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Alien visits San Antonio landmark

The October 2010 issue of Analog

We haven’t read it yet, but consider us intrigued.

According to Analog Science Fiction & Fact’s website, the magazine’s October 2010 issue contains a short story by Arlan Andrews called “The Alien at the Alamo.” Unfortunately, the story isn’t available online, and at press time we were unable to locate [Read it all...]

Damien Broderick edits new book of critical essays

A new collection of critical essays edited by Damien Broderick. According to Broderick, the Skiffy and Mimesis of the title are not a pair of performing kangaroos.

Ever-prolific San Antonio resident Damien Broderick has a new book (this time as editor), Skiffy and Mimesis: More Best of Australian SF Review (Borgo/Wildside Press).

As it sounds, [Read it all...]

Horny Toads and Ugly Chickens: A&M’s SF collection

The first issue of Amazing Stories is just one of the items in Texas A&M’s speculative fiction collection.

Ever heard of the 1975 novel “Doomsday Clock,” published in San Antonio with an actual fuse sticking out of its cover? What about “Overshoot,” a 1998 Ace paperback about an elderly Alamo City woman reflecting on how [Read it all...]

Get typing: S.A. Writers Guild opens contest

One of this year’s judges: sf author Chris Roberson

Attention writers (and we know there are some among our readership): The San Antonio Writers Guild has kicked off its annual contest, and as per usual, it’s offering cash prizes that are nothing to sneeze at. First place winners in each category will receive $100, second [Read it all...]

Made in SA: Kelly Hammond of Blood Thirsty Thursdays

The body count will be high at the debut of the Blood Thirsty Thursdays film series.

Thursday, Aug. 12, will mark the launch of a new monthly horror film series at Alamo Draft House Westlakes, called Blood Thirsty Thursdays. Opening night is a triple feature of the first three installments of the Friday the 13th [Read it all...]

Stonehenge is creeping closer

In the Texas Hill Country: Stonehenge II, Electric Boogaloo.

Stonehenge II, the Hill Country’s quirkiest roadside attraction, is moving closer to the Alamo City.

The almost-life-size cement replica of England’s mystical Stonehenge monument is headed for a new home in Ingram, 70 miles northwest of San Antonio. That will be about ten minutes closer [Read it all...]

S.A.’s place in the SF Universe: Episode 8

R.J. Pineiro finds yet another way to blow up San Antonio.

Call me sick, but I’ll pick up pretty much any book where San Antonio is blown off the face of the map.

I think I may be guided by the same kind of ass-backward civic pride that keeps Tokyo residents flocking to Godzilla movies: [Read it all...]

Damien Broderick ties for second-place Sturgeon Award

James Morrow's "Shambling Towards Hiroshima"

LAWRENCE, KANS. — Sometime San Antonian Damien Broderick’s short story “This Wind Blowing, and this Tide” tied for second place for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His story was neck-and-neck in voting with Sara Genge’s “As Women Fight” and John Barnes’ “Things Undone.”

The first-place Sturgeon went to James Morrow’s novella [Read it all...]

What we're reading: July 2010

Every newspaper, magazine and blog seems to be running a summer reading list right about now. So who needs another one? You do, friends. How many, we ask, are going to be as chock-full of geeky and creepy goodness as ours?

John Picacio

“Plus or Minus” by James Patrick Kelly

Just finished reading a short story by Nebula [Read it all...]

New Sanford Allen story in Innsmouth Free Press

If you’re hankering for a strangely quivering slice of Lovecraftian weird fiction, check out my story “Kali Yuga” is in the latest issue of Innsmouth Free Press.

Innsmouth’s June issue is devoted to multicultural fiction that exports the Lovecraftian the weird tale out of New England so a wider variety of cultures can stare into the [Read it all...]