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I turned in the completed Rayguns Over Texas earlier this week. Weighing in at nearly 100,000 words, the all Texas writers anthology contains 17 original stories, 2 reprinted tales, 2 introductions, a history of Texas science fiction, and 3 appendices.

Table of Contents

• Texas Over Rayguns by Bruce Sterling
• It’s All Lew’s Fault by Richard Klaw
• Books Are My Thing: Adventures in Texas Science Fiction by Scott A. Cupp
• Babylon Moon by Matthew Bey
• Texas Died for Somebody’s Sins But Not Mine by Stina Leicht
• The Nostalgia Differential by Michael Moorcock
• Novel Properties of Certain Complex Alkaloids by Lawrence Person
• Rex by Joe R. Lansdale
• The Atmosphere Man by Nicky Drayden
• La Bamba Boulevard by Bradley Denton
• Operators are Standing By by Rhonda Eudaly
• The Art of Absence by Don Webb
• An Afternoon’s Nap, or; Five Hundred Years Ahead by Aurelia Hadley Mohl
• Grey Goo and You by Derek Austin Johnson
• Defenders of Beeman County by Aaron Allston
• Sovereign Wealth by Chris N. Brown
• Jump the Black by Marshall Ryan Maresca
• Timeout by Neal Barret, Jr.
• Pet Rock by Sanford Allen
• Take a Left at the Cretaceous by Mark Finn
• The Chambered Eye by Jessica Reisman
• Best Energies by Josh Rountree
• Appendix A: The Essential Texas Writers
• Appendix B: Other Texas Writers You Should Check Out
• Appendix C: The Essential Texas Artists

Rayguns Over Texas, a FACT publication, will premiere at LoneStarCon 3 (aka The 71st Annual World Science Fiction Convention) in San Antonio, TX, August 29 – September 2 2013.