Mind Meld: Young Adult SF/F Books That Adults Will Like, Too

A Mind Meld in which various folk recommend
Young Adult SF/F Books That Adults Will Like, Too
--and reading my fellow commentators recommendations made me realize how many I missed.
Give a shout out for your own favorites.

Photos from the launch of the Del Rey Book of SF&F

Here are the photos:
South Street Seaport Museum event


Unfortunately, Barry Malzberg was unable to make it at the last minute because he was stuck in traffic at the Lincoln Tunnel.

Jack O'Connell and Ekaterina Sedia read at KGB May 21st

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Jack O’Connell, author of The Resurrectionist, just published by Algonquin, and four previous novels set in the fictional city of Quinsigamond, including Box 9, Wireless, The Skin Palace, and Word Made Flesh

&

Ekaterina Sedia, author of The Secret History of Moscow, published by Prime Books this past November. Her next, The Alchemy of Stone, will be out this July. Her short stories have been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies.

* Mobile Libris will be selling books

Wednesday May 21st , 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.sensesfive.com/kgb.php

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An addendum from Matt Kressel:

"Ellen Datlow and I were also talking about ways to attract readers outside of NY to read at the KGB Fantastic Fiction reading series. Part of the problem is that we just don’t know when authors will be in town. Outside of the NY Metro area, few people have heard of KGB, or know about its long and interesting history. I suggested that we spread the word far and wide; let people know the history of the organization and all the greats who have read there. So…

First the history: Terry Bisson and Alice K. Turner started the KGB Fantastic Fiction reading series in the late 1990s, attempting to bring together mainstream writers with writers of speculative fiction because, as Alice Turner says, “they are plowing exactly the same field.” Ellen Datlow took over for Alice K. Turner in 2000. Then Gavin J. Grant stepped in for Bisson in 2002. Matthew Kressel (me) took over for Gavin last month.

And, who has read at KGB? No less than:

Joyce Carol Oates, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Scott Westerfeld, Kelly Link, China Miéville, Nancy Kress, Jack McDevitt, Stewart O’Nan, James Patrick Kelly, Barry N. Marlzberg, Samuel (Chip) Delaney, Holly Black, Michael Swanwick, Kit Reed, Peter Straub, Andy Duncan, Richard Bowes, Catherynne Valente, Ellen Kushner, Jeff VanderMeer, Naomi Novik, Elizabeth Bear and a smörgåsbord of other talented authors."

So, suggestions welcome.