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NYRSF Readings for 7/2

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Kate Elliott and E. C. Ambrose headline the New York Review of SF Readings on July 2.

Kate Elliott’s most recent series is the “Spiritwalker Trilogy” (Cold Magic, Cold Fire, Cold Steel), an Afro-Celtic post-Roman alternate-19th-century Regency icepunk mashup with airships, Phoenician spies, revolution, and the intelligent descendents of Troodons.

E. C. Ambrose is the author of “The Dark Apostle” series of historical fantasy novels, beginning with Elisha Barber (July, 2013, DAW).  Look for Elisha Magus (DAW, forthcoming in July 2014), and continuing volumes in the series.  Published works include “Spoiler Alert” (non-fiction, Clarkesworld, January 2013), “The Romance of Ruins” (non-fiction, Clarkesworld, March 2012) and “Custom of the Sea,” winner of the Tenebris Press Flash Fiction Contest 2012.

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NYRSF Readings for 5/7

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Evie Manieri and Leanna Renee Hieber will participate in the NYRSF Readings curated by Ron Hogan on May 7.

Evie Manieri has a degree in Medieval History and Theatre from Wesleyan University. Blood’s Pride is her first novel. She lives in New York City.

Leanna Renee Hieber is the author of award-winning Gaslamp Fantasy, such as the Strangely Beautiful saga, the Magic Most Foul saga and the forthcoming Eterna Files from Tor. She has been featured in anthologies such as Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells.

Ron Hogan helped create the literary Internet when he launched Beatrice in 1995. His latest website, The Handsell, recruits authors and independent booksellers to make personalized recommendations for readers based on the books they already love.

This session of the NYRSF Readings takes place May 7 at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art (see info below). Doors open 6:30 p.m. Suggested donation: $7.

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Liu, Wasserman at NYRSF Readings for 3/6

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Jim Freund asks:

If March comes in like a lion, does it have to be cowardly? Perhaps so, if our theme is Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond; a new anthology co-edited by Doug Cohen and JJA. And look what Toto dragged in — two of the best writers working in speculative fiction today: Robin Wasserman and Ken Liu!

Ken Liu is nominated for three Nebulas, it was announced today. An author and translator of speculative fiction (and lawyer and programmer), his work has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons. Already on his awards shelf are a Nebula, a Hugo, a World Fantasy Award, and a Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award.

Robin Wasserman is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Book of Blood and Shadow, the Cold Awakening Trilogy, the Chasing Yesterday Trilogy, and Hacking Harvard.

John Joseph Adams is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, such as The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. Forthcoming work includes Wastelands 2, Dead Man’s Hand, and Robot Uprisings. John is also the editor of Lightspeed Magazine and Nightmare Magazine, and co-host of Wired.com’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.

Douglas Cohen is the former editor of Realms of Fantasy Magazine. In the magazine’s final year, they published their 100th issue, won a Nebula Award, and were nominated for a second one. Oz Reimagined marks his first anthology.

This session of the NYRSF Readings takes place March 6 at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art (see info below). Doors open 6:30 p.m. Suggested donation: $7.

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NYRSF Readings For 1/8

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Terry McGarry and Veronica Schanoes will kick off The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series in 2013 with a pair of weird tellings. The event begins at 7 p.m. on January 8.   

Terry McGarry, author of the Tor fantasy novels Illumination, The Binder’s Road, and Triad, who also has published short fiction in over 40 magazines and anthologies. She has been a freelance copyeditor since 1987, specializing in science fiction and fantasy, and she worked at The New Yorker magazine for 15 years. A New York City native, she has also been a bartender on Wall Street, an English major at Princeton, and a street trader in Ireland; she holds a third-level belt in Krav Maga and plays Irish traditional music at gigs and pub sessions in the city and on Long Island, where she currently lives. She’s on the web at terrymcgarry.com.

Veronica Schanoes’ short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and she has a story forthcoming in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells. She also is an assistant professor of English at Queens College-CUNY who specializes in children’s literature and speculative fiction. Schanoes is particularly interested in children’s literature, women’s writing, and fantastic literature. Her publications include such intriguing topics as “Fearless Children and Fabulous Monsters: Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter, and Beastly Girls” (Marvels and Tales) and “Book as Mirror, Mirror as Book: The Significance of the Looking-glass in Contemporary Revisions of Fairy Tales” (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.)

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NYRSF Readings for 12/4

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The New York Review of SF readings for December 4 continue an annual tradition of having a family reading with Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, and Claire Wolf Smith as host.

Delia Sherman writes stories and novels for younger readers and adults. Her most recent short stories have appeared in the young adult anthology Steampunk! and in Ellen Datlow’s Naked City.

Ellen Kushner is a novelist, performer and public radio personality.  Her award-winning novels include the “mannerpunk” cult classic Swordspoint and Thomas the Rhymer.  With Holly Black, she recently co-edited Welcome to Bordertown, a revival of the original urban fantasy shared world series created by Terri Windling. Kushner is the longtime host of the public radio show “Sound & Spirit.” Audiobook recordings of her first two “Riverside” novels, Swordspoint and The Privilege of the Sword, featuring Kushner as narrator, were released this year by Neil Gaiman Presents for Audible.com. 

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NYRSF Readings for 11/20

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New Yorkers put in the mood for end-of-the-world stories by Hurricane Sandy should attend the NYRSF Readings for November 20 where they will hear from contributors to After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

Matthew Kessel’s fiction has or will appear in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interzone, Electric Velocipede, and the anthologies Naked City and The People of the Book. He co-hosts the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in New York alongside Ellen Datlow.

N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author whose short fiction and novels have been nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula Awards, shortlisted for the Crawford and the Tiptree Awards, and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Her latest novel, The Shadowed Sun, was published in June 2012 by Orbit Books.

Genevieve Valentine‘s first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, won the 2012 Crawford Award and was nominated for the Nebula. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Journal of Mythic Arts, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, Apex, and others, and the anthologies Federations, The Living Dead 2, The Way of the Wizard, Running with the Pack, Teeth, and more. Her story “Light on the Water” was a 2009 World Fantasy Award nominee, and “Things to Know About Being Dead” is a 2012 Shirley Jackson Award nominee.

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Changes to NYRSF for 10/23

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Aaron S. Rosenberg and Keith R. A. DeCandido will take the place of Terry McGarry and Veronica Schanoes at the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading on October 23. The writers originally scheduled will appear another time.

Aaron S. Rosenberg has written novels for Star Trek, StarCraft, Warcraft, Exalted, Stargate Atlantis, and Warhammer. Rosenberg wrote two tie-in novels for the television series Eureka, entitled Substitution Method and Road Less Traveled, under the house name Cris Ramsay. He is also the author of the Dread Remora space-opera series and the co-author of the O.C.L.T. occult thriller series, both from Crossroad Press. His humorous science fiction novel No Small Bills was released as an e-book from Crazy 8 in September 2011 and immediately hit the Nook Bestseller list, rising as high as No. 33. A sequel, Too Small for Tall, was released in September of 2012.

Keith R.A. De Candido has written almost 50 novels, at which point he gets a free set of steak knives. In 2009, for his extensive work in the tie-in field as both a writer and an editor, working in such universes as Star Trek, Marvel Comics, Serenity, Resident Evil, Farscape, Supernatural, World of Warcraft, Dungeons & Dragons, and many more. He is also the author of the “Precinct” series of fantastical police procedurals, which includes the novels Dragon Precinct, Unicorn Precinct, and Goblin Precinct, with two more books due in 2013: the short story collection Tales from Dragon Precinct and the fourth novel, Gryphon Precinct. Look for the “Precinct” series in at least two other media next year as well.

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NYRSF Readings for 10/22

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The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series provides performances from some of the best writers in science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction. Appearing on October 22 will be –

Terry McGarry, author of the Tor fantasy novels Illumination, The Binder’s Road, and Triad, who also has published short fiction in over 40 magazines and anthologies. She has been a freelance copyeditor since 1987, specializing in science fiction and fantasy, and she worked at The New Yorker magazine for 15 years. A New York City native, she has also been a bartender on Wall Street, an English major at Princeton, and a street trader in Ireland; she holds a third-level belt in Krav Maga and plays Irish traditional music at gigs and pub sessions in the city and on Long Island, where she currently lives. She’s on the web at terrymcgarry.com.

Veronica Schanoes’ short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and she has a story forthcoming in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells. She also is an assistant professor of English at Queens College-CUNY who specializes in children’s literature and speculative fiction. Schanoes is particularly interested in children’s literature, women’s writing, and fantastic literature. Her publications include such intriguing topics as “Fearless Children and Fabulous Monsters: Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter, and Beastly Girls” (Marvels and Tales) and “Book as Mirror, Mirror as Book: The Significance of the Looking-glass in Contemporary Revisions of Fairy Tales” (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.)

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Special NYRSF Reading 11/27

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Deborah Grabien and Roz Kaveney will feature at a special edition of the New York Review of Science Fiction Readings on November 27. Veronica Schanoes will guest host.

Deborah Grabien has 18 published novels, including her current series, the JP Kinkaid Chronicles. She is a writer, musician, songwriter, cook, traveller, editor, publisher, music editor and feral cat rescuer.  In her spare time(!), she copes with her multiple sclerosis and is Artistic Outreach director for the Filaments Project, a nonprofit that raises money for musicians in need by turning used instrument strings into jewelry. 

Roz Kaveney is a British writer — two collections of her work appeared in August: Dialectic of the Flesh concentrates on her poetry on love, sex and LGBT themes and What If What’s Imagined Were All True on themes from fantasy and sf.  Rituals – Rhapsody of Blood, Volume One has just been released in the UK.  She was poetry guest of honour at Eastercon in 2011. Roz is also a founding member of Feminists Against Censorship; a former deputy chair of Liberty; and a transgender rights activist . She is deputy editor of the transgender-related magazine META.

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NYRSF Readings for 9/11

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The 22nd season of New York Review of Science Fiction Readings begins September 11 with appearances by Carlos Hernandez and Richard Bowes.

Carlos Hernandez has written for Bewere the Night, You Don’t Have a Clue, Interfictions II, Interzone, Futurismic, and Fiction International. The CUNY professor of English is also lead writer for Meriwether, a computer role-playing game chronicling the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Richard Bowes has published five novels, two collections and 60 stories. His mosaic novel Dust Devil on a Quiet Street will be published in 2013 by Lethe Press. Lethe will also reprint his Lambda winning novel Minions of the Moon in late 2012. He has sold to F&SF, Icarus, Apex, Lightspeed and the anthologies Million Writers Award, After, Wilde Stories 2012, Bloody Fabulous, Ghosts: Recent Hauntings, Handsome Devil, and Hauntings.

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