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Planned Children’s Book Has Lesbian Pirates!

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Maiden Voyage

What more could a book about setting sail on the open seas with pirates need? More queer representation, of course! That’s exactly what Maiden Voyage, a brand new illustrated children’s book, offers. From the authors of Promised Land, a gay romance fantasy children’s book released last year, this book features the same fun illustrations and diversity. Maiden Voyage is written by Jaimee Poipoi, Adam Reynolds, and Chaz Harris. It centers on a fisherman’s daughter who inherits a treasure map and joins the crew of a sea captain. However, a wicked queen sends a group of pirates after them to keep … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT – Lancelot: Her Story, by Carol Anne Douglas

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Lancelot: Her Story

QSFer Carol Anne Douglas has a new Lesbian Historical Fantasy out: A young girl sees a man rape and murder her mother. She grabs a stick and puts out his eye. Her father raises her as a boy so she will be safe from men’s attacks. She practices and practices until she becomes a great fighter – Lancelot. She wants to protect women, and she does. Lancelot hears about King Arthur, a just king across the sea, and journeys to earn a place at Camelot. She vows to serve him, but fears that Arthur and his men will discover that … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Mise en Death, by Nikki Woolfolk

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Mise en Death

QSFer Nikki Woolfolk has a new FF Steampunk Cooking Mystery out: Alex LeBeau, Chocolatier and chef instructor, wants nothing more than to give her almost grown son a quiet life and a place to call home. Settling in Honfleur, Louisiana, Alex can distance herself from her chaotic romantic past and association with the clandestine group Bellicose Solanum (BelSol). Things might be looking up for her when she takes a job at a promising cooking school. Her contentment is short-lived when a famous millionaire of Honfleur is murdered during the school’s catering event on an airship. As the body count begins … Read more

LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy in the 1990s

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The 1990s saw a huge increase in the positive portrayals of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer (LGBTQ) characters in all parts of the genre: literature, anime, manga, comics, even some television and movie characters. Character-driven fantasy and science fiction became more popular, as did game-driven fiction and fandom. Different kinds of science fiction, fantasy and horror became a global phenomenon via the Internet. Cyberpunk-influenced science fiction with out queer characters, urban fantasies with LGBTQ characters, queer horror and television, movies and comics which celebrated queer subtext, all became more visible to mainstream audiences. One change in this decade was … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Techromancy Scrolls: Westlands

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Techromancy Scrolls: Westlands

QSFer Erik Schubach has a new FF Sci Fi/Fantasy book out: Almost three thousand years after an extinction level event on Earth, mankind seeks to regain its former glory, in a new world where magic and technology collide. Laney and Celeste, Templars of Sparo, embark upon a mission of mercy to a far off land to aid a people thought lost to time before the Altii even found the Lower Ten. The Westlands are found along with a new enemy that Sparo may not be able to stand against… Avalon. Can this new threat be the Great Wizards of the … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Into the Mystic Volume 2 Anthology

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Into the Mystic Volume 2

QSFer CC Bridges has a story in a new queer women Fantasy anthology book: Green Love Elise, a serious-minded environmentalist, hikes into the forbidding forest of Blackwood to find the clonal colony of aspen said to exist at its centre. Her journey is as much a struggle to break free of the overprotectiveness of her older sister and make peace with the loss of their parents as it is a mission to save the woods from the threat of deforestation. Once arrived at the aspen grove, she seems to have stumbled across more than she bargained for. Is someone, or … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Stark Divide, by J. Scott Coatsworth

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The Stark Divide

J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci fi book out: Some stories are epic. The Earth is in a state of collapse, with wars breaking out over resources and an environment pushed to the edge by human greed. Three living generation ships have been built with a combination of genetic mastery, artificial intelligence, technology, and raw materials harvested from the asteroid belt. This is the story of one of them—43 Ariadne, or Forever, as her inhabitants call her—a living world that carries the remaining hopes of humanity, and the three generations of scientists, engineers, and explorers working to colonize her. … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Portraits of a Faerie Queen, by Tay LaRoi

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Portraits of a Faerie Queen

QSFer Tay LaRoi has a new FF fantasy book out: After several long stressful months, things are looking up for seventeen-year-old Jocelyn Lennox. She’s almost finished with her first commission gig, her family has no idea she’s not in school, and she can say for a fact that her mother is about to wake up from a coma. But when Jocelyn meets and rescues the beautiful Rina Fischler from the depth of a seedy nightclub, things get complicated. For one thing, the nightclub is a favorite hangout for local faeries and not all of them are friendly. For another, their … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Ardulum: Second Don, by J.S. Fields

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Ardulum: Second Don

QSFer J.S. Fields has a new FF sci fi book out: The Charted Systems are in pieces. Mercy’s Pledge is destroyed, and her captain dead. With no homes to return to, the remaining crew sets off on a journey to find the mythical planet of Ardulum—a planet where Emn might find her people, and Neek the answers she’s long sought. Finding the planet, however, brings a host of uncomfortable truths about Ardulum’s vision for the galaxy and Neek’s role in a religion that refuses to release her. Neek must balance her planet’s past and the unchecked power of the Ardulans … Read more