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Books spotted 12/30/09 at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry Conrad A. Williams 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 is a UK-based publisher and [Read it all...] Books spotted 12/1/09 at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry THE DEAD THAT WALK 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 makes it all seem fresh [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 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 too many of those 25,000 attendees [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 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 use of spot gloss on [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 life [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 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 the price point of tall [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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