The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings series at the South Street Seaport Museum is hosting an “extracurricular special event.” In addition to the regular first Tuesday of the month reading on 6 May (see this article), there will be a launch party for The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow on Tuesday 13 May. As usual, doors open at 6:30PM at the Melville Gallery, 213 Water Street, New York City (a $5 donation is requested).
In addition to Datlow, the event will feature three contributors reading their works: Richard Bowes, Carol Emshwiller, and Barry N. Malzberg.
Richard Bowes has published five novels, the most recent of which is From the Files of the Time Rangers. The novel Minions of the Moon won a Lambda Award. His stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sci Fiction, and elsewhere. His novella “Streetcar Dreams” won a World Fantasy Award, and his story “There’s a Hole in the City” won the storySouth 2006 Million Writers Award for Fiction. His most recent short fiction collection, Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies, was published by PS Publications in England in 2006.
Carol Emshwiller is the author of six novels and more than 100 short stories. Her short work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, and has been collected in several volumes, most recently in I Live With You. In her career spanning five decades, she has won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. In 2005, she was presented the World Fantasy Award for Life-Time Achievement. Her most recent novel, The Secret City, was published in 2007.
Barry N. Malzberg has written more than 40 science fiction novels and 250 short stories since his first publication in Galaxy Magazine in 1967. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his 1972 novel, Beyond Apollo. Malzberg has also written extensively about the field of science fiction itself, both in novels (Herovit’s World, about a discouraged science fiction writer) and essays collected in The Engines of the Night (Locus Award, 1982). He has also written mysteries and suspense novels (some in collaboration with Bill Pronzini) and several novels for the Olympia Press.
Ellen Datlow was the editor of Sci Fiction, the multi award-winning fiction area of SciFi.com, for almost six years, the editor of Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror for one and a half years, and fiction editor of Omni for over seventeen years. She has edited or co-edited over fifty reprint and original anthologies, including the horror half of the ongoing The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her most recent are Inferno, The Coyote Road (with Terri Windling), and of course, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her next original anthology, Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, will be out next January. She is also the co-curator of the other New York monthly genre reading series at the KGB Bar.
For more information on the series, see www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf. The series’ producer and executive curator is radio producer and talk show host Jim Freund.