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Dark
Carnival specializes in science fiction, fantasy, and mystery books! We
have a huge selection, a knowledgeable staff and plenty of random
plastic stuff to round out your bookstore experience!
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RUDY RUCKER Sunday July 12 2009 2pm
In Rucker’s last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened and life on Earth was transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and into telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity.
The small bunch of Founders, including young newlyweds Thuy, a hypertext novelist, and Jayjay, a gamer and brain-enhancement addict, are living a popular, live-action media life. But now alien races that have already gone through this transformation notice Earth for the first time, and begin to arrive to exploit both the new environment and any available humans. Some of them are real estate developers, some are slavers, and some just want to help. But how to tell the difference? Someone has to save humanity from the alien invasions, and it might as well be reality media stars Thuy and Jayjay.
Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. He is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His thirty published books include both novels and non-fiction books. A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker also writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism.
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MOON
LANDING 40th anniversary Monday July
20, 2009 5:56-7:56pm
PDT
The title is FOOTPRINTS, edited by Jay Lake and Eric T. Reynolds. It features new science fiction stories by award-winning authors Brenda Cooper, James Van Pelt, Heather McDougal, and more, for a total of twenty-one stories that deal with the following theme: "Long after humanity and all its works have turned to dust, visitors from the stars visit the Moon and discover the bootprints left by the Apollo astronauts, which are still as fresh as when they were made. How would those non-human archaeologists interpret that and the equipment scattered about the landing sites?"
Also from the same publisher, RETURN TO LUNA. A joint project between the National Space Society and Hadley Rille Books, this anthology features the winning stories of the NSS's Return to Luna contest, judged by award-winning editors and authors (including Allen Steele, Michael A. Burstein, Tobias S. Buckell, and more). It features a foreword by Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmitt and an Intro by George T. Whitesides.
DAVID MORRELL Friday, July 24 2009 5:30pm
David Morrell is coming!
Of course he's is author of First Blood, the novel which brought us Rambo. But Hollywood is only a tiny part of his award-winning writing career spanning nearly four decades. David Morrell is a New York Times bestselling writer, and a beautiful author at that. His books read effortlessly as masterpieces of style yet Morell is famed as the father of the modern action novel.
His books are un-put-downable.
Let me break it down: There's no one we're more thrilled to meet. We have read and re-read at least twenty-nine books by him, including Creepers, Scavenger, the unforgetable Fireflies, and The Spy Who Came for Christmas. After eighteen million copies in print,now into twenty-six languages, no wonder the International Thriller Writers organization honors Morrell this July with the prestigious ThrillerMaster Award for unequalled and outstanding contributions to the thriller.
But listen to this: the man himself has a new book coming out called THE SHIMMER (Vanguard Press Hardcover, July 2009) and he's outdone himself again. I'll tell you it begins with a car crash and I only wish I could afford the screen rights myself. Rivetting stuff! There's a wife's disappearance, loss and longing. There's an astronomical observatory, an abandoned military base, and unexplained lights in the night sky, gunmen and government secrets.All by David Morell: all revealed in the best possible way. Because of THE SHIMMER, and a special long courted publisher's assistant, at long last we get to meet David Morrell Friday, July 24.
And so do you, my friends, so do you!
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Dark Carnival Bookstore is located at 3086 Claremont Ave, at the
Uplands traffic light. (It is half-way between SAFEWAY at College
and Claremont, and the CLAREMONT HOTEL at Ashby and Claremont.)
DARK CARNIVAL IMAGINATIVE FICTION BOOKSTORE
3086 Claremont Ave.
Berkeley CA, 94705
510-654-7323
www.darkcarnival.com