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Redfern’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Redfern’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Redfern Jon Barrett’s Followers (166)
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Redfern Jon Barrett
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August 02, 1984
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The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights
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2015
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Proud Pink Sky
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2023
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Forget Yourself
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2012
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Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction
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2014
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Drag Noir
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Threesome: Him, Him, and Me
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TFF-X: Ten years of The Future Fire
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Flash Fiction Online November 2018
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The Colored Lens, Issue 43, Spring 2022
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I Have an Agent – and Other News!
No long-running jokes about becoming a shut-in hermit writer today, I’m afraid – instead I’m just going to dive straight in and announce that I’m now represented by Jonathan Villegas of Olswanger Literary!
All right, that reveal might have been spoiled by the title of this post, but I still expect you to at least pretend to show shock and delight, not least because Jonathan is a diligent agent who’
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"this story is an alternate history mixed with urban fiction and a dystopian story thinly veiled as a utopian one.
in this story Berlin is an independent republic that is a sanctuary for gays and lesbians. but while the land seems like an oasis for gay" Read more of this review » |
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Tabletop Tuesday — A Tale of Traitors (Part Two)
"It’s Tuesday again and I’m back with my series of traitorous garbage characters discussion. When I first thought of this as a topic it occurred to me that I have two stories—and maybe a bonus semi-third—from a TTRPG point of view about weaving tra..."
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| From the opening pages of The Demon Equilibrium we're presented with a mystery: why have the two protagonists' memories been wiped, leaving them with little knowledge of who and what they are? First we follow Grace, a gruff magic "source" who's looki ...more | |
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| A brutal and heartfelt account of growing up gay in '80s Scotland, Maggie & Me details Damian Barr's own upbringing with unflinching honesty – all framed by his childhood fantasies of the distant Prime Minister. Class, sexuality, and gender all inter ...more | |
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"I LOVED this concept and world building.
There are the characters and their stories, and there are also excerpts from (fictional) pamphlets and news of the locations and the culture, and the way this was done just made my brain so very happy. I could" Read more of this review » |
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The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights
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| I'm really, really pleased to announce that The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights is getting a re-edition from Amble Press! Released May 28, the new version contains updated pronouns, a foreword by me, and an afterword by the ...more | |
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| I'm also published with Amble, and I've been working my way through their other books over the past months. The line-up is generally of excellent quality, but when it comes to Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck I can only say... wow. Honestly, I d ...more | |
“As the hours passed, she realised that their work wasn't pointless at all: it was vital to keep going in the face of aggression; to put things back together when others wanted you to fall apart.”
― Proud Pink Sky
― Proud Pink Sky
“Humiliation prickled him while he picked at the fragments of glass, as though an unseen audience had judged his life and found him wanting. Not his circumstances, not his orientation, but him, himself, whole.”
― Proud Pink Sky
― Proud Pink Sky
“What someone thinks about you--even someone as close to you as Gareth--is no reflection of who you are. In fact, there is no who you are. We're different with each person, we change with each circumstance.”
― Proud Pink Sky
― Proud Pink Sky
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Gay Science Fiction: * GSF group authors | 5 | 364 | May 22, 2017 09:41PM | |
| Queereaders: November/December Group Read Nominations | 68 | 308 | Oct 28, 2017 08:53AM |
“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“What someone thinks about you--even someone as close to you as Gareth--is no reflection of who you are. In fact, there is no who you are. We're different with each person, we change with each circumstance.”
― Proud Pink Sky
― Proud Pink Sky
“Humiliation prickled him while he picked at the fragments of glass, as though an unseen audience had judged his life and found him wanting. Not his circumstances, not his orientation, but him, himself, whole.”
― Proud Pink Sky
― Proud Pink Sky
“...and this smoke is ours too. We savvy better than anyone how hallow it rings when they cackle about love and freedom. We savvy their obsession with dividing everyone into homie and palonie. We savvy how they'll hurt others in the name of family, security, tradition.”
― Proud Pink Sky
― Proud Pink Sky
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