Event Reviews
| Fantastic Fiction Readings Feature Dark Fantasy Luminaries Peter Straub and Daryl Gregory | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | February 18, 2010 |
| Dark readings set in a darkened bar made for an atmospheric night of horror, with some comic relief... | |
| NYRSF Readings' Nightmare After Christmas | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | January 6, 2010 |
| The new year is a time for dark stories, as Paul Witcover and William Shunn regaled the audience with darkly moving novel excerpts... | |
| NYRSF Readings' Feature Tag Team of Delia Sherman & Ellen Kushner | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | December 10, 2009 |
| Celebrating the holiday season with a couple of fantasy readings, and celebrating twenty years of readings with historical reminiscences... | |
| SFWA receives authors, editors, and others at Planet Hollywood | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | November 24, 2009 |
| A photo album from Monday night's science fiction authors and editors reception... | |
| Night Gallery: Lovecraft is Unbound at Book Launch and Reading | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | October 28, 2009 |
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| Fantastic Fiction Readings Feature Hallowe'en Horror | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | October 23, 2009 |
| In honor of the upcoming Hallowe'en, this month's Fantastic Fiction offerings were appropriately horrific and spooky readings by John Langan and Michael Cisco... | |
| NYRSF Reading Series Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary and F&SF's 60th | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | October 7, 2009 |
| New York City's New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series started its 20th anniversary season with a celebration of the 60th anniversary of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, featuring Gordon Van Gelder, Paul Di Filippo, Carol Emshwiller, and Ron Goulart... | |
| Fantastic Fiction at KGB Reading Series Celebrates Clarion West's 25th | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | July 16, 2009 |
| Marking 25 years of training writers of science fiction and fantasy, New York City's Fantastic Fiction at KGB Reading Series honored the graduates and staff of Clarion West Writers' Workshop by hosting several of them in a special reading... | |
| Federations and Empires: Star-Spanning Anthology Launched at Special NYRSF Reading | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | July 13, 2009 |
| A special season-extending NYRSF Reading featured readers from the new anthology Federations, including editor John Joseph Adams and authors Allen Steele, K. Tempest Bradford, and Genevieve Valentine... | |
| Nathan E. Lilly writes "See Fight Girl Battle World" | |
| Opinion > Letters | June 24, 2009 |
| Nathan E. Lilly and Darrell Schweitzer offer a glowing review of Vampire Cowboy Theatre Company's Fight Girl Battle World, returning to the boards for a limited engagement... | |
| Ahoy!—NYRSF Readings Go Shipboard | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | June 4, 2009 |
The first NYRSF Reading to be held on the water featured Catherynne M. Valente and S.J. Tucker reading and performing music to a large crowd in a wonderful setting: the barque Peking in New York Harbor...
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| Blank Slate, Episode II: Spawn of Tabula Rasa—NYRSF Readings Again Features Members of Local SF/F Writers' Group | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | May 6, 2009 |
| The second half of NY writers' group Tabula Rasa's reading featured Saladin Ahmed, Andrea Kail, and Robert J. Howe, giving us a selection of fairy tales and mythic settings we don't normally think about... | |
| Sakura Matsuri—Japan comes to Brooklyn | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | May 2, 2009 |
![]() Sakura Matsuri is the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's annual celebration of Japanese culture, both ancient and modern. It attracts hundreds of cosplayers, and thousands of fans, for a wonderful interactive experience amidst the cherry blossoms of spring...
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| The Secret Lives of Superheroines—a review of The Superheroine Monologues: A Parody of Super Proportions | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | April 21, 2009 |
The most refreshing and humorous take on superwomen's issues that has ever been done on stage...
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| Sex, Sax, and Shaggy Tails: April's NYRSF Readings | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | April 9, 2009 |
| This month's NYRSF readings featured two authors of sf-nal erotica, along with a guest jazz saxophonist, interesting conversation, and good companionship... | |
| White Pavement, Blank Slate: NYRSF Readings Features Tabula Rasa Writers | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | March 4, 2009 |
| New York writers' group Tabula Rasa presented three readers in the first half of their appearance. Part two comes in May... | |
| Universal Robots is intellectually challenging, dark, moving, and gripping: science fiction on stage | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | February 26, 2009 |
| Mac Rogers's adaptation and extension of Karel Capek's classic R.U.R. incorporates the playwright himself as a major character, and presents a remarkably minimist alternate history of the time between the World Wars... | |
| Soul Samurai is a wonderful post-apocalyptic live-action supernatural samurai film | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | February 25, 2009 |
| A small New York City production has samurai, gangs, battles, love, revenge, vampires, comedy, tragedy, and more... | |
| CSI vs. Godzilla: Fantastic Fiction at KGB Reading Series Features James Morrow and Laird Barron | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | February 20, 2009 |
| Fantastic readings feature a laugh-out-loud funny doctoral dissertation defense, and the proposed weaponizing of fire-breathing iguanas... | |
| Unforgotten Lore: NYRSF Readings' 200th Birthday Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | January 7, 2009 |
| This month's NYRSF reading celebrated the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth and the US launch of Ellen Datlow's new Poe-themed anthology... | |
| NYRSF Readings' Family Night | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | December 4, 2008 |
| A family night, planned with two couples, works out slightly differently, but entertainingly... | |
| SFWA's annual Authors & Editors Reception is, once again, a smash hit | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | November 25, 2008 |
| A photo album from Monday night's science fiction authors and editors reception... | |
| Emsh: NYRSF Readings Series Pays Tribute to Ed Emshwiller | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | November 13, 2008 |
| In a break from the usual, the NYRSF Reading Series honored an artist, rather than a writer. But Ed Emshwiller did more than paint—he made films, and... | |
| Fantastic Fiction at KGB Reading Series Keeps It Weird with a Celebration of Weird Tales' 85th | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | October 17, 2008 |
| The second monthly New York City reading also featured horror, with three contributors to the 85th annivesary issue of Weird Tales... | |
| NYRSF's Readings of the Living Dead | |
| Opinion > Event Reviews | October 13, 2008 |
| A spooky evening of creepy zombie stories kicked off the Halloween month at the recent NYRSF reading... | |
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The first NYRSF Reading to be held on the water featured Catherynne M. Valente and S.J. Tucker reading and performing music to a large crowd in a wonderful setting: the barque Peking in New York Harbor...

Sakura Matsuri is the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's annual celebration of Japanese culture, both ancient and modern. It attracts hundreds of cosplayers, and thousands of fans, for a wonderful interactive experience amidst the cherry blossoms of spring...
The most refreshing and humorous take on superwomen's issues that has ever been done on stage...




