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Mission Control, on August 31st, 2010
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 interview [Read it all...]
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Mission Control, on July 28th, 2010
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...]
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Sanford Allen, on July 2nd, 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 story by Nebula [Read it all...]
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Mission Control, on June 18th, 2010
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...]
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Sanford Allen, on June 1st, 2010
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 of genre [Read it all...]
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Mission Control, on May 7th, 2010
While all of us at Missions Unknown like different aspects of SF, one thing we all agree on is that we love to read. Thomas Jefferson famously said, ”I cannot live without books.” While we may not be as extreme as our favorite founding father, books are an integral part of our psyche. That said, here [Read it all...]
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Mission Control, on March 16th, 2010
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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Sanford Allen, on January 13th, 2010
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...]
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Mission Control, on December 31st, 2009
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...]