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Coming March 26! Join Mia Tsai & Becca Gomez Farrell for SF in SF!

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 26, 2023, with Annalee Newitz & Naseem Jamnia!

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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November 2022 reading – Adam Savage & Mary Robinette Kowal

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 2022 reading – Sam J. Miller and Kimberly Unger

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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Closed for the Pandemic

May 14th, 2020 · Comments Off on Closed for the Pandemic

Please note that, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, SF in SF will not be holding any events in 2021.

We hope to safely return in January, 2022! Thank you for your support, past, present, and future.

Please email Rina Weisman directly, at sfinsfevents@gmail.com, should you have any questions.

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March Event Cancelled

March 12th, 2020 · Comments Off on March Event Cancelled

Due to the ongoing health emergency we have cancelled our March event. We will reschedule Dominica Phetteplace as soon as possible.

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January Reading – Kim Stanley Robinson & Cecilia Holland

January 3rd, 2020 · Comments Off on January Reading – Kim Stanley Robinson & Cecilia Holland

Sunday, January 12th

Our January event will once again feature Kim Stanley Robinson & Cecilia Holland. Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by conversation and Q&A with the audience, moderated by author Terry Bisson.

$10 at the door
$8 for students with valid high school or college ID card

Doors at 6PM
Event begins at 6:30PM

Books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books; feel free to bring titles from home for signing. Note: 3 books at a time, then back in line, please, so everyone has a chance to get their books signed

Event podcasted, courtesy of SOMA FM, San Francisco’s premier internet radio station.

The American Bookbinders Museum
366 Clementina, off 5th St.,, between Howard & Folsom. Street parking is free; garages are at 5th & Mission, and 3rd & Folsom. NOTE: there is NO access to Clementina from 4th St due to construction.

All proceeds go to the American Bookbinders Museum


KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is an American writer of science fiction. He has published 19 novels and many short stories but is best known for his Mars books. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes running through them and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award.

Robinson’s work has been labeled by The Atlantic as “the gold-standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing.” According to an article in The New Yorker, Robinson is “generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers.”

CECELIA HOLLAND is an American historical fiction author, also well-known for her science fiction novel, Floating Worlds. Her first novel, The Firedrake, was published in 1966, and Holland has been a full-time professional writer ever since. Her character-driven plots, scrupulously researched, are often developed from the viewpoint of a male protagonist.

With plenty of action (her battle scenes are noteworthy for their bottom-up viewpoint and understated verisimilitude), her work focuses primarily on the life of the mind—whatever that might mean in a particular culture—and especially on politics, in the broadest sense, whatever politics might be in a monarchical, feudal or tribal society. Holland lives in rural Humboldt County, CA. For ten years, Holland taught creative writing classes at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, CA. She was visiting professor of English at Connecticut College in 1979. Holland was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981–1982.


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, 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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Hannu Rajaniemi & Christopher Brown Podcast

November 7th, 2019 · Comments Off on Hannu Rajaniemi & Christopher Brown Podcast

You can listen to our event with Hannu Rajaniemi & Christopher Brown below. Our thanks as always to SomaFM for their help in providing this service.

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Join Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newitz in Conversation

November 5th, 2019 · Comments Off on Join Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newitz in Conversation

Sunday, November 10, 2019

CHARLIE JANE ANDERS & ANNALEE NEWITZ
with moderator Terry Bisson

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

Join two of the Bay Area’s most fascinating and entertaining authors, Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz, in conversation and Q&A with the audience, moderated by author Terry Bisson.

Books will be for sale at the event, courtesy of Borderlands Books.*

Event will be podcasted by SomaFM, Listener-supported, commercial-free, radio broadcasting from San Francisco to the world.

All proceeds go to the American Bookbinders Museum.

*Note: due Ms. Anders’ tour travel requirements, and the need to leave a bit early, only presigned copies of her new book will be available for sale at the event. Annalee will be present afterwards to sign her new book in person.

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, NEIGHBOURS!!

HELP US KEEP BRINGING YOU SF IN SF !!

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

CHARLIE JANE ANDERS is an American writer and commentator. She has written several novels and is the publisher of other magazine, the “magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts.” In 2005, she received the Lambda Literary Award for work in the transgender category, and in 2009, the Emperor Norton Award. Her 2011 novelette “Six Months, Three Days” won the 2012 Hugo and was a finalist for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. Her 2016 novel All the Birds in the Sky was listed No. 5 on Time magazine’s “Top 10 Novels” of 2016, won the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2017 Crawford Award, and the 2017 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel; it was also a finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel. With her partner Annalee Newitz, she won the 2019 Hugo “Best Fancast” Award for their podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Her new book is The City In the Middle of the Night, published by Tor books.

ANNALEE NEWITZ is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. They have written for the periodicals Popular Science and Wired. From 1999 to 2008 they wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 they were the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004 they became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2015 they were Editor-in-Chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker’s design and technology blog. As of 2019, they are a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. Their new book is The Future of Another Timeline, published by Tor Books.


The American Bookbinders Museum’s entrance is located at 366 Clementina Alley, off 5th Street, between Howard and Folsom. Street parking is free; garages are located at 5th & Mission, and 3rd & Folsom. The closest BART station is Powell Street – just turn down 5th Street, cross Mission and Howard, and turn left onto Clementina.

Need more info? Drop Rina a line at sfinsfevents@gmail.com.

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An Evening with Garth Nix

September 26th, 2019 · Comments Off on An Evening with Garth Nix

Wednesday, October 2nd

Join Garth Nix in reading and conversation with Terry Bisson

A chance to hang out with one of the most popular young adult novelists in the field! Garth will read and then delve into Q&A with attendees, moderated by Terry Bisson. Books will be available for sale, but you’re welcome to bring your favourites from home too!

Doors and cash bar open 6:00PM
Event begins at 6:30 PM
The American Bookbinders Museum
355 Clementina, at 5th Street between Folsom & Howard
San Francisco, CA

$15 with Brown Paper Tickets reserves your seat!!
(general seating)

$20 at the door

All proceeds benefit the American Bookbinders Museum

Books will be for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books, and attendees are welcome to bring books from home for signatures.

Podcasted by SOMA FM – SFs internet radio station

For more information, please email sfinsfevents@gmail.com

ABOUT GARTH NIX

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.

Garths books include the Old Kingdom fantasy series, comprising Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel and Goldenhand; SF novels Shade’s Children and A Confusion of Princes; 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 others. He has co-written several books with Sean Williams, including the Troubletwisters series; Spirit Animals Book Three: Blood Ties; Have Sword, Will Travel; and the forthcoming sequel Let Sleeping Dragons Lie. A contributor to many anthologies and magazines, Garths selected short fiction has been collected in Across the Wall and To Hold the Bridge.

More than five million copies of his books have been sold around the world, they have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and USA Today and his work has been translated into 42 languages. His most recent book is Frogkisser! now being developed as a film by Twentieth Century Fox/Blue Sky Animation.

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