{"id":7438,"date":"2012-01-29T19:47:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T01:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=7438"},"modified":"2012-01-31T18:04:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T00:04:35","slug":"book-signing-and-party-for-three-messages-and-a-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=7438","title":{"rendered":"Book Signing and Party for Three Messages and a Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended a signing at BookPeople<\/a> for Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic<\/a><\/b>, co-edited by Turkey City’s own Chris Brown<\/a> (formerly Chris Nakashima-Brown, now renamed after a long and painful de-Japanization process). <\/p>\n

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The event was fairly well attended, with about 40-50 people showing up. <\/p>\n

Two of the authors flew up for the event: Pepe Rojo of Tijuana:<\/p>\n

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And Bernardo Fernandez of Mexico City (who also works as a graphics artist and teacher, as well as a crime writer):<\/p>\n

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(I’m not sure if you can tell, but Bernardo’s shirt features a robot (or possibly an android) and an electric sheep.) I believe he mentioned that he was working on a graphic novel about William S. Burrough’s time in Mexico. I bet it ends with a bang.<\/p>\n

I also found it interesting that both of their fathers were engineers. <\/p>\n

In attendance were also many members of the Austin SF community, including a few that my pictures of weren’t completely awful:<\/p>\n


\nStina Leicht and Sara Felix.<\/p>\n


\nJessica Reisman, a few moments before the police arrested her for the Hollywood scriptwriter they found dead facedown in her pool.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, there was a party at Chris Brown’s newly opened East Austin hipster-pad-cum-1970s-science-fiction-movie-set. Sadly, none of my photos of the house (taken at dusk) came out well. But I did get a few pics of the party attendees:<\/p>\n


\nDon Webb, who co-edited one of the most influential Spanish-language anthologies of speculative fiction, for which he was paid $50 and three bottles of Tequila. <\/p>\n


\nStina and Jessica redux. <\/p>\n

The rest of my pictures were various degrees of crappy. (Hopefully Jayme Blaschke, who was there with a bigger, better camera, will put some up.) Sadly, one picture that didn’t come out was that of Bernardo wearing a t-shirt depicting Mexico’s most famous science fiction character: Bender Bending Rodriguez. <\/p>\n

Finally, no expects the Spanish Steampunk Zeppelin!<\/p>\n

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