1-3pm, Saturday, July 11th:
John Shirley stopped and signed his new collection Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side (in hardcover from Mark V. Ziesing Books).

6-8pm, Thursday, May 28th:
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, editors of The Horns of Elfland, hosted our 21st Anniversary Party Concert: guest performers included guitar wizard Henry Kaiser III and members of The Berkeley Opera in excerpts from David Scott Marley’s The Riot Grrrl on Mars. [Photos to come, currently m.i.a.]

3-5pm, Saturday, April 18th:
The great Elizabeth A. Lynn read from and signed her long-awaited new fantasy novel, Dragon’s Winter (in hardcover from Ace Books)

6-8pm, Saturday, February 28th:
A celebration of the late Theodore Sturgeon who would have had his 80th birthday the previous Thursday. Paul Williams, literary executor and editor of the labor-of-love The Complete Stories (signed copies of all four volumes to date are in stock) spoke about the project. Readings and reminiscences by special guests included daughter Noel Sturgeon, her son, son Robin Sturgeon (who read from ‘[The (Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff’) and their mother Marion Sturgeon (three generations!), Richard A. Lupoff (who lead a roundrobin reading of ‘Artifact’, the very obscure and legendary paperplate story by Niven, Foster, Sturgeon, Lupoff and Tuning), Michael Kurland and Elizabeth A. Lynn.

Richard A. Lupoff, Paul Williams and Robin Sturgeon

Noel Sturgeon and Richard A. Lupoff

6-8:00pm, Saturday, January 17th:
Peter S. Beagle returned to read his last unicorn story from his retrospective collection, The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances.