We saw an article on the brilliant io9 site with the provocative title Don’t Remake These 21 Movies, Film These Books Instead! This piece really hit home for us at Missions Unknown. We love great SF movies almost as much as we love great SF literature. Almost. You really can’t help being embarrassed as a [Read it all...]
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Don't mess with Kali Maa. I just got word that my short story “Kali Yuga” will be appearing in the upcoming “Multiethnic Issue” of INNSMOUTH FREE PRESS. IFP is an online publication that features both short fiction inspired by H.P. LOVECRAFT and fictional newspaper reports set in the author’s universe. My story is the former: a classic weird tale [Read it all...] With 2009 drawing to a close, we naturally have a tendency to look back upon the year that was. We have our favorite genre-related media: books, TV, movies, comics, games and more. We asked around too and got some additional input from Doctor Who Fans Unite’s Crystal Shedrock-Rangel, KiDDandGEEZER’s Frank Zieglar, James Hartz from Film [Read it all...] When we saw on SF Signal that they were asking for your favorite SF/Fantasy book covers we knew we had to chime in with our picks. But then we realized that some of our favorite SF/F artists also did album covers and we realized we had to go there too. Today we present our picks [Read it all...] (l to r): Sanford Allen is grateful MOON didn't suck; John Picacio gives thanks for a Chesley Award win for his FF2 cover art; and Paul Vaughn is preparing for the first Thanksgiving on Mars. Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it, from all of us here at Missions Unknown! Hope your day is filled [Read it all...] Centipede Press unveils the massive Stephen King artbook KNOWING DARKNESS: ARTISTS INSPIRED BY STEPHEN KING at the 2009 World Fantasy Convention. Pictured here: Me (left pg.) and Bob Eggleton's (right pg.) original Stephen King-inspired images featured exclusively in the book. The 2009 World Fantasy Convention happened this past weekend in San Jose, CA. It was [Read it all...] The FIFTY-TWO STITCHES anthology is almost out, and it’s aleady drawn a positive review from HORROR DRIVE-IN. That’s good news, of course, because the book features my story “The Regular.” This is my second story for a STRANGE PUBLICATIONS anthology, and I’m sure they’ve once again done a fine job. Strange is turning out to [Read it all...] MISSIONS UNKNOWN’s own John Picacio and Sanford Allen ventured to Armadillocon 31 in Austin, TX this past weekend and brought back the following iPhone snapshots. Here’s a little bit of flavor from the longest-running literary sf/fantasy convention in Texas. (l to r): MICHAEL MOORCOCK makes a surprise appearance to present the Jack Trevor Prize to Howard [Read it all...] The literary site FICTION AT WORK has selected one of my flash fiction pieces, “Unlike a Horror Movie,” for its weekly Short Shorts feature. It’s more of an existential tale of terror than a conventional horror story. Hope you enjoy it, even if there aren’t any ghosts or ax murders. My tale of fundamentalist fear, ”Whatsoever a Man Soweth,” is now online in the summer issue of Tales from the Moonlit Path. It was inspired by a nightmare last fall, when it actually looked like Sarah Palin might end up a heartbeat away from the U.S.presidency. I racked up 16 rejection letters before I finally found [Read it all...] |
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