Roberson rambles south on I-35

Here’s one science fiction writers and readers won’t want to miss.

Austin-based sf writer/editor/publisher CHRIS ROBERSON is touching down in the Alamo City on Thursday, Aug. 6, to speak in front of the SAN ANTONIO WRITERS GUILD. The talk takes place at 7:30 p.m. at Bethany Congregational Church, 500 Pilgrim Drive, as part of the guild’s monthly meeting. It’s free and open to the public.

Roberson’s discussion, “Everyone Else is Crazy: Finding the Process that Fits,” will touch on different approaches to the creative process and the need for each writer to figure out the one that best suits his or her temperament. Roberson is a witty and engaging speaker whom MICHAEL MOORCOCK calls “one of that bold band of young writers who are taking the stuff of genre fiction and turning it into a whole new literary form.”

Roberson’s books include the novels Here, There & Everywhere; The Voyage of Night Shining White; Paragaea: A Planetary Romance; X-Men: The Return; Set the Seas on Fire; The Dragon’s Nine Sons; End of the Century; Iron Jaw and Hummingbird; Three Unbroken and Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II, and the comic book mini-series Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Asimov’s, Interzone, Postscripts, and Subterranean, and in anthologies such as Live Without a Net, FutureShocks and Forbidden Planets.

Along with his business partner and spouse Allison Baker, he is the publisher of MONKEYBRAIN BOOKS, an independent publishing house specializing in genre fiction and nonfiction genre studies. He has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award four times—once each for writing and editing, and twice for publishing—twice a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and three times for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Short Form (winning in 2004 with his story “O One”).