Don Sakers

"Maj Thovold has led the Galaxy for three decades, a Golden Age of peace and prosperity. She is weary and ready to resign, but two pieces of unfinished business remain. The first is her choice of a successor; the second, an old enemy that only she has the power to defeat. The last battle will take place on the strangest battlefield known: a web of living tendrils that stretches across interstellar space. A web where Maj's enemies wait, like spiders,...

Kaa: a world where. .creatures communicate by scent and taste as much as sound and sight. .meaning lives in every rock and stream, and every breeze brings a new voice. .consciousness and sapience are new experiences, where intelligence and culture are in the throes of being born. And where one Human explorer stands on the threshold of discoveries that could alter the future of Humanity..

In the tradition of Theodore Sturgeon and James H. Schmitz, a new tale of galactic intrigue and adventure...Rikk Hoister: First of a new breed of cloned, paranormal geniuses, able to defeat the Imperial Navy with his mind alone...bound only by a rigid sense of ethics. His cousin Yewanda, equally powerful, able to teleport herself anywhere. She's innocent, inexperienced...and six years old. When Yewanda sets out on her own to visit Rikk, the Galaxy...

Don Sakers has been queering science fiction and fantasy for three decades. Meat and Machine collects 24 short pieces of science fiction, fantasy, nonfiction, and erotica. Meet Mauzy Broadway, a genderless alien with a career as a female impersonator; Bobby (who went to Vietnam), Kevin (who stayed home), and the weird power that brought them together; Captain Quasar, superhero with a secret; Nicol and Eryn, lesbian couple living on the fringes of...