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San Antonio reading more, but still not enough

The Main Library: Let's keep using it, folks.

As most sf/fantasy/horror fans know, San Antonio has always been a good market for movies, TV and other mass media. Books? Eh, not so much.

But a new study hints that may be changing — a little bit at a time.

San Antonio ranks 61st among the 75 largest [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...]

S.A.'s Place in the SF Universe: Part 5

One of the SF world’s strangest storytellers was born in the Alamo City 80 years ago.

The Strange Stick Together: Neal Barrett (right) and fellow Weird Texas writer Howard Waldrop.

NEAL BARRETT JR., purveyor of some of the oddest SF, fantasy and mystery fiction ever put to paper, was born in San Antonio, raised in Oklahoma [Read it all...]

SA CURRENT & Rick Klaw on Lansdale & Joyce

THE BEST OF JOE R. LANSDALE, forthcoming early 2010 (Tachyon). Cover art by John Picacio.

This week’s SAN ANTONIO CURRENT features Rick Klaw’s review of Graham Joyce’s latest book, HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH DEMONS:

William Heaney, head of the the UK’s National Organisation for Youth Advocacy, leads a troubled life. His wife left [Read it all...]

SA CURRENT Interviews Lansdale

VANILLA RIDE: Joe R. Lansdale's latest Hap & Leonard novel

Looks like we’ve got Joe R. Lansdale news bookends this week. On Monday, we shared the SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS’ spotlight on Lansdale and today, we’ve got news that this week’s SAN ANTONIO CURRENT features Rick Klaw interviewing Mighty Joe. It’s a solid interview and discusses [Read it all...]

SA Express-News Spotlights Lansdale

SANCTIFIED AND CHICKEN-FRIED: The latest collection from Joe R. Lansdale, Texas' master of mojo storytelling (Univ. of Texas Press)

Joe O’Connell wrote a solid piece about legendary Texas author Joe R. Lansdale in Sunday’s San Antonio Express-News. The University of Texas Press recently published a collection of some of Lansdale’s best stories, SANCTIFIED AND CHICKEN-FRIED, [Read it all...]