Month: April 2011

My novelet, “Bronsky’s Dates With Death,” will be running in the July/August issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.”

Also, second reminder: My next episode of “Ben 10: Ultimate Alien” entitled “Prisoner 775 is Missing” airs this Friday, 7:30 PM ET.

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Updated: I am told that the issue of F&SF has a street day of June 28th, although in some parts of the country it may be on sale a week earlier.

Second update: “Prisoner 775 is Missing” will repeat air on Saturday on Cartoon Network at 7 AM ET.

The latest (and possibly last) “New Frontier” novel is out. You can get some details at the interview below.

New Frontier Interview

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This coming Friday, 7:30 PM EST on Cartoon Network, is my next episode of “Ben 10: Ultimate Alien,” entitled “Prisoner 775 is Missing.”

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Kath, Caroline and I are attending ConGlomeration, a science fiction convention in Louisville. (I’ve been here since yesterday. Today we visited the factory where they make Louisville Slugger bats. Outstanding.)

The convention chairman announced at opening ceremonies that this may well be the last ConGlomeration. Diminishing attendance and support is putting them into a position where they may not be able to survive.

The problem is this: The last time I attended a convention where they announced it was the last one, it was Crescent Con in New Orleans. Two weeks later, Katrina hit, obliterating the convention hotel, a lovely sushi restaurant, and the surrounding neighborhood.

And there have been tornado warnings on TV this evening.

So if you want to prevent disaster befalling Louisville, and you live anywhere within distance, come on out to the convention tomorrow or Sunday. Lives, not to mention Major League Baseball, may depend on it.

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Elisabeth Sladen, who portrayed Sarah Jane Smith–arguably the most popular “Doctor Who” companion of all time (certainly the only one ever to get her own ongoing TV series)–passed away today of cancer.

People tend to say that one Doctor or another was “their” Doctor, but Sarah Jane was always my companion. She was the one accompanying the Doctor when I first encountered him, and she was the standard against which all the others were measured. I just adored Sarah Jane and always hoped to have a chance to meet the woman who incarnated her. Never had the chance. I hear tell she was wonderful with the fans at conventions. She will be missed. To quote the Doctor’s last line in “School Reunion,” “Good-bye…my Sarah Jane.”

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