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SCIENCE: The Paradox of Earth’s Inner Core

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Earth's core - NASA

Earth’s Inner Core Shouldn’t Technically Exist Earth’s solid inner core formed about one billion years ago. Researchers are getting closer to figuring out how it happened. One day, about a billion years ago, Earth’s inner core had a growth spurt. The molten ball of liquid metal at the center of our planet rapidly crystallized due to lowering temperatures, growing steadily outward until it reached the roughly 760-mile (1,220 kilometers) diameter to which it’s thought to extend today. That’s the conventional story of the inner core’s creation, anyway. But according to a new paper published online this week in the journal … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Ace of Squids, by Elliot Cooper (Free)

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Ace of Squids

QSFer Elliot Cooper has a new MM paranormal mystery out: Everything changed when Grant’s lover, Ezra, gifted him a bejeweled filigree pocket watch, but nothing could have prepared him for Ezra’s macabre disappearance. Unable to accept Ezra might be dead, Grant does what he can to piece together a rescue. But Grant quickly discovers he’s running out of time. And the deeper he digs into the mystery of what’s happened to Ezra, the more entangled he becomes in the unspeakable truth that threatens to consume him, too. NOTE: this queer romantic horror short contains depictions of grief and eldritch body … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Omega Titan, by A.Y. Venona

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Omega Titan

QSFer A.Y. Venona has a new MM paranormal-mystery book out: To save his mate’s life from the unstoppable force that resurfaced from oblivion, Delvin is left with no other choice but to trust a god whose emblem is a snake. But there is another danger Delvin has not foreseen. This one hits so close to home. Daniel is in training, not because he has an assassin on his ass, but because, for the very first time since attending Alpha Academy, he will be a challenger in a tournament. But there is one challenge Daniel is not prepared for—to give Delvin … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: One Word, by Anne Barwell

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One Word

QSFer Anne Barwell has a new MM Suspense book out: Ethan Leavitt arrives in the idyllic village of Oakwood to search for a missing friend. Having always prided himself on his ability to find rational explanations, Ethan’s trust in concrete evidence and logic is tested by the mystery of Oakwood and Tomas’s disappearance. Donovan Campbell’s happy, sometimes flippant, exterior hides a past he’d rather forget. As he struggles with his memories and to hold on to the inn he owns with his best friend, the last thing Donovan needs is for some guy he’s only just met to start getting … 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

ANNOUNCEMENT: Infected Volume 2, by Andrea Speed

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Infected Volume 2

QSFer Andrea Speed has a new Queer Paranormal/Mystery Suspense book out: In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other infecteds. In Infected: Lesser Evils, Roan is struggling to control his inner lion while hunting down a serial killer targeting shifted infecteds. Then, in Infected: Undertow, Roan is stuck in a coma as human and lion war for control; meanwhile, Holden and Fiona have their own cases to solve. And in Infected: Epitaph, a rash of tiger strain infecteds brings back … Read more

Announcement: Ghostly Investigations, by Edward Kendrick

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Ghostly Investigations

QSFer Edward Kendrick has a new MM paranormal romance out: Jon Watts has heard stories about ghosts but never believed in them … until he becomes one. Now, if he wants to move on, he has to solve his own murder. At least he’ll have help from three new friends: Brody, an undercover cop who was killed five years earlier by an unknown assailant; Sage, a medium who can see and speak with ghosts; and Mike, the detective investigating Jon’s murder, who doesn’t believe ghosts exist until Sage convinces him otherwise. Will the four men solve both Brody’s and Jon’s … Read more

Announcement: Worms of Sin, by Lyle Blake Smythers

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The Worms of Sin

QSFer Lyle Blake Smythers has a new MM paranormal mystery out: Supernatural private detective Finn M’Coul knows the underworld is still pushing shotweed, a wickedly addictive and fatal drug, and his handsome young friend Gray is in its thrall. Finn goes undercover, following Gray into a drug treatment center that was once a mental hospital…haunted by its history of straitjackets, lobotomies, and sterilizations. He arrives in time for an outbreak of murderous insanity. Is it caused by a parasite infecting these addicts, or the actual ghosts of the asylum? His task is complicated by cracks in the skin of reality. … Read more

Review: “Quarry” by Elizabeth Noble

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Title: Quarry Series: The Vampire Guard #2 Author: Elizabeth Noble Genre: Gay Paranormal Mystery Publisher: DSP Publications Pages: 200 Blurb The members of the Vampire Guard—Jonas Forge, spy and soldier turned cop; computer hacker extraordinaire Blair Turner; Declan, thief, con man, and ex-pirate; and medical examiner and werewolf Dr. Lucas Coate—face a dangerous and elusive enemy. And this time, it’s personal. Over the course of three hundred years, a man has touched each of their lives in ways they are only just realizing. When a hunt for a psychotic killer in the present resurrects memories and clues from the past, … Read more

Announcement: The Black Fin Case, by A.T. Weaver and A.M. Burns

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The Black Fin Case

QSFers A.T. Weaver and A.M. Burns have a new MM paranormal mystery book out: For several months, Detective Greg Williams and his partner have been trying to catch the Black Fin gang. Their latest intelligence is good, so they go on their most risky raid yet. But things go horribly wrong. While recuperating from the wounds he received during the botched raid, Detective Williams and his captain realize there might be a leak in the Portland police department. When they begin digging, things get worse for Williams. At the urging of his captain, Detective Williams heads into the mountains, hoping … Read more