{"id":2025,"date":"2012-11-20T22:34:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T22:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2012-12-03T04:40:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T04:40:15","slug":"rayguns-over-texas-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/11\/20\/rayguns-over-texas-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Rayguns over Texas UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2027\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/files\/2012\/11\/rayguns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2027\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/files\/2012\/11\/rayguns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/files\/2012\/11\/rayguns.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/files\/2012\/11\/rayguns-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Design by <a href=\"http:\/\/sarafelix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Felix<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the followers of my <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RickKlaw\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112221823742825967423\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a> feeds know, I&#8217;ve been hard at work on a new anthology.\u00a0<em>Rayguns Over Texas<\/em>, an anthology of original science fiction by TX authors, is scheduled for release at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarcon3.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">LoneStarCon 3<\/a> (aka the 2013 Science Fiction Worldcon in San Antonio, TX). This will be the first major collection of original science fiction by Texas authors since the legendary\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isfdb.org\/cgi-bin\/pl.cgi?20574\" target=\"_blank\">Lone Star Universe<\/a>\u00a0(1976).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Currently the volume consists of seven stories. The final book\u00a0should\u00a0feature approximately 20 tales.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Defenders of Beeman County&#8221; by Aaron Allston<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;TimeOut&#8221; by Neal Barret, Jr.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Babylon Moon&#8221; by Matthew Bey<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;La Bamba Boulevard&#8221; by Bradley Denton<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Grey Goo and You&#8221; by Derek Austin Johnson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Nostalgia Differential&#8221; by Michael Moorcock<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Avoiding the Cold War&#8221; by Josh Rountree<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Expect many more announcements\/updates over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As the followers of my Twitter and Google+ feeds know, I&#8217;ve been hard at work on a new anthology.\u00a0Rayguns Over Texas, an anthology of original science fiction by TX authors, is scheduled for release at LoneStarCon 3 (aka the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/11\/20\/rayguns-over-texas-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-rayguns-over-texas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - 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