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Announcement: Travels Through the Scarlet Equinox anthology

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Travels Through the Scarlet Equinox

Mischief Corner Books has a new anthology out, and it features four QSFers: The Autumnal Equinox—when the trees dress in their formal scarlet and gold and the crisp air whispers of chance and change, when bright days turn into sudden storms and the veil between reality and imagination thins. Join the Mischief Corner authors as they share stories evoking this often unpredictable time of year. A Bear’s Bear by Toni Griffin Matthew Warner’s been a Chicago Bears fan as far back as he can remember. What other team was a young bear shifter from the Smokey Mountains supposed to root … Read more

Announcement: Strange Times, by Clancy Nacht

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Strange Times

QSFer Clancy Nacht has a new Sci Fi book out: In a world decimated by ecological disaster, a despot named GalWon has taken charge of rebuilding and repopulating society. Using aliens to clean the air and as a threat to keep civilians in line, Deprogrammers coerce homosexuals into being straight—or else. When Alex’s gay pornography is discovered, his brother, Christian, claims it as his own to save Alex’s life. Christian is sent to a concentration camp, only to be broken out by a resistance group bent on thwarting the new world order, including Turk, a former Deprogrammer once branded gay … Read more

Announcement: Eternal, by Marie Brown

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Eternal

QSFer Marie Brown has a new Sci Fi book out: In a future where the Eternal Empire has ruled unchallenged for seven thousand years, two exiles meet and start their journey down a road that will change history forever. Excerpt Kai clutched the controls of the Chaos Rider far tighter than needful, as the space schooner darted towards the upper atmosphere and his home burned beneath him. Some of the smoke had gotten into the gondola, before the containment fields abruptly sprang to life. Jericho. Good. He’d been half afraid the mage would fall off the swaying rope ladder, rather … Read more

Discussion: A Queer President?

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I’m not sure who to ascribe today’s topic to – I mangled my notes on this one, but it’s a fun one – so if it was yours, please step up and tell me! Anyhow, it’s a fun one: In the US, we’ve had a black president, and soon we’ll probably have a female president. What about a gay president, one that’s openly (sorry, Abe) on the LGBT spectrum? I am the first to admit that I’m not a big politics person. While people are arguing about left and right, I’m still trying to figure out how we can have … Read more

News: Buildings of the Future?

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The Interlace, one of Singapore’s most ambitious and unusual residential developments, has been crowned World Building of the Year 2015 at the World Architecture Festival. Built as a vertical village, OMA/Buro Ole Scheeren’s unique design strays away from the region’s classic housing – instead of clusters of isolated towers, the Interlace consists of 31 apartment blocks laced together. Full Story at Gay Star News

Announcement: Jimmy’s Erotic Adventure, by Perie Wolford

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Jimmy's Erotic Adventure

QSFer Perie Wolford has a new sci fi book out: Jimmy the time-traveler, while trying to solve a time-riddle his late father left for him, gets accidentally flung back in time, to the year 1871, the days of the Wild West, landing squarely in the middle of a valley of death. He stumbles into a pack of gun-toting rustlers, who capture him. To Jimmyís luck though, the youngest of the rustlers, Kit Fisher, is not like the rest of his folks. Excerpt Jimmy landed on his butt, smack-dab in the middle of a barren desert, hissing and cursing under his … Read more

Discussion: Steampunk and Fantasy

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Steampunk Fantasy

Today’s topic comes from QSFer Freddy MacKay: Steampunk AKA The Red Headed step child of SF and why a fantasy world with steam is not steampunk. AKA what caused it to get shoved into fantasy. It’s a fascinating question. We have all these sub genres, but some seem to be more dominant: Science Fiction Fantasy Paranormal Horror While some seem relegated to secondary status and have to be shoved into one of the “master” genres: Steampunk Superheroes Shifters Post Apocalyptic So who decides these things? And with genre boundaries blurring ever more, is it time to reshuffle how we think … Read more

Announcement: Raider Captured, by JJ Lore

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Raider Captured

QSFer JJ Lore has a new sci fi book out, and she stopped by to share a guest post with us on the blog today: Sci-Fi Love, or, Spock Was My Babysitter I grew up loving science fiction. As a child of the 80’s I was eagerly first in line for all sorts of classic sci-fi films like the Star Wars trilogy, Robocop, and Aliens in the theatres. I first saw Blade Runner over Christmas break on a VHS (!) tape and now my holidays aren’t complete without another viewing. I also read sci-fi, gobbling up Asimov and Bradbury along … Read more

News: Men in Jetpacks Fly Beside Massive Airbus A380 in Spectacular Video

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Last week we had flying cars. This week we have men in jetpacks. The future is here: Jetpack daredevils Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet recently partnered with Emirates Airlines for a stunt involving an Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, over Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah and skyline with Burj Khalifa in the background. It’s an airspace Rossy and Reffet visited earlier in 2015. Rossy has also jetpacked over the Grand Canyon. Said Emirates COO Adel Al Redha of the stunt: “This display between man and machine celebrates the magic and beauty of flight, a feat which just over a hundred … Read more