Borderlands Books and SF in SF Present

An Evening with Seanan McGuire!

Saturday, March 9

Seanan McGuire has reassembled the Traveling Circus and Snake-Handling Show* for their 8th San Francisco Bay Area appearance — it’s a grand tradition that just gets more amazing with each iteration! Join Seanan and guests for an evening of music, mayhem, delicious cupcakes, exciting raffle prizes, and an anything-goes Q & A guaranteed to keep you snickering, if not laughing outright. It’s always a good time, it’s always a strange time, and we hope to see you there!

(*Snakes not included.)

Doors and cash bar opens at 6:00PM
Event begins at 7:00PM
Suggested $5-$10 donation at the door benefits Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California – learn more at www.varietync.org

The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quiznos and Citibank
582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery
San Francisco, CA 94104

Don’t Drive — BART/MUNI Montgomery Street station is right at our front door, and parking in San Francisco sucks!!! Street parking ($3.50 per hour) is metered M-Sat., til 6PM; find a parking garage here.

Due to the unpredictability of the short range detection circuits in the TARDIS, the next Doctor Who screening will not take place this Saturday as expected. Instead we expect the Doctor to arrive on March 30th, when we will be screening The Ark in Space, featuring Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen. The TARDIS wishes to note that while this amounts to an error of almost 10% in targeting within an individual year, considering that the life of our planet is many billions of years this is still pretty impressive accuracy.

Saturday, February 9

Matt Richtel and Sophie Littlefield

Join us on Saturday for two local authors, and some thrilling science and history on tap for our event. We are featuring New York Times, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Matt Richtel, who also writes the Rudy Park comics, and novelist Sophie Littlefield, who has racked up nominations for the Edgar, Macavity, Barry, and Crimespree awards, and won the Anthony Award for her work, and shines in both adult and young adult fiction. Each will be reading a selection from their new work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by author Terry Bisson. Booksigning and schmoozing follows in the lounge, with books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books. Podcasting courtesy of Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column. Seating is limited; first come, first seated.

Matt Richtel is a novelist, cartoonist and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times based in the San Francisco. He writes about technology, its impact on society, and how it changes the way we how we work, play, and relate to each other. His 2010 series, ‘Our Brain On Computers‘ focuses on how constant use of our devices impacts not only our behavior but our thought processes and even our neurology. His 2009 series about the dangers of multitasking while driving won the Pulitzer for national reporting. Richtel’s first novel, Hooked, was a national bestseller; its sequel, Devil’s Plaything, and the new, third, book, The Cloud, will be available for sale at the event. In his spare time, he writes the syndicated daily comic strip “Rudy Park.” The strip, launched in 2001, revolves around the lives of regular patrons at an Internet cafe. Richtel lives in San Francisco.

Sophie Littlefield’s first novel A Bad Day for Sorry, featured Stella Hardesty, a rural Missouri housewife-turned-vigilante. Since then, three more “A Bad Day for…” books have appeared, and her other series for adults, the zombie apocalypse Aftertime series (Aftertime, Survivors, Rebirth, and Horizon — “Rebirth is part The Walking Dead, part The Road, and part something totally new and engrossing.” —All Things Urban Fantasy), and her young adult science fictional novels Unforsaken and Banished (“An intense thriller of life-and-death proportions.” —Booklist), have catapulted her into the premier ranks of today’s fiction authors. Her new novel, Garden of Stones, is in bookstores this February. Sophie lives in Northern California with her husband and two teenagers.

Doors and cash bar opens at 6:00PM
Event begins at 7:00PM
Seating is limited – first come, first seated

Suggested $5-$10 donation at the door benefits Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California – SF in SF has raised over $40,000 for Variety.

The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quiznos and Citibank
582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery
San Francisco, CA 94104

Don’t Drive — BART/MUNI Montgomery Street station is right at our front door, and parking in San Francisco sucks!!! Street parking ($3.50 per hour) is metered M-Sat., til 6PM; find a parking garage here.

Saturday January 26th

Our Classic Doctor Who series goes back to the very beginning: Episode #1, starring William Hartnell.

Doors and cash bar opens at 4:00PM
Event begins at 5:00PM
Seating is limited — first come, first seated

We’ll be serving up SONIC SCREWDRIVERS to go with the popcorn! Bar proceeds and donations benefit Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California.

We’re swinging into a whole year of Doctor Who — one doctor a month is the prescription we advise! Join us on Saturday, January 26th for the continuation of our Classic Doctor Who Series!

BBC Home Entertainment, SF in SF, and I09.com present the Classic Doctor Who Series with SF in SF. The last Saturday of every month, it’s the place to be for classic Doctor Who, trivia raffle for prizes, free popcorn, and Sonic Screwdrivers! Each month showcases a different Doctor, as part of the celebration of Doctor Who’s 50th Birthday! That’s right — ever since 1963, we’ve been enjoying the Doctor and his adventures and we’re here to celebrate with you!

An Unearthly Child first aired November 23, 1963, starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor. (Not that they knew at that point just how many there would be!)

Susan Foreman is a mystery to her teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. She seemingly knows more than she should about the past… and the future. Ian and Barbara are further baffled when their curiosity leads them to follow Susan home one night, only to find that her “home” appears to be a deserted junkyard. There, they discover a rather odd police box and a strange old man who claims to be Susan’s grandfather and calls himself…. “The Doctor.” The journey of a lifetime is about to begin!!

SF IN SF EVENTS TAKE PLACE AT:

Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance next to Citibank on Market St.
582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery, San Francisco, CA 94104

Don’t Drive — Seriously. Parking sucks in this area. Take BART or MUNI downtown, as we are directly adjacent to the Montgomery Street BART/MUNI station! Street parking ($3.50 per hour/coins or meter card, no charge cards) is metered every single day of the week, including Sundays, til 6PM. If you have to drive, we suggest parking at the Folsom St. Garage at 3rd & Folsom, across from Moscone Center, or find a parking garage here.

Saturday, January 19th

Join us for our first event for 2013! Science fiction authors Steven Gould and Laura J. Mixon will each read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by author Terry Bisson. Book signing and schmoozing follows in the lounge, with books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books. You are welcome to bring books from home for signing. Podcasting courtesy of Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column.

STEVEN GOULD is the author of the frequently banned book Jumper (of movie fame,) as well as Wildside, Helm, Blind Waves, Reflex, Jumper: Griffin’s Story, 7th Sigma, and the brand-new (and available for sale!) Impulse, as well as several short stories published in Analog, Asimov’s, and Amazing. He is the recipient of the Hal Clement Young Adult Award for Science Fiction and has been on the Hugo ballot twice and the Nebula ballot once for his short fiction. He just returned from Doha, Qatar where he discussed writing and science fiction with Qatari college students.

LAURA J. MIXON wrote YA novel Astropilots, the Avatar’s Dance trilogy: Glass Houses, Proxies, and Burning the Ice, and, as M.J. Locke, Up Against It, the first book of the Wave series. Her work has appeared in Analog, George RR Martin’s shared world Wild Cards series, Asimov’s, and the anthology Welcome to the Greenhouse. She attended Clarion in 1981, then did two years in the Peace Corp in Kenya. She has taught regularly at the Viable Paradise genre workshop on Martha’s Vineyard. She lives in New Mexico with spouse Steven Gould and their two daughters

Doors and cash bar opens at 6:00PM
Event begins at 7:00PM
Seating is limited – first come, first seated

Suggested $5-$10 donation at the door benefits Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California – SF in SF has raised over $40,000 for Variety.

The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quiznos and Citibank
582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery
San Francisco, CA 94104

Don’t Drive — BART/MUNI Montgomery Street station is right at our front door, and parking in San Francisco sucks!!! Street parking ($3.50 per hour) is metered M-Sat., til 6PM; find a parking garage here.

Join us for CLASSIC DOCTOR WHO!!!

Saturday, December 29th – 4:00PM – 7:30PM
Doors and cash bar open at 4:00PM
Event begins at 5:00PM
Raffle before film starts – and don’t forget the popcorn!!

Seating is limited; this is a first come, first seated, event; no RSVPs

There will be a brief intermission between the two films
Bar and tip proceeds benefit Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California

We’ve survive the Mayan Apocalypse and Christmas, so we’ll be celebrating the New Year and congratulating ourselves with a double dose of The Doctor! BBC Home Entertainment, Io9.com, and SF in SF bring you some more Doctor Who to usher in 2013!! For a special treat…we’ll have a DALEK among us! The Bay Area’s very own Tiki Dalek will be making a rare appearance for photos with attendees. AND — Cargo Cult Books will be present, with a nice selection of Whovian materials for sale — didn’t get what you wanted from the Doctor for Christmas? Bet you’ll find it at Cargo Cult’s table!

DOCTOR WHO: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (60 mins.)
A Christmas Carol follows newlyweds Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) as they are trapped on a crashing space liner. The only way the Doctor (Matt Smith) can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser, Kazran Sardick (Michael Gambon, the Harry Potter films). But is Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?

DOCTOR WHO: THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE (60 mins.)
The Doctor (Matt Smith) is joined by a stellar cast, including Claire Skinner (Outnumbered), Bill Bailey (Black Books), Arabella Weir (The Fast Show) and Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong & Miller), in a festive, emotional special, packed full of Christmas thrills and chills. The special, set during World War II, sees Madge Arwell and her two children, Lily and Cyril, evacuated to a draughty old house in Dorset, where the caretaker is a mysterious young man in bow tie, and a big blue parcel is waiting for them under the tree. They are about to enter a magical new world and learn that a Time Lord never forgets his debts…

SF in SF will be THE place to be on the last Saturday of every month…Join us for classic episodes, giveaways, and some great Whovian entertainment! Have some popcorn, order up a Sonic Screwdriver at the bar, and sit back and enjoy! Our hostess with the mostest, Charlie Jane Anders, will catch you up on all the classic Doctor Who lore, stories, actors, and timelords!

Seating is limited; first come, first seated.
Doors and cash bar open at 4:00PM; free popcorn!
Event begins at 5:00PM

The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quiznos and Citibank
582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery
San Francisco, CA 94104

Don’t Drive — BART/MUNI Montgomery Street station is right at our front door, and parking in San Francisco sucks!!! Street parking ($3.50 per hour) is metered M-Sat., til 6PM; find a parking garage here.

If Doomsday is coming in 2012, it had better hurry!

Join us for a last blast from the past!

Saturday, December 1st

With just one month to meet the legendary “End of Days” before 2013, Wonderfest and SF in SF invites you to a more rational examination of doomsday.

End of Daze: Does Hollywood Get Doomsday Right?

Presenting uber-droll planetary scientist Chris McKay introducing a special screening of 2012’s

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Get the explosive truth — as best we know it — about how days might really end if a monster asteroid comes to town! Don’t miss the rapture of this fundraising event for Wonderfest & Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California

It’ll be a blast!

Reception – 6:30PM – 7:30PM
Event begins at 7:30PM
Doors and cash bar open at 6:30PM

FREE POPCORN FOR THE MOVIE!

Tickets: $25 per person / $40 for you and a friend! Tickets can be purchased here at Brown Paper Tickets.

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

Wonderfest is the Bay Area Beacon of Science! Bringing you events, radical physics, the Carl Sagan Prize, and science in all its wonderful wacky, fun, and true forms.

Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California has been aiding at-risk, disadvantaged, and disabled children in the greater Bay Area community for over 65 years.

For more information, please email Tucker Hiatt at tucker@wonderfest.org or Rina Weisman at rina@varietync.org or sfinsfevents@gmail.com. Phone: 415-572-1015 night of event.

The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quiznos and Citibank
582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery
San Francisco, CA 94104

Don’t Drive — BART/MUNI Montgomery Street station is right at our front door, and parking in San Francisco sucks!!! Street parking ($3.50 per hour) is metered M-Sat., til 6PM; find a parking garage here.

Saturday, November 24th – 4:00PM – 6:30PM

DOCTOR WHO: THE CLAWS OF AXOS – SPECIAL EDITION! (96 mins.)

SF in SF, i09.com, and BBC Home Entertainment will be bringing you classic Doctor Who episodes each month! Did you know the Doctor turns 50 in 2013? Come join in the celebration! This is a digitally re-mastered edition of the Doctor Who classic; we’ll show some of the bonus features on the disc as well!

SF in SF will be THE place to be on the last Saturday of every month…join us for our inaugural show! We’ll be screening Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos Special Edition, 4PM-6:30PM, at the Variety Children’s Charity Theatre! Join us for classic episodes, giveaways, and some great Whovian entertainment! Have some popcorn, order up a Sonic Screwdriver at the bar, and sit back and enjoy! Catch up on all the classic Doctor Who lore, stories, actors, and timelords! Seating is limited, and first come first seated; but we’ll also be running them on the TV in the lounge if you want to hang out with us.

DOCTOR WHO: THE CLAWS OF AXOS (96 mins.)

When a damaged spaceship containing beautiful humanoid creatures called Axons lands on Earth, the Doctor (Third Doctor – Jon Pertwee), Jo and UNIT are sent to investigate. In return for their help, the Axons offer the gift of Axonite, which would end world famine. It all appears too good to be true — so what secrets are the Axons hiding on board their ship? And why is the Doctor’s old enemy the Master involved?

Seating is limited; first come, first seated.
Doors and cash bar open at 4:00PM; free popcorn!
Event begins at 5:00PM

The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quiznos and Citibank
582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery
San Francisco, CA 94104

Don’t Drive — BART/MUNI Montgomery Street station is right at our front door, and parking in San Francisco sucks!!! Street parking ($3.50 per hour) is metered M-Sat., til 6PM; find a parking garage here.

Saturday, November 10th

Doors and cash bar open at 6PM
Event starts at 7PM

Join us for our last author event for 2012 — with our good friends Kim Stanley Robinson and Cecelia Holland. Each author will read a selection from their work, and we’ll have Q & A moderated by author Terry Bisson afterwards. Book signing and schmoozing follows in the lounge, with books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books; podcasting courtesy of Rick Kleffel and The Agony Column.

As a extra feature of our last event this year — If you attend this event, please bring a new, unwrapped gift for a teenager, and get a free gift from Variety! We are beginning our annual toy drive for the holidays and you can help us jump start it! It’s REALLY hard and difficult to get donations for teenagers for the agencies that Variety serves — we are asking you to help!! Boys or girls, ages 13-18, new and unwrapped, please. Some of the agencies we serve are Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid-Peninsula, United Playaz, Kids of Bethel Island, Florence Crittenton Services-Whitney Young Child Development Center, and many more — your help is appreciated!

Donations at the door of $5-$10 per person benefits Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California. The SF in SF events are held to help fundraise for this worthy charity. Learn more at www.varietync.org.

The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quiznos and Citibank
582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery
San Francisco, CA 94104

Don’t Drive — BART/MUNI Montgomery Street station is right at our front door, and parking in San Francisco sucks!!! Street parking ($3.50 per hour) is metered M-Sat., til 6PM; find a parking garage here.

Sorry to disappoint you folks! With our apologies – due to a scheduling conflict, we’ve had to cancel our Oct. 27th Hallowe’en screening of Reanimator.