Janna Silverstein points out that we’ve let our “Upcoming Author Readings and Signings” page lapse, (we’ll be reinvigorating it soon). In the meantime, she writes of some signings in Seattle, Washington. Specifically, in conjunction with the Clarion West Writers Workshop held in Seattle, University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105) runs a series of readings by workshop instructors. All readings begin at 7PM. Authors’ books will be available for signing, but they warn that “you may want to buy these before the readings begin, since the store’s registers close at 8PM.
The first four have already appeared, but writers featured for the last two weeks of the workshops are:
David G. Hartwell—21 July. Hartwell is a Senior Editor for Tor Books and founder of the influential New York Review of Science Fiction. He has published many of the important SF writers of the past forty years, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of both science fiction and fantasy. Not only does he know where the bodies are buried, but he did some of the spade work himself. Hartwell will be interviewed on topics of art and commerce by the always-provocative Seattle writer Eileen Gunn.
Rudy Rucker— 28 July. Rucker is a prolific and idea-rich writer whose work lies (or, perhaps, writhes) at the intersection of science fiction, philosophy, and mathematics. An early cyberpunk and a fascinating thinker with an unpredictable and inquisitive mind, he is the author, most recently, of Postsingular and Mathematicians in Love. What he will read and say is anybody’s guess, but it is bound to be brainfood.
And unrelated to the workshop, University Bookstore has the following upcoming readings of interest to SF readers:
Thursday 23 July at 7PM: David Morrell reading and signing The Shimmer
Friday 24 July at 7PM: Jay Lake reading and signing Green
Tuesday 4 August at 7PM: Kat Richardson reading and signing Vanished (Greywalker, Book 4)
Thursday 27 August at 7PM: Terry Brooks reading and signing A Princess of Landover
Friday 28 August at 7PM: S.M. Stirling reading and signing The Sword of the Lady: A Novel of the Change
Elliott Bay Book Company (101 South Main Street, Seattle, Washington, 98104) has a science fiction and fantasy book group called Speculations, which will be discussing Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War on Tuesday 21 July at 6:30PM.