The Cyborg Returns: Regular Programming and a Musical

I have finally settled back in from my trip to the SWTXPCA conference. If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I had a blast at the conference and expect I will attend it again in the future. There’s one more post about the SWTXPCA coming, by the way. Having returned, I will be resuming […]

The SWTXPCA Conference: Day Two (Conference Day Three)(Updated)

The second day at the SWTXPCA proved to be one hell of a long day. I’m going to split it all up by sections, since a lot happened. PanelsAnother big day for panels; I spent most of the day visiting the science fiction folks, rather than doing what a true academic does by filling his […]

The SWTXPCA Conference: Day One (Addendum)

I forgot to mention that I had the opportunity to see the most excellent Mexican science fiction film called Sleep Dealer. If you haven’t seen it, you should. It’s certainly not a perfect movie (the ending is kind of silly), but I think it is one of the best foreign SF films currently in existence, […]

The SWTXPCA Conference: Day One (Conference Day Two)

What a great way to begin a conference. The SWTXPCA Conference (31st Annual) began on Wednesday, but, due to my school schedule and other obligations, I couldn’t leave for Albuquerque until the first day of the conference. Silly me for thinking that airline travel would go smoothly. To start things off, my flight was canceled […]

Amazon (Retailer) vs. Macmillan (Publisher): Epic Battle or Silly Mistake? (Update)

(Some new links and stuff have been added on the bottom.) The short version: Amazon pulled all of Macmillan’s titles (print and otherwise) from their website due, apparently, to the publisher’s desire to raise ebook prices. Speculation says this is because Amazon wants people to buy the Kindle, making higher prices for ebooks bad news […]

RIP: J. D. Salinger

I know he wasn’t a science fiction or fantasy author, but J. D. Salinger, author of the controversial and classic Catcher in the Rye passed away yesterday. His death was apparently due to natural causes (which is a fancy way of saying “died of old age”). There’s a lot more at the link that might […]