6-8pm, Saturday, July 25th:
an Avram Davidson appreciation party: guests included Grania Davis, Peter S. Beagle and a lot of relatives, extended and otherwise.
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Cecelia Holland at Little Men’s
7:30-9pm, Friday, July 24th:
The Elves’, Gnomes’ & Little Men’s Science Fiction, Chowder & Marching Society hosted Cecelia Holland, who read a fascinating forthcoming alternate history short story.
Kim Stanley Robinson autograph party
6-8pm, Wednesday, July 22nd:
Kim Stanley Robinson read from and signed his great new novel, Antarctica (in hardcover from Bantam/Spectra Books).
John Shirley signing
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).
21st Anniversary Party Concert
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.]
Brenda Clough autograph party
1-3pm, Sunday, May 24th:
Brenda Clough chatted about and signed her recent novel, How Like a God (in paperback from Tor Books)
Pat Murphy and Ellen Klages at Little Men’s
7:30-9pm, Friday, May 15th:
The Elves’, Gnomes’ and Little Men’s Science Fiction, Chowder and Marching Society presented Pat Murphy and Ellen Klages spoke about behind the scenes fun and publishing at The Exploratorium.
Elizabeth A. Lynn autograph party
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)
Theodore Sturgeon celebration
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
Diana Thatcher at Little Men’s
7:30pm, Friday, January 23rd:
The Elves’, Gnomes’ and Little Men’s Science Fiction, Chowder and Marching Society hosted long-time member Diana Thatcher, who presented slides from her paleotological digs last summer. We still have a haplosaurus hip joint in residence.