Litquake and SF in SF present

Tad Williams – Ken Scholes – Andrew Mayer

Friday October 12

Epic fantasy is storytelling at its biggest and best—from the creation myths and quest sagas of ancient times to the mega-popular fantasy novels of today. Join SF in SF with three stellar practioners of the art: Tad Williams, Ken Scholes and Andrew Mayer

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q & A moderated by author Terry Bisson. Booksigning and schmoozing follows in the lounge.

Doors and cash bar open at 6:00PM — Join us in the lounge for a signature cocktail — the FIRE AND ICE! (on ice, with a cherry on top!) — before the event!

Event begins at 7:00PM

Suggested donation of $5-$10 per person 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.

Wednesday, September 19th

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and Serenity

Cash bar and doors open at 6:00PM
Event begins at 7:00PM

We don’t have to tell YOU how fabulous this is! Just wallowing in Whedonness..come join us! Free popcorn, cash bar – a special drink for the evening, and a raffle before the films as well! Gonna be a good time. We’ll even have it screening on the lounge TV, so whether you are seated in the theatre, or the lounge, you’ll be able to follow along.

Cargo Cult books will be our vendor for the evening, with books, CDs, and DVS related to our programming!

SEATING FOR ALL EVENTS IS LIMITED AND FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED!

Suggested donation of $5-$10 per person helps support Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California. Working to aid at-risk, disadvantaged, and disabled children in your community since 1947 – learn more at www.varietync.org. SF in SF is proud to have raised over $30,000 for Variety since 2007!

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.

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We are back from Worldcon, and getting our autumn season started with a bang. We have three great authors for you, one of them all the way from London.

Saturday September 15th – Malinda Lo, Cindy Pon & Roz Kaveney

Malinda Lo is the author of the critically acclaimed fantasy novels, Ash and Huntress. Her latest book, Adaptation, is her first science fiction novel and is due out a few days after our reading. Before becoming a novelist Malinda was an award winning journalist specializing in the entertainment industry and LGBT issues.

Cindy Pon is the author of Silver Phoenix and Fury of the Phoenix. Like Malinda’s books, they are aimed at the YA audience. She’s also a talented painter, specializing in Chinese Brush Art.

Roz Kaveney lives in London. She’s a highly respected as a literary and TV critic, as a poet, and as a political activist. Her debut novel, Rhapsody of Blood: Rituals, has just been released and we are honored to be part of her short US tour. Roz also has two books of poetry due out this year.

6:00PM – doors and cash bar open
7:00PM – event starts
Seating is limited, and is first come, first seated.
$5-$10 suggested donation at the door. All SF in SF events are held as fundraisers for Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California – to date, we’ve helped raise over $30,000 for the kids in our community!

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by a Q & A session with the audience. This month Rick Kleffel of The Agony Column is standing in for our usual host, Terry Bisson. Booksigning and schmoozing in the lounge follows. Books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books.

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.

It is all a bit quiet here with Worldcon only a week away. However, we’d like to remind you about some fine events scheduled for later in the year. On the readings side that includes Roz Kaveney, all the way from London, our annual Litquake extravaganza, and Kim Stanley Robinson. The forthcoming readings schedule is here. And in the movies we have the fan favorite, Serenity, plus some Lovecraftian horror for Halloween. The advance movie schedule is here.

Saturday August 11th – John Carter (PG-13, 132 mins)

Truly, we don’t feel this can POSSIBLY be as bad as Disney’s spin doctors claimed…it promptly disappeared from the theatres, but gee, we know a lot of people in the field of science fiction literature that really liked it! We’re going to let you make up your mind yourself – any fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs should find something enjoyable in there!

As a special bonus only for SF in SF attendees — we’re delighted to have a Burroughs scholar on hand to introduce the film! Author Richard A. Lupoff was the editor at Canaveral Press in the early 1960’s, when they issued many of Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ novels. This included first editions based on unpublished manuscripts and previously uncollected magazine stories. Lupoff also briefly served as a consultant to Pixar Studios on the John Carter motion picture. Ironically, he has never seen the finished film, so it will be as new to him as to anyone else in the audience! He is also the author of Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

5:30PM – doors and cash bar open
6:30PM – Event begins – free popcorn for the movie!
$5-$10 suggested donation at the door.
All SF in SF events are held as fundraisers for Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California – to date, we’ve helped raise over $30,000 for the kids in our community!

Seating is limited, and is first come, first seated.

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, July 7th

Join SF in SF with authors: John Shirley & Richard Kadrey

Come spend the evening with two of the genre’s finest practioners, John Shirley and Richard Kadrey, as they each read a selection from their recent work. San Francisco is fortunate indeed to have the two of them here in residence!

John Shirley is a prolific American fantasist, and noir fiction, and science-fiction writer, who has published over 30 books and 10 collections. His novels include Everything is Broken, The Other End, Bleak History, Crawlers, Demons, In Darkness Waiting, and seminal cyberpunk works City Come A-Walkin’. His collections include the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild award-winning Black Butterflies, Living Shadows: Stories: New & Pre-owned, and In Extremis: The Most Extreme Stories of John Shirley. He also writes for screen (The Crow) and television. As a musician Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and others.

Richard Kadrey is a San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer. His novels include Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead, Aloha From Hell, Metrophage, Kamikaze L’Amour, and Butcher Bird: A Novel Of The Dominion. Other works include collaborative graphic novels and over 50 published short stories. Sandman Slim is one of 13 books listed on Barnes & Noble’s “Best Paranormal Fantasy Novels of the Last Decade,” and is currently in development for a feature film.

6:00PM – doors and cash bar open
7:00PM – event starts
Seating is limited, and is first come, first seated.
$5-$10 suggested donation at the door. All SF in SF events are held as fundraisers for Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California – to date, we’ve helped raise over $30,000 for the kids in our community!

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by a Q & A session with the audience, moderated by author Terry Bisson. Booksigning and schmoozing in the lounge follows. Books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books.

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.

Here’s a quick reminder that we have an extra reading for you this month. On Thursday evening (June 21st) we will be presenting Robert J. Sawyer and Rachel Swirsky.

Robert J. Sawyer is well-known to discerning readers of quality science fiction. His recent work includes the adaptation of his novel FlashForward into an ABC tv series, but he also has had over 21 novels published (with a new one, Triggers, available at SF in SF), and is a staunch advocate for Canadian literature. Rachel Swirsky is, quite simply, one of the best short fiction authors writing today, with a 2010 Nebula Award for her novella, “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window.”

6:00PM – doors and cash bar open
7:00PM – event starts
Seating is limited, and is first come, first seated.
$5-$10 suggested donation at the door. All SF in SF events are held as fundraisers for Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California – to date, we’ve helped raise over $30,000 for the kids in our community!

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by a Q & A session with the audience, moderated by author Terry Bisson. Booksigning and schmoozing in the lounge follows. Books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books.

Please feel free to bring books from home for signing; if you have more than 3 books for one author, please be courteous and allow those with less to get their books signed first.

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.

We are celebrating the summer with two great author events:

Saturday, June 16th: Lev Grossman & S.G. Browne

We are delighted to bring the authors of The Magicians, The Magician King, Fated, and Lucky Bastard together for one night of awesome authorial goodness! Lev Grossman is the NY Times-bestselling author of a duology touted as “the best urban fantasy in years, a sad dream of what it means to want something badly and never fully reach it.” He is a senior writer and book critic for Time Magazine.

S. G. Browne, with his new book Lucky Bastard, is an up-and-coming San Francisco author, whose debut novel, Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament, helped coin the phrase “rom-zom-com” (romantic-zombie-comedy). Lucky Bastards, is about Nick Monday, a private detective with the unique ability to steal other people’s luck. Find out who the highest bidder is for this saleable commodity!

Thursday, June 21st: Robert J. Sawyer & Rachel Swirsky

Robert J. Sawyer is well-known to discerning readers of quality science fiction. His recent work includes the adaptation of his novel FlashForward into an ABC TV series, but he also has had over 21 novels published (with a new one, Triggers, available at SF in SF), and is a staunch advocate for Canadian literature. He is one of only eight writers in history — and the only Canadian — to win all three of the world’s top Science Fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

Rachel Swirsky is, quite simply, one of the best short fiction authors writing today, with a 2010 Nebula Award for her novella, “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window.” She was the founding editor of the PodCastle podcast and served as editor from 2008 to 2010.

For Both Events

6:00PM – doors and cash bar open
7:00PM – event starts
Seating is limited, and is first come, first seated.

$5-$10 suggested donation at the door. All SF in SF events are held as fundraisers for Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California — to date, we’ve helped raise over $30,000 for the kids in our community!

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by a Q & A session with the audience, moderated by author Terry Bisson. Booksigning and schmoozing in the lounge follows. Books for sale for each author, courtesy of Borderlands Books.

Please feel free to bring books from home for signing; if you have more than 3 books for one author, please be courteous and allow those with less to get their books signed first.

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.

Big News!! Variety has upgraded their film equipment to digital… and 3-D!!! To celebrate, we’re screening Men In Black III — and you’re invited!

Tuesday May 29th

Doors and cash bar open at 8:00PM
Film starts at 9:00PM – Raffle for cool schwag, and as always, FREE POPCORN!

Event is free — but a $5-$10 donation at the door is MUCH appreciated — proceeds and cash bar and tips benefit Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California

YOU MUST RSVP FOR THIS EVENT

Seating is limited, and we’ll seat according to the order of RSVPs. You may RSVP for one or two seats by emailing sfinsfevents@gmail.com, and putting MIB III in the subject line. We will reply with confirmation that you are on the list!

RSVPs close at 1:00PM on Tuesday, May 29th or when no more seating is available.

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.