Join SF in SF Sunday, October 27th at THE SAN FRANCISCO COLUMBARIUM!!

SF in SF – Science Fiction in San Francisco presents a night of cemetery horror just in time for Halloween!

LOREN RHOADS  –  EMERIAN RICH  –  FRANCESCA MARIA

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience; book signing follows.

This special event will take place at the

SAN FRANCISCO COLUMBARIUM at One Loraine Court, San Francisco, CA, 94118

Doors open at 7PM – event is $10 at the door

Event begins at 7:30PM

The authors books will be for sale courtesy of Fly By Night Books, and all attendees are welcome to bring their own books from home for signatures.

Our wonderful podcast hosts from Soma FM will be recording the evening’s talk for later broadcast – they are listener-supported, commercial-free radio broadcasting to the world!  Catch up on previous SF in SF conversations and reading at our dedicated channel, here

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

FRANCESCA MARIA writes dark fiction surrounded by cats near the Pacific Ocean. She is the award-winning, bestselling author of They Hide: Short Stories to Tell in the Dark from Brigids Gate Press, which debuted as an Amazon #1 Best Seller. She is the creator and co-publisher of the Black Cat Chronicles, a true horror comic book series narrated by a mystical black cat. Her short stories and essays can be found in various publications, including Crystal Lake Publishing’s Shallow Waters, Death’s Garden Revisited, To Hell and Back and Under the Stairs anthologies. Francesca is the co-editor and co-publisher of the upcoming Black Cat Tales anthology from Black Cat Publishing, due out in 2025. Francesca is also the co-chair of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Horror Writers Association Chapter. You can find her at francescamaria.com and on social media @writerofweird.

LOREN RHOADS is the author of 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die and Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel. She’s the editor of Death’s Garden Revisited: Personal Relationships with Cemeteries. She also writes science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror. Her short stories have appeared in Best New Horror, Strange California, and the upcoming Black Cat Tales, among others. See what she’s up to next at lorenrhoads.com.

EMERIAN RICH, author, artist, voice actress, and editor, is best known for being the Horror Hostess of HorrorAddicts.net, an internationally acclaimed podcast, now in its 19^th season. She’s worked in cemeteries and has a personal connection with one in particular, outlined in her piece in Death’s Garden Revisited.  She has a multitude of book publications in horror, romance, art, and non-fiction. Find out more at emzbox.com.

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The San Francisco Columbarium was established in 1898, and stands as one of California’s most prized architectural treasures. For over 100 years, the Columbarium has been the last remaining nondenominational place within San Francisco to memorialize loved ones.  It is located at One Lorain Court, off Anza at Stanyan.

Located at off the beaten path, at the end of a residential cul-de-sac in the Richmond District, the copper-domed, Neo-Classical columbarium is a hidden gem and an architectural wonder. The must-see structure was originally part of the Odd Fellows Cemetery and features a large rotunda, mosaic tile floors, ornate stained-glass windows and a domed skylight. A colossal 45-foot atrium is surrounded by intricate balconies, with each of the 4 floors providing a glimpse into San Francisco’s history.

The interior decoration and design of the columbarium follow the belief of the Odd Fellows, one of the world’s oldest fraternal societies, who saw death as something to approach without fear and funerals as events that should be ordinary yet dignified.

Three main halls—Hall of Olympians, Hall of Titans and Hall of Heroes—house around 8,500 niches containing cremated remains and memorabilia special to those buried here. Six of the ground-floor rooms have stained-glass windows, one of which has been attributed to both Louis Comfort Tiffany and John La Farge.

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We are beginning to book authors for 2025!  If you are an author with a science fiction, fantasy, or horror book coming out next year, and would like to appear, please contact Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com.  Let’s talk!

GARTH NIX APPEARING AT SF in SF!

TICKETS ON SALE NOW – GO GET YOURS!

Join us Sunday, October 27th, at our brand-new venue, The Lost Church in San Francisco!

We are pleased as punch to welcome back one of our favorite authors…

GARTH NIX and his new book WE DO NOT WELCOME OUR TEN-YEAR-OLD OVERLORD!

This SPECIAL EVENT will feature a short RPG game run by Garth (D&D is an important part of the book.)

Garth has drawn on a lifetime of playing D&D and other games to create a special audience collaboration fantasy roleplaying game called ESCAPE FROM THE ENCHANTER for the event, which he will run. This will take about 20 minutes of the program. Every audience member will receive immensely collectible (probably not actually) badly drawn (by Garth) character and item cards!

(Garth sez “It may not work, it will still be fun!)

Garth has made several appearances with SF in SF over the past years, and we promise this one will be even better!  It’s always a delight to hear him read, and learn more about the amazing books that have made him a beloved best-selling author around the world.  Join us for a special event celebrating the release of his new book, WE DO NOT WELCOME OUR TEN-YEAR-OLD OVERLORD!

Event is moderated by author Cliff Winnig.  Garth will read a bit, run the RPG with y’all, and take questions from the attendees.

This special event is taking place at The Lost Church, located in North Beach, at 988 Columbus Avenue at Chestnut, across the street from Bimbo’s 365 Club.

Doors open at 4:00PM – event starts at 4:30PM.  It’s a party! We will have goodies to give away, and a free raffle for a special gift!

TICKETS ON SALE NOW – to make sure you get the info, sign up for the SF in SF mailing list at www.sfinsf.org (left sidebar)

PLEASE NOTE – Secure a guaranteed seat by purchasing tickets for this special event at $15 per person via Lost Church.  

Proceeds benefit The Lost Church, a 501(C)(3) nonprofit arts organization that serves the community by creating, sustaining, and defending spaces for live performance.

THERE’S A BAR! Beer, wine, and soft drinks are available during the evening, located on the main floor of The Lost Church

Books will be for sale courtesy of Fly By Night Books, and all attendees are welcome to bring their own books from home for signatures.  If you cannot attend, but would like a signed book mailed to you, please contact flybynightbooks@gmail.com.  They’ll be happy to help!

Our wonderful podcast hosts from Soma FM will be recording the evening’s talk for later broadcast – they are listener-supported, commercial-free radio broadcasting to the world!  Catch up on previous SF in SF conversations and reading at our dedicated channel, here

Email Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com with any questions!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

GARTH NIX has been a full-time writer since 2001, but has also worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve.

Garth’s books include the Old Kingdom fantasy series: Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel, Goldenhand and Terciel and Elinor; SF novels Shade’s Children and A Confusion of Princes; fantasy novels Angel Mage, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, and The Sinister Booksellers of Bath; the collection Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz, and a Regency romance with magic, Newt’s Emerald. His novels for children include The Ragwitch; the six books of The Seventh Tower sequence; The Keys to the Kingdom series and Frogkisser! His short fiction includes more than 60 published stories, some of them collected in Across the Wall and To Hold the Bridge.

He has co-written several books with author Sean Williams, including the Troubletwisters series; Spirit Animals Book Three: Blood Ties; Have Sword, Will Travel; and Let Sleeping Dragons Lie.

More than six million copies of Garth’s books have been sold around the world, they have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Bookseller and others, and his work has been translated into 42 languages. He has won multiple Aurealis Awards, the Ditmar Award, the Mythopoeic Award, CBCA Honour Book, and has been shortlisted for the Locus Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award and others. Nix was the Guest of Honor at the 2009 World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, California, and at the 2016 Boskone 53 in Boston, Massachusetts.

SF in SF is super happy to welcome Garth back to the series – you can learn more about this engaging author at his website, https://garthnix.com/

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SF in SF new home for events for 2024 is THE LOST CHURCH! 

We are so excited to share this amazing performance space with you!  All ages are welcome!!

The Lost Church is located at 988 Columbus Avenue (at Chestnut), North Beach, San Francisco.  Bimbo’s 365 Club is across the street.  The Lost Church is a nonprofit arts organization that serves the community by creating, sustaining, and defending spaces for live performances.  The venue is ADA compliant: if you’d like to take the elevator down one floor to the performance space, please state that at the door.

Yes, we know….North Beach and parking are not always compatible!  BUT – here is a link to parking garages in the area, more info on parking in the area, and street parking is free after 6PM.  There are many easy ways to reach the venue by MUNI, or a combination of BART and MUNI!  For MUNI options, please visit https://www.sfmta.com/muni-transit to plan your trip.  For BART options, please visit https://www.bart.gov/planner.    Make it a grand evening out, and visit here to find some excellent restaurants for dinner in the neighborhood!

For more information, The Lost Church can be reached at HQ@THELOSTCHURCH.ORG; for a recorded message with general information, call 415-320-1408

For information on SF in SF email Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com

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SAVE THE DATES – COMING UP NEXT WITH SF IN SF!

Join SF in SF for these next authors on our calendar!

• Sunday, October 27, 2024 – DOUBLE TROUBLE DAY!
  • 4:00PM – Special event with author GARTH NIX!  The Lost Church, tickets go on sale soon!
  • 7PM – Special SPOOKTACULAR event with three horror writers at the amazing San Francisco Columbarium!  Loren Rhoads, Emerian Rich, and Francesca Maria.  $10 at the door

Join SF in SF Sunday, September 15th at our brand-new venue, The Lost Church in San Francisco!

SF in SF – Science Fiction in San Francisco

Our 20th year is shaping up to be extraordinary!  THAT’S RIGHT! We’ve been around since 2004!

ANNALEE NEWITZ  ~ ANDREA STEWART  ~  JULIA VEE

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience; book signing and schmoozing follows.

Event is moderated by author Cliff Winnig

SF in SF takes place at The Lost Church, located in North Beach, at 988 Columbus Avenue at Chestnut, across the street from Bimbo’s 365 Club.

Doors open at 4:00PM – event starts at 4:30PM  —-  ALL AGES WELCOME

PLEASE NOTE – Secure a guaranteed seat by purchasing tickets ahead of time!  $15 per person via Lost Church, and at the door

tickets on sale here and available at the door!

Proceeds benefit The Lost Church, a 501(C)(3) nonprofit arts organization that serves the community by creating, sustaining, and defending spaces for live performance.

THERE’S A BAR! Beer, wine, and soft drinks are available during the evening, located on the main floor of The Lost Church

Books will be for sale courtesy of Fly By Night Books, and all attendees are welcome to bring their own books from home for signatures.  If you cannot attend, but would like a signed book mailed to you, please contact flybynightbooks@gmail.com.  They’ll be happy to help!

Our wonderful podcast hosts from Soma FM will be recording the evening’s talk for later broadcast – they are listener-supported, commercial-free radio broadcasting to the world!  Catch up on previous SF in SF conversations and reading at our dedicated channel, here

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ANNALEE NEWITZ writes science fiction and nonfiction. Their background includes being a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley, the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, and they have a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley. They are the author of three novels: The Terraformers, The Future of Another Timeline, and Autonomous, which won the Lambda Literary Award, and was nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards. Their short story “When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis” was winner of the 2019 Sturgeon Award.  In addition, they were the co-editor of the essay collection She’s Such A Geek and author of Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture.

As a science journalist, they are the author of Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age and Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in science. They are a writer for the New York Times and elsewhere, and have a monthly column in New Scientist. They have published in The Washington Post, Slate, Popular Science, Ars Technica, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among others. Previously, they were the founder of io9.com, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.  Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, is their latest book.

They are currently a freelance science journalist, a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, and a columnist at New Scientist. In addition, they are the co-host, with Charlie Jane Anders, of the popular Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. They can be found online at www.annaleenewitz.com.

ANDREA STEWART is the daughter of immigrants, and was raised in a number of places across the United States. Stewart is a Sunday Times Bestselling author whose short stories can be found in such venues as Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Galaxy’s Edge, and others. Her debut epic fantasy novel, The Bone Shard Daughter, was a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel, the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, the Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy and Debut Novel, and the BookNest Award for Best Traditionally Published Novel. Her series, The Drowning Empire Trilogy, is now complete, with the titles The Bone Shard Daughter, The Bone Shard Emperor, and The Bone Shard War, all published by Orbit Books.

Her brand new title, just out, is The Gods Below, the first in a new trilogy. The series is set in a world ravaged by ancient magic, where precious gemstones bestow magical abilities on the few individuals able to harness their power. Full of clandestine power struggles and the battles between gods, the story follows Hakara, a young woman searching for her missing sister and who will do anything to find her — even lead a rebellion against the gods themselves.

Stewart now lives in sunny California, and in addition to writing, can be found herding cats, looking at birds, and falling down research rabbit holes.  Learn more at www.andreagstewart.com

JULIA VEE loves stories of magic and monsters. Add East Asian dishes to the mix and you have the flavor profile of her writing. Julia’s academic focus on Asian Studies at U.C Berkeley only deepened her appreciation for the history and lore of that region. Though she has spent over two decades as a trial lawyer in Silicon Valley, she has always nurtured her creative spark, all the while teaching courses on business and property law as an adjunct faculty member in colleges and law schools. Outside of the courtroom, her heart beats strongest for the fantastical. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise residential workshop. She often writes with co-author Ken Bebelle to craft fantasy adventure stories with East Asian elements. Their works include the Seattle Slayers series and their forthcoming trilogy, beginning with Ebony Gate, debuted from TOR in July of 2023, with Blood Jade published in July of 2024.  A lifelong fan of comics, Julia met her spouse over a shared love of the medium. She is passionate about rescue dogs, knitting, and soup. Her fandoms include Elfquest, Avatar the Last Airbender, Kate Daniels, the Witcher, and Shang-Chi.  Learn more at juliavee.com.

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SF in SF new home for events for 2024 is THE LOST CHURCH! 

We are so excited to share this amazing performance space with you!  All ages are welcome!!

The Lost Church is located at 988 Columbus Avenue (at Chestnut), North Beach, San Francisco.  Bimbo’s 365 Club is across the street.  The Lost Church is a nonprofit arts organization that serves the community by creating, sustaining, and defending spaces for live performances.  The venue is ADA compliant: if you’d like to take the elevator down one floor to the performance space, please state that at the door.

Yes, we know….North Beach and parking are not always compatible!  BUT – here is a link to parking garages in the area, more info on parking in the area, and street parking is free after 6PM.  There are many easy ways to reach the venue by MUNI, or a combination of BART and MUNI!  For MUNI options, please visit https://www.sfmta.com/muni-transit to plan your trip.  For BART options, please visit https://www.bart.gov/planner.    Make it a grand evening out, and visit here to find some excellent restaurants for dinner in the neighborhood!

For more information, The Lost Church can be reached at HQ@THELOSTCHURCH.ORG; for a recorded message with general information, call 415-320-1408

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SAVE THE DATES – COMING UP NEXT WITH SF IN SF!

Join SF in SF for these next authors on our calendar!

• Sunday, September 15, 2024 – 4:30PM – Annalee Newitz, Andrea Stewart, and Julia Vee
• Sunday, October 27, 2024 – DOUBLE TROUBLE DAY!
  • 4:30PM – Special event with author GARTH NIX!  The Lost Church, tickets go on sale September 20th
  • 7PM – Special SPOOKTACULAR event with three horror writers at the amazing San Francisco Columbarium!  Loren Rhoads, Emerian Rich, and Francesca Maria.  $10 at the door

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We are beginning to book authors for 2025!  If you are an author with a science fiction, fantasy, or horror book coming out next year, and would like to appear, please contact Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com.  Let’s talk!

SPECIAL EVENT FOR SF in SF!

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!!

Join us Wednesday, July 24th, at our brand-new venue, The Lost Church in San Francisco!

Join us at SF in SF – Science Fiction in San Francisco – Our 20th year is shaping up to be extraordinary!  THAT’S RIGHT! We’ve been around since 2004!

PAOLO BACIGALUPI  & TIM PRATT

ONLY SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA APPEARANCE!!

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience; book signing and schmoozing follows.

Event is moderated by author Cliff Winnig

This special event is taking place at The Lost Church, located in North Beach, at 988 Columbus Avenue at Chestnut, across the street from Bimbo’s 365 Club.

Doors open at 7:30PM – event starts at 8:00PM

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!!

PLEASE NOTE – Secure a guaranteed seat by purchasing tickets for this special event at $15 per person via Lost Church, and at the door

Proceeds benefit The Lost Church, a 501(C)(3) nonprofit arts organization that serves the community by creating, sustaining, and defending spaces for live performance.

THERE’S A BAR! Beer, wine, and soft drinks are available during the evening, located on the main floor of The Lost Church

Books will be for sale courtesy of Fly By Night Books, and all attendees are welcome to bring their own books from home for signatures.  If you cannot attend, but would like a signed book mailed to you, please contact flybynightbooks@gmail.com.  They’ll be happy to help!

Our wonderful podcast hosts from Soma FM will be recording the evening’s talk for later broadcast – they are listener-supported, commercial-free radio broadcasting to the world!  Catch up on previous SF in SF conversations and reading at our dedicated channel, here

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

PAOLO BACIGALUPI is an internationally bestselling author of speculative fiction. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, John W. Campbell and Locus Awards, as well as being a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, for Shipbreaker. Paolo’s work often focuses on questions of sustainability and the environment, most notably the impacts of climate change. His writing has appeared in WIRED, High Country News, Salon.com, OnEarth Magazine, The Magazine of F&SF and Asimov’s. His short fiction has been anthologized in various “Year’s Best” collections of short science fiction and fantasy, nominated for three Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science fiction short story of the year. His collection Pump Six & Other Stories was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. His debut novel The Windup Girl was named by TIME as one of the ten best novels of 2009, and also won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards. Internationally, it has won the Seiun Award (Japan), The Ignotus Award (Spain), The Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis (Germany), and the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (France).  His other work includes a sequel to Shipbreaker, The Drowned Cities, Zombie Baseball Beatdown, The Doubt Factory, and The Water Knife.  His long-awaited new novel, Navola, releases July 9, 2024. “With echoes of Renaissance Italy, The Godfather, and Game of Thrones, Navola is a stunning feat of world-building and a mesmerizing depiction of drive and will.”  Learn more about this versatile author here.

TIM PRATT  is a Hugo Award-winning SF and fantasy author and editor, with over 30 books to his credit, most recently the kinky multiversal space opera The Knife and the Serpent.  His fiction and poetry have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, the Best American Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, Asimov’s, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Subterranean, and Tor.com, among many other places.  He’s written several roleplaying game tie-in fantasy novels, including one for Forgotten Realms and five for Pathfinder Tales.  In October 2007 he began publishing a series of urban fantasies featuring ass-kicking sorcerer Marla Mason, and you can find the “Marlaverse” online here

His debut collection Little Gods was published in 2003,and his second, Hart & Boot & Other Stories, 2007, was a World Fantasy Award finalist.  He won a Hugo Award (for “Impossible Dreams” in 2007), and has been nominated for a Nebula Award, Stoker Award, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, a couple of Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, a Seiun Award, a Scribe Award, and two Ignotus Awards, among others. In 2004 he was a finalist for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer.  Tim is a senior editor and occasional book reviewer at Locus, the magazine of the science fiction and fantasy field. Since 2013 he’s published a new story every month at www.patreon.com/timpratt, he makes jokes on Bluesky @timpratt.org. and you can see what else he’s up to online here .He lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife and kid.

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SF in SF new home for events for 2024 is THE LOST CHURCH!  We are so excited to share this amazing performance space with you!  All ages are welcome!!

The Lost Church is located at 988 Columbus Avenue (at Chestnut), North Beach, San Francisco.  Bimbo’s 365 Club is across the street.  The Lost Church is a nonprofit arts organization that serves the community by creating, sustaining, and defending spaces for live performances.  The venue is ADA compliant: if you’d like to take the elevator down one floor to the performance space, please state that at the door.

Yes, we know….North Beach and parking are not always compatible!  BUT – here is a link to parking garages in the area, more info on parking in the area, and street parking is free after 6PM.  There are many easy ways to reach the venue by MUNI, or a combination of BART and MUNI!  For MUNI options, please visit https://www.sfmta.com/muni-transit to plan your trip.  For BART options, please visit https://www.bart.gov/planner.    Make it a grand evening out, and visit here to find some excellent restaurants for dinner in the neighborhood!

For more information, The Lost Church can be reached at HQ@THELOSTCHURCH.ORG; for a recorded message with general information, call 415-320-1408

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SAVE THE DATES – COMING UP NEXT WITH SF IN SF!

Join SF in SF for these next authors on our calendar!

• Sunday, September 15, 2024 – 4:30PMAnnalee Newitz, Andrea Stewart, and Julia Vee
• Sunday, October 27, 2024 – DOUBLE TROUBLE DAY!
  • 4:30PM – Special event with author GARTH NIX! – The Lost Church, tickets go on sale September 20th
  • 7PM – Special SPOOKTACULAR event with three horror writers at the amazing San Francisco Columbarium!  Loren Rhoads, Emerian Rich, and Francesca Maria.  $10 at the door

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For information regarding SF in SF events, or booking an author, please contact Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com

SF in SF Sun June 23, 2024 – BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY!

Join us at SF in SF – Science Fiction in San Francisco – Our 20th year is shaping up to be extraordinary!  THAT’S RIGHT! We’ve been around since 2004!

ROBIN SLOAN  /  RUDY RUCKER  /  CLARA WARD

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by question and answers with the authors; book signing follows.

Event is moderated by author Cliff Winnig

The American Bookbinders Museum – 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco CA

Doors open at 6PM – event gets underway 6:30PM

$10 at the door – $8 seniors and students. No one turned away for lack of funds. CASH PREFERRED.

All proceeds benefit the American Bookbinders Museum

Refreshments will be served, and books will be for sale- attendees are welcome to bring their own books from home for signatures.

Our wonderful podcast hosts from Soma FM will be recording the evening’s talk for later broadcast – they are listener-supported, commercial-free radio broadcasting to the world!  Catch up on previous SF in SF conversations and reading at our dedicated channel, here

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ROBIN SLOAN was raised and educated in Michigan, and attended Michigan State University, where he co-founded the literary magazine Oats and graduated with an economics degree in 2002. He worked for about a decade at the intersection of media and technology before publishing his first novel.  In 2003, he founded the SnarkMarket blog with some friends, and then moved to the SF Bay Area in 2004 to work, first at Current TV as a media strategist/interactive producer, and then at Twitter as a media manager.

His new novel, Moonbound, has just been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  He has developed a special website as a companion to the novel, here

Sloan’s first novel, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, was released in 2012. His second novel, Sourdough, was released in September 2017. He has written fiction and commentary for many publications, including the NY Times, the Atlantic, and MIT Technology Review. His novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Sloan and his partner Kathryn Tomajan produce olive oil under the Fat Gold brand, harvested off leased land in Sunol, California.

RUDY RUCKER is, quite honestly, one of the most important and visionary figures in science fiction literature working today. A writer, mathematician, artist, and a Silicon Valley computer science professor emeritus, Rucker is regarded as a contemporary master of science-fiction, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement.  He received the very first Philip K. Dick award for his cyberpunk novel, Software, and another for Wetware. It’s worth noting that his novel Software (1982), was the very first SF work to introduce the (by now very familiar) notion of transferring a human personality to a bot. What’s more, Software was the first SF novel in which robot minds are evolved, rather than being designed.

As well as writing cyberpunk, Rucker writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism—where the author uses SF archetypes to symbolize the concerns of the characters. Rucker’s forty published books include non-fiction books on the fourth dimension, infinity, and the meaning of computation. Rucker has also worked on several software packages; he runs a podcast of his talks; and you can browse some of his works online, including his autobiography Nested Scrolls   and his Complete Stories.

For a more complete look at the work, both literary and artistic, of Rudy Rucker, and to learn more about this important writer, please visit his blog, here .

CLARA WARD lives in Silicon Valley, California, on the border between reality and speculative fiction. Be the Sea, their latest novel, takes place in the same near future as “Dream the Sea,” available here   online from Small Wonders Magazine  and is a science fantasy journey across the Pacific featuring sea creature perspectives, human tech, chosen family, and the world’s best chocolate. Clara’s short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Decoded Pride, and The Arcanist. When not using words to teach or tell stories, Clara uses wood, fiber, and glass to make practical or completely impractical objects. More of their words along with crafted creations can be found here.

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The American Bookbinders Museum‘s entrance is located at 355 Clementina Alley, between 4th and 5th Street, between Howard and Folsom. The nearest BART station is Powell and Market. Street parking is free, and there are several garages in the area as well – further directions and transit options are available here via the ABM website.

May we suggest coming to the ABM and taking a tour or workshop?  The bookbinding machines are AMAZING, and it’s a great look into one of the essential tools and trade necessary to make books! For more information, pleases contact the ABM at (415) 824-9754.

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For information regarding SF in SF events, or booking an author, please contact Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com

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SAVE THE DATES – COMING UP NEXT WITH SF IN SF!

Join SF in SF for these next authors on our calendar!

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 – Paolo Bacigalupi and Tim Pratt

** Please note this will be a ticketed event taking place at The Lost Church, in North Beach, San Francisco. Stay tuned for all the details!  IT’S GOING TO BE AWESOME!

Sunday, September 15, 2024 – Annalee Newitz, Andrea Stewart, and Julia Vee

Sunday, October 27, 2024 – it’s a PARTY!  Come spend Halloween with SF in SF and Loren Rhoads, and horror writers to be announced

Join us at SF in SF – Science Fiction in San Francisco – Our 20th year is shaping up to be extraordinary!

Please join SF in SF for a fabulous evening with authors

SAMANTHA MILLS

HANA LEE

CAITLIN CHUNG

Sunday, May 19, 2024

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by question and answers with the authors; booksigning follows.

Event is moderated by author Cliff Winnig

The American Bookbinders Museum – 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco CA

Doors open at 6PM – event gets underway 6:30PM

$10 at the door – $8 seniors and students. No one turned away for lack of funds. CASH PREFERRED.

All proceeds benefit the American Bookbinders Museum

Refreshments and books will be for sale- attendess are welcome to bring their own books from home for signatures.

Our wonderful podcast hosts from Soma FM will be recording the evening’s talk for later broadcast – they are listener-supported, commercial-free radio broadcasting to the world!  Catch up on previous SF in SF conversations and reading at our dedicated channel, here:  https://somafm.com/sfinsf/

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

     HANA LEE is a biracial Korean American writer who also builds software for a living. She has an undying love for fantastical stories in all their forms, especially video games, and a habit of writing to moody indie rock playlists. A graduate of Stanford University, she’s always loved the dark, the gothic, and the occult, so there’s usually a picturesque ruin of some kind lurking in the background of her novels.

Her short writing has appeared in Fantasy Magazine and Uncanny Magazine, and her first novel, Road to Ruin, is out now from Saga Press (debuting at SF in SF!) It’s the first book in the Magebike Courier series, as well as a love letter to her favorite movie, Mad Max: Fury Road. She lives in California with her partner and two beloved and ridiculously fluffy cats. Learn more about this author who’s definitely off to a great start at https://authorhanalee.com/about

     SAMANTHA MILLS is a multiple award-winning author living in Southern California. Her debut science fantasy novel, The Wings Upon Her Back, is out now from Tachyon Publications. She has published a dozen short stories, appearing in Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod and others. In addition to winning the Nebula, Locus, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial awards for her short story “Rabbit Test” in 2023, Sam has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, made the Locus Recommended Reading List and the BSFA long list multiple times, and was included in the best-of anthologies The New Voices of Science Fiction and The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2023.

Sam grew up in Southern California, where she still lives with her family and cats. She graduated from the University of Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Pre- and Early Modern Literature, and received a Master’s in Information and Library Science from San Jose State University. In the other half of her life, she is a trained archivist specializing in primary documents, with a particular focus on helping local historical societies and research libraries preserve and manage their collections. When Sam isn’t working, writing or taking care of children, she’s watching B-movies, binding books, and crocheting stuffed animals. You can find more about this talented author at www.samtasticbooks.com.

     CAITLIN CHUNG has lived in the Bay Area her whole life. She is a teacher, an expert eavesdropper, a fan of infomercials, and is known to be a supporter of superstitions. She has on many occasions been justly accused of being a Luddite. She lives in Oakland with her husband and their cat. Ship of Fates was her first book, and a Foreword INDIES Finalist.

Out from Lanternfish Press, Ship of Fates is a historical fantasy weaving together western fairy tales and Asian-American history and mythology. Beginning in the gridlocked harbor of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast, with a ship hung with red paper lanterns draws crowds eager to gamble and drink. Aboard it, the fates of two young women will be altered irrevocably—and tied forever to that of an ancient lighthouse keeper who longs to be free. Set against the backdrop of Gold Rush-era San Francisco’s Chinese immigrant community, Ship of Fates is a coming-of-age fairy tale that stretches across generations. We look forward to more fantastic fiction from this local author – in the meantime, learn a bit more here – https://tinyurl.com/7pwxszra

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The American Bookbinders Museum‘s entrance is located at 355 Clementina Alley, between 4th and 5th Street, between Howard and Folsom. The nearest BART station is Powell and Market. Street parking is free, and there are several garages in the area as well – further directions and transit options are available here via the ABM website. For more information, pleases contact the ABM at (415) 824-9754.

For information regarding SF in SF events, or booking an author, please contact Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com

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COMING UP NEXT!

Join SF in SF for these next authors on our calendar!

Sunday, June 23, 2024 – Robin Sloane, Rudy Rucker, and Clara Ward

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 – Paolo Bacigalupi and Tim Pratt

NOTE:  this will be a ticketed event held at The Lost Church, SF – stay tuned for details!

Sunday, September 15, 2024 – Annalee Newitz, Andrea Stewart, and Julia Vee

Sunday, October 27, 2024 – it’s a PARTY!  Come spend Halloween with SF in SF and Loren Rhoads, and horror writers to be announced

November – tba

Join us for our March event – Our 20th year is shaping up to be extraordinary!

Please join SF in SF for a fabulous evening with GAIL CARRIGER, AMY SUNDBERG, AND IZZY WASSERSTEIN

SUNDAY – MARCH 24th

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by question and answers with the authors; booksigning follows.

Event is moderated by author Cliff Winnig

The American Bookbinders Museum – 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco CA

Doors open at 6PM – event gets underway 6:30PM

$10 at the door – $8 seniors and students.  No one turned away for lack of funds.  CASH PREFERRED.

All proceeds benefit the American Bookbinders Museum

Books will be for sale, and feel free to bring your own from home for signatures.

Our wonderful podcast hosts from Soma FM will be recording the evening’s talk for later broadcast – they are listener-supported, commercial-free radio broadcasting to the world at https://somafm.com/

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Gail Carriger writes books that are hugs, mostly comedies of manners mixed with steampunk, urban fantasy, and sci-fi (plus cozy queer joy as G. L. Carriger). These include the Parasol Protectorate, Custard Protocol, Tinkered Stars, the San Andreas Shifter series for adults, and the Finishing School and Tinkered Starsong series for young adults. In addition, she’s published the nonfiction book, The Heroine’s Journey. She is published in many languages, has over a million books in print, over a dozen New York Times and USA Today bestsellers, and starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, and Romantic Times.

Her first book, Soulless, made Audible’s Best list, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book, an IndieBound Notable, and a Locus Recommended Read. She has received the American Library Association’s Alex Award, the Prix Julia Verlanger, the Elbakin Award, the Steampunk Chronicle‘s Reader’s Choice Award, and a Starburner Award. She was once an archaeologist and is fond of shoes, cephalopods, and tea. Learn more about this fascinating and versatile author, plus get early access, specials, and exclusives via her website at http://www.gailcarriger.com

Amy Sundberg is the author of the recently released YA science fiction novel My Stars Shine Darkly as well as the novel To Travel the Stars, a YA retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in space. Her novels feature intrepid heroines, refined prose, and questions of agency, power, and possibility. She also reports on local news with an emphasis on public safety and the criminal legal system in Seattle and Washington State. You can read her work at the Urbanist and in her newsletter Notes From the Emerald City. Amy spent most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area, but she is now living in Seattle with her little dog Nala. Learn more, plus subscribe to her newsletter, at visit https://amysundberg.com/

Izzy Wasserstein is a queer and trans woman who was born and raised in Kansas and currently lives in California. She teaches writing and literature, writes poetry and fiction, and shares a house with a variety of animal companions and the writer Nora E. Derrington. A Lambda Literary Award finalist, she’s the author of two poetry collections, When Creation Falls (Meadowlark Press (2018) and This Ecstasy They Call Damnation, the short story collection All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From, and her brand-new novella, These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart (Tachyon, 2024). Learn more at https://izzywasserstein.com/

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The American Bookbinders Museum‘s entrance is located at 355 Clementina Alley, between 4th and 5th Street, between Howard and Folsom.  The nearest BART station is Powell and Market.  Street parking is free, and there are several garages in the area as well – further directions and transit options are available here on the ABM website. For more information, pleases contact the ABM at (415) 824-9754

For information regarding SF in SF events, or booking an author, please contact Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com

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Author Carter Scholz will be speaking at this event, as we continue to mourn the loss of author Terry Bisson.  Scholz has published several works of short fiction (collected in The Amount to Carry, 2003) and two novels (Palimpsests 1984, with Glenn Harcourt; Radiance: A Novel 2002). He has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Award for Best Novelette for his story “The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs”. He also co-wrote The Twilight Zone episode “A Small Talent for War” and contributed stories to Kafka Americana. He has published several works of short fiction (collected in The Amount to Carry, 2003) and two novels (Palimpsests 1984, with Glenn Harcourt; Radiance: A Novel 2002). He has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Award for Best Novelette for his story “The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs”. He also co-wrote The Twilight Zone episode “A Small Talent for War” and contributed stories to Kafka Americana.

A memorial is planned –The Outspoken and the Incendiary: The Life and Work of Terry Bisson — at The Lost Church, San Francisco, for Saturday, March 30th.  More information is available here

SF IN SF, our team, and just about everyone we know is terribly saddened at the news that author Terry Bisson passed away in January, of complications from cancer.  There would be no SF in SF without him, and our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends.  Locus Magazine has posted a tribute on their site.

Raise a glass, folks.

Back in town – and gearing up for another year of SF in SF!  OUR TWENTIETH!

Please join SF in SF for a fabulous evening of Frankenstein and his Monster, Mary Shelley, an exciting space caper story and science fiction fun with authors David D. Levine and David M. Sandner!  And – there’s a Frankenstein’s Monster for EVERYONE! 😉

SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 25TH

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by question and answers with the authors; booksigning follows.

Event is moderated by author Cliff Winnig

The American Bookbinders Museum – 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco CA

Doors open at 6PM – event gets underway 6:30PM

$10 at the door – $8 seniors and students.  No one turned away for lack of funds.  CASH PREFERRED.

All proceeds benefit the American Bookbinders Museum

Books will be for sale, and feel free to bring your own from home for signatures.

Our wonderful podcast hosts from Soma FM will be recording the evening’s talk for later broadcast – they are listener-supported, commercial-free radio broadcasting to the world at https://somafm.com/

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

DAVID D. LEVINE is the author of the space-opera caper novel, The Kuiper Belt Job, recently published by Caezi SF & Fantasy. https://www.arcmanorbooks.com/caeziksf.  The Kuiper Belt Job is a caper story in space, a mash-up of Ocean’s 11 and The Expanse with a dollop of Firefly and Leverage. It’s an ensemble piece with complex character relationships and a twisty, compelling plot, but beneath the entertaining surface it raises deep questions about identity and personhood. In a world where minds can be copied, what does it mean to be “me”?

Although Levine began as a writer of technical articles, he has long had an interest in reading and writing science fiction. He has primarily written short fiction, with his first professional fiction sale in 2001. A long-time member of SF fandom and an early member of MilwApa (the Milwaukee amateur press association), he also co-edited a fanzine, Bento, with his late wife, Kate Yule, and has served as a Convention Committee Chair for Potlatch. His short story “Ukaliq and the Great Hunt” appeared in The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 2 (2003). In 2010, he spent two weeks in a simulated Mars habitat of the Mars Society, in Utah.  He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest, and blogs at https://daviddlevine.com/blog/.

His previous works include the Andre Norton Nebula Award-winning novel, Arabella of Mars, the sequels Arabella and the Battle of Venus and Arabella the Traitor of Mars, and over sixty science fiction and fantasy stories.  His story “Tk’Tk’Tk” won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and he has been shortlisted for awards including the Hugo, Nebula, Campbell, and Sturgeon.  His stories have appeared in magazines such as Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF), Tor.com, numerous Year’s Best anthologies. His collection, Space Magic, from Wheatland Press, won the 2009 Endeavor Award for best science fiction book in the Pacific Northwest.  All three of the Arabella books are being reissued as ebooks from Open Road Media, and will be available (with absolutely stunning covers!) after Feb. 13, 2024, wherever you get your ebooks.

DAVID M. SANDNER is an American academic and author, and a professor in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton.  Sandner has a master’s degree from San Francisco State University and a doctorate from the University of Oregon.  His doctoral thesis was titled The Fairy Way of Writing: Fantastic literature from the romance revival to Romanticism, 1712–1830, and was completed in 2000.

Professor Sandner’s latest book, The Afterlife of Frankenstein: A Century of Mad Science, Automata, and Monsters Inspired by Mary Shelley, 1818-1918, is just out from Lanternfish Press, along with a novella, His Unburned Heart (2024) from the horror press, Raw Dog Screaming.

Afterlife focuses on Dr. Frankenstein’s monster —  one of the most iconic figures in English literature, popularized through decades of writing, film, and comedy. But even before the invention of film, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein profoundly impacted scores of writers, gathering force for the genre that would ultimately become what we know as science fiction.  In this anthology, scholar of the fantastic David Sandner explores the first hundred years of Frankenstein’s influence. This collection of short stories and excerpts from work published between 1818 to 1918 demonstrates what a pioneering myth Frankenstein has always been—from the very day when lightning first struck and it opened its eyes on the world.

His recent fiction also includes the novelettes Mingus Fingers (with Jacob Weisman, Fairwood Press, 2019), and Hellhounds (with Jacob Weisman, Fairwood Press, 2022, with a complete novel, Egyptian Motherlode, due out from Fairwood Press https://fairwoodpress.com/index.html#/ in late 2024.

Sandner’s nonfiction includes The Fantastic Sublime: Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-century Children’s Fantasy Literature (Greenwood, 1996), The Treasury of the Fantastic (with Jacob Weisman, Tachyon Publications, 2013), and Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now (McFarland, 2020).

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The American Bookbinders Museum‘s entrance is located at 355 Clementina Alley, between 4th and 5th Street, between Howard and Folsom.  The nearest BART station is Powell and Market.  Street parking is free, and there are several garages in the area as well – further directions and transit options are available here on the ABM website. For more information, pleases contact the ABM at (415) 824-9754

For information regarding SF in SF events, or booking an author, please contact Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com

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SF IN SF, our team, and just about everyone we know is terribly saddened at the news that author Terry Bisson passed away in January, of complications from cancer.  There would be no SF in SF without him, and our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends.  Locus Magazine has posted a tribute on their site.

A memorial is planned –The Outspoken and the Incendiary: The Life and Work of Terry Bisson — at The Lost Church, San Francisco, for Saturday, March 30th.  More information is available here

Raise a glass, folks.

ADMISSION IS FREE TO ALL FOR THIS EVENT