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New Release: Inflicted – Leo Otherland

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Inflicted - Leo Otherland

QSFer Leo Otherland has a new speculative fiction collection out (horror, science fantasy, space opera, urban fantasy – ace, gay, lesbian, non-binary, trans FTM): Inflicted. “Pain is pain. It all hurts the same.” Inflicted with dark desire, one man chooses between idyllic pretense and disturbing reality. Haunted by the silence of deep space, an engineer chases an eerie melody. Torn between penance and pride, a dishonored prince challenges the course of history. Suffering cracks our hearts and splinters our minds. It scars and alters us in irreversible ways. Yet while pain breaks us apart, it also binds us together. Our … Read more

New Release: The Brawl King – Kashel Char

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The Brawl King - Kashel Char

QSFer Kashel Char has a new MM sci-fantasy book out: The Brawl King. It’s the year 21 A.T. Time to face the truth. We are not alone. Enjoy a fast-paced rescue mission led by Gen. Brad McCormick, who uncovers and retrieves so much more than their abducted children from the gold mines in South Africa. EP-III hides millennia-old secrets that no one could have foreseen or predicted. DNA manipulation, rocketry, and moon landings are seemingly everyday occurrences, except no one informed Phoenix about it all. Why? Mika and Connor struggle to come to terms with their twins’ infatuation with their … Read more

New Release: Salvage – R J Theodore

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Salvage - R J Theodore

QSFer R J Theodore has a new queer science fantasy book out (ace, bi, gay, non-binary, trans mtf): Salvage. Peridot is headed for its second cataclysm. War has broken ancient alliances, sealed borders, and locked down the skies. The Five, Peridot’s alchemist gods, have seen one of their number die and another fall in their efforts to protect their world from invaders beyond the stars. Defeated and diminished, they have ceased to answer the prayers of their people and have left the rapidly unraveling world to fend for itself. Talis and the orphaned crew of the lost airship Wind Sabre have a … Read more

New Release: Salvage – R J Theodore

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Salvage - R J Theodore

QSFer R J Theodore has a new queer sci-fantasy steampunk book out: Salvage. Peridot is headed for its second cataclysm. War has broken ancient alliances, sealed borders, and locked down the skies. The Five, Peridot’s alchemist gods, have seen one of their number die and another fall in their efforts to protect their world from invaders beyond the stars. Defeated and diminished, they have ceased to answer the prayers of their people and have left the rapidly unraveling world to fend for itself. Talis and the orphaned crew of the lost airship Wind Sabre have a plan to set things to rights, … Read more

NEW RELEASE: Mutiny – Erik Schubach

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Mutiny - Erik Schubach

QSFer Erik Schubach has a new lesbian sci-fantasy book out in the Worldship Files: Mutiny. 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 to make … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Shang Zhou Shuffle – Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

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The Shang Zhou Shuffle - Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

QSFer Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus has a new queer sci-fantasy book out (bi, gay) in the Virsana Empire: Sir Braden series: The Shang Zhou Shuffle. The Emperor cares for each and every one of his subjects, be they bartender or prince. Prince Ishikawa of Shang Zhou has embarked on a risky undercover adventure all on his own, and Yaden and Ivan are sent after him to make sure he comes out alive.  Working as the crew of a local pub, the three of them try to figure out why the local military is training Vox Populi terrorists. But this is … Read more

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Sci-Fantasy

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: How would you define sci-fantasy? Do you like it, or do you prefer keeping your peanut butter away from your chocolate? if you do, favorites? 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

ANNOUNCEMENT: After the Dragons – Cynthia Zhang

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After the Dragons - Cynthia Zhang

Cynthia Zhang has a new gay sci fantasy romance out: After the Dragons. Dragons were fire and terror to the Western world, but in the East they brought life-giving rain… Now, no longer hailed as gods and struggling in the overheated pollution of Beijing, only the Eastern dragons survive. As drought plagues the aquatic creatures, a mysterious disease—shaolong, or “burnt lung”—afflicts the city’s human inhabitants. Jaded college student Xiang Kaifei scours Beijing streets for abandoned dragons, distracting himself from his diagnosis. Elijah Ahmed, a biracial American medical researcher, is drawn to Beijing by the memory of his grandmother and her … Read more

REVIEW: The Bloodied Broom – Berryl & Osiris Brackhaus

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The Bloodied Broom

Genre: Space Opera / Adventure LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Pan Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Lotus Knights don’t get honeymoons, but at least spending some family time on their newly unearthed and fully refurbished spaceship Pebble sounded like a good idea. Until a last-minute mission goes sideways and suddenly Yaden, Colin and their patchwork family come face-to-face with an all but invincible ancient evil. The harrowing encounter leaves Colin permanently changed, and trying to chart his future path becomes a challenge he had never anticipated. ‘The Bloodied Broom’ is a science fiction space opera … Read more

REVIEW: Ithani – J. Scott Coatsworth

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Ithani - J. Scott Coatsworth

Genre: Sci-Fi, Science Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay, Lesbian Reviewer: Melissa, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book 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 … Read more