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News: Stunning New Photos from Pluto

September 14, 2015 by scott

A new set of images has been received from the New Horizons spacecraft, showing close-up images of Pluto taken on July 15 (and only just recently processed) while it was passing by the dwarf planet at high speed — but not so fast it couldn’t see terrain so varied it’s astonishing astronomers. “If an artist had painted this Pluto before our flyby, I probably would have called it over the top — but that’s what is actually there,” said the mission’s principal investigator, Alan Stern, in a NASA release. With wide plains, mountains and valleys, deltas implying moving liquids, and … Read more

Me Me Monday

September 14, 2015 by scott

Welcome to ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post, so I can also share it over to our FB page (as opposed to this discussion group). –If you want, send me your book announcement info at … Read more

Could You Transfer Your Consciousness to Another Body?

September 13, 2015 by scott

With the topic of mind uploading appearing in recent films such as Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avatar, CHAPPiE and the upcoming Selfless starring Ben Kingsley and Ryan Reynolds, the ASAPScience guys decided to dig in and find out if our brains and memories might one day be able to be download, stored, and uploaded into something new. See the full story at Towleroad

Announcement: Devotion, by Grace R. Duncan

September 13, 2015 by scott

QSFer Grace R. Duncan has a new paranormal book out: Finley Cooper is tired of waiting for his destined mate to be ready to claim him. In deference to human laws, he’s already agreed to wait until he’s eighteen. But now his birthday has come and gone—and his mate has a new set of excuses. Finley doesn’t understand it any more than his wolf does, and he’s beginning to wonder if fate made a mistake. Tanner Pearce wants nothing more than to claim his mate, but he worries that Finley is too young. Tanner will never forget what happened when … Read more

Discussion: Is There a Silver Lining to Piracy?

September 13, 2015 by scott

Today’s topic comes from QSFer Victoria Stagg Elliott – Book pirates suck but are there times to ignore piracy? I once talked to an author of gay young adult fiction who ignores pirate downloads because she knew that not all gay teens had access to a credit card. Granted, there are other ways for folks with no money to get free books – including contacting the author directly. So my question today: Does piracy, as much as we all hate it, provide a conduit for people, especially gay kids, to find our works that they might otherwise not have? Come … Read more

Time for the First Ad on the Moon?

September 12, 2015 by scott

Most people outside of Asia are unfamiliar with Pocari Sweat, a Japanese sports drink that tastes like Gatorade and resembles, well, sweat. That might change when Pocari Sweat becomes the first product advertised on the surface of the moon. In the latter half of 2016, an American firm devoted to space exploration, Space X, plans to land a rover on the moon. Among the rover’s cargo: a can of Pocari Sweat, which will be left on a lunar plain near a giant crater named Buerg. The goal, as stated by Pocari Sweat, is for a modern-day child to someday become … Read more

Announcement: The Devil’s Science, by Jate Hemms

September 12, 2015 by scott

QSFer Jate Hemms has a new Sci Fi book out: Thomas was a middle aged man who lived a troubled life of sadness and grief. He tried to maintain his sanity through the worst events life has to offer. Little did he know that fate had something much more in store for him that would change his life. . . and the world forever. This story looks at the complexities of religion against the marvels of advanced technology and the many shades of grey in between. It will challenge the seemingly easy process of determining what is right and wrong … Read more

Wild Cards

September 12, 2015 by scott

When I was a kid, I used to imagine that I could fly. I really thought if I just thought about it hard enough, I could leave terra firma and soar into the heavens like Superman, but evidently I didn’t think quite hard enough. Later, I saw the movie Somewhere in Time, where a man surrounds himself with memorabilia from an earlier age and then imagines himself back to that time. I tried that too, but found I couldn’t manage the time travel trick either. All of us have, at one time or another, wished that we had abilities beyond … Read more

Saturday Night Fever Meets Gay Sci-Fi Thriller In Disco Mashup Masterpiece

September 11, 2015 by scott

In a galaxy far, far way, there’s a place where disco never died. Also, there are aliens, cyborgs, drug kingpins and hookers — basically New York City in the ’70s. Watch below as the likes of Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Boogie Nights, Night at the Roxbury, Austin Powers, Terminator and so many more are thrown into a blender and poured out as a single-consistency, vaguely gay smoothie. Full Story at Queerty

Announcement: Conviction, by Lissa Kasey

September 11, 2015 by scott

QSFer Lissa Kasey has a new fantasy book out: Kelly Harding has become good friends with Seiran Rou, originally the only male witch to actually train in magic. Now after a couple trying months and several crazy plots to kill Seiran, Kelly suggests a ski vacation to help them all relax—even if Kelly does have to work to keep his taboo crush on Seiran’s brother, Jamie, under wraps. But their getaway becomes a fight for survival when a magic fueled blizzard strands them in the middle of nowhere…with a killer. When visions of a tower and a dying man fueling … Read more