Daily Archives: June 6, 2012
Dear Dayton, Ohio: YOU ARE SO VERY NEXT
Posted on June 6, 2012 16 Comments
Just a reminder to people living and and near the Dayton, Ohio metropolitan area: Tomorrow, June 7 at 7pm, I will be at Books & Co in the Greene. I will be browsing for books! And also reading and answering questions and signing books and attacking random passersby with spoons, and, you know, stuff like […]
On the Passing of Ray Bradbury: “Meeting the Wizard”
Posted on June 6, 2012 66 Comments
As many of my readers know by now, Ray Bradbury, science fiction grandmaster, has passed away. To note the day, and what he meant to me, Subterranean Press has graciously allowed me to reprint here my introduction to its edition of Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. It’s called “Meeting the Wizard”. —- When I was twelve […]
The Big Idea: Warren Hammond
Posted on June 6, 2012 21 Comments
And now, for some perspective on the perspective of science fiction, here’s author Warren Hammond to talk a little bit about his latest novel, KOP Killer. WARREN HAMMOND: The big idea for the KOP series is science fiction from a Third-World perspective. If there’s a weakness in our genre, it might be the fact that […]
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