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Honestly, All Systems Red is a solid sci-fi short story! I really liked it as it’s a fast read with great humor, interesting characters, and a good basis for further stories based in this world. Love how Martha doesn’t dwell on the sophisticated nature of the tech, but gives you a solid impression of how it does function.

Bought it originally from the Amazon Kindle store, now that I use Bookshop.org, I'll continue there! The best part is that Martha Wells books are DRM free there.

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)!

“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