Another month, another long list of exciting events…
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The 2008 Steampunk Convention is now ready to leave from the Domain Hotel in Sunnyvale. All aboard, please. If you haven’t yet bought your tickets, they are available from the booking office web site. One of the principal attractions on your journey will be a rare west coast appearance for the very wonderful Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors of the fabulous Steampunk anthology (as published by Tachyon Publications). Be there, or be boringly modern.

Here are a few events for the coming week:
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Our Litquake event may have been the most widely reported yet. Jacob has photos up on Flickr, but the event also made the news in SF/SF, the San Francisco science fiction fanzine, and on GalleyCat, a major publishing industry blog.

Those of you who know about such things may have noticed that since web launched this new web site our domain of sfinsf.org has been redirecting to sfsfc.org/sfinsf. Well, the time has some to work the Internet magic that will map our domain onto the hosting space kindly provided for us by SFSFC. That will be happening later today. Hopefully most people won’t notice any difference, but if you are subscribed to this blog via the RSS feed you may need to resubscribe once the shift has happened. If you don’t see any posts in your feed reader by next weekend you’ll know that you are not longer getting updates. Our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Gosh, is it that time again already? Yes, it is: the SF in SF reading is back again on Saturday (October 18th) and we have yet another stellar line up of guests:

• Barry Malzberg
• Kim Stanley Robinson
• Cecelia Holland

As usual the session will be chaired by Terry Bisson who will also conduct a Q&A session with our guests after the reading.

The location, as always, is The Variety Preview Room, 582 Market St. @ Montgomery (1st floor of The Hobart Bldg.). Doors open at 6:00pm for a cash bar. Borderlands Books will be on hand just in case you forgot to bring anything to get signed.

Halloween is coming, and it is time to roll out the horror movies. This Wednesday (October 15th) we will be showing:

• Shaun of the Dead; and
• Repo Man

As usual we will be at The Variety Preview Room, 582 Market St. @ Montgomery (1st floor of The Hobart Bldg.). Doors open at 6:00pm for a cash bar and free popcorn!

And don’t forget our next reading which takes place on Saturday (October 18th) and features Barry Malzberg, Kim Stanley Robinson and Cecelia Holland.

Our next event will be our Litquake reading this coming Thursday (October 9th). It is a Steampunk themed evening, and the line-up is:

• Kage Baker
• Joe R. Lansdale
• Rudy Rucker
• Richard Bottoms

As usual the event will be at the The Variety Preview Room, 582 Market St. @ Montgomery (1st floor of The Hobart Bldg.). Door open at 7:00pm and there will be a cash bar with all proceeded going to the Variety Children’s Charity. The readings start at 8:00pm.

You may also like to check out this contest, being held in conjunction with this forthcoming Bay Area Steampunk convention.

Not content with books, we have science, we have magic…
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This month’s book discussions feature works by Peter F. Hamilton, Keith Donohue and Marjane Satrapi. Details below.
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