vanished and been replaced by strangers. But these replacements are strangers only to them; the rest of the world sees nothing amiss, the replaced American president, professional athletes, and actors and entertainers wiped from their memories. As the summer progresses, the staff discover that they can each return one person’s memory. But who will … Read more

Review: Deficient – Michael Solis

Deficient - Michael Solis

Genre: Sci-Fi, YA LGBTQ+ Category: Ace, Gay, Lesbian, Non-Binary Reviewer: Maryann Get It At Amazon | Publisher | B&N | Kobo | Waterstones About The Book The near future is progressively free from discrimination based on race, class, and sexual orientation. But in a world populated by the gifted, fifteen-year-old Alejandro Aragon (Alé) is part of the only remaining minority—he’s a Deficient. Powerless. The one that accelerated genetics left behind. Alé knows that he’ll need a miracle to graduate and pursue his dream of a legal career in the capital. His only ally is his best friend Yalamba, an outspoken and exceptionally gifted artist renowned for her unique … Read more

New Release: Deficient – Michael Solis

Deficient - Michael Solis

QSFer Michael Solis has a new queer YA superhero book out: Deficient. The near future is progressively free from discrimination based on race, class, and sexual orientation. But in a world populated by the gifted, fifteen-year-old Alejandro Aragon (Alé) is part of the only remaining minority—he’s a Deficient. Powerless. The one that accelerated genetics left behind. Alé knows that he’ll need a miracle to graduate and pursue his dream of a legal career in the capital. His only ally is his best friend Yalamba, an outspoken and exceptionally gifted artist renowned for her unique ability to draw things into existence. … Read more

Jeff Baker, Boogieman in Lavender: A Visit to XY Bar, Or My Glimpse of 2023

A Visit to XY Bar or My Glimpse Of 2023 by Jeff Baker A month ago I did something I haven’t done in a couple of decades. I went to a gay bar at night when the joint was jumping. Let me explain. The last few months I’ve gone out to a few times to places where I can casually socialize. (I’ve missed having somebody around to talk too.) A nice little coffeehouse, the Public Library in the afternoon (which are also good places to write!) and a couple of Gay bars. Also in the afternoon when there aren’t a … Read more

New Release: Life-Line: Origins – Grant Edward Miller

Life Line: Origins - Grant Edward Miller

QSFer Grant Edward Miller has a new MM sci-fi romance out: Life-Line: Origins. Over a million years in the future, a desperate stowaway lies concealed in a space freighter’s cargo hold. Tam Amergan is bound for the prison world Corustloth, where his partner Brogan has been abducted. Ever since the Senate took over the planetary system decades earlier, gay men like Tam and Brogan—degens, as they are labeled under Senate rule—have been forced to live in secrecy. But Brogan is Tam’s life-line, bound to his soul in a ritual performed by a secret sisterhood of women with ancient, unknown designs. … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: Transform the World Anthology

Transform the World

There’s a new hopepunk book out in the Writers Save the World anthology series from Other Worlds Ink: Transform the World. And there’s a giveaway. FOURTEEN WAYS TO CHANGE THE PLANET Income inequality is worse than it was in the Roaring Twenties. Corporations are moving fast and breaking things, and the social contract seems to be falling apart, aided by social media disruption and division on steroids. There has to be a better way. We asked fourteen sci-fi writers to come up with innovative ways the world could work better. Universal basic income, smaller communities, AI voting, and learning to … Read more

Review: Now. Then. To Come – Fenn Thornbot

Now. Then. To Come - Fenn Thornbot

Genre: Sci-Fi, Transfuturism LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Gender Fluid, Lesbian, Non-Binary Reviewer: Lucy Get It On Amazon About The Book Several hundred years after the Great Dying, a whole new way of organizing society has come about. There are no cages. What long ago were considered gender relations no longer are done in the same way. A gender binary doesn’t exist. People are free. Then, comes a hunger for power. And freedom is lost. Again. Four major struggles set the scene as we meet Makk, a sixteen-year-old about to transition into adulthood. Now that Alvás is coming to an end, Makk … Read more

New Release: A Touch of Unity – Nita Round

A Touch of Unity - Nita Round

QSFer Nita Round has a new queer fantasy steampunk book out (lesbian, poly), Towers of the Earth book 7: A Touch of Unity. Bring your people home, Ascara. Bring them home. The echoes of the betrayal continue to rumble throughout Veritas. Weeding out the rot is no simple task. Not when the roots of secrets and lies run so deep that they infect every part of the organisation. There are other matters of greater need, and time is running out. Covenants of tower and clan must be met. Lucinda must raise her last tower to complete her ascension pact to … Read more