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FOR READERS WRITERS: Show Us Your Shelves

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Ryane: Over the last 17 months. we’ve all gotten used to peering over people’s shoulders on TV and zoom to see their bookshelves. So let’s make it official. Readers and writers, show us your shelves (real and virtual)! Writers: This is a reader/writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

FOR READERS: What Are You Reading/Bingeing This weekend?

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: On this lazy holiday weekend, what spec fic goodness (queer or otherwise) are you reading or binge watching? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR READERS: I Know This Place

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: Do you get a little thrill when reading a book that takes place somewhere you’ve actually been? Does it bug you if the author gets the details wrong? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR READERS: When’s the Next Book???

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: For your favorite authors, does it matter to you how “regular” their output is? What’s the ideal time between new books, for you as a reader? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR READERS: How Many Books?

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: How many books do you own? How many books do you read in a month? How many books do you still need? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Hardcovers – Love ‘Em or Leave Them?

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Back in the day, spec fic books from the big publishers often came out in hardback first, and the you waited months (or years) for the more affordable mass market edition. It was a mark of how much you loved an author if you bought their books in hardcover editions. Now? Not so much. So my questions today – readers, are there some authors you still buy in hardcover? What do you consider a fair price? And authors, have you ever thought of putting your own books out in … Read more

FOR READERS: Best Queer Sci-Fi Books

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: What are your top three queer sci fi reads – the books that made you tingle all over and that you never wanted to end? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR READERS: Things That Make You Go Erg

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: Without naming names or titles, what makes you cringe when you read a spec fic book? Tropes? Characters? Grammar? Share! Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

“On Beyond Cisgender; Part Two.” Jeff Baker, Boogieman in Lavender.

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                            On Beyond Cisgender Part Two                                          By Jeff Baker             About a year ago I posted a column suggested by A. M. Leibowitz’ list of suggested reading for High School of sci-fi/mystery authors outside the usual straight-white-male paradigm. These next few may be considered addenda of sorts, but are not as readily available.             I have a thing for science fiction of the Nineteenth Century-early Twentieth Century and recently got the Dover Publications book “The Feminine Future.” Subtitled: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers, the book presents fourteen stories of sci-fi published between 1873 and 1930.  Cyborgs, mysterious rays, … Read more