I accept my role as a science fiction writer is to entertain my readers but also to challenge them. So explains why I included this first-person narration by a time traveler in a previous edition of Baja Clavius: Moon Men Deep Inside: I am on a mission to the last decade of the 20th century. My … 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
Artist & Author As an artist and author, Desouza of Vegas has gained a reputation for his unique and captivating creative works popularized in the internationally famous adult playground called “Sin City” where he hosts Sin City Storytime.com. He became a year-round resident of Las Vegas in 2012 after he relocated from the Washington, DC … 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
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
