Historical Trio 10? And all about Dhalgren

9fe8ca763a41bf143a5529820ada4856_originalHow would the Miracle on Ice 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team been different if it included Billie Jean King, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Rosalind Franklin? If you think you’ve got an interesting idea, it might fit in Three Time Travelers Walk Into…, a nifty time travel anthology Fantastic Books will be publishing if the Kickstarter campaign is successful. And we’re into the home stretch: we’ve got six days left, and a scant $1,400 to go. Check it out! Tell your friends! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/667435382/three-time-travelers-walk-into

amazonprelaunch1And in other news, today is publication day for On Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren, a collection that Publishers Weekly called “immersive and comprehensive.” The book is the #1 New Release in Amazon’s 20th Century Literary Criticism category, and we’re thrilled.

Time Traveling Anthological Video

time-travelersCon-Tinual, the never-ending electronic science fiction convention, recently hosted a panel discussion with part of the crew behind the forthcoming anthology (and current Kickstarter project) Three Time Travelers Walk Into…. Listen in as we discuss time travel, where authors get our ideas, the difference between short and long fiction, and much more. Participants include panel host and author Gail Z. Martin, editor Michael A. Ventrella, authors David Gerrold, Jonathan Maberry, Jody Lynn Nye, and Leslye Penelope, and me. The video is on YouTube, the campaign is on Kickstarter.

Pre-Orderings

9781515424192Not sure why Amazon can’t do it, but Barnes and Noble understands that On Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren is available for pre-order (publication date is September 9). Publishers Weekly has already said that fans “will want to snap up” “this immersive and comprehensive collection.”

In other pre-ordering news, last night Michael Ventrella, I, and four other authors slated to be a part of Three Time Travelers Walk Into… participated in a Zoom interview which will be posting in the next day or three; it was a lot of fun. And speaking of TTTWI, the Kickstarter campaign continues, and it would be great if you told a friend about it. Thanks!

I forgot dessert

9fe8ca763a41bf143a5529820ada4856_originalI just realized there was a reward level missing from the current Kickstarter campaign: dessert! So now it’s there, The Sweet Time Machine, limited to only the first ten backers at that level!

Also, a comment elsewhere reminded me that the time traveling trios I’ve been posting are simply ideas for stories that might appear in the book… if you choose to write them. But the stories haven’t yet been written, and I have no idea which writers are going to write about which characters (though there is one pledge level where you can tell Peter David which characters to use).

Check out Three Time Travelers Walk Into… on Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/667435382/three-time-travelers-walk-into