October 10th, 2023 · Comments Off on Join SF in SF Saturday Oct 14th with Nancy Kress, Jack Skillingstead, & Howard Hendrix!
SATURDAY OCTOBER 14TH 2023
NANCY KRESS
JACK SKILLINGSTEAD
HOWARD HENDRIX
with moderator Cliff Winnig
Doors open at 6:00PM
Event begins at 6:30PM
$10 at the door
$8 for students with valid high school or college ID card
Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience.
Books will be for sale at the event, courtesy of Tachyon Publications and Bookshop West Portal
Event will be podcasted by SOMA FM, San Francisco’s premier internet radio station.
All proceeds go to the American Bookbinders Museum.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
NANCY KRESS is the author of thirty-five books, including twenty-seven novels, four collections of short stories, and three books on writing. Hailed by bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson as “one of the greatest living science fiction writers,” she has won multiple Nebula and Hugo awards for her fiction. She writes often about developments in science, particularly genetic engineering, as in her bestselling novel
Beggars in Spain. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages (including Klingon). She teaches writing and was the “Fiction” columnist for
Writer’s Digest magazine for sixteen years.
JACK SKILLINGSTEAD is an American science fiction writer living in Seattle, Washington, and is married to science fiction author, Nancy Kress. In 2001 Skillingstead was named a winner in Stephen King’s “On Writing” contest. He has published more than forty short stories in pro and semi pro markets. He has also published three novels – Harbinger (Fairwood Press, 2011), Life on the Preservation (Solaris, 2013), and The Chaos Function (Harcourt, 2019), in addition to two story collections – Are You There and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon, 2009) and The Whole Mess and Other Stories (Fairwood Press, 2023). His work has appeared in four Year’s Best Anthologies and has been translated into various languages, including Russian, Polish, Czech, Spanish, French, and Chinese. Skillingstead has been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. One review of Are You There and Other Stories, (Tangent) called Skillingstead “a major author in the genre of SF. Skillingstead was born in 1955 and grew up in a working class suburb of Seattle, and has spent most of his life in and around that city.
HOWARD V. HENDRIX writes poetry, science fiction, and nonfiction. His first four published novels appeared from ACE Books – Lightpaths (1997), Standing Wave (1998), Better Angels (1999), and Empty Cities of the Full Moon (2001) – followed by The Labyrinth Key (2004), and Spears of God (2006), from Ballantine Del Rey. His collected fiction is available in Perception of Depth (2011) and The Girls with Kaleidoscope Eyes (2019). He has authored, co-authored or co-edited seven book-length works of nonfiction, including Visions of Mars: Essays on the Red Planet in Fiction and Science, by Howard V. Hendrix , George Edgar Slusser, et al. His shorter fiction appears regularly in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, his nonfiction in Analog and the San Francisco Chronicle, and his poetry in Star*Line. His numerous poems include the SFPA Dwarf Stars 2010 winner “Bumbershoot.” His poem “Extravehicular Activity” appeared in the April 2023 issue of Scientific American. His poetry collection Living Fossils are the Happiest Kind (In Case of Emergency Press, 2023) is just out.
Originally trained as a biologist, he took graduate degrees in literature and taught writing and literature at CSU Fresno, for many years. Three weeks after he retired, the house in the mountains where he and Laurel lived for 15 years burned up in the Creek Fire in 2020. They have recently relocated to Denver, Colorado.
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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 AFTER 6PM (but check the meter for hours!), 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
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Author events are held at the
American Bookbinders Museum, located at 355 Clementina Street at 5th Street, between Folsom and Howard, SF, CA, (415) 824-9754
Film events are held at The Balboa Theatre, located at 3630 Balboa Avenue, between 37th & 38th Avenues, SF, CA
For information regarding SF in SF events, or booking an author, please contact Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com
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September 18th, 2023 · Comments Off on Update for 9/20 John Scalzi & Kimberly Unger event
A HUGE thank you to all the fans that helped sell this event out in TWO DAYS! Who says people aren’t still reading books?!!
While our event is indeed sold out – our waiting list is closed, and there will be no tickets sold at the door, nor is standing room available – thanks to Bookshop West Portal – you can still pre-order John Scalzi’s STARTER VILLIAN and/or THE KAIJU PRESERVATION SOCIETY, and/or Kimberly Unger’s THE EXTRACTIONIST and/or NUCLEATION! Just go to this link, scroll down, and you can order signed copies to be picked up later or shipped to you!
Stay tuned – we’re hosting authors Nancy Kress, Jack Skillingstead, and Howard Hendrix on Saturday, October 14th, and E. Lily Yu and Rick Wilber on Sunday, November 12th! Join our mailing list here at sfinsf.org – just scroll down, left hand side, and you’ll see our signup form. No spam, no ulterior motives – just a way of letting you know who’s coming to town to chat and sign your books!
Help support the American Bookbinders Museum, Bookshop West Portal, and SF in SF, by continuing to attend our upcoming events!
Questions can be directed to Rina Weisman, at sfinsfevents@gmail.com
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As always, we thank SF in SF’s sponsor, Tachyon Publications – “Saving the world, one good book at a time!”
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August 21st, 2023 · Comments Off on SF in SF presents JOHN SCALZI with Kimberly Unger Sept 20
SF in SF – Science Fiction, San Francisco. A perfect fit!
in conjunction with Bookshop West Portal and the American Bookbinders Museum
presents
JOHN SCALZI
in conversation with Kimberly Unger
Tickets available HERE – only through Brown Paper Tickets
Tickets go on sale Monday August 21st after 12 noon
All proceeds go to the American Bookbinders Museum
To celebrate his latest title STARTER VILLAIN, author John Scalzi joins SF in SF for the night, in conversation with author Kimberly Unger. Think of some hard questions to ask the authors, as the reading is followed by Q&A with the audience!
John Scalzi and Kimberly Unger titles will be available for sale at the event, courtesy of Bookshop West Portal. Booksigning follows – please feel free to bring your own titles from home, but note our rule: 3 books at a time, then get back in line. This is so everyone gets a book signed that wants one.
This event will be recorded for later broadcast by SomaFM.
JOHN SCALZI is an American science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Old Man’s War series, three novels of which have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and for his blog Whatever, where he has written on a number of topics since 1998. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2008 based predominantly on that blog, which he has also used for several charity drives. His novel Redshirts won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. He has written non-fiction books and columns on diverse topics such as finance, video games, films, astronomy, writing and politics, and served as a creative consultant for the TV series Stargate Universe. There’s much more info at his Wiki page, here.
KIMBERLY UNGER is the Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of The Extractionist, and her debut novel Nucleation. Unger made her first videogame back when the 80-column card was the new hot thing and followed that up with degrees in English/Writing from UC Davis and Illustration from the Art Center College of Design. Nowadays she produces narrative-games for VR, lectures on the intersection of art and code for UCSC’s master’s program and writes science fiction about how all these app-driven superpowers are going to change the human race. (TL;dr: Unger writes about fast robots, big explosions, and space things.) Kimberly Unger lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she works in the future of VR on the Meta-Oculus gaming platform. Learn more about this amazing local talent 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 on Sundays (check the meter for hours!), and there are several garages in the area as well – further directions and transit options are available here on the ABM website.
SF in SF would like to thank the American Bookbinders Museum, Tachyon Publications, and Bookshop West Portal for their support
For more information about this event, or if you have any questions, please email Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com
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August 18th, 2023 · Comments Off on Join SF in SF 8-20 with Marie Brennan & Alyc Helms (M.A. Carrick) and Brenda Clough!
JOIN US THIS SUNDAY EVENING!
August 20, 2023
Doors open at 6:00PM / Event begins at 6:30PM
Marie Brennan & Alyc Helms
(writing as M. A. CARRICK)
Brenda Clough
Moderator – Cliff Winnig
$10 at the door / $8 for students
–no one turned away for lack of funds–
All proceeds go to the American Bookbinders Museum
Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by author Cliff Winnig. Booksigning follows.
This event will be recorded for later broadcast by SOMA FM.
Books for sale courtesy of Bookshop West Portal
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M. A. Carrick is the joint pen name of Marie Brennan (author of the Memoirs of Lady Trent) and Alyc Helms (author of the Adventures of Mr. Mystic). The two met in 2000 on an archaeological dig in Wales and Ireland — including a stint in the town of Carrickmacross — and have built their friendship through two decades of anthropology, writing, and gaming. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at https://www.macarrick.com/
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Brenda W. Clough is the first female Asian-American SF writer, first appearing in print in 1984. Her historical novel A Door In His Head won the 2023 Diverse Voices Award. Her novella ‘May Be Some Time’ was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and became the novel Revise the World. Her latest time travel trilogy is Edge to Center, available at Book View Café. Marian Halcombe, a series of eleven neo-Victorian thrillers appeared in 2021. Her complete bibliography is up on her web page, brendaclough.net
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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 on Sundays (check the meter for hours!), and there are several garages in the area as well – further directions and transit options are available here on the ABM website.
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July 17th, 2023 · Comments Off on SF in SF on Sundays! June 30 with Charlie Jane Anders & Kate Maruyama!
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July 30th, 2023
Doors open at 6:00PM / Event begins at 6:30PM
CHARLIE JANE ANDERS and KATE MARUYAMA
 
Moderator – Cliff Winnig
Cash bar opens at 6PM til Q&A begins
21+ beer/wine/whiskey, sodas
$10 at the door / $8 for students
–no one turned away for lack of funds–
All proceeds go to the American Bookbinders Museum
Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by author Cliff Winnig. Booksigning follows.
This event will be recorded for later broadcast by SOMA FM.
Books for sale courtesy of Bookshop West Portal
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CHARLIE JANE ANDERS is currently hard at work on a new adult novel, tentatively called The Prodigal Mother. Most recently, she wrote the young adult Unstoppable trilogy: Victories Greater Than Death, Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, and Promises Stronger Than Darkness. She’s also the author of the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes, and Never Say You Can’t Survive (August 2021), a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. She’s won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running New Mutants comic. Anders is also currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the Washington Post. Her TED Talk, “Go Ahead, Dream About the Future” got 700,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
Learn more at https://www.charliejaneanders.com/
KATE MARUYAMA writes, teaches, edits, cooks, and eats in Los Angeles. Her novel Harrowgate was published by 47North and her novella Family Solstice was named Best Fiction Book of 2021 by Rue Morgue Magazine. She has also published the novella Halloween Beyond: A Gentleman’s Suit (Crystal Lake Publishing), and her duo of novellas, Bleak Houses: Safer & Family Solstice is out now from Raw Dog Screaming Press. Her second horror novel The Collective will be serialized through Writ Large Projects, and her non-genre novel Alterations is upcoming from Running Wild Press.
Her short work has appeared in Asimov’s, Entropy, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Duende, The Coachella Review, and The Magnolia Review among others and was awarded the Uncharted Magazine Short Story Prize. Maruyama’s work has also appeared in numerous anthologies including December Tales, Gathering: A Women Who Submit Anthology, Halloween Carnival Three, and Winter Horror Days.
She is a member of the SFWA and the HWA where she serves on the Diverse Works Inclusion Committee, where she helps edit The Seers’ Table. She has served as a juror for the Bram Stoker Awards, and twice for the Shirley Jackson Awards. She is currently serving on the working board of Women Who Submit.
Learn more at https://katermaruyama.wixsite.com/writer.
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 on Sundays (check the meter for hours!), and there are several garages in the area as well – further directions and transit options are available here on the ABM website. |
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Please note:
For this event, due to the wishes of the participating authors, we will be requiring masks while inside the ABM. We’ll have some on hand in case you forget yours.
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June 1st, 2023 · Comments Off on Join SF in SF Sun June 25, 2023 with FRAN WILDE & HENRY LIEN!
Join SF in SF on Sunday, June 25, 2023
FRAN WILDE & HENRY LIEN
Moderator – Cliff Winnig
Doors and cash bar open at 6:00PM
$10 at the door / $8 for students –no one turned away for lack of funds–
Event begins at 6:30PM
Sodas, beer/wine/whiskey (21+) for sale at event
All proceeds go to the American Bookbinders Museum
Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by author Cliff Winnig. This event will be recorded for later broadcast by SOMA FM. Books for sale courtesy of Bookshop West Portal.
FRAN WILDE is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and blogger. Her debut novel, Updraft, was a 2016 Nebula Award nominee, and won the 2016 Andre Norton Award and the 2016 Compton Crook Award. Her debut middle grade novel, Riverland, won the 2019 Andre Norton Award, was named an NPR Best Book of 2019 and was a Lodestar Finalist. Wilde is the first person to win two Andre Norton Awards for both Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction. Her short fiction explores themes of social class, disability, disruptive technology, and empowerment against a backdrop of engineering and artisan culture, and has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Nature, Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, and elsewhere. The Gem Universe, a trilogy comprising The Jewel and Her Lapidary, and The Fire Opal Mechanism, concludes with the upcoming The Book of Gems (available 6-20-23, and at the event).
Her poetry has appeared in Fireside Fiction, The Marlboro Review, Articulate, and Poetry Baltimore. Wilde holds an MFA in poetry and an MA in information architecture and interaction design. She is one of the editors of the online The Sunday Morning Transport newsletter. Learn more about this multi-faceted author at https://www.franwilde.net/
HENRY LIEN is a 2012 graduate of Clarion West. He is the author of the Peasprout Chen fantasy series, a delightful middle grade fantasy/adventure series about a girl determined to take top ranking at Pearl Famous Academy of Skate and Sword where she studies Wu Liu, a form that blends figure skating with martial arts. “Harry Potter Meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon . . . On Ice!” AND about immigration, girl power, sibling relationships, leadership, teamwork, and the importance of friendship!
His short fiction has appeared in publications like Asimov’s, Analog, F&SF, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and he has served as arts editor for Interfictions Online. He is a four-time Nebula/Norton Award finalist. Henry also teaches writing for institutions including UCLA (which awarded him Instructor of the Year), the University of Iowa, Writing the Other, and Clarion West. Henry has previously worked as an attorney and fine art dealer. Born in Taiwan, Henry currently lives in Hollywood. Learn more about this stylish author at www.henrylien.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. Their phone number is (415) 824-9754; ask for Madeleine Robins.
Any questions, or for more info, email Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com
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SAVE THE DATE!! UPCOMING SF IN SF EVENTS!
Sunday, July 30 – Charlie Jane Anders and Kate Maruyama
Sunday, August 20 – M. A. Carrick (Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms), and Brenda Clough
September – TBA
Saturday, October 14 – Nancy Kress and Jack Skillingstead
Sunday, November 12 – E. Lily Yu and Rick Wilber
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February 21st, 2023 · Comments Off on Coming March 26! Join Mia Tsai & Becca Gomez Farrell for SF in SF!
Join SF in SF on Sunday, March 26, 2023
MIA TSAI
BECCA GOMEZ FARRELL
Guest Moderator – Cliff Winnig
Doors open at 6:00PM / Event begins at 6:30PM
Cash bar opens at 6PM til Q&A begins
21+ beer/wine/whiskey, sodas
$10 at the door / $8 for students with valid high school or college ID card
–no one turned away for lack of funds–
All proceeds go to the American Bookbinders Museum
Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by author Cliff Winnig. This event will be recorded for later broadcast by SOMA FM. Books for sale courtesy of Bookshop West Portal
Mia Tsai is a Taiwanese American author of speculative fiction. She lives in Atlanta with her family, and, when not writing, is a hype woman for her orchids and a devoted cat gopher. Her favorite things include music of all kinds (really, truly) and taking long trips with nothing but the open road and a saucy rhythm section. She has been quoted in Glamour magazine once. In her other lives, she is a professional editor, photographer, and musician. Mia is on Twitter at @itsamia and on Instagram at @mia.tsai.books. Learn more at http://www.miatsai.com/
Becca Gomez Farrell is a professional writer, creating works in the genres of fantasy, romance, horror, and science fiction, with side trips into personal essay and creative nonfiction. With nearly 20 short stories published, one epic fantasy novel, and a romance novella to her credit, she is currently also working on a new novel, Natural Disasters.
Wings Unfurled, her current novel out in the world, is the second part of her duology, Wings Rising. It was preceded by Wings Unseen, featured at Becca’s last appearance with SF in SF in September, 2017. Her other passion is writing about wine, cocktails, dining out, and travel, at her blog, The Gourmez, a fascinating dive into what makes a good meal, a great cocktail, and great restaurant recommendations. In this guise, she contributes to the award-winning Carpe Durham and WRAL Out and About blogs. In addition, she writes reviews and critiques of soap operas, network shows, and tweets short movie reviews and write occasional ones for plays, books, and concerts. A Bay Area resident since 2013. she’s also an owner of furry creatures, a wife of a fantastic front-end developer, a progressive politicker, and a formidable pinochle player, Learn more at her website https://rebeccagomezfarrell.com/
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.
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February 18th, 2023 · Comments Off on February 26, 2023, with Annalee Newitz & Naseem Jamnia!
Join SF in SF on Sunday, February 26, 2023
ANNALEE NEWITZ & NASEEM JAMNIA
Doors open at 6:00PM / Event begins at 6:30PM
Cash bar opens at 6PM til Q&A begins
21+ beer/wine/whiskey, sodas
$10 at the door / $8 for students with valid high school or college ID card
–no one turned away for lack of funds–
All proceeds go to the American Bookbinders Museum
Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience. This event will be recorded for later broadcast by SOMA FM. Books for sale courtesy of Bookshop West Portal, and attendees are welcome to bring books from home for signatures as well.
Annalee Newitz is a nonfiction and fiction author. The recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, they also hold a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley. Previously, they founded the well-known website io9, was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo, a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley. Newitz is currently a freelance science journalist, a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, and a columnist at New Scientist, as well as the co-host, with Charlie Jane Anders, of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
Their nonfiction has appeared in Slate, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, Technology Review, Popular Science, Discover, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. They are also 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. Their latest nonfiction book, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, was a national bestseller. Their first novel, Autonomous, won the Lambda Literary Award, and was nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards. Their second novel, The Future of Another Timeline, received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, and Booklist, and their short story “When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis” was winner of the 2019 Sturgeon Award. They are also the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Science.
Newitz’ current novel, The Terraformers, is “a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future.” Learn more about Annalee Newitz at https://www.techsploitation.com/
Naseem Jamnia is a former neuroscientist and recent MFA graduate from the University of Nevada, Reno. Their work has appeared in the Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, The Rumpus, The Writer’s Chronicle, and other venues. Jamnia is a 2018 Bitch Media Fellow in Technology, a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction, and they recently received the 2021 inaugural Samuel R. Delany Fellowship.
In addition to cowriting the academic text Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children, Jamnia’s work has been included in the Lambda Literary 2020 EMERGE anthology and We Made Uranium! And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago’s Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt. Jamnia is the managing editor at Sword & Kettle Press, an independent publishing house of inclusive feminist speculative fiction. They are also the former managing editor at Sidequest.Zone, an independent gaming criticism website.
A Persian-Chicagoan and child to Iranian immigrants, Jamnia now lives in Reno with their husband, dog, and two cats. Find out at more at www.naseemwrites.com or on Twitter and Instagram @jamsternazzy.
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.
Any questions? Email Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com
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October 27th, 2022 · Comments Off on November 2022 reading – Adam Savage & Mary Robinette Kowal
Wednesday, November 9
Our November 2022 event will feature Adam Savage & Mary Robinette Kowal. Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by conversation and Q&A moderated by writer Cliff Winnig.
This evening will be recorded for a later podcast, by SOMA FM, San Francisco’s listener-supported, commercial-free internet-only radio station.
$10 at the door, or reserve at Brown Paper Tickets.
Doors at 6PM
Event begins at 6:30PM
Masks will be required for entrance, and must be worn during the event.
Books for sale courtesy of Bookshop West Portal
The American Bookbinders Museum
355 Clementina, off 5th St., between Howard & Folsom. Street parking is free; garages are at 5th & Mission, and 3rd & Folsom.
ADAM SAVAGE has worked as a projectionist, animator, graphic designer, carpenter, interior and stage designer, toy designer, welder, and scenic painter, and has built everything from giant Buddhas and futuristic weapons to fine-art sculptures and dancing vegetables. He created special effects for more than 100 television commercials and a dozen feature films, including Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Galaxy Quest, and the Matrix sequels. With Jamie Hyneman, Adam produced and hosted MythBusters from 2003 to 2016, for a total of 279 episodes, 1,015 myths, 2,950 experiments, eight Emmy nominations and 83 miles of duct tape. Adam also hosted and executive produced MythBusters Jr. as well as a solo series, Savage Builds, for Discovery Channel. Today, Adam stars in and produces content for his YouTube channel, Tested.com. Adam’s first book, Every Tool’s a Hammer, chronicles his life as a maker. Adam lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and their amazing dog Maggie.
More information is available at adamsavage.com.
MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL is an American author and puppeteer. A puppeteer by trade after receiving a bachelor’s degree in art education, she became an art director for science fiction magazines and by 2010 was also authoring her first full-length published novels. The majority of her work is characterized by science fiction themes, such as interplanetary travel; a common element present in many of her novels is historical or alternate history fantasy, such as in her Glamourist Histories and Lady Astronaut books. Kowal acted as secretary, vice president (2010), and later president (2019-2021) of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, as well as Chair of Programming for the 2018 and 2021 WorldCons. She received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo Awards, and a Nebula Award. The Calculating Stars won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. Her most recent novel, The Spare Man, blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high society, in an entertaining and stylish SF mystery. She continues to write and puppeteer, in addition to voicing audio books, and lives in Nashville with her husband and cats.
Learn more at maryrobinettekowal.com.
Since 2004, SF in SF has offered readings, films, and special events in the Bay Area for readers of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction. Hosted by Terry Bisson and Cliff Winnig, past guests have included Connie Willis, Gene Wolfe, Laurie King, Nancy Kress, Lev Grossman, Samuel R. Delany, Patrick Rothfuss, Gail Carriger, Cory Doctorow, Peter S. Beagle, and many others. We hope you will join us!
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June 13th, 2022 · Comments Off on June 2022 reading – Sam J. Miller and Kimberly Unger
Thursday, June 30
Our June 2022 event will feature Sam J. Miller and Kimberly Unger. Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by conversation and Q&A moderated by writer Cliff Winnig.
$10 at the door
Doors at 6PM
Event begins at 6:30PM
Books for sale courtesy of Bookshop West Portal
The American Bookbinders Museum
355 Clementina, off 5th St., between Howard & Folsom. Street parking is free; garages are at 5th & Mission, and 3rd & Folsom.
SAM J. MILLER is a Nebula-Award-winning author whose debut novel, The Art of Starving, was an NPR Best of the Year. His second novel, Blackfish City, was a Best Book of the Year for Vulture, The Washington Post, Barnes & Noble, and more, as well as a “Must Read” in Entertainment Weekly and O: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine. A recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, Miller’s work has been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, John W. Campbell, and Locus Awards, and reprinted in dozens of anthologies. His first short fiction collection, Boys, Beasts, & Men, is out as of June 2022. The last in a long line of butchers, Miller lives in New York City and at samjmiller.com.
KIMBERLY UNGER’s debut novel was the virtual reality space opera Nucleation; her breakout technothriller The Extractionist is forthcoming in July. Unger made her first videogame back when the 80-column card was the new hot thing, and followed that up with degrees in English/Writing and Illustration from the Art Center College of Design. Unger produces narrative-games for VR, lectures on the intersection of art and code, and writes science fiction about how all these app-driven superpowers are going to change humanity. (i.e. Unger writes about fast robots, big explosions, and space things.) She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she works in the future of VR on the Meta Quest gaming platform.
Since 2004, SF in SF has offered readings, films, and special events in the Bay Area for readers of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction. Hosted by Terry Bisson and Cliff Winnig, past guests have included Connie Willis, Gene Wolfe, Laurie King, Nancy Kress, Lev Grossman, Samuel R. Delany, Patrick Rothfuss, Gail Carriger, Cory Doctorow, Peter S. Beagle, and many others. We hope you will join us!
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