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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...]

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...]

Double score for Damien Broderick

Broderick’s Dark Gray finally sighted over U.S. shores.

If you happen to see Aussie-turned-San Antonian DAMIEN BRODERICK, buy him a celebratory beer. Scratch that. Buy him two.

First, Damien’s story “This Wind Blowing, and This Tide,” is a finalist for a 2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, a juried award that recognizes the previous year’s outstanding science [Read it all...]

New and online: Broderick’s “Under the Moons of Venus”

Broderick’s latest appears both online and in Subterranean Magazine.

Looking for a good SF story to read on work time?

Well, luck has it that San Antonio’s DAMIEN BRODERICK has a new one online at SUBTERRANEAN PRESS. And it’s free.

Although Damien enlisted the aid of his rocket scientist pal Spike Jones for some of the story’s [Read it all...]

Broderick banks another book

The ever-prolific Aussie-turned-San Antonian DAMIEN BRODERICK has yet another book out.

“Climbing Mount Implausible: The Evolution of a Science Fiction Writer,” available from WILDSIDE PRESS, showcases Broderick’s growth though nearly 50 years of questing into the future. For the $14.99 cover price, you get his first published stories; detailed notes on the evolution of his writing; [Read it all...]

SA's Broderick in ASIMOV'S Feb. 2010 Issue

San Antonio’s man of sf letters, Damien Broderick, keeps trucking with a short story called “Dead Air” in the February 2010 issue of ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION, now on sale. Other stories in this issue include the novella “The Ice Line” by Stephen Baxter; novelettes “Stone Wall Truth” by Caroline M. Yoachim; “The Woman Who Waited [Read it all...]

Broderick closes 2009 on an up note

S.A.-by-way-of-Australia author DAMIEN BRODERICK has some good news to end the year on: A pair of his 2009 stories have been accepted by editors of three “year’s best” science fiction collections.

GARDNER DOZOIS and JONATHAN STRAHAN will feature Damien’s “This Wind Blowing, and This Tide” in their respective volumes. And RICH HORTON has selected “The Qualia Engine” to include in his. [Read it all...]

Missions Unknown Gift Guide

Merry Christmas, Holidays, Hannukah, Festivus, Kwaanza, Saturnalia, Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, Brumalia or whatever it is you’re celebrating this time of year. ‘Tis the season you may find yourself looking for the perfect gift for the SF/Fantasy/Horror fan on your list. Take a look at some of these local offerings:

JASON LIMON Original Artwork & Prints [Read it all...]

Broderick's pipeline continues to flow

Damien Broderick: Champing at the bit (inside the pipeline)

The ever-prolific DAMIEN BRODERICK has released yet another book, this one a collection of SF criticism.

Damien, an Aussie who now calls San Antonio home, selected the essays contained in the newly released “Chained to the Alien: The Best of Australian Science Fiction Review.” Inside, ASFR critics [Read it all...]

Broderick reprints wander the outback and travel through time

The Judas Mandala: new and improved.

As if San Antonio sf author DAMIEN BRODERICK hasn’t been prolific enough of late, WARREN LAPINE’S Fantastic Books has issued two upgraded reprints of Damien’s older work.

THE DREAMING is an updated and revised version of Damien’s award-winning The Dreaming Dragons. In it, an anthropologist travels to the Australian desert [Read it all...]