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[Greg Cox]

Finished "The Colossus from the Crater" last night and fired it off to Monstrous magazine for their comments.

This is the sci-fi horror story about a thirty-foot-tall mummy running amok on an alien moon I promised to write back in August.

My inspiration? Curiously enough, kaiju-sized mummies are a recurring theme on horror movie posters, but only symbolically, alas.

I couldn't resist making it literal for once.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I couldn't resist making it literal for once.

I think I've done that once or twice. Of course we both have a lot of catching up to do, before we're anywhere close to the Zucker Brothers.

 

[Christopher]

My inspiration? Curiously enough, kaiju-sized mummies are a recurring theme on horror movie posters, but only symbolically, alas.

I couldn't resist making it literal for once.

The Super Sentai/Power Rangers franchise has had occasional mummy-themed monsters that have grown to giant size for the climactic giant-robot fights, for instance:

Morgumorgu

Morgumorgu (モルグモルグ, Morugumorugu) is a mummy-themed Majin of the Space Pirates Balban under Spectral Empress Iliess. Morgumorgu is a mummy-themed Majin. He intended to revive Daitanix using the extracted beauty of 81 virgins. He can wrap his bandages around women's faces and steal/extract their...

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Mummy Minosaur

The Mummy Minosaur (ミイラマイナソー, Miira Mainasō) is a mummy-themed Minosaur monster from the Warfare Tribe Druidon, created from the negative emotions of Mioko Karino, the Prime Minister of Japan who was a member of the Ryusoul Tribe, based on her desire to die alongside her aging human lover...

powerrangers.fandom.com

 

[Greg Cox]

The Super Sentai/Power Rangers franchise has had occasional mummy-themed monsters that have grown to giant size for the climactic giant-robot fights, for instance:

Morgumorgu

Morgumorgu (モルグモルグ, Morugumorugu) is a mummy-themed Majin of the Space Pirates Balban under Spectral Empress Iliess. Morgumorgu is a mummy-themed Majin. He intended to revive Daitanix using the extracted beauty of 81 virgins. He can wrap his bandages around women's faces and steal/extract their...

powerrangers.fandom.com

Mummy Minosaur

The Mummy Minosaur (ミイラマイナソー, Miira Mainasō) is a mummy-themed Minosaur monster from the Warfare Tribe Druidon, created from the negative emotions of Mioko Karino, the Prime Minister of Japan who was a member of the Ryusoul Tribe, based on her desire to die alongside her aging human lover...

powerrangers.fandom.com

I confess I'm more familiar with the Universal Monsters and Hammer Horror mummies.

 

[KRAD]

Today is the official release day for the hardcover and eBook of my new urban fantasy series Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD Book 1: The Thin Blue Ley-Line! Ordering links (as well as cover, flap copy, and an excerpt) can be found here.

 

[David Mack]

Congrats!

 

[Christopher]

As usual, the folks at Analog Science Fiction and Fact asked me to write an essay for their blog, The Astounding Analog Companion, to accompany my new novella “Aleyara’s Flight.” Rather than do the kind of Q&A piece I’ve generally done before, it occurred to me to adapt some of my extensive history notes about Aleyara’s species, the Biauru, and the world they inhabit, to give some extra insight into their world and culture. Check it out here:

In an Alien Past: The History Behind “Aleyara’s Flight”

by Christopher L. Bennett In this special blog post, delve into the worldbuilding behind the Biauru, Christopher L. Bennett’s alien species that features in some of his newest work for Analog…

theastoundinganalogcompanion.com

 

[Greg Cox]

Just spent the last couple days proofing the galleys for my first short-story collection, Dubious Pleasures, which is coming out in February, in conjunction with Boskone.

The book collects a bunch of my original fiction, some dating back forty years or so, and, re-reading them now, was quite the trip down Memory Lane. And, yes, you can tell some of the older stories were written back in the early eighties, both from the pop culture references (Flashdance, Annie Hall, Madonna) and the technology: typewriters, noisy dot-matrix printers, floppy disks, mimeographs, newsstands.

How time flies!

 

[FredH]

Finished "The Colossus from the Crater" last night and fired it off to Monstrous magazine for their comments.

This is the sci-fi horror story about a thirty-foot-tall mummy running amok on an alien moon I promised to write back in August.

My inspiration? Curiously enough, kaiju-sized mummies are a recurring theme on horror movie posters, but only symbolically, alas.

I couldn't resist making it literal for once.

I’m a couple of months late to this, but I think you may have just sold Monstrous magazine to me…

 

[KRAD]

If you haven't picked up my new novel Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD Book 1: The Thin Blue Ley-Line, now's your chance to get the eBook for cheapsies! It's on sale from all eBook retailers (Amazon, B&N, Kobo, etc.) for only $1.99 -- more info and links at this post on my blog.

 

[Greg Cox]

Got an update today on Vonda McIntyre's final novel (not Trek-related).

The Curve of the World is coming out on May 15th from Aqueduct Press. Here's the synopsis:

"Set in an alternate Minoan civilization, the novel follows ship captain Iakinthu on her journey from the Mediterranean Sea to the northwest coast of North America, where she encounters pirates and treacherous royals, and discovers that trust can be built between unlikely allies."

 

[FredH]

Got an update today on Vonda McIntyre's final novel (not Trek-related).

The Curve of the World is coming out on May 15th from Aqueduct Press. Here's the synopsis:

"Set in an alternate Minoan civilization, the novel follows ship captain Iakinthu on her journey from the Mediterranean Sea to the northwest coast of North America, where she encounters pirates and treacherous royals, and discovers that trust can be built between unlikely allies."

Well I’m sold, if there’s an ebook edition!

 

[Greg Cox]

Well I’m sold, if there’s an ebook edition!

I don't know about that either way. I'm not involved in the project. Just saw a notice in a Clarion West newsletter this afternoon.

 

[Christopher]

These days, I'd think it would be more likely for a novel to be e-book-only than print-only.

 

[FredH]

These days, I'd think it would be more likely for a novel to be e-book-only than print-only.

You’d think, but I’ve been surprised by some that are still print-only.

 

[Greg Cox]

After various delays, I'm proud to announce that Dubious Pleasures -- my first short-story collection -- is now in print and can be ordered from NESFA Press. Received my author copies just last week!

The book is broken into three parts -- Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror -- and features sword-and-sorcery, space opera, time-travel, cyberpunk, comedy, more than its fair share of vampires, and even a were-salmon, who swims upstream to spawn under the light of the full moon.

And, oh yes, a gorgeous cover painted by Charles Urbach.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Congratulations!

I'll probably order a copy sometime next month.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

You'll be happy to know, Mr. Cox, that I've stuck a large, day-glo pink, Post-It Note on next month's page of my office calendar, reminding me to do what I said.

And yes, it's a very nice cover. Right up there with what Darrell Sweet did for so many ADF novels, and what Michael Herring did -- based on John R. Neill illustrations -- for at least the TPB editions of the Baum Canon, when Ballantine/DelRey did the Oz books.

 

[Greg Cox]

Congratulations!

I'll probably order a copy sometime next month.

Thanks!

 

[Avro Arrow]

After various delays, I'm proud to announce that Dubious Pleasures -- my first short-story collection -- is now in print and can be ordered from NESFA Press. Received my author copies just last week!

Thanks for the heads-up! I enjoy a good short-story collection, and will be getting this as soon as that "coming soon" epub version is available.

(Sorry, I mean no disrespect, but even if I hadn't already switched to almost 100% ebooks for my non-Star Trek reading, there's no way on this planet I'm spending C$70 in shipping fees to ship a book here... And that's just the cheaper option, I also have the choice of paying C$106 for "express" shipping. )