J. Scott Coatsworth has a new MM sci-fi romance audiobook out, Oberon Cycle book one: Skythane. And there's a giveaway.

Jameson Havercamp, a psych from a conservative religious colony, has come to Oberon—unique among the Common Worlds—in search of a rare substance called pith. He’s guided through the wilds on his quest by Xander Kinnison, a handsome, cocky wing man with a troubled past.

Neither knows that Oberon is facing imminent destruction. Even as the world starts to fall apart around them, they have no idea what’s coming—or the bond that will develop between them as they race to avert a cataclysm.

Together, they will journey to uncover the secrets of this strange and singular world, even as it takes them beyond the bounds of reality itself to discover what truly binds them together.

Warnings: past abuse, past suicidal ideation.

About the Series:

Oberon is unique among the Common Worlds - a half-world with a strange past and an uncertain future.

Jameson Havercamp and Xander Kinnson are thrust into the middle of a world-ending event and have to scramble to save the world - and themselves.

Along the way, they peel back the layers of the onion to discover secrets wrapped in secrets that will eventually take them to where it all started - and may provide the key to saving Oberon and everyone on it.

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Giveaway

Scott is giving away a signed print first edition of the trilogy to one lucky winner:

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Audio Excerpt:

Prologue

https://www.otherworldsink.com/skythane-audio-sample/

Cat gives this Audiobook 5 Meows for the story

5 Meows for performance

And 5 Meows overall

This is a good sci fi story. I don’t read a lot of Sci fi fantasy but occasionally like stepping out of the box.

This had a long prologue but was essentially for set up.

Once the story got going and action rolling it was hard to put down.

There are lots of twists and turns.

Intriguing characters but a very good plot and storyline. The romance is slow burn and off page.

At first I wasn’t sure j was going to like the narration as I prefer voice acting to being read to. But this worked with the story as you got the world building and settings plus there was a little music and other things to break up the story and make it more interesting.

Skythane Excerpt

Jameson Havercamp stood on the observation deck of Titan Station, the floor transparent beneath his feet. He stared down at the strange world that spun slowly below him, trying to contain his unfounded fear. His mind told him he was perfectly safe, that this “window” beneath his feet was thick enough to hold the void outside at bay.

His body told him to run.

“It’s quite a sight, isn’t it?” someone said behind him.

Jameson laughed. He turned to the speaker, a man a little older than he was who was holding a boy’s hand. “Yes, it is.”

“We’re here for a conference. Brought this little bugger along because, really, how often do you get to see one of the wonders of the galaxy?”

Jameson had to agree. Split was its slang name—it was more properly called Oberon, and it rotated below them, almost a perfect half sphere. The “round” side was a picture-perfect normal, Earth-analogous world, green and blue. It turned under the sunshine as the station swung around from the north to the south pole.

The other side, barely visible from this vantage point, was a nightmarish tangle of broken, melted rock, evidence of whatever had torn this world in two. His reading had informed him that the backside of the planet was called “The Split.”

Only no one knew what had actually happened here, where the other half had gone, or what force kept the remainder of this world from crumbling into a rocky ball. Some theories posited that the other half was still there, perhaps converted to dark matter, but no one had been able to prove it.

“My name’s Jameson.” He held out his hand. “I’m here on a mission from Beta Tau.” He pulled at his stiff collar. He longed to be free of it, but formality insisted that he be properly dressed when he met the company representative.

The man shook hands with him, smiling. “I’m Zefron, and this is Davis. We’re from Pleiades II. Have you ever been?”

“No. It’s my first time.”

There was a loud chime. “Passengers on the Oberon City shuttle, please come to hanger three. Departure in fifteen minutes.” The station used Earth-Standard measurements, something he was going to have to get used to. Beta Tau was bigger than Earth, with a slower rotation, so he was used to days about two hours longer than Earth’s, and the Oberon “day” was two hours shorter than that.

“Good luck at the conference!”

Zefron winked at him. “Thank you. Good luck on your mission.”

Jameson shook his head. He was always getting hit on by other guys. It didn’t offend him, but everyone seemed to think he liked men. He didn’t. He couldn’t. His parents would have his head if he ever so much as showed the slightest inclination toward that sort of thing. They were Christianists, and Beta Tau was a Christianist world, where men married women. Period. Where men were supreme, and women kept a nice kitchen—or mansion, in his mother’s case.

Still, it was nice to be noticed.

Jameson picked up his suitcase and followed the other passengers toward the shuttle bay. This was his first research mission for the Psych Guild. The Guild had its fingers in a number of planets and industries, from the psychological treatment of billions to the pharmaceuticals that treatment required.

He still wondered why he had been chosen for this mission. He had just three years of experience, most of it treating miners on Tander’s World with pith addictions. The pharmaceutical originated here on Oberon and had a variety of legitimate uses, including inducing a useful dreamlike trance at low doses that had been a great aid to therapy. It could also be used as a kind of aphrodisiac in higher amounts.

The pharmaceutical supply had dried up over the last six months, something of great concern to both the therapeutic community and to addicts across the Common Worlds.

They should have sent someone with more experience. I have no idea what the hell I’m doing here.

And yet, here he was.

He hoped the company representative would be able to provide some guidance.

He sighed and settled into a seat, letting it strap him in for the ride down to planet-side.

Scott lives with his husband Mark in a yellow bungalow in Sacramento. He was indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine. He devoured her library, but as he grew up, he wondered where all the people like him were.

He decided that if there weren’t queer characters in his favorite genres, he would remake them to his own ends.

A Rainbow Award winning author, he runs Queer Sci Fi, QueeRomance Ink, and Other Worlds Ink with Mark, sites that celebrate fiction reflecting queer reality, and is the committee chair for the Indie Authors Committee at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

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