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Stoking the Culture Wars
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…
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Men Living Deep Inside the Moon
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…
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Sequel to Baja Clavius Released
On July 14, 2021 the long-awaited sequel to Baja Clavius: Moon Men Deep Inside was released. This serialized story continues the science fiction time travel adventures from Baja Clavius: Moon Men Deep Inside by Madeira Desouza. In the 23rd century a gritty, quasi-militaristic time travel agency located beneath the crater Clavius on the moon sends…
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Sexual Orientation of the Men of Tomorrow
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…
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Queer Sci Fi
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,…
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Mexican or Latino Hero in New “Moon Men” Novel
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…
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Thinking of God and Free Will
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.…
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Gay Men Portrayed Incorrectly in Gay Science Fiction
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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. In 2026, this was renamed and released as Clavius…