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Mission: What's your most memorable holiday-themed sf, fantasy or horror? Mission: What’s your most memorable holiday-themed sf, fantasy or horror?

Bill Crider – Author

The first holiday that really bowled me over was in the first issue of INFINITY back in November 1955. “The Star” by Arthur C. Clarke. I was just a kid, and I’d certainly never thought of anything like Clarke came up with. Not exactly the kind of Christmas story that would [Read it all...]

Mission: What's the funniest sf, fantasy or horror book?Mission: What’s the funniest sf, fantasy or horror book?

This go-round, we asked friends and contributors to name their favorite humorous science fiction, fantasy or horror book. Novels, collections, graphic novels or even single short stories were fair game. Did your choice, we inquired, win its spot on your bookshelf with withering wit, silly slapstick, stinging satire or punishing puns? Here are the answers we got [Read it all...]

Mission: What's Your Most Reread SF/F/H Book?Mission: What’s Your Most Reread SF/F/H Book?

Today we asked what is the science fiction, fantasy or horror book you go back to again and again? Which book sparks your imagination or speaks to you so clearly that you will be continuing to reread it again and again? We got some great answers from authors Bill Crider and Scott A. Cupp, illustrator [Read it all...]

Three Views of ArmadilloCon 32Three Views of ArmadilloCon 32

The bar scene at ArmadilloCon: Not quite as odd as the bar scene in "Star Wars," but still full of strange characters. Among them (left to right), SF Signal's John DeNardo, author Joe McKinney, Adventures in SciFi Publishing's Brent Bowen, and author/scholar Matt Cardin.

Joe McKinney

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Sanford Allen Interrogated in InnsmouthSanford Allen Interrogated in Innsmouth

Dark fantasy and horror writer Sanford Allen was interviewed recently by the Innsmouth Free Press as part of their Micro-Interview series. Allen coughs up answers to three questions about a favorite subject: HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Sanford Allen’s story, “Kali Yuga”, can be found in the June 2010 fiction issue of Innsmouth Free Press.

The [Read it all...]

Can An Action Movie Be Smart?Can An Action Movie Be Smart?

With the new movie Inception lighting up the cineplexes there is a lot of buzz about so-called Smart Action movies. A movie with edge of your seat thrills that also works your brain. Is this possible? Several sites have put up lists, including this dreadful one at IGN. We asked some folks who might better [Read it all...]

What we're reading: July 2010 What we’re reading: July 2010

Every newspaper, magazine and blog seems to be running a summer reading list right about now. So who needs another one? You do, friends. How many, we ask, are going to be as chock-full of geeky and creepy goodness as ours?

John Picacio

“Plus or Minus” by James Patrick Kelly

Just finished reading a short [Read it all...]

Mission: What's Your Favorite 'Weird Western'?Mission: What’s Your Favorite ‘Weird Western’?

The new Jonah Hex movie shoots up the big screen this weekend and that got us thinking about one of our favorite SF subgenres…the Weird Western. San Antonio and South Texas have borne witness to hundreds of years of western weirdness so we decided to ask about your favorite Weird Western: book, movie, comic whatever. We [Read it all...]

Best SF Album Art of the DecadeBest SF Album Art of the Decade

Your humble missionaries don’t just love SF and Fantasy…we love music too. And we especially love it when these two worlds collide. We’ve run articles before about our favorite SF album cover art and turned up many of the usual suspects: Iron Maiden, Yes, Hawkwind, Molly Hatchet. But these albums all came out years…nay, decades…ago. [Read it all...]

‘Burma Jukebox’ now online at Big Pulp

My short story “Burma Jukebox” is available now in the online magazine BIG PULP. Just look for it on the magazine’s front page.

“Burma” tells the story of what may well be the creepiest honky tonk bar in the Southwest. Think of it as the “Twilight Zone” meets “Hee-Haw.”

Big Pulp celebrates the full gamut [Read it all...]