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Richard Shannon is a writer, performer and speaker.
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Richard Shannon is a writer, performer and speaker.
He was born 17 April 1954 in Three Rivers, Texas. He published the science fiction semi-prozine Trajectories - The Magazine of Science Fiction in the Southwest during the 1980s. His writing has appeared in Factsheet Five , the collected Why Publish?, and The American Book Review. He served two terms on the board of directors of the Austin Writers' League, now the Writers' League of Texas, one as Secretary of the Board, and three years on the board of directors of the Austin Celtic Association, two as President. He was festival director of the Austin Celtic Festival for those same two years. Shannon appeared as an extra in the films The Newton Boys by Richard Linklater, and Two for Texas, a Ted Turner "made for tv" movie from 1989. He now lives in south-central Texas where he writes, and consults on marketing, publishing and editorial projects.
Three Rivers is a city in Live Oak County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,878 at the 2000 census.
Trajectories was a 1980s tabloid magazine published in Austin, Texas by Richard Shannon and Susan Sneller. It featured news and articles on fantasy, science, science fantasy, science fiction, and science fiction philosophy. It contained reviews of books, poetry, short stories, music and performances. Articles and stories were contributed by Lewis Shiner2, John Shirley, Bruce Boston, Uncle River, Winter Damon and others. A total of six issues appeared irregularly over a six-year span.
Factsheet Five was a periodical mostly consisting of short reviews of privately produced printed matter along with contact details of the editors and publishers.
John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996). His film Men with Guns (1997) was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. His directorial debut, Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980), has been added to the National Film Registry.
New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology. New Scientist, based in London, publishes editions in the UK, the United States, and Australia. Since 1996 it has been available online.
James Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range. As a public figure, he was known in his lifetime for his outspoken liberal views against Texas state politics, and carried out a long, personal war against what he saw as braggart Texans, religious prejudice, restraints on individual liberty, and an assault by the mechanized world on the human spirit. He was instrumental in the saving of the Texas Longhorn breed of cattle from extinction.
Don Webb is an American science fiction and mystery writer, as well as an author of several books on Left Hand Path occult philosophy. He is also a former High Priest of the Temple of Set.
Aaron Dale Allston was an American game designer and author of many science fiction books, notably Star Wars novels. His works as a game designer include game supplements for role-playing games, several of which served to establish the basis for products and subsequent development of TSR's Dungeons & Dragons game setting Mystara. His later works as a novelist include those of the X-Wing series: Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist, Solo Command, Starfighters of Adumar, and Mercy Kill. He wrote two entries in the New Jedi Order series: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream and Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand. Allston wrote three of the nine Legacy of the Force novels: Betrayal, Exile, and Fury, and three of the nine Fate of the Jedi novels: Outcast, Backlash, and Conviction.
Joe Richard Lansdale is an American writer, author, martial arts expert, and martial arts instructor.
Cecilia Tan is a writer, editor, sexuality activist, and founder of Circlet Press, the first press devoted primarily to erotic science fiction and fantasy. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also writes about baseball, but is not to be confused with a writer of the same name who specializes in Asian cookbooks.
Tony Rothman is an American theoretical physicist, academic and writer.
Russell William Lutz is an American science fiction author. His work has appeared in several books, webzines, and magazines, including Byzarium, The SiNK, scifantastic, and anotherealm. He won the 2005 SFFWorld First Place prize for short fiction for the short story "Fall". His first novel, Iota Cycle, was published in 2006, his second, The Department of Off World Affairs, in September 2008.
Joe M. O'Connell is an American novelist, documentary filmmaker, short story writer, photographer and journalist based in Austin, Texas.
Glenn Frankel is an author, academic and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He worked for many years for The Washington Post, where he was bureau chief in Southern Africa, Jerusalem and London and editor of The Washington Post Sunday magazine. He is the author of four books, the latest of which is High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, which was published on February 21, 2017. He served as a visiting professor of journalism at Stanford University, and later as director of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and G.B. Dealey Regents Professor in Journalism.
Albert Huffstickler was an American poet. He was born in Texas and lived in Austin during his later years, contributing to the poetry scene there and further afield. Huffstickler published hundreds of poems in his lifetime in both chapbooks and academic and underground journals. A 1990 Sow's Ear Poetry Review article reporting on an interview by Felicia Mitchell described Huffstickler's natural poetic voice as "an attempt to meld the human voice with the poetic spirit to present a highly charged, story-filled verse."
Brad W. Foster is an American illustrator, cartoonist, writer and publisher. He has also been Artist Guest of Honor at multiple conventions such as ArmadilloCon 10, Conestoga 9, Archon 35, NASFiC 2010, and 73rd World Science Fiction Convention.
Chris Roberson is an American science fiction author, trombonist, and publisher based in Portland, Oregon, best known for alternate history novels and short stories.
Mark Askwith is a Canadian producer, writer, interviewer, and a familiar name in the fields of science fiction and comics.
Greg Garrett is a writer, professor, speaker, preacher, and musician based in Austin, Texas.
American Short Fiction is a nationally circulated literary magazine based in Austin, Texas. Issued triannually, American Short Fiction publishes short fiction, novel excerpts, an occasional novella, and strives to publish work by both established and emerging contemporary authors. The magazine seeks out stories "that dive into the wreck, that stretch the reader between recognition and surprise, that conjure a particular world with delicate expertise—stories that take a different way home."
C. W. Smith is a novelist, short-story and essay writer who serves as a Dedman Family Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Southern Methodist University.
A. C. Greene(néAlvin Carl Greene Jr.; 4 Nov 1923 – 5 April 2002) was an American writer – important in Texas literary matters as a memoirist, fiction writer, historian, poet, and influential book critic in Dallas. As a newspaper journalist, he had been a book critic and editor of the Editorial Page for the Dallas Times Herald when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, which galvanized his role at the paper to help untangle and lift a demoralized city in search of its soul. Leaving full-time journalism in 1968, Greene went on to become a prolific author of books, notably on Texas lore and history. His notoriety led to stints in radio and TV as talk-show host. By the 1980s, his commentaries were being published by major media across the country. He had become a sought-after source for Texas history, anecdotes, cultural perspective, facts, humor, books, and politics. When the 1984 Republican National Convention was held in Dallas, Greene granted sixty-three interviews about Texas topics to major media journalists. Greene's 1990 book, Taking Heart – which examines the experiences of the first patient in a new heart transplant center (himself) – made the New York Times Editors Choice list.