Sunny Moraine (born March 4, 1984)

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Sunny Moraine is a humanoid creature of average height, luminosity and inertial mass. They're also a doctoral student in sociology and a writer-like object who focuses primarily on various flavors of speculative fiction, usually with a decidedly queer bent. They spend most of their days using writing to distract from academics, except for the occasions when the two collide. They live just outside Washington DC with a husband and two cats, which is a poor replacement for their home dimension, which is positively full of cats and also chocolate and very bad TV.

Line and Orbit, co-authored with Lisa Soem, won a 2013 Rainbow Award as Best Gay Sci-Fi / Futuristic and Best Gay Debut.

Further Readings:

Line and Orbit by Lisa Soem and Sunny Moraine
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing (February 4, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1619216787
ISBN-13: 978-1619216785
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What he’s been taught to fear could be his destiny…and his only hope.

Adam Yuga, a rising young star in the imperialist Terran Protectorate, is on the verge of a massive promotion…until a routine physical exam reveals something less than perfection. Genetic flaws are taboo, and Adam soon discovers there’s a thin line between rising star and starving outcast.

Stripped of wealth and position, stricken with a mysterious, worsening illness, Adam resorts to stealing credits to survive. Moments from capture by the Protectorate, help arrives in the form of Lochlan, a brash, cocksure Bideshi fighter.

Now the Bideshi, a people long shunned by the Protectorate, are the only ones who will offer him shelter. As Adam learns the truth about the mysterious, nomadic people he was taught to fear, Lochlan offers him not just shelter—but a temptation Adam can only resist for so long.

Struggling to adapt to his new life, Adam discovers his illness hides a terrible secret, one that the Protectorate will stop at nothing to conceal. Time is growing short, and he must find the strength to close a centuries-old rift, accept a new identity—and hold on to a love that could cost him everything.

More Rainbow Awards at my website: www.elisarolle.com/, Rainbow Awards/2013

Comments

[elena-62.livejournal.com]

I absolutely loved ''Line and Orbit''. I couldn't believe it was a first book!

Thank you for mentioning one of the brilliant authors!

Antonella

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

this is my spotlight for Rainbow Awards past winners, I think it's good to remember them sometime and helping new readers to know about it