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FORGOTTEN BOOK: COLLECTED STORIES OF ROGER ZELAZNY, VOL. 1: Threshold, 2009

FORGOTTEN BOOK: COLLECTED STORIES OF ROGER ZELAZNY, VOL. 1: Threshold, 2009

This is the 94th in my series of Forgotten Books.

I first encountered the work of Roger Zelazny in the mid 1960’s, either through The Year’s Best SF or through the first collection of Nebula winners. My mind has grown old and rusty since [Read it all...]

FORGOTTEN BOOK: PASSION PLAY by Sean Stewart, 1993

FORGOTTEN BOOK: PASSION PLAY by Sean Stewart, 1993

This is the 79th in my series of Forgotten Books.

Diana Fletcher is a shaper, someone who feels the emotions of another person. She works for the police department in the role of a hunter. She views dead bodies and helps trace the emotions lingering on the [Read it all...]

Forgotten Book: A Mirror For Observers by Edgar PangbornForgotten Book: A Mirror For Observers by Edgar Pangborn

A Mirror for Observers by Edgar Pangborn

A Mirror For Observers by Edgar Pangborn, © 1954 hardback, Doubleday

This is the 7th in my series of Forgotten Books

There is a story about Edgar Pangborn that says Theodore Sturgeon was helping H. L. Gold out on night reading the slush pile for Galaxy magazine. [Read it all...]

Analog & Asimov's Awards WinnersAnalog & Asimov’s Awards Winners

San Antonio's John Picacio wins Best Cover Artist in the 2010 Asimov's Readers Awards. It's his second consecutive year as winner in the category. Pictured here is his September '09 cover art.

Congrats to the 2010 Nebula and Norton Awards winners! They were announced at the Nebula festivities in Cape Canaveral, Florida this weekend, [Read it all...]

Texas weird stalwart Neal Barrett Jr. gets SFWA recognitionTexas weird stalwart Neal Barrett Jr. gets SFWA recognition

Neal Barrett Jr.: He was born here. Can we claim him? Huh? Can we?

He doesn’t live in San Antonio, but he was born here. So maybe we can claim him as one of his own.

NEAL BARRETT JR., author of The Hereafter Gang, which the Washington Post called “one of the great American novels,” will [Read it all...]

Review: Titan, Wizard & Demon – John Varley’s Gaean TrilogyReview: Titan, Wizard & Demon – John Varley’s Gaean Trilogy

The original cover of Varley's "Titan"

With the series returning to publication in 2006, now is a good time for readers either to reacquaint themselves with Texas native John Varley’s epic Gaea series (Titan, Wizard and Demon) or read it for the first time.

While Cirroco “Rocky” Jones leads a group of [Read it all...]