Sci-Fi San Francisco
Shaenon: Check it out! I’ve got a two-page spread in this upcoming collection of science fiction comics about San Francisco. SF in SF! I drew a sci-fi map of the city, so you can follow the W.A.S.T.E. pickup route in The Crying of Lot 49 and find the parking lot where Martin Short got injected in the butt with a tiny spaceship in Innerspace. And if you’re in the San Francisco area, come to the launch party on March 24 at Mission Comics and Art.
Channing: I kind of do want all these stories to take place in the same universe, come think.
I remember a lot of SF / fantasy that took place in and around San Francisco besides “Star Trek.” Fritz Leiber’s “Our Lady of Darkness” comes to mind (if I’m remembering the title right.)
See also: “Man in the High Castle” and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
Phillip K. Dick was no stranger to the Bay Area.
“Time After Time”…
We Await Silent Tristero’s Empire pickup route?
Where’s Ginormica?
“All the stories in the same universe” … kinds of what Larry Niven did in “Rainbow Mars”.
I kinda wanna see a SAM battery locking on to the kids’ flying bicycles in ET, does that make me a bad person?
It most certainly does. Do you have any IDEA how polluting those rocket exhausts are?!
On seeing the tentacle monster, my first thought was, “What’s Glemph doing in SF? Ghastly’s from Canada!”
Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, Richard Lupoff, miriam Zimmer Bradley, Marta Randall, Pat Murphy, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, the late Terry Carr, all are or were Bay Area based, so I found to my joy when I moved there in 1976, and yes Fritz Leiber and Frank Robinson, Tom Scortia, and I am forgetting some, I know.
My grandparents moved to San Francisco in 1929 to help build the first working television set that year with Philo Farnsworth, true story. It was a hot bed of innovation even then. Grandpa George was an electrical engieer and glass-blower, blew the first screens; 8″ beakers. And Philo’s crew were wife-swapping Mormons, as grandma told it.