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Review: The Secret of the Martian Girl – Colin Alexander

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The Secret of the Martian Girl - Colin Alexander

Genre: Science Fiction, Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: Gay (side character) Get It On Amazon About The Book A long-dead genius. A hidden invention that could save—or doom—humanity. Can Leif find it before it falls into the wrong hands? The Martian Girl is a myth, some people say, created in the dark years after an apocalyptic global war. Perhaps she was a genius in mathematics and the greatest theoretical physicist since Einstein and Hawking. She may have made a mathematical breakthrough or a powerful weapon. No one knows for sure. In AD 2726, Leif Grettison, former army ranger and exoplanetary scout, returns … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Joseph Picard

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Joseph Picard

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: A generally creative type, a lifelong interest in writing became a greater focus when a short story spawned a sequel… and another sequel… and a prequel. Fleshing them out and cleaning them up eventually became his first novel, Lifehack. While cycling to a computer repair job in 2001, Joseph was struck by a car, resulting in T5/6 paraplegia. Since then, he has married, and had two children, Caitlin and Lachlan. Later dealing … Read more

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Review: How Six Saved the Frogs – Blaine D. Arden

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How Six Saved the Frogs - Blaine D. Arden

Genre: Science Fiction, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Ace, Gay, Pan, Trans Get It On Amazon About The Book Can you leave your heart on the other side of the galaxy?When Wouter, a down-to-earth dyslexic caretaker, accidentally activates a travel disc sent by his late brother, he finds himself whisked away to a distant planet. Desperate to go home and reassure his grieving mother he’s alive, he’s instead stuck struggling to fill his brother’s shoes to keep the amphibian bani from freezing to death. Nif, a bani healer, clings to human music as a lifeline to memories of joy and a world … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Patricia Loofbourrow

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Patricia Loofbourrow

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Patricia Loofbourrow is the NY Times and USA Today best selling author of the Red Dog Conspiracy steampunk noir crime fiction series. She has been a professional blogger, author, and editor since 2000 and began writing novels in 2005. Her first published novel, The Jacq of Spades, released in 2015 and has sold over 20,000 copies worldwide. A native of southern California, Patricia Loofbourrow has lived in Moore, Oklahoma since 2005. You … Read more

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Review: Skythane

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Skythane - J. Scott Coatsworth

Just got a great review of Skythane from Rari at Queer Sci Fi: Genre: Sci-Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Lesbian Get It On Amazon | Universal Buy Link About The Book Jameson Havercamp, a psych from a conservative religious colony, has come to Oberon—unique among the Common Worlds—in search of a rare substance called pith. He’s guided through the wilds on his quest by Xander Kinnison, a handsome, cocky wing man with a troubled past. Neither knows that Oberon is facing imminent destruction. Even as the world starts to fall apart around them, they have no idea what’s coming—or the bond that will develop … Read more

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Review: The Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson

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The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson

Genre: Sci-Fi, Cli-Fi, Near Future Get It On Amazon About The Book The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis. The Review I’ve been meaning to read Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the … Read more

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Review: Storm on Mars – Kate Rauner

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Storm on Mars - Kate Rauner

Genre: Sci-Fi, Colonization Get It On Amazon About The Book Something weird happens? Zeker swears it’s not his fault. An AI may be a psychopath’s only friend. Zeker sets out to make a difference in the expanding colony. Gaining a place in the elite Tower Guild proves others recognize his talents, and the AI embedded in his brain helps keep his impulses under control, usually. But when his temper lands him in a lawless burg among desperate outcasts, and one special lady, he discovers humanity’s survival on the Red Planet is in peril. Will he care enough to save them? … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Grant Edward Miller

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Grant Edward Miller

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Grant has authored many unpublished short stories and plays since he was a young boy, when he first realized he was different from those around him. The realization of his gay identity, experiences of alienation and bullying led him to immerse himself in his writing and science fiction in all its forms. Later in his adult life, Grant became aware of the lack of representation for gay men in science fiction resulting in … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Kerrie Noor

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Kerrie Noor

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Kerrie Noor is a writer and performer based in Scotland. She has written several comedic novels including Planet Hy Man Series, a Sci Fi comedy, and Belly Dancing and Beyond Series a romantic comedy for older women. She specializes in facial comedies, with full-bodied characters and will do her level best to avoid stereotyping in any shape or form. www.kerrienoor.com Thanks so much, Kerrie, for joining me! J. Scott Coatsworth: How would … Read more

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Double Review: Earth 2100 Anthology

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Earth 2100

Genre: Science Fiction, Near Future LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Lesbian, Non-Binary Reviewer: Ulysses, Maryann Get It On Amazon | Universal Buy Link About The Book Earth on the Cusp of the Twenty-Second Century Just think how the world has changed in the last seventy-six years. In 1948, scientists ran the first computer program, and “the Ultimate Car of the Future,” the futuristic, three wheeled Davis Divan, debuted. Since then, a succession of inventions—the personal computer, the internet, the World Wide Web, smart phones and social media—have transformed every aspect of our lives. How might the next seventy-six years change us, in ways we … Read more