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Eugene Fischer enjoys San Antonio for its warm weather. EUGENE FISCHER is a new name to many SF readers, but one they’re likely to become acquainted with quickly. A 2008 graduate of the highly regarded CLARION SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY WRITERS WORKSHOP, the San Antonio-based author has already sold a couple of stories to pro markets. One of those, “Husbandry,” [Read it all...] Percy may be able to throw lightning, but can he make Fox money? San Antonio author RICK RIORDAN’s Percy Jackson series may be a kid lit phenomenon, but the jury’s still out whether it will be a Hollywood franchise. “PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THEIF” took in $31.2 million during its Feb. 12-14 opening weekend. [Read it all...] Joe McKinney's Stoker-nominated "Quarantined" We recently told you about San Antonio’s JOE MCKINNEY landing two works on the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot. Now, after a preliminary vote by members of the HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION, the SAPD detective-turned-scare scribe has even more reason to celebrate. His second novel, QUARANTINED, was selected as one of the final four [Read it all...] THE NEW DEAD: Chock full of gut munching AND David Liss. As if writing historical thrillers, urban fantasy, comics and zombie stories hasn’t kept San Antonio’s DAVID LISS busy enough, he’s also kept his schedule full of local appearances. Check it out. Wednesday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m.: David will be reading his aforementioned zombie short story, “What Masie Knew,” the same day as its released in [Read it all...] Solid Pop: Jess and Jeff of Hyperbubble. San Antonio’s HYPERBUBBLE plays catchy synth pop that mixes kitsch, retrofuturism and pop art in a chrome blender and sets the contents jiggling to a hypnotic robo-rhythm. It’s fun stuff: catchy, quirky and maybe even a little subversive. Beyond their love for analog synths, husband-wife duo Jeff and Jess bring [Read it all...] Required reading: David Liss' The Whiskey Rebels. Why don’t we start off the week with some news from the halls of academia? Turns out San Antonio’s DAVID LISS, author of both historical thrillers and MARVEL COMICS’ THE PHANTOM REPORTER, has some fans on university campuses. Namely professors, who have made his books required reading for economics [Read it all...] Eckman's guest: actor Jonathan Joss San Antonio may not have a full-fledged SF convention right now, but for 16 years running, ECKMAN’S CARD, COMIC AND TOY SHOW has demonstrated that throngs of Alamo City residents just might show up for one. The latest quarterly Eckman’s Show will take place Saturday, Jan. 16, at Live Oak Civic Center, [Read it all...] Don't mess with Kali Maa. I just got word that my short story “Kali Yuga” will be appearing in the upcoming “Multiethnic Issue” of INNSMOUTH FREE PRESS. IFP is an online publication that features both short fiction inspired by H.P. LOVECRAFT and fictional newspaper reports set in the author’s universe. My story is the former: a classic weird tale [Read it all...] |
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