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Lawrence Person's Lame Excuse for a Web Page

Lawrence Person: The Captain of Industry Look

Being a science fiction writer, I've decided to take a bold leap into 1997 and finally put up my own web page. (Also note the new "Captain of Industry" mug shot on the right, which just came out better than the one in the leather jacket. Never mind that it's the first time I've put on a suit since my cousin's wedding in 2001. Would you buy tax free municiple bonds from this man?)

Here are some links to a few of the way too many projects I'm involved in:

Fiction

Book Reviews, Critical Articles, and Movie Reviews

Nova Express, the Hugo-nominated science fiction critical magazine I edit.

Biography, an exciting mixture of dull truths and interesting lies.

Bibliography, fiction and non-fiction

Lame Excuse Books, the book business I run, where you can buy many science fiction, fantasy, horror and slipstream first editions.

My Library. Feel the biblioenvy...

You can also take a look at my Reading Diary if you want to see what I've read so far this year.

Lawrence Person's Cavalcade of Perpetual Novelty

The Turkey City Writer's Workshop, which I'm a member of and ran for a decade before handing it off to Bruce Sterling's more-than-capable hands.

The Logbook of the Saturday Dining Conspiracy

A page on music, because every personal web page is required to have one.

What would a web page be without a boatload of Links to other web pages?

Ye Vast Archive of Time Wasting Internet Humor Stuffes

It occurs to me that I now have enough content on this site that I should add a what's new page.

News

My story "Gabe's Globster" appears in the June 2008 issues of Asimov's.

Howard Waldrop and I reviewed Iron Man for Locus Online.

We also reviewed The Forbidden Kingdom.

Jessica Reisman and I helped present the Nebula Award for Best Novella.

The Lame Excuse Books page has been updated.

Howard Waldrop and I reviewed Cloverfield for Locus Online

We also reviewed Futurama: Bender's Big Score

And The Mist

I attended the 2007 Worldcon in Japan.

Howard and I reviewed Stardust for Locus Online

As well as The Simpsons Movie

And 1408...

...Grindhouse...

...and The Last Mimzy

Learn how Neil Gaiman is One Step Closer to Sainthood

We also reviewed The Host for Locus Online.

My story "The Toughest Jew in the West" appears in Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard, the tribute anthology edited by Scott Cupp & Joe R. Lansdale published at the 2006 World Fantasy Convention in Austin. (I have signed copies for sale, if you're interested.)

I was on programming at the World Fantasy Convention.

Quote for the Times:

"The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe." — Jean-Francois Revel

Last Book Read: Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Books I'm Currently Reading: Gene Wolfe's An Evil Guest, Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen, David Pryce-Jones' The Closed Circle, Will Durant's Our Oriental Heritage.
Most Recent Music Listened to: Nine Inch Nail's "Corona Radiata"
Last updated: 5/8/08

Send mail to Lawrence Person (lperson1@austin.rr.com).

Like every other web page in the universe, this one is Under Construction.