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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists for this year and we’re pleased as punch to report that STARPORT has been nominated in the Illustrated and Art Book category.  Illustrated by our very own in house Art Director Raya Golden and published by Random House this Sci Fi comedy adaptation of a Television pilot is a fun ride into a lighter alternate universe where aliens have discovered Earth.

Memberships to the Locus Awards can be found by following the link belo...

New Mexico has begun to reopen — cautiously, step by step — from its lockdown, and that includes at least one of my own enterprises.

Beastly Books, my bookshop on Montezuma Street, opened its doors again on June 2, for coffee, hot chocolate, and — of course — signed books.   We are not doing any author events at present, except the virtual kind, and we are taking every precaution, with masks, sanitizers, limits on the numbers of people allowed in the shop at one time, and so forth.   We shall se...

History buffs, baseball fans, and Wild Carders alike will enjoy the newest post on the Wild Cards blog, John Jos. Miller’s “Annotated Long Night at the Palmer House,” touching on all the references, hidden and fictional, in his acclaimed LOW CHICAGO interstitial.

The Annotated “A Long Night At The Palmer House”

When he is not writing Wild Cards stories or watching the New York Mets, John is a huge fan of… ah… strange cinema.   Of late he has been doing some fun blog posts for our friends over ...

My theatre in Santa Fe, the Jean Cocteau Cinema, has been closed up as part of the coronavirus lockdown in New Mexico.

But I’ve kept my staff on, and they’ve been busy working virtually… on our JCC YouTube channel (among other things).

Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwZDqU56IzUFXmzpMF4jRRg  — and give us your thumbs if you enjoy what you see.

Among other offerings, the site includes video of most of the other events we’ve done in the past year or, featuring a wide range of terr...

We lived in an apartment when I was a kid, in the federal housing projects on First Street in Bayonne, New Jersey.   We did not have much money, and we did not have much room.   One Christmas, I decided I wanted a set of Lionel electric trains.   Santa brought them to me, good guy that he was.  It was years later that I learned that they were hand-me-down trains that had originally belonged to my cousin Richie.  He was a few years older than me, and had outgrown toys.  By then he was more intere...

Check out the splendid collectors editions of A Song of Ice and Fire from @foliosociety, they are truly masterpieces of the bookmakers art. The second edition A Clash of Kings has just been released heres a look at some of the books stunning artwork by Jonathan Burton.

www.foliosociety.com/asongoficeandfire

Heres some more great attention these collectors editions are getting:

How The Folio Society designs its gorgeous collectors editions of Game of Thrones

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Marko Klooss new Wild Cards story, Berlin Is Never Berlin, went up this morning on Tor.com.

Khan is back, and kicking ass.   Check it out.   Its FREE.   Be sure to leave a comment.

Berlin Is Never Berlin

If you missed Khans first appearance, hunt up a copy of LOW CHICAGO.   Hes our cover guy.   Autographed copies are available from Beastly Books via mailorder.   https://jeancocteaucinema.com/product-category/signed-books/

I hope all of you reading this are safe and snug and socially distant....

Hey, Wild Carders.  Theres a cool new interview up on the Wild Cards website, wherein Brad Denton, one of the newest members of the consortium, talks with Howard Waldrop, one of the originals author of the very first Wild Cards story, Thirty Minutes Over Broadway.

If youve ever wondered how Jetboys last adventure came to be, who actually wrote his final words, or how Hard pissed off Roger Zelazny, the worlds nicest man, this is the interview for you.

Of course, it is all done on the...

Something old, something new, and something else new are in the offing for all you Wild Cards fans out there.

April 28 was the official publication date for Tors trade paperback reissue of TEXAS HOLD EM, the third book in our America Triad.   Hop on the bus with the Amazing Bubbles, Rubberband, Rustbelt, and the Jokertown Mob and travel down to San Antonio for a high school jazz competition like none you have ever seen before!   Copies will be on sale at your local bookstore (which is...