So the Nebula awards are coming to Austin this April and I’ve already bought my weeny membership-only pass. That’s right, no awards banquet for me. I’ll probably be down the street at Lovejoys, drinking their barley-wine homebrew, waiting for the post-banquet parties to start up.
For the first time ever, there’s going to be a sci-fi con that’s close enough to where I live that I can stumble home on foot at the end of the night if I’m to uncoordinated to ride my bicycle.
To celebrate the auspiciousness of such an auspicious institution coming to Austin, SPACE SQUID is going to release issue #5 at the awards con. There will be a party of course, and maybe other events and festivities. A new "Slacker Map of Austin" is in the works, this time with greatly expanded content including an in-depth guide to the "entertainment district."
Does it make me a poor citizen of Austin if I can’t use the term "entertainment district" without quotation marks?
We’re all looking forward to SPACE SQUID issue #5. There will be a funpage of course (always my favorite part), cartoons, and lots of fiction from the likes of Austin’s own Melissa Tyler.
SPACE SQUID officially congratulates former SPACE SQUID contributor Jennifer Pelland for her Nebula nomination. Her nominated story is online at Helix, and her story "Clone Barbecue" is in Space Squid #2.
