FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Writers, have you ever written a spec fic story featuring an all-queer society? Tell us about it. Readers, what are your faves? Writers: This is a reader and 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.
QSFer Nita Round has a new lesbian steampunk book out in her “A Touch of Truth” series: Raven, Storm and Shadow. In the shadows, treachery and betrayal grow unseen. The state funeral of Princess Olivia at Port Ruth marks the end of the Mistress of the night. Yet, as Lucinda, Magda and Ascara attend this grand ceremony, a storm of secrets and lies emerge from the shadows, and threaten to destroy them all. Even when they make their way home, peace and safety are still not theirs. Malice and betrayal, hidden and out of sight, finds them. The shadows reach … Read more
Tash McAdam has a new sci fi/superhero book out in the Psionics series: They Are The Tide. After escaping from two very different prisons, Toby and Epsilon 17 finally have a chance to live for themselves. Helping to build a new city in the wake of the destruction of the Institute should be all they’re worrying about, but Epsilon 17 has a horrific secret that’s getting harder and harder to hide. Cassandra isn’t dead, she’s locked up in the deepest, darkest corner of E17’s mind. Pushing E17 to the brink of madness, Cassandra is determined to take over E17 entirely … Read more
QSFer Sara Rayne has a new queer sci fi book out, book one in the Idle Hands series: Jailbreak. Jailbreak v. to free a component from the restrictions of its original operating system. Jailed for a crime she (mostly) didn’t commit, Fox is tired of being the FBI’s pet hacker. But if she closes this last investigation into the Four Horseman MC, she’s out from under her sentence. Only one man stands between her and freedom… Determined to sway the Fed’s hacker to his side, Coyote focuses his single-minded determination on getting Fox out of the FBI’s clutches and into his own. … Read more
Layla Heart has the first two books out in her new queer “Lughnasadh Elite Academy” fantasy series – “Prophecy” and “Curiosity.” One clueless queen-to-be, four princes to change her world forever. Before her vital first cup of coffee in the morning, Litha finds out she’s a witch and is suddenly transported to a magical world she didn’t know existed. As if that wasn’t strange enough, it turns out that she’s prophesied to be queen and her parents only took her to the human world to protect her from those who want her dead. But now she’s at Lughnasadh Elite Academy … Read more
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Brian Cherry: I’d like to talk about queer pulp heroes or prose novels about queer super heroes. What are your faves, and why? 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
Kale Night has a queer sci fi webcomic you should check out – A Broken Winter. General Auryn Tyrus runs a government slaughterhouse, overseeing the covert execution of political dissidents – victims of an Emperor who claims to have swallowed the sun. When the son of a former lover is sentenced to death, Auryn intervenes, turning his life upside down. A Broken Winter is a science fiction/fantasy webcomic featuring LGBTQ+ characters. The comic is currently on hiatus but a novelization of the webcomic will be published in June by NineStar Press. Release date: April 21, 2019.Length: 281 pagesHeat Level: 3 … Read more
QSFer Michael G. Williams has a new queer sci fi book out: A Fall in Autumn. WELCOME TO THE LAST OF THE GREAT FLYING CITIES It’s 9172, YE (Year of the Empire), and the future has forgotten its past. Soaring miles over the Earth, Autumn, the sole surviving flying city, is filled to the brim with the manifold forms of humankind: from Human Plus “floor models” to the oppressed and disfranchised underclasses doing their dirty work and every imaginable variation between. Valerius Bakhoum is a washed-up private eye and street hustler scraping by in Autumn. Late on his rent, fetishized … Read more
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Olivia Wylie: It seems like the ‘queer character as canary’ trope is rife in sci-fi. From the Handmaid’s Tale to V for Vendetta, killing queer characters is used as a indicator that Something Is Very Wrong In This World. How do you feel about this? What stories buck the trend and show queer characters as warriors, strategists or generally getting some agency in SF/dystopian settings? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as … Read more
Kathryn Sommerlot has a new queer fantasy book out: The Life Siphon. A magical energy drain is siphoning life from the land and leaving a twisted, decaying wasteland in its wake. Safely isolated in his forest home, Tatsu wants nothing to do with the drain or the other citizens in the kingdom of Chayd. The only people he cares about are his childhood friend and her strangely prophetic sister, but there’s no avoiding the threat once Tatsu is arrested and taken to the capital. The Queen of Chayd offers Tatsu his freedom—but only in exchange for sneaking into the neighboring … Read more