
I accept my role as a science fiction writer is to entertain my readers but also to challenge them. So explains why I included[…]

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Science fiction is famous for characters, behaviors, and ideas that venture way beyond the envelope of conventional storytelling. These are well-known realities celebrated by science[…]

I accept that my creative works—and bara in general—will not appeal to a “mass audience” in the gay world. Some gay men have said that[…]

We gay men typically must settle for stereotypes and hackneyed clichés in sci fi storytelling that has gay male characters. But I chose to challenge[…]

Donald Trump’s statements about Mexicans and Latinos originate within deep prejudices that are harbored by angry older white people in the United States. If you[…]

My works as storyteller and illustrator Madeira Desouza began with a dawning light during what was a very dark time for me. Others who produce[…]

I am not the only writer who’s science fiction storytelling depicts a world in which there is no God. My novel, Baja Clavius, tells the[…]

If you’re not satisfied with how gay men are portrayed in science fiction, you are not alone! I’m a gay male writer and digital illustrator.[…]

Let me start by admitting how impressed I am with Oliver’s Keane’s commentary https://medium.com/geek-empire-1/e750602da27a on this subject. I was drawn to what he wrote because[…]

This review of my science fiction time travel adventure novel was posted on Amazon.com on March 28, 2014: Time travel is one of the most[…]

From the very start, as a gay male author, I accepted that I would invite challenges by writing science fiction for gay men. For one[…]

The commercial success of the device known as Amazon Kindle is nothing short of revolutionary on many levels. Let me delve into the matter of[…]

You can search online and easily find commentaries about the lack of gay male characters in science fiction. I have tremendous respect for Ronald D.[…]

My first experience with science fiction time travel novels was when I read the 1955 Isaac Asimov paperback entitled The End of Eternity. That was[…]