time travel's secret
Madeira Desouza 
Stoking the Culture Wars The young gay men whom you will meet in this storytelling are devious and deceitful. They are required by their employer, MMDI, to use deviousness and deceitfulness to succeed in the sexual manipulation of everyday men in the past on Earth who are not famous and whose names and personal actions … Read more
In my illustrated science fiction novel Baja Clavius: Moon Men Deep Inside you can read about men living deep inside the moon and then using time-travel devices to work on missions on Earth. I selected the moon specifically as the location of an underground base where the fictional time travel agents live. The reason was … Read more
Based on a True Story This is controversial science fiction time travel storytelling unlike what you may have encountered elsewhere. And yes, this genuinely is based on a true story. Set a couple of hundred years or so in the future when masculine gay male time-travel agents work for a top-secret agency codenamed MMDI (“Moon … Read more
One of my readers told me something that shocked the hell out of me: He said he thought I may be fulfilling the role of a contemporary shaman. I’ve grown accustomed to getting feedback that expresses things in this way, “Hey, I really like your images of hanged men!” In contrast to the usual casual comment, … Read more
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 fiction writers and readers alike. Yet, I came across prejudice from within the community of science fiction writers of the present day stemming from my choice to write science fiction … Read more
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 they especially like how I depict men so realistically. Others not so much. I accept that gay men who prefer feminized men and the many related affectations and behaviors of … Read more
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 the norm when I wrote my time travel adventure called Baja Clavius: Moon Men Deep Inside. I give you queer sci fi principal characters who are African American, Arabic, Asian, … Read more
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 happen to maintain the same or similar prejudices against Mexicans or Latinos as Trump, then you should not read my science fiction novel, Baja Clavius. Baja Clavius, a science fiction … Read more
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 story of a world about 300 years from now in which a top-secret agency based deep inside the moon uses time travel to the past to control and manipulate people. … Read more
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. My illustrated science fiction Baja Clavius presents realistic gay male characters with no stereotyping or clichés. My work is not like what most gay science fiction delivers. As one person … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
