Wow, this is a good week for awards news here. SFSignal has the list of the 2009 ASIMOV’S and ANALOG Readers Polls. Both magazines announced their winners at this weekend’s Nebula Awards festivities. Very cool — I tied for first place, along with Tomasz Maronski, for Best Cover Artist in the ASIMOV’s Readers Poll! Hurray!…
Good news — the 2009 Locus Award Finalist List went out yesterday. I’m one of the five finalists in the Artist category! Here’s the Artist list: Bob EggletonJohn PicacioShaun TanMichael WhelanCharles Vess The Locus Award winners will be announced in late June in Seattle. I’m thrilled and honored to be in this year’s top five…
There’s a slogan about my hometown of San Antonio, and it always irks me when I hear it. “Keep San Antonio Lame”. The slogan’s been around for about five years or so, and it’s supposed to be a pseudo-hipster ironic cash-in on the Austin slogan “Keep Austin Weird”. Ironic or not, it reinforces a conservative…
Very cool. Pyr has posted the prologue and first three chapters of Mark Chadbourn’s AGE OF MISRULE: BOOK 1 — WORLD’S END. Early reviews for the new Pyr edition are starting to roll in. Here’s some Chadbourn love, courtesy of Neth Space.
Ever wanted to vote for the Hugo Awards but didn’t because you couldn’t experience the nominated choices (or at least the vast majority of them)? Well — this year, you can. John Scalzi has the details about how you can grab a treasure trove of free 2009 Hugo-nominated reading and visuals for your very own.…
Was browsing Borders Books at Alamo Quarry this past weekend and spotted Mark Chadbourn’s AGE OF MISRULE: BOOK 1 — WORLD’S END. Nice to see it out in stores now. Not only was it in the SF/Fantasy section, but it’s front and center on the store’s prominent New Fiction shelf. Up on the genre shelf,…
Editor Marty Halpern remembers the late, great George Alec Effinger over at MORE RED INK. Check it out. I love the quote up in the masthead — Jeff Ford on Marty Halpern as editor: “If Marty were Moses, God would be seeing some red ink.” Hysterical. LOL 🙂 ‘Looking forward to the next two parts…
Got word today that my cover illustration for Michael Moorcock’s ELRIC: THE SLEEPING SORCERESS was selected for SPECTRUM: THE BEST IN CONTEMPORARY FANTASTIC ART #16. I’d heard a few weeks ago that one of my works was selected, but didn’t know which one, until today. Very cool! 🙂 SPECTRUM #16 should be available this November.
Well, there’s good news, and then there’s even better news for fantasy lovers and book collectors everywhere. First, the most exciting news — the AGE OF MISRULE is finally here in the US. Mark Chadbourn’s AGE OF MISRULE: BOOK ONE / WORLD’S END is back from the printer and it looks gorgeous. This is the…
I’ve known this for a couple of months now, but thought it was worth mentioning for anyone who doesn’t already know. SF legend Frederik Pohl is a blogger. I guess that’s not that remarkable except that: 1. it’s must-reading when one of the seminal writers of sf shares his thoughts publicly. 2. he’s 89 years…