For the Man Who Made “Alien Contact” Synonymous With “Rectal Probe” (Backstory: Art Bell is dead, as is AM talk radio. Trey Parker and Matt Stone just got a little over $1 billion for ten years of South Park. WorldCons are pretty much unrecognizable from where they were a quarter-century ago, and that’s a good thing. And Whitley Strieber…well, he’s still walking funny. This article, attributed to Edgar Harris, first…
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Backstories: “Harlan Ellison: The Ultimate Literary Robot Warrior”
Some Inventions Are Too Ahead Of The Future (Backstory: The unit known as “Harlan Ellison” powered down for the last time in 2018. Rumors of an upgrade, reboot, or overhaul could not be confirmed at press time. This article was originally published in Revolution Science Fiction [2001-2019] in 2002 and attributed to “Edgar Harris,” shortly before I quit pro writing.) Popular attitudes in the science fiction field hold that if…
St. Remedius Medical College: Dramatis Personae – 6
Background on Major St. Remedius Personnel and Related Individuals At the Time of Its Disappearance (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) At one time, St. Remedius Medical College had extensive files on staff members and administrators going back nearly 500 years. After the school’s disappearance, only fragments survived the catastrophe, with what little we know about the people that made St. Remedius unique coming from other,…
St. Remedius Medical College: "What To Do In Dallas When You're Dead"
Visiting The St. Remedius Campus and Don’t Know What To Do? (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (From the weekly newspaper Creative Onanism, available online and from bins across the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. First copy is free; all additional copies are $2.50, payable in cash, card, Bitcoin, and magic beans.) by Edgar Harris Between this weekend’s International Hodag Breeder’s Society competition, the tryouts for Zwinge Foundation…
Backstories: "SFWA Changes Entry Criteria For Membership"
Ongoing news from the former Sports Editor of Science Fiction Age (Backstory the First: The reason things have been quiet on the newsletter front lies with the loss of my oldest and dearest friend Paul Mears, who died on July 11. It’s exceedingly hard to describe how hard this hit: we had been friends for nearly 45 years, and just trying to collect a greatest hits of our exploits is…
Backstories: "Raze the Green Lantern"
A partial tribute to my best friend, the late Paul Mears, part two of several (Backstory the First: The reason things have been quiet on the newsletter front lies with the loss of my oldest and dearest friend Paul Mears, who died on July 11. It’s exceedingly hard to describe how hard this hit: we had been friends for nearly 45 years, and just trying to collect a greatest hits…