Author Archives: Mark Blackman

NYRSF Readings Feature Authors Gary Shteyngart and Rick Moody

Two literary writers present the fruits of their efforts to cross the Great Divide into sf... Read more [...]

NYRSF Readings’ “Family Night” Features Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman Duo

Despite sub-freezing temperatures and single-digit windchills, Family Night brought warmth and togetherness at the SGDA... Read more [...]

NYRSF Readings Go Beyond Blacula in a Special Halloween Event

A special event celebrates Halloween with four African-American horror writers... Read more [...]

NYRSF Readings Open Season With Langans Duo

The second edition of the 20th season of the NYRSF Reading Series opened with readings by John Langan and Sarah Langan offering macabre and dark tales... Read more [...]

NYRSF Readings Extra: Bacigalupi and Ahmed Beat the Heat

Cool readings during the New York heat wave included Saladin Ahmed and Paolo Bacigalupi... Read more [...]

Fantastic Fiction Reading Features Fantasy Writers Jeffrey Ford & Richard Bowes

Richard Bowes and Jeffrey Ford present an evening of wonderfully self-referential, and slightly spooky, live readings... Read more [...]

Fantastic Fiction Readings Feature Dark Fantasy Luminaries Peter Straub and Daryl Gregory

Dark readings set in a darkened bar made for an atmospheric night of horror, with some comic relief... Read more [...]

NYRSF Readings’ Nightmare After Christmas

The new year is a time for dark stories, as Paul Witcover and William Shunn regaled the audience with darkly moving novel excerpts... Read more [...]

NYRSF Readings’ Feature Tag Team of Delia Sherman & Ellen Kushner

Celebrating the holiday season with a couple of fantasy readings, and celebrating twenty years of readings with historical reminiscences... Read more [...]

Night Gallery: Lovecraft is Unbound at Book Launch and Reading

NYRSF opens a previously unopened door with readings from Lovecraft Unbound at the never-before-seen SoHo Gallery for Digital Art... Read more [...]

Fantastic Fiction Readings Feature Hallowe’en Horror

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... Read more [...]

NYRSF Reading Series Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary and F&SF’s 60th

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... Read more [...]

Author and Fan Ben P. Indick Dies

Ben P. Indick (1923-2009) was a fan, Lovecraftian, critic, and author, as well as the recipient of this year's First Fandom Hall of Fame Award... Read more [...]

Fred Pohl Gets Honorary Diploma from Brooklyn Tech

89-year-old science fiction Grand Master Frederik Pohl received an honorary diploma from the high school he dropped out of 74 years ago... Read more [...]

Fantastic Fiction at KGB Reading Series Celebrates Clarion West’s 25th

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... Read more [...]

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