Performances & Podcasts


Fred Lerner to lecture in Denmark
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Author/librarian Fred Lerner is traveling to Denmark to lecture at the Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Royal School of Library and Information Science...

Jonathan Lethem to talk about Philip K. Dick at Cooper Union
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Jonathan Lethem, the editor of Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s, will talk about his work on the series in a free presentation...

Slattery Reading/Concert
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Brian Francis Slattery will be giving a reading with musical accompaniment in Brooklyn, New York, on 13 September...

Japanese Manga vs. American Comic Books
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Long Island-based artist Joe Liotta will be giving a free talk entitled "Japanese Manga vs. American Comic Books" on 4 September at 7PM at the East Meadow Public Library, 1886 Front St, East Meadow (Long Island), New York 11554.

de Lint, Crowley, and Kessel to teach and read in Seattle
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NW Media Arts and Seattle's Richard Hugo House present three Sundays of fantastic fiction writing workshops—followed by three Mondays of author readings and signings—this Autumn...

Samuel Delany to celebrate 40 years of "The Star Pit" at New York reading
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The monthly science fiction reading series at New York's South Street Seaport will play host to a 40th anniversary celebration of the broadcast of Samuel R. Delany's "The Star Pit" this October...

Upcoming MoCCA Events
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The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art has Monday evening talks and panel discussions. Upcoming are "The Changing Image of Black Women in Comics and Graphic Novels" and "Metro Anime: a Brief HIstory of Anime Violence." All events are free...

Tor Books Podcasts to Debut during WorldCon
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Tor Books will begin producing podcasts during WorldCon. The shows from Japan will be hosted by Tom Doherty and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, and available for downloading...

Online Chats with Big Name Authors
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Xfire is hosting a week-long series of chats with big-name authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, Jim Butcher, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Spider Robinson, Charles Stross...

Ben Bova/Orson Scott Card Interview on Audible.com
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Audible.com is offering a free half-hour interview with Ben Bova and Orson Scott Card...

Hartwell interview on Space Westerns
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Space Westerns has posted an audio interview with editor David G. Hartwell focusing on the place of space westerns in the wider world of speculative fiction...

Harlan Ellison to Present Dreams with Sharp Teeth
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Harlan Ellison will be present at two special screenings of Dreams with Sharp Teeth, the new documentary biography film of his life. The first, in Santa Monica, California, will be 9 August. The second will be in Cleveland, Ohio, on 21 September...

Destinies' upcoming schedule includes authors and composers
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Destinies: The Voice of Science Fiction is a weekly program airing on WUSB 90.1 FM. In the coming weeks, their guests will include author T.A. Barron, composer Murray Gold (of Doctor Who fame)...

Mike Allen's "The Journey to Kailash" available online
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Mike Allen's long poem "The Journey to Kailash" won the Rhysling award earlier this month. Allen was unable to perform it at the award ceremony, but has posted a "video reading" of the poem...

Author Jeff Carlson on Sci Fi Overdrive
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Author Jeff Carlson is on this weekend's episode of Sci Fi Overdrive, available on radio stations around the US. On the show, he discusses is novel Plague Year and...

Dirk Gently Coming to BBC Radio, and then to CD
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Douglas Adams's masterwork, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, started life as a radio serial before moving into most every other medium available. Adams's other series, which began with Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was a book first. This October,...

Joe Haldeman to talk about Ernest Hemingway's "How to Write" article
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Joe Haldeman will be talking at the Hemingway Museum in Oak Park, Illinois. His talk, honoring the 108th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's birth, will discuss his famous 1935 article "Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter"....

Circlet Press's Cecilia Tan to talk about her life as an editor
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Circlet Press publisher and editor Cecilia Tan will talk about "How I Edited 30 Anthologies of Erotic Science Fiction and Kept My Sanity (I think...)" at San Francisco's Borderlands Book on 5 July...

Strock's Appearance on Hour of the Wolf now Available Online
News > Editorial
Editor Ian Randal Strock's appearance on Jim Freund's Hour of the Wolf was actually on another show on Monday 25 June. The program is archived and available online...

Doctorow Starts Podcasting Others' Novels
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Cory Doctorow has been podcasting his fiction for almost two years, and has apparently run out of his own material, so now he's starting other people's work. His first project is Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown, the first part of which is available now.

Monthly Mini Convention/Concert Planned at Safari Sam's
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Starting 12 July, Safari Sam's in Hollywood, California, will host a monthly mini-convention with bands, fans, vendors, and more...

Ian Randal Strock on Jim Freund's Hour of the Wolf on a Different Day
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SFScope editor Ian Randal Strock was originally scheduled to appear on Jim Freund's Hour of the Wolf, but the program is being pre-empted. Instead, they'll both be appearing on Monday afternoon on Cat Radio Café...

Photos from KGB Fantastic Fiction reads Interfictions
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Ellen Datlow's photos of last night's KGB Fantastic Fiction Series—readings from Interfictions—are now available on Flickr. The 52 photos include shots of...

Catherine Asaro to Speak at Seton Hill University
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Catherine Asaro will give a free, public lecture on "The Science in Science Fiction" at Seton Hill University on 23 June at...

Maine Festival of the Book to Feature Fantasy and More
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The Maine Festival of the Book, a "celebration of reading and writing" in Portland, Maine, will feature a panel on fantasy writing, another on...
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