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Max’s fiction covers many genres, most with LGBTQ protagonists
- Science Fiction
- Mystery
- Horror
- Urban fantasy/Slipstream
Max’s fiction focuses on characters you care about. Sometimes ordinary, sometimes quirky, sometimes downright evil, the conflict between the characters drives the story.
Meantime, here’s the lastest science news.
- USC scientists discover how to create a never-ending supply of cancer-fighting cells
- The uranium cubes that exposed Nazi Germany’s nuclear failure
- Yale scientists discover how stress changes the brain to make memories stronger
- Astronomers discover a strange universal rule behind black hole eruptions
- Scientists discover a plastic-eating “Pac-Man” enzyme with a surprising secret
- NASA captures strange waves high above Hurricane Simon
- A protein that fuels cancer could also be the key to fighting it
- A quantum highway just one atom high could transform superconductors
- “Crawzilla” was huge. Then scientists found an even bigger crayfish
- Antarctica’s sea ice has undergone a stunning reversal
- Mysterious brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness
- Arctic sea ice hits another troubling low in 2026
- A fungus is threatening the world’s food supply. Scientists just found a new defense
- Scientists discover a surprising danger in smaller cancer cells
- Rare study reveals a striking divide inside an Alzheimer’s patient’s brain