Two of these I picked up at Armadillocon, one at Half Price Books:
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Library Additions: Three TPOs
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019Library Additions: Books Bought at Armadillocon
Monday, September 4th, 2017The giant library post crowded out my updating a few purchases, starting with these books, all of which I picked up at Armadillocon:
Rayguns Over Texas Contents Set
Thursday, January 10th, 2013The final contents of Rick Klaw’s Rayguns Over Texas has been announced:
“Pet Rock” by Sanford Allen “Defenders of Beeman County” by Aaron Allston “TimeOut” by Neal Barret, Jr. “Babylon Moon” by Matthew Bey “Sovereign Wealth” by Chris N. Brown “La Bamba Boulevard” by Bradley Denton “The Atmosphere Man” by Nicky Drayden “Operators Are Standing By” by Rhonda Eudaly “Take a Left at the Cretaceous” by Mark Finn “Grey Goo and You” by Derek Austin Johnson “Rex” by Joe R. Lansdale “Texas Died for Somebody’s Sins But Not Mine” by Stina Leicht “Jump the Black” by Marshall Ryan Maresca “An Afternoon’s Nap, or; Five Hundred Years Ahead” by Aurelia Hadley Mohl “The Nostalgia Differential” by Michael Moorcock “Novel Properties of Certain Complex Alkaloids” by Lawrence Person “The Chambered Eye” by Jessica Reisman “Avoiding the Cold War” by Josh Rountree “The Art of Absence” by Don Webb
Congrats to my fellow writers for making the cut, and for Aurelia Hadley Mohl for not letting the fact that she died over a hundred years ago slow her down!
Book Signing and Party for Three Messages and a Warning
Sunday, January 29th, 2012I attended a signing at BookPeople for Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, co-edited by Turkey City’s own Chris Brown (formerly Chris Nakashima-Brown, now renamed after a long and painful de-Japanization process).
The event was fairly well attended, with about 40-50 people showing up.
Two of the authors flew up for the event: Pepe Rojo of Tijuana:
And Bernardo Fernandez of Mexico City (who also works as a graphics artist and teacher, as well as a crime writer):
(I’m not sure if you can tell, but Bernardo’s shirt features a robot (or possibly an android) and an electric sheep.) I believe he mentioned that he was working on a graphic novel about William S. Burrough’s time in Mexico. I bet it ends with a bang.
I also found it interesting that both of their fathers were engineers.
In attendance were also many members of the Austin SF community, including a few that my pictures of weren’t completely awful:
Stina Leicht and Sara Felix.
Jessica Reisman, a few moments before the police arrested her for the Hollywood scriptwriter they found dead facedown in her pool.
On Saturday, there was a party at Chris Brown’s newly opened East Austin hipster-pad-cum-1970s-science-fiction-movie-set. Sadly, none of my photos of the house (taken at dusk) came out well. But I did get a few pics of the party attendees:
Don Webb, who co-edited one of the most influential Spanish-language anthologies of speculative fiction, for which he was paid $50 and three bottles of Tequila.
Stina and Jessica redux.
The rest of my pictures were various degrees of crappy. (Hopefully Jayme Blaschke, who was there with a bigger, better camera, will put some up.) Sadly, one picture that didn’t come out was that of Bernardo wearing a t-shirt depicting Mexico’s most famous science fiction character: Bender Bending Rodriguez.
Finally, no expects the Spanish Steampunk Zeppelin!
