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QSFer Ellen L. Saunders has a new queer space opera out (gay, gender fluid, lesbian, non-binary, multi-gendered): A Dubious Hope.

Opal and Danielle: unlikely would-be friends separated by suspicion, then a mutually incompatible sense of duty, and finally by abduction.

Spacers: a tight-knit generation-ship community...

https://www.queerscifi.com/new-release-a-dubious-hope-ellen-l-saunders/

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For the sixth time Amber checked his calculations. Plasfilm sheets long past their prime crackled under his hands as he shuffled them; he stabbed nervous fingertips at the touchscreen displays, but it all checked out. It still all checked out.

Orbital crossings, relays ... it was all there. Or rather it -- the Neue Regel, the ship -- should have been there. Here.

It wasn't.

Prism cloaking? Unregistered warp core? No way to know.

But he needed to learn.

(warp)

🚀 Sci-Fi Readers! Hindsight Station:
Ashes Reborn is live.

Dive into a futuristic dystopian sci-fi world filled with tension, tech, and rebellion among the stars.

🔗 Read here: https://authormulhall.com/dystopian-sci-fi-hindsight-station-ashes-reborn/

Start with Chapter One: War Is in the Air and continue the story as a free web serial. More chapters are available on Wattpad, with early access on Patreon. A free tier for older chapters is coming soon.

Just saw Predator: Badlands, or as I will forever call it: "Weyland-Utani vs. Predator," and that was just a fun, funny, goodhearted action movie.

And having not only an alien protagonist, but a _subtitled_ one, is kind of audacious. It shouldn't have to be, but it is. 😁

17 Nov ‘role of race’

was finished yesterday - a 5th proof has been ordered.

The rear cover has headshots of English, Welsh, French and Manx characters.

I was castigated at a writers group for lack of DEI.

However, inside there at 100 characters *including* Indian, Afro Caribbean, Polish, Irish, Scots, Italian and Norwegian characters

Take care when discussing race - I am half Irish, half Welsh and definitely not English (with a DEI wife)!

Book back cover - the background is a view of planet Earth from space, largely obscured by many smaller pictures and text. The top two thirds of the cover show outer space in black - the lower third shows cloud cover of about 20% revealing a mix of greens and blues, and indistinct divisions of land and sea - the horizon is prominent with various shades of hazy blues and whites. Top banner blurb Dominated by horses and ships, 400 years in the future looks a lot like 200 years in the past. KristalClear, NutJob and CandiCrush grow up in a world with no oil, no cars and no internet. Middle There are 18 headshots resembling passport photos showing the 3 main characters slightly larger than the 15 secondary characters. The headshots are colour pencil sketches, pale grey background, each in a grey picture frame. The character name is given beneath. The collection of pictures ends with the text - Turn to page XXIX to see the character profiles. Bottom banner A bar code is positioned to the right, with text wrapped to the left of that and below. The blurb says Climate Change Famine Decimation Mass Migration With London under water in 2450AD the new capital is Lancaster. The people of Wolfland are plagued by the pirates who operate out of Worringfolk. They’re continually disrupting the trade routes across the Irish Sea. That’s where MaxChaos, HayWire and BarmyWaffle come in. Demi-real, demi-dystopia with a touch of easy-going juvenile humour! www.slenderwolf.com

“The Uncanny Adventures of Adam Honey” is a story by Lex Baker.

Adam Honey is orphaned on his sixth birthday. He is sent to an orphanage where another boy, DJ, claims to have known him “forever.” The two become friends and grow up largely insulated from the problems of the outside world, where environmental disasters signal a dying planet. On coming of age, Adam and DJ leave the orphanage to make their way in the world. The pair become lovers. Adam becomes a policeman, and DJ a professor. But there’s more going on in the world than simply the breakdown of technology and environmental disasters. An ancient evil is escaping its prison, and Adam seems to be the person destined to stop it.

https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/review-uncanny-adventures-adam-honey-lex-baker/?ref=mastodon

Chapter 27 of Stone Prophet is available to read on : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole faces the Sergeant in charge of the local wizards and she tries to keep him busy, while she summons Winzon, who knocks the Sergeant cold.

After that, Winzon pops up to the city-ship, to request aid, then treats fighting like a game with a score card, always ahead of Nicole...

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