Why is Gay Science Fiction for Men so Unusual?
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 I have struggled as a gay male science fiction writer in San Francisco to attract an audience for my work that depicts gay men in time travel adventures in the […]
March 28, 2014 Review on Amazon
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 interesting and rich themes in science-fiction. It offers so many variations for dealing with paradoxes and inconsistencies that arise from changing the past. Madeira Desouza’s gay erotic tale of time-traveling […]
Challenges for a Gay Science Fiction Author
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 brief moment, I even considered that I should write science fiction for straight readers. My thinking was that readers who are gay–particularly gay males–are fewer in number compared to the […]
Technology Boost for Gay Science Fiction
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 how this wonderful device is a technology boost for publishing gay science fiction. I am a gay author and I wanted to share my gay science fiction with readers. The […]
Male Characters in Gay Science Fiction
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. Moore (Battlestar Galactica), so it did not surprise me that he took a risk and allowed a central male character in Caprica to be gay. That character (played by Sasha […]
Timelines and Time Travel Laws
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 long ago. Now I am the author and illustrator of a science fiction time travel adventure series known as Baja Clavius Life-Changing Experience I was just reaching my teenage years […]