The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings and the
South Street Seaport Museum present
As an Extracurricular Special Event a launch party for
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow
featuring readers
Richard Bowes
Carol Emshwiller
Barry N. Malzberg
Tuesday, May 13th -- Doors open 6:30 PM
Free Admission -- $5 donation if possible
THERE WILL BE WINE AND SNACKS!!!
South Street Seaport Museum's Melville Gallery
213 Water Street
(directions below)
Richard Bowes has published five novels, the most recent of which is From the Files of the Time Rangers. The novel Minions of the Moon won a Lambda Award. His stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, SCI FICTION and elsewhere. The novella “Streetcar Dreams” won a World Fantasy Award. His story “There’s a Hole in the City” won the storySouth 2006 Million Writers Award for Fiction. His most recent short fiction collection, Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies, was published by PS Publications in England in 2006.
Carol Emshwiller is the author of six novels and more than 100 short stories. Her short work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, and has been collected in several volumes, most recently in I Live With You. In her career spanning five decades, she has won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. In 2005, she was presented the World Fantasy Award for Life-Time Achievement. Her most recent novel, The Secret City, was published in 2007.
Barry N. Malzberg has written more than 40 science fiction novels and 250 short stories since his first publication in Galaxy Magazine in l967. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his 1972 novel, Beyond Apollo. Malzberg has also written extensively about the field of science fiction itself, both in novels (Herovit's World, about a discouraged science fiction writer) and essays collected in The Engines of the Night (Locus Award, l982). He has also written mysteries and suspense novels (some in collaboration with Bill Pronzini) and several novels for the Olympia Press.
Ellen Datlow was editor of SCI FICTION, the multi award-winning fiction area of SCIFI.COM, for almost six years, the editor of Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror for one and a half years, and fiction editor of OMNI for over seventeen years. She has edited or co-edited over fifty reprint and original anthologies, including the horror half of the ongoing The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her most recent are Inferno, The Coyote Road (with Terri Windling), and of course, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her next original anthology, Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, will be out next January.
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The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series is in its umpteenth season of providing performances from some of the best writers in science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, etc. The series takes place the first Tuesday of every month at the South Street Seaport's Melville Gallery, 213 Water Street. Admission is free, but $5 donations are encouraged to offset costs and buy dinner for the readers. The producer and executive curator is radio producer and talk show host Jim Freund.
WHERE:
The South Street Seaport Museum's Melville Gallery
213 Water Street (near Beekman)
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=213+Water+Street,+New+York,+NYHOW:
By Subway
Take 2, 3, 4, 5, J, Z, or M to Fulton Street; A and C to
Broadway-Nassau. Walk east on Fulton Street to Water Street
By Bus
Take M15 (South Ferry-bound) down Second Ave. to Fulton Street
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