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Originally published on Keith's Word Press blog.ZOMBIE DAY IS HERE! Or something................  Out today in print, eBook, and audio: Nights of the Living Dead, an anthology of original zombie stories edited by Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero his own self! The stories take place around the events of the seminal 1968 zombie flick that changed the face of horror forever. Here's the lineup, in alphabetical order: Jay Bonasinga, New York Times best-selling author of The Walking Dead novels. Max Brallier, author of The Last Kids on Earth and Can YOU Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? Ryan Brown, author of the zombie sports novel Play Dead. Mike Carey, award-winning writer of comics ( Lucifer, Hellblazer, etc.) and novels (the Felix Castor series, The Girl with All the Gifts). Keith R.A. DeCandido, best-selling author of three Resident Evil novels, as well as fiction in the worlds of Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sleepy Hollow, V-Wars, Limbus Inc., and more. Craig Engler, cocreator and writer of the Z Nation TV series. Mira Grant (a.k.a. Seanan McGuire), New York Times best-selling author of the Newsflesh series. Brian Keene, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rising. Joe R. Lansdale, best-selling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of 45 novels, plus comics and short stories, including "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks" in Book of the Dead. Jonathan Maberry, New York Times best-selling author of Patient Zero, Rot & Ruin, Dead of Night, and Zombie CSU, cowriter of Marvel Zombies Return. Isaac Marion, New York Times best-selling author of Warm Bodies. George A. Romero, the godfather of the dead, writer/director of Night of the Living Dead and its four sequels. John Russo, cowriter of Night of the Living Dead and author of the novels Night of the Living Dead and Return of the Living Dead. Carrie Ryan, international best-selling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth. David J. Schow, author, screenwriter and editor, and winner of the International Horror Guild Award. Neal Shusterman & Brandon Shusterman, respectively a winner of the National Book Award and a best-selling author, and a filmmaker who often collaborates with his father (like here). John Skipp, best-selling author of The Light at the End, filmmaker of Tales of Halloween, editor-in-chief of Fungasm Press, and coeditor of Book of the Dead. David Wellington, best-selling author of the Monster Island series and Positive. Chuck Wendig, New York Times best-selling author of Star Wars: Aftermath. You can order the book from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, or Indie Bound. Current Mood:  happy
Current Music: "Light of Day" by Bruce Springsteen
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Originally posted to Keith's Word Press blog. I will, as ever, be at Shore Leave this weekend at the Hunt Valley Inn, as I have been each of the past seventeen years. I will be both an author guest and a musical guest, the latter in my capacity as a member of the Boogie Knights. The Knights will be debuting a new song called "Young Master Frodo," written by me! It's to the tune of the a cappella Irish folk song "General Taylor," and it's gonna be awesome. Anyhow, here's my full schedule for this weekend: Friday5-6pm: "Why We Write," w/Laura Ware, Heather E. Hutsell, Melissa Scott, and Peter David (Salon A) 6-7pm: "What's Your Favorite Trek?" w/Dayton Ward, Howard Weinstein, Dave Galanter, Scott Pearson, and Amy Imhoff (Salon A) Saturday11am-noon: Boogie Knights concert (Valley) 12-1pm: "Wonder Woman," w/Rigel Ailur, Simantha Galanter, Hildy Silverman, Amy Imhoff, and Susan Oleson (Salon A) 4.30-5pm: practical self-defense workshop (Concierge) 5-6pm: "The Batman," w/John Coffren, Robert Greenberger, Derek Tyler Attico, Richard C. White, and Michael Jan Friedman (Salon A) Sunday11am-noon: "Where No Tale Has Gone Before," w/David Mack, Dayton Ward, Christopher L. Bennett, and Scott Pearson (Chase) 1-2pm: "Mixing and Matching Genres," w/Greg Cox, Stephen Kozeniewski, Melissa Scott, and Roberta Rogow (Chase) 2-3pm: "Ye Gods!" w/Robert Greenberger, Aaron Rosenberg, Hildy Silverman, Amy Imhoff, and Kathleen David (Chase) Current Mood:  tired
Current Music: "Like a Rolling Stone" by John Mellencamp
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident," they said, "that all men are created equal." Strange as it may seem, that was the first time in history that anyone had ever bothered to write that down.
---President Bartlet, The West Wing
The Declaration of IndependenceIN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. Georgia: Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton North Carolina: William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton Massachusetts: John Hancock Maryland: Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Pennsylvania: Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas McKean New York: William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Massachusetts: Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire: Matthew Thornton Happy Independence Day, everyone! Current Mood: tired
Current Music: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Originally posted to Keith's Word Press blog. The new Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis anthology Homeworlds is now out as an eBook! At present, it's only available in Kindle form from Amazon, but it'll be out from other eBook retailers, including Crossroad Press, very soon. and the print edition will be along next month some time. The anthology includes ten new Stargate stories -- five SG-1, five Atlantis -- including my post-finale SG-1 story "Sun-Breaker," which focuses on Carter and Teal'c, the former now in command of her own starship, the USS George Hammond, as established in Atlantis's finale and seen in Stargate Universe's premiere episode and first-season finale. So go! Check it out!Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: "Bring on the Night/When the World is Running You Down..." by Sting
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Originally posted to Keith's Word Press blog. Shakespeare-quoting Klingons! Another young female Vulcan protégé for Spock! Sulu commanding the Excelsior! The entire crew turned into racist assholes! Assassinations! Prisons! Shapechangers played by supermodels! The TOS Rewatch rips into Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.An excerpt: Let’s get this out of the way: Kirk orders Spock to rape Valeris. Yes, that’s a charged comment; yes, that’s a serious allegation; yes, that’s utterly revolting. But it’s completely true. And just in case we’re not sure, Meyer films it that way, with Spock looming over Valeris, grabbing her arm, yanking her toward him when she tries to back off, and maintaining a firm grip on her hair while performing the meld. It’s a horrid act, a despicable violation of a person, and one that should never have been committed by people we have two-and-a-half decades of seeing as heroes up to this point. Current Mood:  nerdy
Current Music: the Yankees-Angels game on Channel 11
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Originally posted to Keith's Word Press blog.Now available for preorder: Stargate SG-1/Atlantis: Homeworlds, a new anthology edited by Sally Malcolm from the fine folks at Fandemonium. You can preorder the Kindle edition from Amazon, and I'm sure other eBook retailers will have it soon. The eBook goes on sale 23 June, and the print edition is like to follow in July. Here's the full table of contents: SGA: "The Mysteries of Emege" by Jo Graham SG1: "In Passing" by Susannah Parker Sinard SGA: "Worshipper" by Melissa Scott SG1: "Blinded by the Light" by Barbara Ellisor SGA: "Second Time Sateda" by Ron Francis SG1: "Sun-Breaker" by Keith R.A. DeCandido SGA: "The Player on the Other Side" by Amy Griswold SG1: "Sweet Herbs and Freedom" by Suzanne Wood SGA: "Going Home" by Aaron Rosenberg SG1: "They Shoot Heroes, Don't They?" by Geonn Cannon The stories take place all over the timeline, both during the respective series and after. ("The Mysteries of Emege" and "Worshipper" take place after Atlantis's fifth season, and also after the post-finale Legacy book series, and my own "Sun-Breaker" is a post-season-10 SG-1 story that features Colonel Carter in charge of the U.S.S. George Hammond.) Also, the stories "Blinded by the Light" and "Second Time Sateda" were the two winners in a Stargate short fiction contest judged by Sally, Sabine Bauer, and Laura Harper at the GateCon convention in Vancouver last fall. So go! Preorder it! You'll be glad you did! Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: the Yankees-A's game on YES
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Originally posted to Keith's Word Press blog.Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain? Pack up your marsh melons, have a good time, hold your horse, and let go of your pain, as the TOS Rewatch asks what God needs with a starship, and what we need with this bloody awful film, as we cover Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.An excerpt: I still recall seeing The Final Frontier in the theatre at age twenty. With each scene, my jaw is dropping further, aghast at just how awful it all is, and then we get to the motherfucking fan dance, and I just closed my eyes and muttered profanity to myself. (I wanted to scream, “Oh, for fuck’s sake, noooooo!” but I was in a crowded Manhattan theatre and was mindful of the rest of the audience.) Star Trek has always had a major dollop of sexism leavening its enlightened attitudes, but there’s no excuse, none, for that appalling, disgusting, ridiculous scene of Uhura distracting the lookouts by dancing naked for them, getting them to all abandon their posts as one. (Funny how Sybok’s brainwashing is enough to make Starfleet officers violate their oaths but not enough to keep his lookouts from acting like a wolf in a Tex Avery cartoon.) Good thing for Kirk’s despicable plan that they were all heterosexual males in the lookout party… Current Mood: nerdy
Current Music: "Slip Slidin' Away" by Simon & Garfunkel
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