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ANNOUNCEMENT: Leviathan, by Erik Schubach

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QSFer Erik Schubach has a new FF sci fi tale, book one in the Worldship Files: Leviathan. When the Earth is threatened by a slowly expanding sun, mankind embarks upon a mission to send a mammoth Worldship to settle a new planet across the stars. The preternatural races step out of hiding to work with the humans to save what they can from their dying world. With the aid of the Fae, shape shifters, Vampires, and other creatures of supernatural lore, the Worldship, Leviathan, is complete one thousand years later. Lotteries are held and only twelve million souls are selected … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Really Alien Love

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Jim Comer: Different planets will have incompatible chemistries– writers as far back as Doc Smith realized this. Who’s written stories with beings who can’t eat each other’s food or copulate because they’re poison to each other, but who share bonds of love (and lust?) anyhow? Editor’s Note: Romantic sci fi often sidesteps this by making different races compatible with each other. But here we’re veering more to the hard sci fi side, looking at what would happen if two species weren’t compatible at all, but still found love or meaningful relationships across the … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Threadbare, by Elle E. Ire

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QSFer Elle E. Ire has a new FF sci fi book out: Threadbare. All cybernetic soldier Vick Corren wanted was to be human again. Now all she wants is Kelly. But machines can’t love. Can they? With the computerized implants that replaced most of her brain, Vick views herself as more machine than human. She’s lost her memory, but worse, can no longer control her emotions, though with the help of empath Kelly LaSalle, she’s holding the threads of her fraying sanity together.  Vick is smarter, faster, impervious to pain… the best mercenary in the Fighting Storm, until odd flashbacks … Read more

REVIEW: Overcoming Fear, by Grace R. Duncan

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Overcoming Fear

Title: Overcoming Fear Series: Pandemus Chronicles Book 3 Author: Grace R. Duncan Genre: sci fi, romance LGBTQ+ Category: gay / bi Publisher: Self Pages: 25 Reviewer: Linda Tonis, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book It’s been four years since a global pandemic has ravaged the world and almost a year since Mark and Duncan had their fateful meeting at a tiny pharmacy. Duncan has spent that time doing everything he could to ease Mark’s fears of losing him—fears that go beyond the normal danger of their new world. When a minister and his wife seek out … Read more

REVIEW: Guarding His Melody, by Victoria Sue

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Guarding His Melody by Victoria Sue

Title: Guarding His Melody Series: Enhanced World Author: Victoria Sue Genre: Sci Fi LGBTQ+ Category: MM /Gay Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages: 200 Reviewer: Pat Get It On Amazon About The Book Deaf since childhood, Sebastian Armitage had a promising musical future until his dreams were shattered when he transformed at twelve years old. In a world where enhanced humans are terrorized and imprisoned, his life shrinks around him even more as he suffers the torment of his father’s experimental research to enable him to hear. Gray Darling—struggling with the scars left by his experience in Afghanistan—agrees to provide short-term personal … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Absolute Heart, by Michael Vance Gurley

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QSFer Michael Vance Gurley has the first book out in a new YA/steampunk series – Infernal Instruments of the Dragon Book: “Absolute Heart.” As the British Empire builds power based on new clockwork and steam technology, Ireland draws its might from its potent magical traditions. Only two boys with little in common can end the fighting between the two nations and prevent a terrible worldwide war. Gavin Haveland’s dreams are in the sky with the airships, while his reality as a High Councilman’s son means hiding secrets that will get him executed if revealed. Orion of Oberon is not just … Read more

FOR READERS: Favorite Flavor of Sci Fi?

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: What flavor of sci fi rocks your world? Hard sci fi? Speculative? Dystopian? Sci-Fi-Fantasy Fusion? MM Romance with a Sci Fi angle? 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

ANNOUNCEMENT: Raise the Stakes, by O. E. Tearmann

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Raise The Stakes

QSFer O. E. Tearmann has a new queer cyberpunk book out in the “Aces High Jokers Wild series: Raise the Stakes. It starts when you’re always afraid. Seven Corporations run the former United States on the codes of conduct their founders set down. You’re signed into a Corporate contract the day you’re born. And the fear of dropping in the Citizen Standing Scores keeps people in line. What choice is there? The Democratic State Force has fought for the return of democracy for decades, but they need the restless population of America to fight beside them if they’re going to … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Sovereign of Psiere, By K. Aten

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The Sovereign of Psiere

QSFer K. Aten has a new FF sci fi/steampunk romance ou, book one in the Mystery of the Makers series: The Sovereign Of Psiere. Psiere is a world of intrigue where old ideology meets new. The Makers built massive pyramids on each continent and filled them with encrypted texts and advanced technology. The two suns, Archeos and Illeos shine down on a mostly undiscovered planet with a psionic race of people living on land, and violent sea people below the water. The Queen seeks to make the world a better place for all Psierians but her daughter, Royal Sovereign Connate … Read more