See For Yourself The Terrible Truth Of Our Forgotten Iguana Atrocity

Only James Morrow could have unearthed the top secret conspiracy of the Navy's Knickerbocker project.

During World War II, the Navy conducted secret experiments with fire-breathing mutant Godzilla-like bipedal iguanas engineered to stomp and burn the Japanese mainland (and thus end the war). Detailed in Morrow's forthcoming "novel" Shambling Towards Hiroshima, there is now top secret archival footage of these terrible beasts that needs to be seen to believed. Or at least seen.

Our thanks to the brave folks at io9 and courageous videographer Matt Staggs for corroborating Jim's shocking tale.

Last chance for Chrismakwanzakuhvus

A reminder that there is still fun to be had tomorrow should you be a Christmas refugee...do be sure to RSVP, as the theatre is getting rather full!:

Our last movie screening of the year, plus free food, drink, and cheer:

THE YELLOW SUBMARINE
(1968 - 90 mins)
(Nominated for the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - lost out to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Imagine.)

THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU
(2004 - 2 hrs.)
("Don't point that gun at him, he's an unpaid intern.")

Thursday, December 25th
The Variety Preview Room, at The Hobart Bldg.
582 Market Street (@ Montgomery & 2nd), San Francisco, CA
(Easily accessible by BART/MUNI - get off at the Montgomery St. stop, and the entrance is right there on Market between Quizno's and Citibank)

12 noon - 1:00 PM - Bagels and toppings (lox! cream cheese!), holiday cookies, coffee, tea, and cocoa.
Movies start about 1:00 PM
There will be a break for eggnog after the first film! How long a break depends on how much rum we have on hand.

415-642-7707 - home
415-572-1015 - day of event
Kids welcome for the party.

We hope you can make it and hang out for a bit, even if it's just for the bagels and cookies and rum. Oh my. Again, please RSVP if you think you can make it, so we know how many bagels to bring: sfinsfevents@gmail.com.

Tachyon's Moving Forward (Go Ahead Physicists, Laugh)

This morning, one of the publishing industry's two top e-newsletters (along with Shelf Awareness) ran a feature by Ron Hogan on Jacob Weisman, Tachyon's fearless leader. Says Ron, "Tachyon has been acquiring books of a much higher profile."

We're feverishly (or maybe that's the egg nog talking) preparing to announce more of our 2009 list, including even more high profile books. Stay tuned.

Chrismakwanzakuhvus

(Well, you can call it Christmas, or you can call it Kwanzaa, or you can call it Chanukah, or you can call it Festivus - but since we aren't celebrating any of that, it's just a party!)

Our last movie screening of the year, plus free food, drink, and cheer (whatever *that* is):

THE YELLOW SUBMARINE
(1968 - 90 mins)
(Nominated for the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - lost out to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Imagine.)

THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU
(2004 - 2 hrs.)
("Don't point that gun at him, he's an unpaid intern.")

Thursday, December 25th
The Variety Preview Room, at The Hobart Bldg.
582 Market Street (@ Montgomery & 2nd), San Francisco, CA
(Easily accessible by BART/MUNI - get off at the Montgomery St. stop, and the entrance is right there on Market between Quizno's and Citibank)

12 noon - 1:00 PM - Bagels and toppings (lox! cream cheese!), holiday cookies, coffee, tea, and cocoa.
Movies start about 1:00 PM
There will be a break for eggnog after the first film! How long a break depends on how much rum we have on hand.

415-642-7707 - home
415-572-1015 - day of event
Kids welcome for the party.

We hope you can make it and hang out for a bit, even if it's just for the bagels and cookies and rum. Oh my. Please RSVP if you think you can make it, so we know how many bagels to bring: sfinsfevents@gmail.com.

SF Site on Dogs

Greg Johnson at SF Site just reviewed our Nancy Kress biothriller, Dogs. It's a good one.

He says, "Dogs is the kind of thriller that continually makes you want to turn the pages faster than you can read them." Are you a reader with such time-traveling conundrums? Sounds like a job for the Tachyons.

Sci Fi Magazine gives Disch an A

Just received a sneak peek at a forthcoming rave review in February 2009 of The Wall of America in Sci Fi Magazine (the official magazine of the Sci Fi channel).

"The recent tragic suicide of Thomas M. Disch deprived fantastic literature of one of its most sardonic imaginations. Fortunately, his posthumous collection contains enough life on the page that there is little impetus, while reading, to contemplate his sad end. The stories are rich, sardonic, despairing and mischievous by turns, capable of being emotionally resonant and laugh-out-loud funny in the same breath."

Oh, and the collection was graded an A. Of course.

Michael Moorcock on The Wall of America

The UK Guardian just ran Michael Moorcock's review of Thomas Disch's The Wall of America.

Says MM: "These stories are usually humorous, thoughtful and in no way pessimistic. They are as good as any you will find this year, whether published as 'science fiction' or 'literature'."