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Rick Klaw

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Professional reviewer, geek maven, and optimistic curmudgeon, Richard “Rick” Klaw was the co-editor of the groundbreaking original anthology of short fiction in graphic form, Weird Business and co-founder of Mojo Press, one of the first publishers to produce both graphic novels and prose books. He also served as the initial fiction editor for RevolutionSF. Over the past decade, Klaw has written countless reviews, essays, and fiction for a variety of publications including The Austin Chronicle , Blastr, Moving Pictures Magazine, San Antonio Current , The Horn, Geek Dad, San Antonio Business Journal , Conversations With Texas Writers , The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy , King Kong Is Back , Fa ...more

Other Worlds 2021 preview: Day Four

Returning for an eight exciting year, Other Worlds, one of the premier SciFi Film Festivals in the US, features some of the best and unheralded genre films. Beginning on Thursday December 2 at Austin’s Galaxy Highland 10, the four day event includes over 25 feature films, a slew of shorts, a screenwriting workshop, and the Mary Shelley Award. This year also features an additional five days of virt

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The Steampunk Bible

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Steampunk

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The Big Book of Hap and Leo...

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Geek Confidential: Echoes f...

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Gangland (1998) #4 (of 4)

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The Protectors

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“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

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“I guess I’m like the venerable old warrior Chief of the Great Six Nations, who announced his retirement by saying, “I am like an old hemlock. My head is still high, but the winds of close to a hundred winters have whistled through my branches, and I have been witness to many wondrous and many tragic things. My eyes perceive the present, but my roots are imbedded deeply in the grandeur of the past.”
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“In those days, you know, the Indian was in the position of a minority group. Still is, for that matter. Nowadays, you can’t ridicule an Irishman on the television, you can’t ridicule a Jew, and you can’t ridicule a Negro. But they can kill us all the time—make everything out of us they want. Every night you see them on the television—killing us Indians. That’s all they do. That’s one reason I don’t look at anything but a ball game or the news on the television. I like the ball games and the news, but after the news, then comes the killing. Those things I don’t like to talk about. I see them…I know them…but I don’t like to talk about them.”
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Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein
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As a woman in tech, this one hit close to home, and both horrified and astounded me… AI is scary. Especially generative AI, and perhaps this book takes place in the not-so-distant future or perhaps it’s eons away, but regardless it feels as" Read more of this review »
Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison
"Very well done, nice and short. Definitely has a vibe like The Boys from Brazil, but it's not just a thriller like that and is mostly from the boys' viewpoint. Characters are well drawn and the premise is expanded upon nicely." Read more of this review »
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Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison
"Meg Elison has taken a disturbing what if... and turned it into a satirical novella about techbros with god-like money and the political acumen of elementary school textbooks cloning three of our Founding Fathers to usher in a short-sighted Ameri-top" Read more of this review »
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Noran Miss Pumkin http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/m...
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Article from rolling stones I thought you might like to read. :)


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Noran Miss Pumkin Just wanted to stop in and wish you the best of the holiday season! Merry Christmas!-Noran
Hammond,IN :)
My co-worker did not believe i knew you - so no cool factor-i was not going for that. I was trying to talk about her history, while they were focusing on the usual E! gossip crap. They then moved onto Brad Pitt's lip hair-i kid you not! I work to save lives, and they giggle about this stuff.


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Rick Glad I could help with your "cool" factor among your friends. Don't they have more interesting things to concern themselves with?


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Noran Miss Pumkin people were talking at work this weekend about Bettie-so i told them about you and your grandfather. They could not believe i knew you via Goodreads! Sure
Noran--good for you. silly fools and little lives, watch twight movies and the hills-whatever that is-I only know about from watching The Soup!
Merry Christmas /Happy Holidays!


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Noran Miss Pumkin December 6, 2008

LOS ANGELES - Bettie Page, one of the most notable models of the 20th century, is hospitalized in intensive care after suffering a heart attack in Los Angeles.

Mark Roesler, Page's agent and attorney, says the 85-year-old is "critically ill."

He says she suffered a heart attack Tuesday and remains hospitalized.

He would not comment further on her condition.


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Noran Miss Pumkin Just
read up on your grandfather--very impressive. What a history!


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