I wanted to post a few photos from the recent Space Squid excursion to College Station. Because it was the official hand-over of the clay tablet issue to the Cushing science fiction archive, we had to make it a huge production with a bunch of Space Squid contributors tagging along to take a tour of the archive and witness the somber transition of ownership.
How do you know when you get to Texas A&M?
Hehehehehe.
The archive is held inside giant, mechanical sliding bookshelves.
A crew of science fiction writers perusing the many rare editions reminded me a little of kids in a toy shop.
Note, the third or fourth largest science fiction research archive in the world uses the term "sci-fi."
So all of you who want us to use "spec fic" or "skiffy" instead can just bite it.
Hey, Superdave, look! Utopia!
So that’s where you catalog the Necronomicon.
I think the paperback is slightly scarier than the human-skin edition.
A veritable tower of Dick.
The cuneiform cone was close to the size I imagined.
The tablet however was much smaller.
Here’s the historic handover of the Space Squid clay tablet issue.
And of course, any trip to College Station requires a stop at Snook for the chicken-fried bacon.
(photo by Nicky Drayden)
There’s an additional writeup at No Fear for the Future.
