
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

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 with authors Cliff Winnig,
Heather McDougal, Mark Onspaugh, F.R.R. Mallory and Erin Cashier.
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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