As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I watched the two movies produced by HPL HS:  The silent Call of Cthulhu, and the black and white Whisperer in the Darkness.

These two stories rekindled an interest in Lovecraft and I dug up some of my old books (I hadn't read a lot of this stuff since 1989-90) and dug into some of my favorite stories.  A few ( Read more... )

I (Adrian Simmons) will be having a reading on Friday night at 10:00pm in the San Marcos room at ArmadilloCon in Austin. 

ArmadilloCon in Austin leans heavily on my experience as a swords & sorcery editor to have me talk about NOTHING SWORD AND SORCERY related!

My (Adrian Simmons) schedule for the weekend:

Fr2100SA What sciences haven't been used yet in sf?
Fri 9:00 PM-10:00 PM San Antonio
M. Dimond*, J. Perez, A. Simmons, S. White
Astronomy and physics are the heart of ( Read more... )

We've got our fourth year at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly off to a great start with a full cargo of three stories and two poems, almost all from HFQ alums!

Check it out!

So this weekend I (Adrian S) will be at SoonerCon pushing HFQ, Scrumbrawl, and various and sundry.

The schedule? Behold!

Friday, 2pm,
Science vs. Magic:  Arthur C. Clarke's 3 Laws of Prediction In the Modern  Communication Age

Saturday, 10am
Conan, John Carter& Everything Old is New Again:  The Resurgence of Heroic Fantasy

Saturday, 5pm
Modern Mythos:  ( Read more... )

Heroic Fantasy Quartery is open for submissions during the month of June.  Submissions guidelines here.

I went on a solo backpacking trip a couple of weeks ago.  I hauled 35 pounds of stuff with me over 23 miles ( Read more... )

As we mentioned in HFQ issue 11, our co-editor William Ledbetter was a winner in one of the quarters of the Writers of the Future Contest for 2011.  All the winners get to go to the week long workshop in Los Angeles and the award banquet where the final winner is announced.

So William's been elbow deep in the workshop for four days now, check it ( Read more... )

After two and a half years, HFQ switched to being open one month per quarter for fiction.  Our first submissions period under the new policy was the month of March.  We got 115 submissions, roughly (there are some queries for artwork and other things mixed in).  I was actually thinking we'd get around 150, but that shows what I know ( Read more... )

When I first heard about the John Carter movie, I was torn.  On the one hand, it made me feel welcome, as it was clearly made for those in-the-know as they didn't bother to put "of Mars" or "of Barsoom" or any of that in the title.    On the other hand, that certainly was a foolish way to market a movie.

And, as you may have heard, John Carter did ( Read more... )