NAOMI NOVIK

Wednesday, July 23, 5:30 pm

Naomi Novik was born in New York in 1973, a first-generation American, and raised on Polish fairy tales, Baba Yaga, and Tolkien. She studied English Literature at Brown University and did graduate work in Computer Science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide.

Her first novel, His Majesty's Dragon, was published in 2006 along with Throne of Jade and Black Powder War, and has been translated into 23 languages. She has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. The fourth volume of the Temeraire series, Empire of Ivory, published in September 2007, was a New York Times bestseller.

DAVID WEBER

Friday August 1, 7pm

DAVID WEBER, author of the HONOR HARRINGTON series will be here to meet you and to sign his books including BY SCHISM RENT ASUNDER, his new sequel to OFF ARMAGEDDON REEF:

The world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it. Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns and better devices of all sorts, Charis faced the combined navies of the rest of the world at Darcos Sound and Armageddon Reef, and broke them. Despite the implacable hostility of the Church of God Awaiting, Charis still stands, still free, still tolerant, still an island of innovation in a world in which the Church has worked for centuries to keep humanity locked at a medieval level of existence.
 
But the powerful men who run the Church aren’t going to take their defeat lying down. Charis may control the world’s seas, but it barely has an army worthy of the name. And as King Cayleb knows, far too much of the kingdom’s recent good fortune is due to the secret manipulations of the being that calls himself Merlin—a being that, the world must not find out too soon, is more than human. A being on whose shoulders rests the last chance for humanity’s freedom.
 
Now, as Charis and its archbishop make the rift with Mother Church explicit, the storm gathers. Schism has come to the world of Safehold. Nothing will ever be the same.

David Weber is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Honor Harrington series, the most recent of which was At All Costs. His many other novels include Mutineers' Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance, Heirs of Empire, Path of the Fury, and Wind Rider's Oath. He lives in South Carolina.

GREG BEAR

Monday August 18, 5:30pm

GREG BEAR, author of DARWIN'S RADIO, DARWIN'S CHILDREN, EON, and QUANTICO will be here to meet you and sign his many books, including his newest CITY AT THE END OF TIME.

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you can reserve your copies now for these much-awaited new books:
STEPHENIE MEYER's final book in the TWILIGHT series, BREAKING DAWN, goes on sale at the crack of midnight on August 2, so we will be here around midnight on Thursday August 1, and at midnight you can get your book.  (Look for the hearse parked out front!)

and, CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI's third ERAGON book, BRISINGR, goes on sale Sept 20, so we will be open at midnight Friday September 19th!

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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.)

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