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SCIENCE: Aliens in the Multiverse?

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Should the search for alien life in our universe come up empty-handed, it might be worth checking in on a neighboring universe instead. According to a new pair of studies in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, there’s a decent chance that life-fostering planets could exist in a parallel universe — even if that universe were being torn apart by dark energy. The idea that our universe is just one of many, perhaps infinite, other universes is known as the multiverse theory. Scientists have previously thought that such parallel universes, if they exist, would have to meet … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Mercs!, by Dorian Dawes

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Mercs

QSFer Dorian Dawes has a new trans/gay sci fi book out: Famous bounty hunter Talisha Artul is not having a good day. A hostile alien planet full of bandits and refugees, an entire group of mercenaries all told to kill her and take her armor, and it’s barely even noon. All she wanted was to earn a paycheck and make her mother proud. They’ve barely shared a kind word since she came out of the closet as trans and took her mother’s name. Now she’s travelling with an android cowboy with split-personality issues and an eight-foot-tall warrior woman to beat … Read more

SPACE: How to Find Aliens

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Alien civilizations with technology on a par with humanity’s could be detectable using today’s instruments. A new study suggests that if geostationary satellites are thick enough around an alien world, they could be spotted with telescopes already hunting for undiscovered planets. Both governments and private corporations on our own world use geostationary satellites — which orbit such that they hover over the same spot on Earth — for science, communications, espionage and military applications. If advanced alien civilizations loft enough satellites into their own geostationary belts, these spacecraft could create a dense, ring-like structure visible from Earth, according to the … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Let There Be Light, by Mary Newman

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Let There Be Light

QSFer Mary Newman has a new MM post-apocalyptic sci fi book out in her After the Coming series: Mick lived through hell until he escaped two years ago. He was too young to understand when the aliens came, or the devastation they caused, but he sure knew what growing up in the aftermath was like. Surviving under the thumb of a crazy, self-proclaimed preacher and his equally psychotic soldiers, he lived each day wondering if it would be his last. Arnie has decided to settle down and put the life of a nomad behind him. He has his hands full … Read more

Want to Buy an Alien-Infested Arizona Ranch?

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A 10-acre desert ranch is up for grabs in Arizona, with the unique property listed as featuring an in-ground swimming pool, a hay barn and a constant stream of extraterrestrials that travel through a backyard portal. The Stardust Ranch in Rainbow Valley, which was featured on the Travel Channel program “Ghost Adventures” in 2016, is on the market for a cool $5 million after its current owner said he grew tired of fighting off aliens’ malevolent abductions. “Almost immediately from the day we moved in, we began to have strange experiences,” owner John Edmonds told Phoenix-station KPNX. Over the last … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Taoree, by Michele Notaro

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Taoree

QSFer Michele Notaro has a new queer sci fi book out: If you’re reading this, I hope that means that we’ve survived, but after everything I’ve seen, I’m sure that’s only wishful thinking… This is my story… a story of what happens when you trust an alien race. A race that lived peacefully with humans for over two years, but something suddenly changed. When all hell breaks loose, can we count on the Taoree to step up and help or could they be the real cause of all the terror? Three of my friends and I try to make our … Read more

GEEK OUT: Aliens Traveling on Radio Beams

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Two Harvard University scientists are suggesting that mysterious fast radio bursts, detected in faraway galaxies, may be evidence of aliens traveling through the cosmos. FRBs are extremely bright flashes of radio waves that last for only a thousandth of a second and are detected by earthbound telescopes. Since the first one was observed 10 years ago, 17 have actually been reported, although scientists think there are thousands of them a day. At first, Abraham “Avi” Loeb said, he took a conservative approach to explaining them. “It looked like the simplest explanation would be flares from stars in the Milky Way … Read more

Announcement/Deleted Scene: Ardulum: First Don, by J.S. Fields

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Ardulum: First Don

J.S. Fields has a new FF sci fi romance out: Ardulum. The planet that vanishes. The planet that sleeps. Neek makes a living piloting the dilapidated tramp transport, Mercy’s Pledge, and smuggling questionable goods across systems blessed with peace and prosperity. She gets by—but only just. In her dreams, she is still haunted by thoughts of Ardulum, the traveling planet that, long ago, visited her homeworld. The Ardulans brought with them agriculture, art, interstellar technology…and then disappeared without a trace, leaving Neek’s people to worship them as gods. Neek does not believe—and has paid dearly for it with an exile … Read more

ENTERTAINMENT – Alien: Covenant to Feature Gay Couple

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The next Ridley Scott Alien film, Alien: Covenant, premieres on May 19, and the 20th Century Fox debuted a five-minute prologue to the film last night introducing the crew which includes James Franco, Billy Crudup, and Michael Fassbender. Also on board the Covenant, a colonization ship on its way to a remote planet to form a new human settlement, is the franchise’s first gay couple (played by Nathaniel Dean and Demián Bichir), and they’re shown here playfully arm-wrestling and sharing a quick kiss while cavorting with the crew. By Andy Towle – Full Story at Towleroad