time travel
Based on a True Story
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
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 … Read more
Provocative Science Fiction
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
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
March 28, 2014 Review on Amazon
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
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 … Read more
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 Life-Changing Experience I was just reaching my teenage years … Read more