Author panel and signing with NBA Young People’s Literature Finalists
Monday, Nov. 15th, 6-8pm
Books of Wonder
18 W. 18th Street, between 5th and 6th Ave.
New York, NY
212-989-3475

Cover-to-Cover is a nationally renowned independent bookstore specializing in books for young readers, from picture books through young adult. Details below:

Sarah Prineas, C.C. Finlay, Paolo Bacigalupi,
Saturday, Oct. 30, 2:30-4:00pm
Cover-to-Cover Books
3560 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43214
614-263-1624

Cover-to-Cover is a simple bus ride straight up High Street from the convention center. Take the northbound No. 2 bus, past Ohio State University and through the Clintonville area. Cover-to-Cover is located 2 ½ blocks north of East North Broadway. If you drive, there’s plenty of parking next to the store. The Cover-to-Cover website is here.

Oct 9 — Southern Books Festival, Nashville, TN.

Oct 13 — Boulder, CO – Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St. 5pm.

Oct 22-24 — Denver, CO – Toastmaster @ MileHiCon

Oct 25 — Fort Collins, CO – Reading & Signing @ Old Firehouse Books. 6pm.

Oct 28-31st — Tentatively, I believe I’m going to be at World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, OH. Assuming I buy my membership and a plane ticket.

July 1, 7pm, I’ll be at McNally Jackson reading and signing SHIP BREAKER and WINDUP GIRL with Scott Westerfeld, author of LEVIATHAN (and so many other cool titles), and Jon Armstrong, author of GREY.

July 3, I’ll be appearing on WBAI’s Hour of the Wolf from 5am-7am (yes, *am*, bring coffee, please, bring coffee). Should be a good time on 99.5 FM.

July 6, 7pm, I’ll be reading with Nebula-nominated author Saladin Ahmed at the NYRSF Reading Series at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art. The full press release is below. Looking forward to it very much.

The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings
presents
Saladin Ahmed
Paolo Bacigalupi

Tuesday, July 6th — Doors open 6:30 PM
SoHo Gallery for Digital Art
138 Sullivan Street (directions and links below)
$5 suggested donation

Just when you thought the 20th Anniversary series was over, we keep coming up with surprises. But with a lineup like this, we just had to extend for at least one more month.

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Saladin Ahmed has been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award, the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and the Harper’s Pen Award for Best Sword & Sorcery/Heroic Fantasy Short Story. His fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Clockwork Phoenix 2, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Drabblecast, PodCastle, Expanded Horizons, and the Portuguese F/SF magazine Bang!. His poetry has earned fellowships from the University of Michigan, Brooklyn College, and the Bronx Council on the Arts, and has appeared in over a dozen journals and anthologies. He was born in Detroit and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and twins. His Web site is http://saladinahmed.com

Paolo Bacigalupi’s writing has appeared in High Country News, Salon.com, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. It has been anthologized in various “Year’s Best” collections of short science fiction and fantasy, nominated for three Nebula and five Hugo Awards, and won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best sf short story of the year.

His debut novel THE WINDUP GIRL was named by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best novels of 2009, has won the Nebula Award and was nominated for the Hugo. His short story collection PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES was a 2008 LOCUS Award winner for Best Collection and also named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. His most recent novel, SHIP BREAKER, has just been released from Little, Brown. He currently lives in Western Colorado with his wife and son, where he is working on a new novel. His Web site is http://windupstories.com

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The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series is celebrating its 20th season of providing performances from some of the best writers in science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, etc. The series usually takes place the first Tuesday of every month, but maintains flexibility in time and place, so be sure to stay in touch through the mailing list and the Web.

Admission is by a $5 donation. If circumstances make this a hardship, let us know and we will accommodate you.

Jim Freund is Producer and Executive Curator of The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings. He has been involved in producing radio programs of and about literary sf/f since 1967. His long-running live radio program, “Hour of the Wolf,” broadcasts and streams every Saturday morning from 5:00 to 7:00. The broadcasts are also available as a stream ‘on-demand’ for 2 weeks after broadcast at http://archive.wbai.org

The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art (http://sohodigart.com) is dedicated to re-establishing SoHo as an international center for the development of new artistic forms, concepts and ideas. A screens-instead-of-canvases approach allows a wide selection of art from around the world which would otherwise never make it to the City. The SGDA is availible for private gatherings and events of all kinds. For bookings call (800) 420-5590 or visit http://sohogallerynyc.com

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WHEN:
Tuesday, 7/6
Doors open at 6:30 — event begins at 7

WHERE:
The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art
138 Sullivan Street (between Houston & Prince St.)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=138+Sullivan+St.+New+York+NY+10012

HOW:
By Subway
6, C, E to Spring St.; A, B D or F to West 4th; 1 train to Houston St; or R, W to Prince St.

There are many convenient bus lines that come within a couple of blocks of the gallery. Use the link above for an interactive transit map.

I’ll also be riding at least one bullet train. Which pretty much makes me go, “Squeeeee!”

In any case, I will still be in attendance, slacking, bar-flying and dealers-room pillaging instead. Hope to see you there.

Friday 11:00 AM, ME/ CT: Talk / Discussion (60 min.) Science Fiction as a Mirror for Reality. Robert J. Sawyer with discussion by Paolo Bacigalupi, Michael A. Burstein, Lancer Kind, Hildy Silverman, _et al_

Science fiction has always been a powerful vehicle for commenting on the here-and-now, letting us explore the burning issues of today in the guise of talking about tomorrow. Sawyer is currently under contract with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to host and co-produce a pilot for a web-based new-media series based on this idea. He’ll talk about sf as a mirror of reality, discuss the project, and brainstorm with audience members about recent sf that comments on the here and now and might be worth spotlighting should the CBC series go beyond the pilot stage.

Friday 6:00 PM, Salon F: Panel If All Men Were Tolerant, How Would You Shock Your Sister? Paolo Bacigalupi, Rose Fox, Barry N. Malzberg, James Morrow (L), Cecilia Tan

Once upon a time “a glimpse of stocking” was a dangerous vision. What is the future of transgression and the shocking in a society that prides itself on its ever-increasing tolerance? What value do shocking and transgressive texts have? How do they read once their shocking element becomes passé?

Friday 7:00 PM, Salon F: Panel Waking Up Sober Next to a Story Idea. Paolo Bacigalupi, Jeffrey A. Carver (L), David Anthony Durham, Kay Kenyon, Barry B. Longyear, Jennifer Pelland

Really, it seemed absolutely beautiful once upon a time. Now that you’ve had intimate knowledge of it (say, midway through the novel), you can see all the less-than-flattering sides. You may even wonder, _What the hell was I thinking?_ How do you recover enthusiasm for the work? Now that you see the flaws, how do you begin the process of fixing them?

Friday 9:00 PM, VT: Group Reading (60 min.) _Wastelands_ Group Reading John Joseph Adams (host) with Paolo Bacigalupi, Dale Bailey, Elizabeth Bear, John Langan, Jonathan Lethem.

Readings from the reprint anthology (subtitled _Stories of the Apocalypse_) edited by Adams and published by Nightshade Books in January.

Saturday 1:00 PM, Salon E: Autographing Paolo Bacigalupi; Kay Kenyon

Sunday 11:00 AM, Vinyard: Kaffeeklatsch Paolo Bacigalupi; Sarah Beth Durst

Sunday 1:00 PM, NH / MA: Reading (30 min.) I read either a new short story or an excerpt from my novel-in-progress.

Going to be doing a group signing and QA in Columbus along with Tobias Buckell, Charles Coleman Finlay, Sandra McDonald, Paul Melko and Sarah Prineas before heading off for a week of novel critique and drunken stupor at Blue Heaven.

The details on the signing are: 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble Bookseller, 1739 Olentangy River Rd. Columbus, Ohio; 614-298-9516, if you happen to be in the area.

The Essence of Pure SF: what exactly is it?
Bacigalupi(M), Bear, Malzberg, J VanderMeer, Calvin
Fri, 7 S302

Sat 11-12 Signing

SF Kaleidoscope: SF as a Lens on the Past and Future
Bacigalupi(M), Malzberg, Collins, Kyle, Videbaek
Sat, 3 S311

Bad Stories from Good Writers: what can be learned?
Malzberg(M), Bacigalupi, McGarry, Buchanan, Williams
Sat 4, S311
(topic suggested by Barry Malzberg, based on an idea from Alice Sheldon)

Horror As Social Commentary-in many media, notably fiction and film, the horror story is used to explore and/or explain real-life horrors

Madonia(M), Gordon, Freedman, Bacigalupi
Sun, 11 S311

Where Writers Fear to Tread? Economic, Environmental and Cultural Issues left unexplored
Bacigalupi(M), Spinrad, Malzberg, Macdonald, Beagle
Sun, 12 S302

Lies and Myths About Getting Published-a surprising take on “accepted” ideas about publishing
Rosenberg(M), Crawford, Bacigalupi, Gorinsky, Bilmes
Sun, 2 S302