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About Me

I am an author, editor, and astronomer living somewhere between the western and final frontiers in Southern New Mexico. For more info about my projects, please visit my website: davidleesummers.com or my magazine's website: TalesOfTheTalisman.com
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The following movie is a short reading from my novel, Vampires of the Scarlet Order which is available at The Genre Mall and The Underground Shoppe:

My Interests

Astronomy and space exploration are high on my list as are history and folklore.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who likes to travel to new places, sample the food, ask stupid questions, and get to know the people. Also anyone who reads good books and writes them.

Movies:

I'm a big fan of classic film, including Murnau's Nosferatu, the Universal horror films and Hammer Studio's horror films from England. I love Ray Harryhausen's films, particularly the Sinbad films. Forbidden Planet is still a classic science fiction film. Among more recent movies, favorites include Master and Commander and Serenity.

Television:

Any good, imaginative science fiction or fantasy television. I especially like Doctor Who (both the new series and classic), Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Babylon 5. I'm also a sucker for classic Star Trek and the new Battlestar Galactica is far better than it has any right to be.

Books:

I'm the author of five books, four of which are in print: The techno-historical-horror novel Vampires of the Scarlet Order, and the "Old Star" science fiction series, The Pirates of Sufiro, Children of the Old Stars, and Heirs of the New Earth. I have one that is near completion: The Solar Sea, which is a young adult science fiction novel.
My favorite books by others range from classics such as the Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings to great modern books such as The Skinner by Neal Asher and the Vlad Taltos novels of Steven Brust.
I also love small press books. Some recent favorites are The Two Devils by David B. Riley, Prophecy of Swords by M.H. Bonham, The Flu by Jacqueline Druga-Johnston, Blood is Thicker than Water by Wynette A. Hoffman, Zephyr Unfolding by Nicole Givens Kurtz, and Calm Before the Storm by Joe Lawson.

My Blog

March 7

For all of you around Las Cruces and El Paso, mark your calendars: Event: David Lee Summers Featured Reading at Cafe Capirotada When: 7pm on Friday, March 7, 2008 Where: The Little ...
Posted by David Lee Summers on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:47:00 PST

Return to Astronomy

As I indicated in my last entry, I believe that science is an important pursuit. So, when folks at Kitt Peak National Observatory contacted me at the very end of 2007 and told me that they were ...
Posted by David Lee Summers on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:21:00 PST

Thoughts on Science and Science Fiction

In January, LBF Books accepted my novel, The Solar Sea, for publication. The Solar Sea tells the story of Thomas Quinn, a young scientist who discovers an unusual new element, valuable to his fa...
Posted by David Lee Summers on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:50:00 PST

Coming soon...

January 2008 proved to be quite an exciting month. I had two vampire-related short stories accepted for publication last month. "The Vrykolakas and the Cobbler's Wife" will be appearing in Ceme...
Posted by David Lee Summers on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:18:00 PST

Tagged... AGAIN

Gloria Oliver came along and tagged me. So below are 16 random things about myself. If you get tagged by me, write 16 random things about yourself and feel free to tag some more folks... j...
Posted by David Lee Summers on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:34:00 PST

Winter Newsletter

It's been far too long since I've had a chance to post anything here. So as 2007 draws to a close and we look ahead to 2008, I figured I'd share my winter newsletter and provide a number of upda...
Posted by David Lee Summers on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:08:00 PST

Victoria, Canada

Mark Anthony Brennan, who has written for my magazine, Tales of the Talisman, invited Kumie, Myranda, Verity and I up to his home in Victoria, Canada. So, on Thursday, June 14, we drove over to ...
Posted by David Lee Summers on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:55:00 PST

The Underground

On Tuesday, June 12, my brother Dale, his wife Anne, and their youngest daughter, Megan, arrived from Kansas. Megan just graduated from the University of Kansas. This was also the actual d...
Posted by David Lee Summers on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:15:00 PST

Book signing in Everett

An 80th birthday is a special event and I wanted to make sure my mom received a special present this year. Her birthday present was the dedication -- to both my mom and dad -- in Heirs of the Ne...
Posted by David Lee Summers on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:24:00 PST

Back from vacation

Actually, I've been back from vacation about two weeks now, but I'm just getting caught up enough that I can write a little about where I went and what I did. My wife, kids and I went to Seattle...
Posted by David Lee Summers on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:02:00 PST