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ANNOUNCEMENT: Loose Cannon – Brent D. Seth

December 29, 2020 by scott

QSFer Brent D. Seth has a new queer space opera out, Short Fuse Book 2: “Loose Cannon.” Jason Miller, former grocery store clerk and alien abduction victim, started the largest war ever witnessed in our galaxy. Millions died. Carnage and devastation spread across a hundred parsecs. The war lasted three hours. The resulting power vacuum has opened the door for smugglers, raiders, and bounty hunters. Remnants of the Ullinarian Empire are on the rise, and will do anything to possess the man who took them down. Everyone wants a piece of the action, and a piece of Jason’s scalp. Dodging … Read more

FOR READERS: Favorite Queer Spec Fic Winter Holiday Tales

December 15, 2020 by scott

FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: Readers, bring me your favorite queer speculative fiction winter holiday tales – Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, Christmas, Solstice, New Year’s… and why you love them. Links please! 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

ANNOUNCEMENT: Enzor and the Volcano – Stephen J. Wolf

December 12, 2020 by scott

QSFer Stephen J. Wolf has a new queer choose your own ending fantasy book out: “Enzor and the Volcano.” A teen with a dream… A volcano in his way… Enzor is a young teen about to take a trial so he can become a master of fire magic. He must travel through a volcano and claim a prize at the end. Along the way, Enzor encounters various challenges. Can he survive a fire golem? Can he cross a river of lava? He can’t do it alone. He needs your help. Select Enzor’s actions in this Choose-the-Fate story. Guide Enzor through … Read more

REVIEW: Heart of Dust – H.L. Moore

December 11, 2020 by scott

Genre: Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book ‘Doran had a problem, and it wasn’t that he’d been stabbed.’ Iole City is in turmoil. Doran Ó Seanáin, leader of the Black Lung Gang, is determined to bring the Archon, Arajon’s tyrannical ruler, down for his brutal treatment of the miners. But Doran has more to deal with than getting stabbed and a city-wide lockdown that’s seeing his gang of ex-miners being slowly starved out of their base. His daughter Grace has turned against him, and the weight of his wife’s … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Ithani – J. Scott Coatsworth

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 by scott

QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth has a new LGBTQ sci-fi book out, Liminal Sky: Oberon Cycle Book Three: “Ithani.” Time is running out. After saving the world twice, Xander, Jameson and friends plunge headlong into a new crisis. The ithani―the aliens who broke the world―have reawakened from their hundred millennia-long slumber. When Xander and Jameson disappear in a flash, an already fractured world is thrown into chaos. The ithani plans, laid a hundred thousand years before, are finally coming to pass, and they threaten all life on Erro. Venin and Alix go on a desperate search for their missing and find … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Royal Dragon – Ash Roberts

December 8, 2020 by scott

QSFer Ash Roberts has a new queer YA fantasy out (bi, lesbian): “Royal Dragon.” Kalia’s life is all mapped out for her – she is heir to the elven homeland and marriage to a Duke’s son had been arranged before she was old enough to walk. For her, the war in the north is far away and all she knows of it is stories about the fearless Dragoneers. Her life is safe. Idyllic. Until she accidentally bonds with the blue dragon, Farean. Kalia is banished from her homeland and her engagement is broken – the nobility will have nothing to … Read more

REVIEW: Taking Shield: The Complete Series – Anna Butler

December 7, 2020 by scott

Genre: Military Sci Fi, Space Opera, LGBT LGBTQ+ Category: Bi Reviewer: Rowan Get It On Amazon About The Book The complete Rainbow Award-winning space opera/military sci-fi series. Earth’s a dead planet, dark for thousands of years; lost for so long no one even knows where the solar system is. Her last known colony, Albion, has grown to be regional galactic power in its own right. But its drive to expand and found colonies of its own has threatened an alien race, the Maess, against whom Albion is now fighting a last-ditch battle for survival in a war that’s dragged on … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Premonition – Valerie Mikles

December 5, 2020 by scott

QSFer Valerie Mikles has a new queer sci fi book out, The New Dawn book 7: “Premonition.” They came looking for medicine … … he hadn’t expected to find this kind of healing. Could Hawk find a cure to save his children, or was this new delay going to end his life and theirs? On the surface, Nola looked like a peaceful farming town. When they invited Hawk and the crew to their palace to attend their Festival, the crew jumped at the prospect. They needed a peaceful trade partner, especially if these people knew where Hawk could find his … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Casual Magic – Dan Ackerman

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 by scott

QSFer Dan Ackerman has a new queer fantasy (gay, pan) out: “Casual Magic.” Westley “West” Archer made a deal with the Devil for a failed high school crush. Now he answers questions for demons–a seedy job his family can never know about. Kit is the seediest, sexiest demon who has ever come to West for help, smelling of cigarettes, covered in tattoos, with ripped jeans and tousled hair. Despite every instinct telling him to get Kit out of his life, West agrees to help the other man look into the murder of which he’s been falsely accused. He also agrees … Read more

Queer Female Pirates Unerased From History

November 30, 2020 by scott

Two trailblazing female pirates who shared a tender same-sex romance have been commemorated with a striking new statue. Anne Bonny and Mary Read, born in the late 18th century, have largely been erased from history by predominantly male historians – but now, they are taking their rightful place in the annals of the past. The women, who were lovers, have been immortalised by artist Amanda Cotton in a sculpture titled Inexorable. Previewed at London’s Execution Docks on 18 November, the artwork was commissioned to mark the launch of Hell Cats, a new Audible podcast that celebrates Bonny and Read’s lives … Read more