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FRIDAY, MAY 28, 7:30pm – SCI-FI Philadelphia Fantastic Presents TOM PURDOM Tom Purdom is a science fiction writer and general freelance writer who has been writing about music ever since the opening of the 1988-89 season, when he became the classical music critic for a unique center city weekly called the Welcomat. His musings on …
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 7:30pm – SCI-FI Philadelphia Fantastic Presents GREG FROST Greg Frost, the author of the Shadowbridge Duology, will be at Moonstone Arts Center, speaking about these amazing books. Frost brings the charm of an ancient storyteller and the wit of a contemporary tale-spinner to this dramatic tale, effortlessly manipulating his troupe of mortals …
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 7:30pm SCI-FI/FANTASY Philadelphia Fantastic Presents:DARRELL SCHWEITZER (editor) & GREG FROST (contributor) Full Moon City ($15.00 Simon & Schuster) February 05, 2010: Full Moon City contains fourteen dark werewolf and one leaning more towards vampire (Darrell Schweitzer’s “Kvetchula’s Daughter”) urban fantasies written by some of the genre’s most renowned authors. None are clinkers, …
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 7:30pm – SCI-FI/FANTASY Philadelphia Fantastic Presents VICTORIA JANSSEN Victoria Janssen’s first novel, The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover, was published by Harlequin Spice in December 2008, her second, The Moonlight Mistress, in December 2009; it features the early days of World War One and werewolves. When not writing, Victoria …
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 7:30pm – SCI-FIPhiladelphia Fantastic Presents:JONATHAN MABERRY Jonathan Mayberry is a multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. His novels include Ghost Road Blues (winner of the Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2006), Dead Man’s Song, Bad Moon Rising, and Patient Zero. His nonfiction …
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 7:30pm – SCI-FIPhiladelphia Fantastic Presents:PAUL HALPERNAuthor ofCollider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles (27.95 Wiley) Will the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) create a miniature black hole that could swallow up the Earth? Could it help explain the missing matter and energy in the universe? Will it point the way toward unifying …
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FRIDAY AUGUST 28, 7:30pm – SCI-FIPhiladelphia Fantastic Presents:GARDNER DOZOISMICHAEL SWANWICKThe Year’s Best SF Collection (21.95 St. Martin’s) “Veteran editor Dozois, 15-time Hugo winner, offers 30 stories, several of them Hugo-nominated. The table of contents is dominated by familiar names like Michael Swanwick and Greg Egan, but occasionally leavened with relative newcomers like Hannu Rajaniemi and …
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FRIDAY JULY 24, 7:30pm – SCI-FIPhiladelphia Fantastic Presents:CATHERINE ASAROAuthor of Diamond Star ($24.95 Baen Books) Del was a rock singer. He was also the renegade son of the Ruby Dynasty, which made his career choice less than respectable, and gave him more to worry about than getting gigs and not getting cheated by recording companies, …
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FRIDAY JUNE 26, 7:30pm – SCI-FIPhiladelphia Fantastic Presents:LAWRENCE SCHOENAuthor of Buffalito Destiny (S&S 15.95) “Makes for a fun read, especially given such a fantastic cast of characters.” -BOOKLIST. “Only Lawrence Schoen could blend the Mayan eschaton, nightclub hypnotism, corporate elitism, radical environmentalism, and good old-fashioned slam-bang adventure fiction.” – Jay Lake.
FRIDAY JUNE 26, 7:30pm – SCI-FIPhiladelphia Fantastic Presents:LAWRENCE SCHOENAuthor of Buffalito Destiny (S&S 15.95) “Makes for a fun read, especially given such a fantastic cast of characters.” -BOOKLIST. “Only Lawrence Schoen could blend the Mayan eschaton, nightclub hypnotism, corporate elitism, radical environmentalism, and good old-fashioned slam-bang adventure fiction.” – Jay Lake.