SATURDAY OCTOBER 23rd
Doors and cash bar open at 6PM
Event starts at 6:30PM

THE REAL HORROR SHOW: GET YOUR BLOOD CHILLED FOR HALLOWE’EN!
Horror writers John Shirley, Ray Garton, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Rain Graves will scare you good and proper with some short readings…and in case you still have some lighthearted idea that Hallowe’en is all about candy and costumes, we’ll finish up with a screening of The Changeling (1981)  to knock that idea out of your head…it’s the perfect haunted house movie, starring George C. Scott and Melvyn Douglas.

We’ll be raffling off some spooky schwag before the film – Raffle tix $5!  Win

• a signed limited, slipcased edition of John Stanley’s The Creature Features Movie Guide Strikes Again
• a set of Rotting Zombie Clings (You TOO can be a Zombie!)
• WWAZD game – the Z stands for Zombie
• Special BLOOD Orange Candy Corn
• Pumpkin filled with cool candy for all your little trick or treaters
• Set of Universal Films Classic Monsters mints and a signed copy of Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow (published by Tachyon Publications)
• Grand Prize – a Graveyard Book promotional fake TOMBSTONE signed by NEIL GAIMAN (truly a one-of-a-kind item, courtesy of Kepler’s Books)

Buy four tickets and get a free drink at the bar!!! – all proceeds go to purchase pediatric wheelchairs through Variety Children’s Charity & Wine for Wheels.  For $150, you can help a child be mobile in their community – let’s see how many we can purchase with your help!!

Lounge and cash bar open at 6PM – party snacks courtesy of Charles and SF in SF

Readings begin at 6:30PM, followed by booksigning in the lounge
Film begins about 8:00PM (or when author event is over)
Seating is limited, and first come, first seated..

Books will be for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books

Thursday, October 21 – 3:00PM – 4:30PM
Peter Sis – Madlenka Soccer Star
Hicklebee’s Books – San Jose

October 1, 2010 – January 30, 2011
GRAPHIC DETAILS: CONFESSIONAL COMICS BY JEWISH WOMEN
While the history of women in comics is well-documented, and the Jewish contribution to the art form widely acknowledged, Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women will be the first museum exhibit to showcase the singular voices of female Jewish artists whose revealing diaristic and confessional work has influenced the world of comics over the last four decades.

On October 21, the Cartoon Art Museum will host a panel on autobiography in comics featuring several of the featured artists, experts, and the curators. Graphic Details is co-curated by Michael Kaminer, a New York journalist and collector whose December 2008 story on confessional comics in the Forward provided the impetus for the show. His co-curator, Sarah Lightman, is an award-winning fine artist, curator and arts journalist based in London who is researching a PhD at The University of Glasgow in Autobiography in Comics.

The Cartoon Art Museum – San Francisco
Details and a list of participating artists here

Thursday, October 21 7:00PM
Our favourite sick and twisted, but absolutely the nicest guy you could want to know, horror writer who lives 3,000 miles away, MIKE ARNZEN, is giving his ANNUAL HALLOWEEN READING. He’ll be reading Thursday, October 21, in Morgantown, WV as the featured guest at the Morgantown Poets society at the Monongalia Arts Center, 107 High St. More info about this event here. If you can’t make it, the event may be recorded, so watch www.gorelets.com or their Facebook page for developments.

BOSS HORROR…Darkness on the Edge — short stories inspired by the songs of Bruce Springsteen — has been published by PS Publishing and it is an awesome book to behold. It features the story, “The Hungry Heart,” by Mike Arnzen, alongside other Boss tales by Sarah Langan, Gary Braunbeck, Lawrence Connolly, Elizabeth Massie and many more. The signed traycased edition is SWEET, but it’s also available in trade hardcover. Lay down your money and you’ll play your part here.

Friday, October 22 – 7:00PM – 8:30PM
Rick Riordan – The Lost Hero
Hicklebee’s Books – San Jose
This event takes place at Willow Glen Middle School, 2105 Cottle Ave., San Jose, CA 95125
Purchase tickets here; Tickets: $5.00 ~ Admits One & can be used toward the purchase of The Lost Hero – In order to see as many Percy Jackson fans as possible, Mr. Riordan will sign one book per person – choose your favorite!

Saturday, October 23 – 11:00AM
Peter Sis – Madlenka Soccer Star
Books, Inc. – Marina

Saturday, October 23 – 3:00PM to 5:00PM
Lisa Brown – Vampire Boy’s Good Night and Hallowe’en Party!
What we’ll have: a specially-illustrated reading of Vampire Boy’s Good Night, mask-making, hauntingly yummy Halloween-y snacks and drinks, a costume contest, a raffle for special prizes, and face-painting! A book signing, of course. And the opportunity for adults to sign up to donate blood!
Who should attend: all children ages 3 to 7, and their adults! You’re enthusiastically invited to wear your costumes!
The Booksmith – San Francisco

Saturday, October 23 – 3:00PM – 4:30PM
Laurence Rickels – I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick
Borderlands Books, San Francisco
Professor Rickels has written a book which corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dick’s popular and influential science fiction.” Don’t miss this chance to meet Prof. Rickels and hear his insights on the (in)famous Philip K. Dick!

Sunday, October 24 – 10:30AM
WordPlay with GAIL CARRIGER, who presents Material Characterization: Peopling Fiction with Objects, Culture & Comedy
Books Inc. – Opera Plaza

Sunday, October 24- 5:00PM
Shaenon Garrity and Jeffrey C. Wells – Skin Horse, Volume 2
Borderlands Books – San Francisco

Sunday, October 24 – 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Richard Kadrey – author of Sandman Slim presents Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel
Borderlands Books – San Francisco

Monday, October 25 – 10:00AM
Peter Sis – Madlenka Soccer Star
Book Passage – Corte Madera

Monday, October 25 – 7:00PM
Charles Burns – X’ed Out, the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color.
Books Inc. – Berkeley/4th Street

Wednesday, October 27 – 7:30PM
Kate Bernheimer – My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
Booksmith – San Francisco

Thursday, October 28 – 7:00PM
Ian Frazier – Travels in Siberia / author of Acme Vs. Coyote
Book Passage – Corte Madera

Thursday, October 28 – 7:00PM
Not Your Mother’s Book Club Spooktacular Halloween Party!!!
NYMBC Spooktacular Halloween Party!!! Prepare to be scared, with RACHEL CAINE (Morganville Vampire saga), STACEY JAY (You Are So Undead to Me) and LINDA JOY SINGLETON (Seer series, Dead Girl Walking series).
Books Inc. – Palo Alto

Thursday, October 28 – 1:00PM
Ian Frazier – Travels in Siberia / author of Acme Vs. Coyote
Presented by the World Affairs Council – http://www.itsyourworld.org/
World Affairs Council 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California

Thursday, October 28 – 5:00PM – 9:00PM
MATCHA: GHOSTS AND GOLDEN CLOUDS
In Japanese Noh theatre, ghosts are usually upset females who won’t go peacefully to into the night. This Halloween, get spooked by dramatic and haunting Japanese ghost tales performed by Brenda Wong Aoki with Emmy Award-winning Jazz composer Mark Izu, the taiko drums of Janet Koike & Kathryn Cabunoc, Anthony Brown on multiple percussion, Shoko Hikage on Koto, and Mas Koga on Saxophone and Shakuhachi.
MATCHA of the year also includes an art activity, cash bar, docent tours and the exhibition Beyond Golden Clouds, which showcases dozens of large Japanese screens spanning five centuries. These masterpieces are the ideal combination of function and beauty. Admission, $10 (includes entry to Beyond Golden Clouds).
Thursday, October 28th at 5-9PM @ The Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., San Francisco.

WIN two tickets to see this event by sending an e-mail with the subject “Ghosts and Golden Clouds” to promos@sfbg.com by midnight on Tuesday, 10/26.

Friday, October 29 – 7:00PM
Richard Kadrey – author of Sandman Slim presents Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel
Books Inc. – Castro

Saturday, October 30 – 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Richard Thieme – Mind Games
Borderlands Books – San Francisco

ATTEND ALL THREE EVENTS – See if you can make it to all these events, finished up by a trip to SF in SF, to win one of these prizes!

• a $50 Gift Certificate to Borderlands Books
• a signed advance copy of Dreadnought with the original cover art
• a copy of Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror
• Tachyon Publications T-shirt

Pick up your game card at Borderlands first event, and get it filled out by having it signed by F. Paul Wilson, Dan Wells, and Cherie Priest — then come to SF in SF for a chance to win!  You must be present to win, but keep your signed game piece as a collectible!!

Saturday, October 16

1:00PM – 3:00PM – F. Paul Wilson – Fatal Error / Dan Wells – Mr. Monster
Borderlands Books, San Francisco

4:00PM – 5:30PM – Cherie Priest – Dreadnought
Borderlands Books, San Francisco

6:00PM – 9:00PM – Karen Joy Fowler & Claude Lalumiere
SF in SF – The Variety Preview Room

Sunday, October 10, 5:00PM – 6:30PM
BOOK CLUB MEETING
QSF&F Book Club – will meet to discuss American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Borderlands Cafe, 870 Valencia Street, San Francisco

Wednesday, October 13 – 6:00PM
Clarence Clemons – Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales
Book Passage – San Francisco (Yeah, we know it is not SF, but hey, Clarence Clemons!)

Wednesday, October 13 – 6:30PM
Tony DiTerlizzi – Spiderwick / The Search for Wondla
Books, Inc. – Laurel Village

Wednesday, October 13 – 7:00PM
How To How to Cook Like a Scientist
Do you have a hard time choosing between cooking shows and Mythbusters? If so, come meet Jeff Potter, author of Cooking for Geeks — a book described by one reviewer as “..the best science-meets-the-kitchen book to come out. Ever.” Written for anyone who likes to think about how things work, Cooking for Geeks is a compendium of food science, interviews, and experiments, with recipes to tie it all together. Books will be available for sale (cash only).

How-To Night at Bazaar Cafe
How-To Night takes place the second Wednesday of each month at San Francisco’s Bazaar Cafe. Each event features a different guest instructor who leads a one-night workshop on how to do just about anything. There is no cost to attend, but a purchase of edibles/potables is appreciated

Bazaar Cafe – 5927 California Street @ 21st Ave.

Wednesday, October 13 – 7:30PM – 9:30PM
Kim Stanley Robinson
Terry Bisson
Gary Phillips
PM Press, another one of the Bay Area’s amazing independent presses, presents Outspoken Authors Speak Out
…it’s only a story… or is it? Fantasy, science fiction, and noir conspire as three of PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series discuss the problems, pitfalls and possibilities of writing fiction from a revolutionary perspective. Kim Stanley Robinson is the Hugo-winning author of The Lucky Strike. Terry Bisson is an award-winning short story writer and the author of Fire on the Mountain and The Left Left Behind. And L.A.’s own Gary Phillips (The Underbelly, The Jook) “combines politics and storytelling as well as any writer of crime fiction” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine).

CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street at 9th (Civic Center BART/MUNI), San Francisco, CA 94103

Wednesday, October 13 – 7:00PM
R.A. Salvatore – Gauntlgrym
Borders – San Francisco – Stonestown Mall

Saturday October 16th

For our main October reading we welcome two very fine writers.

Karen Joy Fowler has her hotly-anticipated new short story collection out from Small Beer Press, What I Didn’t See and Other Stories.  In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth’s younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

Claude Lalumiere, on a rare tour from Montreal, is the author of the collection Objects of Worship, “Twelve superb and sometimes quite disturbing stories … strange but powerful flavors of eroticism … Objects of Worship (A+) is a great collection and I strongly recommend it for every lover of literate speculative fiction.” Fantasy Book Critic.  He is also the co-creator of Lost Myths, an online ‘zine that’s a “playful medley of cryptomythological fiction, pantheons, bestiaries, comics, art, games, readings, performance and more.”  In his nonexistent spare time he’s also the Fantastic Fiction columnist for The Montreal Gazette.

As usual Terry Bisson will be on hand to introduce the readers and moderate a Q&A session. Borderlands Books will provide books for purchase.

Doors open at 7:00PM, Cash Bar – Proceeds to Variety, Readings begin at 8:00PM.

The Variety Preview Room Theatre, The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quizno’s & Citibank, 582 Market St., at 2nd @ Montgomery, San Francisco

Don’t drive! The BART/MUNI Montgomery St. station is right outside our front door.

Tuesday, October 5 – 7:00PM
Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Dave Cooper celebrates the release of Bent, published by Fantagraphics Books. Please join Cooper at 7:00pm for a brief discussion of his career in the Cartoon Art Museum’s galleries, followed by a signing in the museum’s bookstore. Copies of Bent will be available for purchase onsite. Please call 415.227.8666, ext. 310 to reserve a copy.
Cartoon Art Museum – San Francisco

Tuesday, October 5 – 8:00PM
Jack Boulware, Exene Cervenka, Joyce Maynard, Martin Cruz Smith, Jill Soloway, Michael Tolkin, and Kristen Tracy
Litquake and Porchlight: Tales of Hollywood Hell
Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco.
Admission: $12 in advance, $15 at the door; tickets available here

Wednesday October 6 – 6:00PM – 7:30PM
Allison Hoover Bartlett – The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
This tale of the “dark side of literary obsession was rated by Library Journal as one of the best books of 2009. For more info, contact: Ronnie Davis(510) 526-3720 x16
The Albany Public Library, Albany

Thursday, October 7 – 3:00PM – 4:30PM
David Wiesner – Art and Max
Hicklebee’s Books – San Jose

Thursday, October 7 – 7:00PM
San Mateo Reads MICHAEL CHABON
ONE BOOK, ONE COUNTY – KICKOFF EVENT
Sponsored by Kepler’s Books – this event takes place at:
San Mateo Performing Arts Center, 600 N. Delaware St., San Mateo

Friday, October 8 – 10:00AM
David Wiesner – Art and Max
Book Passage – Corte Madera

Friday, October 8 – 11:00AM
Jonathan Lethem – Chronic City
$20 general public, $17 JCC members, $10 students, available only through subscription at www.jccsf.org
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street, San Francisco

Friday, October 8 – 5:00PM – 7:00PM
Not Your Mother’s Book Club
Authors Kristen Tracy, Cameron Tuttle, Katie Williams
Books Inc. Opera Plaza

Saturday, October 9 – 1:00PM – 3:00PM
Beverly Gherman – Sparky:  The Life and Art of Charles Schulz
Cartoon Art Museum – San Francisco

Wednesday October 6th

SF in SF and Litquake present The Maltese Omelette with authors Peter S. Beagle, Cara Black, Michael Kurland, Pat and Richard Lupoff, Gregory Tiede, Lori Leigh Gieleghem.

A live presentation of an old-time radio drama written by Michael Kurland especially for today’s audiences, The Maltese Omelette is an homage to Dashiell Hammett and Mother Goose, in the popular “fairy tale noir” genre. Most of the cast have contributed to Kurland’s Sherlock Holmes: The American Years. Q & A with the authors, moderated by author Terry Bisson, follows presentation. Book sales and signing in the lounge courtesy of Borderlands Books.

The Variety Preview Room Theatre, The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quizno’s & Citibank, 582 Market St., at 2nd @ Montgomery, San Francisco
Doors open at 6:00PM
Cash Bar – Proceeds to Variety
Readings begin at 7:00PM

Don’t drive! The BART/MUNI Montgomery St. station is right outside our front door.

Join us at Borderlands Books on September 19th as we celebrate the 15th Anniversary of Tachyon Publications.

SUNDAY – SEPTEMBER 19 – 2:00PM – 6:00PM

at BORDERLANDS BOOKS

15 years of publishing smart, intelligent, science fiction and fantasy. That’s our fifteenth anniversary in publishing. Whoa. 15. We’re so thrilled, we want you to come and have some fun with us to celebrate this milestone with:

• A special gift for each attendee – our anniversary chapbook!
• Readings and witty repartee by guests of honor!
• Awesome snacks provided by SF in SF – San Francisco’s SFFH author and film series, underwritten by Tachyon Publications, supporting Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California for more than five years
• AND our legendary birthday cake, being made by author Madeleine Robins! Rumour has it that chocolate cake and rum go well together…

Our special author guests for the event are:

• John Kessel
• James Patrick Kelly

(co-editors of The Secret History of Science Fiction; Rewired, The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology; Feeling Very Strange, The Slipstream Anthology; James Patrick Kelly is also the author of the Nebula Award-winning novella, Burn)

Plus many local authors, such as Peter S. Beagle, Richard A. Lupoff, and Michael Blumlein, in attendance — and you! YOU help make this party rock, so we hope to see you there.

SPECIAL EVENT – THE 8th ANNUAL NORTON AWARDS!

The Norton Awards, a San Francisco Bay area-specific juried award, are given each year for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” The award commemorates the memory of Joshua Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico. One is given to a single work of SF/F/H or to an author in these genres; the second to any creation, creator, or service relating to those genres. Presented only at the Tachyon Anniversary party – come and applaud the winners!

The Tachyon Publications 15th Anniversary Celebration

Sunday September 19th – 2 PM to 6 PM
Borderlands Books
866 Valencia Street, between 19th & 20th, San Francisco, CA 94110-1739

Our September Reading features:

• Amelia Beamer
• Mark L. Van Name

Doors and cash bar open at 7:00PM
Event starts at 8:00PM

(Please note: due to an earlier event at the theatre, we are starting later than usual. There will be no admittance into the room before 7:00PM.)

Debut novelist, and Locus Magazine editor Amelia Beamer has struck gold her first time out, with The Loving Dead. According to io9: “This is the first zombie romance novel. No, it’s not a cheesy mashup of a Jane Austen joint. It’s just love and sex with zombies. Seriously, do we need to say more? Want. Now.” We agree, and think you will too. A funny, sexy, new take on an old trope that makes it live again!

It gives us great pleasure to continue our (new) tradition of serving a new “debut novel drink” and we’ll have our own take on “Zombies” at the bar!

Author Mark L. Van Name is doing a rather fine thing with his new Jon and Lobo novel, Children No More. From his website: “The program is simple: I’m donating every cent I receive (including the advance) from the sale of hardcover copies of Children No More to Falling Whistles to help rehabilitate and reintegrate child soldiers.” Children No More focuses on the complications that mount as Jon and Lobo rush straight into the darkness at the heart of humanity to save a group of child soldiers — and then face an even tougher challenge: When we’ve trained our children to kill, what do we do with them when the fighting is over?

Readings begin at 8:00PM, followed by Q & A moderated by author Terry Bisson. Book signing and schmoozing follow in the lounge. Books will be for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books.

Again, please note that author Mark Van Name donates 100% of all proceeds from his hardcover sales of Children No More — come on out and support this incredibly good cause, while helping Variety at the same time!

The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quizno’s & Citibank
582 Market St., at 2nd @ Montgomery, San Francisco

Seating is limited, and first come, first seated.

Don’t drive! The BART/MUNI Montgomery St. station is right outside our front door.

In September we present an Anime Night, featuring:

• Ponyo
• The Wings of Honneamise

Ponyo, the latest movie from the famous Studio Ghibli, is an unusually poetic, visually breathtaking work by the greatest of all animators, Hayao Miyazaki. (Miyazaki is the Japanese creator of My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and many other beloved films.) It’s wonderful and never even seems to try, simply unfolding fantastically. Sosuke, a 5-year-old who lives in a house on a seaside cliff, finds a goldfish trapped in a jar on the beach. This is Ponyo. Freeing her, he is rewarded by a lick on a finger that heals a cut. And by tasting human blood, we learn, Ponyo gains the ability to transform between fish and human…

The Wings of Honneamise is one of the most ambitious of all anime productions, directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga, only 24 at the time, whose drawing style is influenced both by comic books and by the graphic style of the great 19th century Japanese artist, Hiroshige. It’s a visually sensational extravaganza about an unkempt and disorganized young pilot named Shiro, a new member of the Royal Space Force, in a kingdom like Japan and like America. He seems on track to become the first man in space, little suspecting the sinister reasons why anyone would risk such an important flight on an officer as shabby as he is, and the old-time gung-ho pilots and misfit scientists who hang around inventing stuff are amazed when its first manned space shot is given priority.

All bar proceeds and tips benefit Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California.

The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quizno’s & Citibank
582 Market St., at 2nd @ Montgomery, San Francisco

Seating is limited, and first come, first seated.

Don’t drive! The BART/MUNI Montgomery St. station is right outside our front door.