We are delighted to announce that we have added Marta Acosta to our reading line-up for tonight. See you there!

The Variety Preview Room, 582 Market St. @ Montgomery, 1st floor of The Hobart Bldg., San Francisco.

Doors Open 6:00pm, Readings start 7:00pm. $5 admission paid entirely to the Octavia Butler Scholarship.

Here’s what is happening at Borderlands Books in October.

Saturday, October 10th at 3:00 pm
Loren Rhoads, Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues (Scribner, Trade Paperback, $14.99)

Sunday, October 11th at 3:00 pm
Gail Carriger, Soulless (Orbit, Mass Market, $7.99),

Saturday, October 17th from 7:15 – 8:15 pm
LitQuake LitCrawl with authors John Levitt, Seanan McGuire, and Loren Rhoads

Saturday, October 24th at 3:00 pm
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Lucky Strike (PM Press, Trade Paperback, $12.00) & Terry Bisson, The Left Left Behind (PM Press, Trade Paperback, $12.00),

Wednesday, October 28th from 6:30 – 8:00 pm
World Fantasy Convention Group Signing at Borderlands with over 20 distinguished authors and artists including David Drake, Kate Elliot, Graham Joyce, Patricia McKillip, Garth Nix, Ken Scholes, Michael Swanwick, Steve Erikson James Anderson, Carol Berg, Marie Brennan, Gail Carriger, David B. Coe, David Farland, David Lunde, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., John Picacio, Barbara and Christopher Roden, Mark Sebanc, S.M. Stirling, Mark Van Name, Bill Willingham, Zoran Živković.

And we have a very special reading for you.

Color Me SF: The Science Fiction Worlds of Octavia Butler and Carl Brandon

Our guest readers for the day will be Jewelle Gomez & Claire Light. There will also be a discussion on Butler and Brandon, moderated by Terry Bisson.

We will be charging $5 at the door, with all of the money going to the Octavia Butler Scholarship. Bar proceeds for the night will also go to the Scholarship. Tips, as usual, will go to Variety.

At The Variety Preview Room, 582 Market St. @ Montgomery, 1st floor of The Hobart Bldg. Doors Open 6:00pm, Readings start 7:00pm.

Kepler’s Bookstore in Menlo Park is starting a new book club for young people. The first meeting will be on October 13th at 5:30 PM and will feature Coraline by Neil Gaiman. There will be pizza. More details here.

Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park

Join us tonight for:

• Futurama – Bender’s Game: 88 mins.
• Free Enterprise!: 113 mins.

Doors and cash bar open at 6:00 PM. Films begin 7:00 PM. There will be a brief intermission between films

$5 suggested donation goes straight to Variety Childrens’ Charity – drop it in the donation box, or buy a beer! FREE POPCORN!

Seating is limited – first come, first seated

At The Variety Preview Room Theatre, The Hobart Bldg. 1st Floor, 582 Market Street at 2nd & Montgomery, San Francisco.

Bar proceeds and tips from all SF in SF events benefit Variety Childrens’ Charity of Northern California. Our goal this year with SF in SF is to raise $5,000 to help Variety in a number of endeavors, including aid to families with children suffering from cancer, purchasing adaptive bikes for disabled children, and giving financial aid immediately where it’s needed. Variety the Children’s Charity is dedicated to improving the lives of children in our communities. We do this by providing programs of last resort which help families’ access medical care and related services that are not covered by insurance companies, hospitals, government agencies or community based organizations. Your $5 or $10 goes a long way to help!

We have confirmed our guests and dates for the October and November readings. They will be:

• Saturday October 17: Kim Stanley Robinson & Eric Simons
• Saturday November 14: Jeff VanderMeer & S. G. Browne

And don’t forget our extra October author event for Litquake.

Come and listen to Michael Kurland and Nalo Hopkinson. Seating is limited – first come, first seated. Author readings will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Terry Bisson. Schmoozing and book signing will be in the lounge afterward.

Doors and cash bar open at 6:00 PM. $5 suggested donation goes straight to Variety Childrens’ Charity – drop it in the donation box, or buy a beer!

Books sold, courtesy of Borderlands Books.

At The Variety Preview Room Theatre, The Hobart Bldg. 1st Floor – entrance between Quiznos and Citibank, 582 Market Street at 2nd & Montgomery, San Francisco

With apologies again for the late posting, here are some September events we should ave told you about earlier.
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We are delighted to announce that the other guest reader for our September meeting will be Nalo Hopkinson.

Our apologies for being a bit late with the updates this month. We do now have details of our own events:

• Reading, Sat. Sept. 12: Michael Kurland & Special Guest
• Movies, Wed. Sept 16: Futurama – Bender’s Game & Free Enterprise