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Teaming Up for NIGHTMARE CINEMA

This Way to Egress, a script that I’ve co-written with (Hannibal, 30 Days of Night), goes into production early next year.It’s based on my short story “Traumatic Descent.”

Yes, I’m jazzed about this.

Read more atDaily Deadand The 21st-Century Scop.

Teaming Up for NIGHTMARE CINEMA

This Way to Egress, a script that I’ve co-written with (Hannibal, 30 Days of Night), goes into production early next year.It’s based on my short story “Traumatic Descent.”

Yes, I’m jazzed about this.

Here’s the press release from Daily Dead:

Press Release: LOS ANGELES, CA, Nov. 6, 2015 – Ten years after launching his critically-acclaimed Masters of Horror series on Showtime, Mick Garris has partnered with Good Deed Entertainment for Nightmare Cinema, a collection of five stories...

Fantasy Musician Martin Springett:Ready to be Reborn

Some coolnews arrived today from fellow musician Martin Springett.

It seems that one of his early albums The Gardening Club is going to be re-released bySpace Wreck Records in 2016. This is cause for celebration.

Here’s the press release from Space Wreck:

In 1984, UK-born Martin Springett—an accomplished musician and illustrator who had produced comics for the legendary Heavy Metal magazine and designed and illustrated record covers for Columbia—was commissioned to illustrate the cover of The...

Today at PARSEC: Change at the Speed of Thought

This month’s discussion topic at PARSEC is: Science Fiction – Change at the Speed of Thought. Along the way, we’ll be considering a claimmade recently by Josh Raulerson (one of the event’s panelists) on the podcast Nanograms.

“Science fiction is imploding because all the hypotheticals are coming true.”

Should make for an interesting discussion.

Here’s a portion of the press release from the PARSEC website:

This month’s guest panel includes:

Joshua Raulerson who earned his PhD in English from...

Hearing Voices:The Sound of Fantastic Fiction at KGB

Time travel is possible.

Thanks to Gordon Linzner and Rajan Khanna, you can attend a growing listof past performances at Fantastic Fiction at KGB. The reading series is hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel, and since the 1990s it has featured readings by some of the top writers in the science fiction, fantasy, and . . . [more at The 21st-Century Scop].

Hearing Voices:The Sound of Fantastic Fiction at KGB

Time travel is possible.

Thanks to Gordon Linzner and Rajan Khanna, you can attend a growing listof past performances at Fantastic Fiction at KGB. The reading series is hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel, and since the 1990s it has featured readings by some of the top writers in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres.

Linzner (right) and Khanna can’t take you all the way back to the beginning, but their podcasts at the Fantastic Fiction audio site can easily transport you bac...

Reading with Tom Monteleone: A Night of Fantastic Fiction at KGB

We took Manhattan.

This past Wednesday, my good friend Tom Monteleone and Iperformed for anenthusiastic crowd at New York’s KGB, the literary venue in the East Village that has become known as the best literary venue in the city. That’s us (left) plotting before the show, having a sit down in a scene that looks as if it could have been composed by Martin Scorsese orJules Dassin. . . .

(Read more at The 21st-Century Scop.)

Reading with Tom Monteleone: A Night of Fantastic Fiction at KGB

We took Manhattan.

This past Wednesday, my good friend Tom Monteleone and Iperformed for anenthusiastic crowd at New York’s KGB, the literary venue in the East Village that has become known as the best literary venue in the city. That’s us (left) plotting before the show, having a sit down in a scene that looks as if it could have been composed by Martin Scorsese orJules Dassin. (It was shot by Ellen Datlow, who took many of the photos featured in this post. You can see them all full size her...

This Week @ KGB: We’ll Take Manhattan

Trust me, you won’t want to miss this month’s installment of. . . (more at The 21st-Century Scop).

This Week @ KGB: We’ll Take Manhattan

Trust me, you won’t want to miss this month’s installment of Fantastic Fiction at the KGB.

The placehas been named thebest literary venue in New York City by New York Magazine, the Village Voice, and others. And since the 1990s, the Fantastic Fiction Serieshas been the premier showcase for live readings in the sf/f/h genre.

Past readings have featured the like of Joyce Carol Oates, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Scott Westerfeld, Kelly Link, China Miéville, Nancy Kress, and others. And this w...