Monthly Archives: June 2009

Let’s take a look at what’s come in the mail at the squid compound. A button, postcard, and sticker from Paul T. Riddell of the Texas Triffid Ranch.

It’s been a hundred degrees here in Austin for about a week now, and there’s no end in sight. Hardly a moment has gone by that I wasn’t drenched in sweat. At this time of year I always muse on … Continue reading →

My food-frakking deputy, Julia, and I took a four-day road trip up to Portland last week. Sometimes I forget just how huge America is. Basically there’s absolutely nothing between here and there, and it just goes on forever. For instance, … Continue reading →

I pushed through last night and I read through about two months of slushpile backlog. So if you’ve sent in a submission before right now and you haven’t heard from me, then something’s wrong and you should give me a … Continue reading →

I recently talked about Things to Come, a classic 1930s sci-fi film based on the H.G. Wells novel. It was so good that I then sought out The Shape of Things to Come, the 1970s sci-fi film that’s not so … Continue reading →

I just wanted to point out that this blog has now surpassed one point five million "visits." That’s equivalent to everyone in the Greater Austin Metropolitan area looking at one of my blog entries. Which I am sure is exactly … Continue reading →

I’ve been meaning to blog about the Austin artist known as Palfloat, but I’ve been putting it off because I can’t imagine doing him justice. He’s a friend of the Space Squid crew, and we’ve been meaning to publish some … Continue reading →

The author of the recent fiction piece on RevSF, Camille Alexa: is going to have a reading at BookWoman on Thursday. This is a Space Squid-Endorsed event. Here’s the info: A reading by Camille Alexa from her new collection, "Push … Continue reading →