A celebration of queer speculative fiction. In these pages are writers from across the spectrum of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and/or transgender science fiction, fantasy, and/or horror. We have big names and small, much-published veterans and promising beginners, Lammy and Spectrum Award nominees and winners, past Gaylaxicon Guests of Honor, and fresh new names. Within these covers are science fiction, fantasy, nonfiction; essays, short stories, and excerpts from longer works; drama, erotica, and comedy. All brought to you by QSpec, a consortium of writers of queer speculative fiction. Includes pieces by Antonio Ruffini, Billie Aul, Brian Frank, Caro Soles, Catherine Lundoff, Don Sakers, Joel A. Nichols, L-J Baker, Laura J. Underwood, Lawrence Schimel, Melissa Scott, and Selina Rosen.
Don Sakers was launched the same month as Sputnik One, so it was perhaps inevitable that he should become a science fiction writer. A Navy brat by birth, he spent his childhood in such far-off lands as Japan, Scotland, Hawaii, and California. In California, rather like a latter-day Mowgli, he was raised by dogs.
As a writer and editor, he has explored the thoughts of sapient trees (The Leaves of October, Baen 1988), brought ghosts to life (Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three, Baen 1989), and beaten the "Cold Equations" scenario ("The Cold Solution," Analog 7/91, voted best short story of the year.)
In 2009, Don took up the position of book reviewer for Analog Science Fiction & Fact, where he writes the "Reference Library" column in every issue.
In his day job, Don works for the Anne Arundel County Public Library. His actual job title -- "Library Associate" -- makes it sound like he gives lots of money to the Library, but in fact it's the other way around.
Don lives at Meerkat Meade in suburban Baltimore with his spouse, costumer Thomas Atkinson.
