George R.R. Martin has completed principal photography on a short film of the short story “Night of the Cooters” by Howard Waldrop. It’s been a few decades since I last read it (though it’s available online HERE), I recall it being quite entertaining: H.G. Wells’ Martians land in Texas, and it turns out Texans have guns and are ill-disposed to being invaded by illegal aliens; hijinks and kerplosions ensue.

The film has been shot on all-green-screen. So… hmmm.

The Cooters Are Coming!

I first read “Night of the Cooters” in the “Global Dispatches” collection. That is a collection of short stories written by a bunch of different sci-fi authors, all writing as historical figures from the time of the Martin Invasion, seeing the invasion from all around the world. Teddy Roosevelt comes across them in Cuba; Winston Churchill and H. Rider Haggard in Africa; H.P. Lovecraft in (where else) Providence, Rhode Island; and others.