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This Sunday at 9pm Eastern, it's #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party! Come join us for a cheesy film from the depths of the internet!

This week we're watching CAT GIRL (1957), a British horror flick about a woman who inherits an old home and becomes possessed by the spirit of a wild animal!

The flick's available on Tubi and Pluto, or you can download in advance from Archive.org right over here: archive.org/details/catgirl195

See you Sunday!

QSFer R.M. Olson has a new queer sci-fi horror book out (gay, bi), The Dark Between the Stars: The Water Paradox.

On a desert settlement on a remote planet, the limited water is as precious as life. Until it starts to kill them…

Thaddeus and the rest of the small medical crew have just arrived at their next assignment—a small, drought-ridden settlement, where ...

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Finished "The Membranes" by Chi Ta-Wei.

This might count to #TransRightsReadathon, but I'm not sure as this is a peculiar short story.

It's a dystopian novel set in the near future where everything else has become unhabitable for humans, except the oceans where people now live.

But that's only the world-building. The story itself does have strong queer, trans, gender & identity themes.

In 1995 this was the first book in Chinese to contain LGBT+ themes.

Recommended!