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Books spotted 12/30/09 at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry Conrad A. Williams DECAY INEVITABLE Solaris Cover art by Dave McKean Yay, abstraction! Good to see some abstraction in a genre cover illustration these days. It’s a Dave McKean and does the job well — grabs the eye and says “hey, check this out.” Solaris [Read it all...] Books spotted 12/1/09 at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry THE DEAD THAT WALK Edited by Stephen Jones Ulysses Press Cover art by Les Edwards Zombie book covers were all the rage this year, weren’t they? Just when I thought I was well and done with any more zombie covers, Les Edwards does one that [Read it all...] One of San Antonio’s persistent legends is that of the Ghost Tracks. The story goes that many years ago a busload of school children stalled out on a lonely stretch of railroad tracks. Naturally, a train came along and cut the bus in two, killing the driver and the children in front immediately. The children [Read it all...] Books spotted 10/01/09 at Barnes & Noble (410/San Pedro) David Anthony Durham THE OTHER LANDS Doubleday Cover art by Mikko Kinnunen Cover design by Michael J. Windsor The first time I met David Anthony Durham, we were both guests at the 2007 Elf Fantasy Fair in the Netherlands. At the time, I don’t think [Read it all...] You can imagine my surprise, strolling through San Antonio’s Botanical Garden when I was accosted by hordes of gigantic bugs! I was immediately beset by flashbacks to bad Joan Collins movies (like there are any other kind). Fortunately these insects were not bent on world domination, they are part of a new exhibit, Dave Rogers’ [Read it all...] Books spotted 8/31/09 at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry Brom THE CHILD THIEF HarperCollins/Eos Cover illustration & design by Brom Everyone knows Brom as a preeminent fantasy painter, but the guy can write too. This is a novel-length work with interior illustrations. Brom creates a terrific cover as usual, and I especially love the [Read it all...] Books spotted this month at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry Actually, this installment should be called “Spinespotting in SA”. As a guy who draws and paints book covers for a living, I love seeing books face-out, but in bookstores, they’re usually not displayed that way. The spine is oh-so-important to the visibility and shelf [Read it all...] Two landmarks are classic San Antonio: The Alamo and the Riverwalk. While the Shrine of Texas Freedom is worth seeing when you come to San Antonio, the Riverwalk is the place to enjoy a wider variety of sights, sounds and tastes of South Texas. Now, don’t put any stock in the opinions of people like [Read it all...] Books spotted 7/1/09 at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry Joel Shepherd BREAKAWAY Pyr Cover art by Stephan Martiniere Love the strong diagonal here. Visually, it’s a tall mass-market paperback (in between the scale of a traditional mmp and a trade paperback) and therefore grabs your attention right away. I hear lots of griping about [Read it all...] I’m right in the middle of reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s excellent Mars Trilogy, a series of books that delves deep into the science and sociology of colonizing the red planet. These novels remind me of the importance of science in much of the literature I love. If we want the next generation of SF fans [Read it all...] |
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