Guest post on McDermott’s blog
Posted by Matthew in Space Squid News on 07. Feb, 2011 | 0 Comments
J.M. McDermott is a long time friend and contributor of Space Squid. He’s a respectable writer, you know, MFA respectable, yet he still takes Space Squid seriously. He’s lent us a little of his internet bandwidth this week, allowing me to post a short overview of the Space Squid publishing empire. While you’re there, you [...]
Space Squid Inducted Into University Collection
Posted by Matthew in Space Squid News on 27. Jan, 2011 | 3 Comments
A few months ago, we donated the complete works of Space Squid, including the clay tablets and the resin templates, to the to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection at the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives at Texas A&M University. And they took them. And now they’re preserving them next to actual Mesopotamean treasures.
Space Squid Contributor Makes Good
Posted by Matthew in Space Squid News on 12. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments
For those precious few who have seen Space Squid issue #1, there is a short story by Chris Roberson called “The Trouble with Superman.” It earned an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction (although I think Chris has had actual stories in that anthology for every year subsequently). If you don’t have a [...]
Space Squid redux on Drabblecast
Posted by Matthew in Scifi News on 21. Dec, 2010 | 0 Comments
If you’re reading this post, the odds are that you never saw some of the early issues of Space Squid. Those early issues were ephemeral and rare. If you didn’t get a ratty, home-photocopied booklet pressed into your hand at a convention party, then all the wit and brilliance of Space Squid would have have [...]
Salute the Sponsors
Posted by Matthew in Scifi News on 18. Nov, 2010 | 0 Comments
Now that the excitement of issue #9 hitting the stands is dying down, we should take a moment to salute our sponsors, the people who make this whole thing possible by attempting to control your mind. We should have an extra-special shout-out to Bloodbath Pictures. Since they’ve been advertising with us they have come out [...]



