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REVIEW: Shape Of Secrets – S.R. Cronin

Shape Of Secrets - S.R. Cronin

Genre: Sci-Fi, Near Future LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book You can’t outrun the past in this mystery adventure where things are not always as they appear Zane, a young man with the ability to change his appearance, is starting his first job at Penthes Pharmaceuticals. However, it’s not what he expects. Soon he is drawn into a world of corporate secrets and dangerous knowledge. The deceptions are only beginning. A sales trip to the South Pacific leaves Zane dealing with an unsolved murder, an unsavory boot camp manager, and new friends with abilities … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: Giving Something Back

Giving Back

A few months ago, I was asked to give a little of my time as a writer for a good cause. A fellow author had fallen on hard times, and one of my other writer friends – Chisto Healy – had decided to do something about it. It was a simple ask, a short story for an anthology to help raise funds for the author who had fallen on hard times during the pandemic. And yet, I had a business to run with my husband Mark, novels to write, and the whole covid-19 to worry about. I put Chisto off, … Read more

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ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Time Paradox – M. Timothy Murray

Time Paradox - M. Timothy Murray

M. Timothy Murray has a new space opera out: Time Paradox. And there’s a giveaway! The time crew are unexpectedly thrust six hundred years into Thumar’s past, where a planet wide plague is raging. These intrepid time travelers are predestined to find a cure. When they return to the future, they discover their actions dramatically changed their original timeline. With help from Derak’s brother and the mysterious Time Sentinels of the universe, they set out across time, space, and dimension to fix their time paradox. Can they stop the space-time-continuum from tearing itself apart and destroying the known universe? Amazon … Read more

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REVIEW: Dropnauts – J. Scott Coatsworth

Dropnauts

J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci-fi book out in his Liminal Sky universe: Dropnauts. And there’s a giveaway! Life after the Crash. Over a century after the end of the Earth, life goes on in Redemption, the sole remaining Lunar colony, and possibly the last outpost of humankind in the Solar System. But with an existential threat burrowing its way into the Moon’s core, humanity must recolonize the homeworld. Twenty brave dropnauts set off on a mission to explore the empty planet. Four of them—Rai, Hera, Ghost and Tien—have trained for two-and-a-half years for the Return. They’re bound for … Read more

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ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Cailleadhama Audiobook – J. Scott Coatsworth

Caileadhama Audiobook cover - J. Scott Coatsworth

Audio Excerpt: Text Excerpt: J. Scott Coatsworth’s MM “elf-meets-trans-man in post-climate-change San Francisco” book Cailleadhama is now out in audiobook format. And there’s a giveaway! Colton is a trans man living in a climate-changed world. He plies the canals that used to be city streets, earning a living taking tourists on illicit journeys through San Francisco’s flooded edges beneath the imposing bulk of the Wall. Tris is an elf who comes through the veil to the City by the Bay – the Caille – on a coming of age pilgrimage called the Cailleadhama. He is searching for his brother Laris, … Read more

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REVIEW: The Emp Test – J. Scott Coatsworth

The Emp Test

Genre: Sci-Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Melissa, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Jey awakens to find himself in the care of a handsome stranger – a cheff from one of the mountain tribes, enemies of his own people. Afraid for his life, Jey has no choice but to let the man take care of him and his broken leg. Avain is on his Aud’ling – his coming-of-age test that requires him to spend a couple months alone, away from his own people. When he finds the steader trapped under his aur with a … Read more

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REVIEW: The Last Run

The Last Run

Genre: Sci-Fi, Sci-Fantasy, Romance (arc) LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Melissa, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Sera is the last runner from Earth, bringing badly needed supplies to the Tharassas Colony across a twenty-five year gulf between the planets. Jas works on a hencha farm to make ends meet, harvesting berries from the semi-sentient plants. Neither one that knows their lives—and worlds—are about to change forever. The Review The only negative I have about this novella is that it is a novella.  I need more! I felt like I was so immersed in the crazy fabulous world … Read more

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ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Fix the World Anthology

Other Worlds Ink has a new hopeful sci-fi anthology out: Fix the World. And there’s a giveaway! We’re a world beset by crises. Climate change, income inequality, racism, pandemics, an almost unmanageable tangle of issues. Sometimes it’s hard to look ahead and see a hopeful future. We asked sci-fi writers to send us stories about ways to fix what’s wrong with the world. From the sixty-five stories we received, we chose the twelve most amazing (and hopefully prescient) tales. Dive in and find out how we might mitigate climate change, make war obsolete, switch to alternative forms of energy, and … Read more

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THE WEEKLY FIX: Fix the World

I’m relaunching The Weekly Fix, with a twist. For now, instead of a serial tale or a short story, I’m sharing excerpts from the stories in the forthcoming Fix the World anthology. This is a fantastic collection of twelve hopeful stories from sci-fi writers on how to fix some of the greatest problems we face as a world. This is the last story from the book. Preorder it here. The Homestead at the Beginning of the World Jana Denardo Sam surveyed the glacial lake, blooming green under September’s sun. Some days, he couldn’t believe all of this was his. The … Read more

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THE WEEKLY FIX: Fix the World

I’m relaunching The Weekly Fix, with a twist. For now, instead of a serial tale or a short story, I’m sharing excerpts from the stories in the forthcoming Fix the World anthology. This is a fantastic collection of twelve hopeful stories from sci-fi writers on how to fix some of the greatest problems we face as a world. Preorder it here. The Call of the Wold Holly Schofield Pedalling out of the shade of the Douglas firs, I heard the farming collective before I saw it. Squawking, bleating, angry barking—and that was just the people. I ground to a stop … Read more