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DISPATCHES FROM THE BORDER

Events and News from Borderlands Books

September, 2010

Chapter One - Event Information, News, and Special Features

Upcoming Author Events

Brandon Sanderson, THE WAY OF KINGS (Tor, Hardcover, $27.99) Saturday, September 11th at 3:00 pm

SF in SF presents authors Amelia Beamer and Mark L. Van Name at the Variety Preview Room in the Hobart Building, 582 Market Street, Saturday, September 11th at 7:00 pm

Seanan McGuire, AN ARTIFICIAL NIGHT (DAW, Mass Market, $7.99), Saturday, September 18th from 5:00 - 9:00 pm

Tachyon Publications 15th Anniversary Party and Presentation of the Annual Emperor Norton Awards, Sunday, September 19th from 2:00 - 6:00 pm

Marie Brennan, A STAR SHALL FALL (Tor, Trade Paperback, $15.99), Saturday, September 25th at 3:00 pm

Litquake's LitCrawl with authors Amelia Beamer, S.G. Browne and Gail Carriger, Saturday, October 9th time TBA

F. Paul Wilson, FATAL ERROR (Tor, Hardcover, $25.99), Saturday, October 16th at 1:00 pm

Cherie Priest, DREADNOUGHT (Tor, Trade Paperback, $14.99), Saturday, October 16th at 4:00 pm

SF in SF presents authors Karen Joy Fowler and Claude LaLumiere at the Variety Preview Room in the Hobart Building, 582 Market Street, Saturday, October 16th at 7:00 pm

Ken Scholes, ANTIPHON (Tor, Hardcover, $25.99), Sunday, October 17th at 1:00 pm

David Weber, OUT OF THE DARK (Tor, Hardcover, $25.99), Sunday, October 17th at 3:00 pm

Laurence Rickels, I THINK I AM: PHILIP K. DICK (University of Minnesota Press, Trade Paperback, $25.00), Saturday, October 23rd at 3:00 pm

Shaenon Garrity and Jeffrey C. Wells, SKIN HORSE, VOLUME 2 (Couscous Collective, Trade Paperback, price TBA), Saturday, October 23rd at 5:00 pm

Richard Kadrey, KILL THE DEAD (Eos, Hardcover, $22.99) Sunday, October 24th at 3:00 pm

(for more information check the end of this section)

News

No news is good news (as they say).  Back next month.

Top Sellers At Borderlands

Hardcovers
1. Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
2. Kraken by China Mieville
3. The Technician by Neal Asher
4. Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton
5. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
6. The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chaing
7. The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross
8. Best of Kin Stanley Robinson by Kim Stanley Robinson
9. Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds
10. Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod

Mass Market Paperbacks
1. Blameless by Gail Carriger
2. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
3. Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey
4. The Devil You Know by Mike Carey
5. The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
6. Total Eclipse by Rachel Caine
7. Vanished by Kat Richardson
8. Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
9. WWW: Wake by Robert Sawyer
10. Shades of Grey by Lisanne Norman

Trade Paperbacks
1. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
2. The Secret Eleanor by Cecelia Holland
3. Orbus by Neal Asher
4. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
5. The City and the City by China Mieville

Book Club Info

The QSF&F Book Club will meet on Sunday, September 12th, at 5 pm to discuss THE ENGINES OF GOD by Jack McDevitt.  Please contact the group leader, Christopher Rodriguez, at cobalt555@earthlink.net, for more information.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Club will meet on Sunday, September 19th, at 6 pm to discuss THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi.  The book for October 17th is THE ETCHED CITY by K.J. Bishop.  Please contact bookclub@borderlands-books.com for more information.

Upcoming Event Details

Brandon Sanderson, THE WAY OF KINGS (Tor, Hardcover, $27.99) Saturday, September 11th at 3:00 pm - We're so happy to host Brandon Sanderson again!  Since his first novel, ELANTRIS, Brandon has been regarded as a writer to watch.  Then he was chosen to finish Robert Jordan's WHEEL OF TIME series and his popularity just exploded.  In addition to finishing Jordan's masterwork, Brandon is working on a new mutli-book opus of his own.  THE WAY OF KINGS is the first novel in that new series.  Do not miss this chance to meet Brandon!

SF in SF presents authors Amelia Beamer and Mark L. Van Name at the Variety Preview Room in the Hobart Building, 582 Market Street, Saturday, September 11th at 7:00 pm - We are happy to help SF in SF welcome these authors!  Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A from the audience moderated by author Terry Bisson.  Authors will schmooze & sign books after in the lounge. Books available for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books.  Seating is limited, so first come, first seated.  Bar proceeds benefit Variety Childrens Charity - learn more at <http://www.varietync.org/>.  We REALLY encourage you to take BART into the City, or use MUNI to get here - parking can be problematic in San Francisco, to say the least.  We are less than one block away from the Montgomery St. station.  Trust us - you don't want to be looking for parking and be late for the event!  Phone (night of event) 415-572-1015.  Questions? Email sfinsfevents@gmail.com.

Seanan McGuire, AN ARTIFICIAL NIGHT (DAW, Mass Market, $7.99), Saturday, September 18th from 5:00 - 9:00 pm - Local favorite Seanan McGuire and her crazy band of musical merrymakers return to celebrate the latest in the October Daye series of urban fantasy books!  This time Toby's trying to track down a kidnapper who lives in the realm of The Wild Hunt while eluding her own personal harbinger of death, May Daye. Events with this circus are always high-energy and great fun, so join us!

Tachyon Publications 15th Anniversary Party and Presentation of the Annual Emperor Norton Awards, Sunday, September 19th from 2:00 - 6:00 pm - Join us to celebrate Tachyon's 15 years of saving the world . . . one good book at a time!  Special guests will include editors Jim Kelly and John Kessel, authors Peter S. Beagle and Michael Blumlein and many others!  We'll also be hosting the annual Emperor Norton Awards. Don't miss this party.

Marie Brennan, A STAR SHALL FALL (Tor, Trade Paperback, $15.99), Saturday, September 25th at 3:00 pm - We're happy to welcome local author Marie Brennan back to Borderlands as she presents the third book of her Onyx Court historcal fantasy series!  This newest volume just received a starred review from Publishers Weekly: "As in 2009's brilliant MIDNIGHT NEVER COME, anthropologist Brennan strikes a resonant balance between history and fantasy in this new tale of the faerie domain beneath 1750s London. Halley's Comet, which houses the exiled Dragon Spirit of Fire who nearly consumed the city in the Great Fire of 1666, is on its way back to Earth. Human lord Galen is in love with faerie queen Lune, bedding the charming sprite Irrith, and engaged to bluestocking Delphia Northwood; as he attempts to untangle these entanglements, he must also enlist members of the new Royal Society, England's illustrious scientists, and all the multifarious faery talent he can find to fight the Dragon with humanity's reason, magical faery instinct, and the power of sacrifice and devotion. Enchanting, fearsome faerie vistas and pinpoint character delineations make Galen's absorbing quest one to savor and remember."

Litquake's LitCrawl with authors Amelia Beamer, S.G. Browne and Gail Carriger, Saturday, October 9th time TBA - We are delighted to once again take part in one of the most exciting literary events in San Francisco - the LitCrawl!  This is a three-hour pub-crawl-style literary event with dozens of venues and hundreds of authors, all taking place right here in the Mission District.  This year Borderlands is pleased to do our part by hosting the "Zombies and Zeppelins Reading"; S.G. Browne has zombies in BREATHERS, Gail Carriger has zeppelins in SOULLESS, CHANGELESS & BLAMELESS, and Amelia has both in THE LOVING DEAD! This is always a super-crowded and immensely entertaining event.

F. Paul Wilson, FATAL ERROR (Tor, Hardcover, $25.99), Saturday, October 16th at 1:00 pm - We are thrilled to welcome F. Paul Wilson back to Borderlands for the penultimate Repairman Jack novel, FATAL ERROR.  I love this write-up from his publisher about the series: "For the uninitiated, Repairman Jack doesn't fix appliances, though that is what some who respond to his website hope for. Jack (who uses a variety of last names) fixes the wrongs of society. And his methods rarely fall within the bounds of the law. They may include larceny, murder, extortion, blackmail and other nefarious tricks. But his results are always better than the law could have meted out.  Nor is the Repairman entirely altruistic. He tries to be in it only for the money, but, against his better judgment, he just can't seem to help becoming involved with his clients. In most of Jack's cases, a lot of people end up dead, and in interesting ways. Poetic justice is his specialty."  Mr. Wilson is one of our favorites, and we hope you'll take this chance to meet him.

Cherie Priest, DREADNOUGHT (Tor, Trade Paperback, $14.99), Saturday, October 16th at 4:00 pm - From her publisher: "Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy\u2019s husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, she'll catch a train over the Rockies and --if the telegram can be believed -- be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle.  Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the Dreadnought. Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard.  What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy can't imagine why they're so interested. Perhaps the mysterious cargo secreted in the second and last train cars has something to do with it?  Mercy is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Dreadnought alive."  DREADNOUGHT takes place in the same alternate world as last year's thrilling BONESHAKER, and we are so glad to have this opportunity to host Cherie and ask questions about the Clockwork Century.

SF in SF presents authors Karen Joy Fowler and Claude LaLumiere at the Variety Preview Room in the Hobart Building, 582 Market Street, Saturday, October 16th at 7:00 pm  - Details to come.

Ken Scholes, ANTIPHON (Tor, Hardcover, $25.99), Sunday, October 17th at 1:00 pm - From his publisher: "Nothing is as it seems to be.  The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own.  Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father.  Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way. And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes."  ANTIPHON is the third volume in the projected five-book "Psalms of Isaak" series.  We are very glad to have the intelligent & personable Ken Scholes back at Borderlands so you can meet him!

David Weber, OUT OF THE DARK (Tor, Hardcover, $25.99), Sunday, October 17th at 3:00 pm - We're happy to host David Weber, author of the New York Times Bestselling Honor Harrington books, as he presents his new standalone novel OUT OF THE DARK.  In this new book, aliens have arrived and the majority of Earth's cities lie in ruins.  Master Sargeant Stephen Buchevsky, who thought he was coming home from his latest tour in Afghanistan, instead finds himself roaming the back country of the Balkans and organizing scattered survivors.  The aliens have underestimated humanity's tenacity, but no amount of heroism can hold off overwheleming force forever.  Then the survivors find the most unlikely ally imaginable.  Join us to meet David Weber and check out this radical departure from his last few novels!

Laurence Rickels, I THINK I AM: PHILIP K. DICK (University of Minnesota Press, Trade Paperback, $25.00), Saturday, October 23rd at 3:00 pm - Professor Rickels has written a book which "explores the science fiction author's meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism.  Laurence A. Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dick's popular and influential science fiction."  Don't miss this chance to meet Mr. Rickels and hear his insights on the (in)famous Philip K. Dick!

Shaenon Garrity and Jeffrey C. Wells, SKIN HORSE, VOLUME 2 (Couscous Collective, Trade Paperback, price TBA), Saturday, October 23rd at 5:00 pm - We are so pleased to welcome Shaenon Garrity (of "Narbonic" fame!) and co-creator Jeffrey C. Wells as they show off the second (bound) volume of the webcomic "Skin Horse".  Skin Horse is the code name of the secret government agency that rescues and resettles non-humans created by mad scientists -- think of them as the Black Ops Social Services.  The webcomic follows their (mis)adventures.  Bring your questions for Shaenon and Jeffrey and learn about what it's like to create a hugely popular webcomic!

Richard Kadrey, KILL THE DEAD (Eos, Hardcover, $22.99) Sunday, October 24th at 3:00 pm - All hail the return of local favorite Richard Kadrey and his incredibly entertaining anti-hero Sandman Slim!  If you somehow created the lopsided & unholy lovechild of Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman, Jim Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson and Kim Harrison, you'd have Sandman Slim. From Harper: "James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, crawled out of Hell, took bloody revenge for his girlfriend's murder, and saved the world along the way. After that, what do you do for an encore? You take a lousy job tracking down monsters for money. It's a depressing gig, but it pays for your beer and cigarettes. But in L.A., things can always get worse.  Like when Lucifer comes to town to supervise his movie biography and drafts Stark as his bodyguard. Sandman Slim has to swim with the human and inhuman sharks of L.A.'s underground power elite. That's before the murders start. And before he runs into the Czech porn star who isn't quite what she seems. Even before all those murdered people start coming back from the dead and join a zombie army that will change our world and Stark's forever.  Death bites. Life is worse. All things considered, Hell's not looking so bad."


Borderlands event policy - all events are free of charge.  You are welcome to bring copies of an author's books purchased elsewhere to be autographed (but we do appreciate it if you purchase something while at the event).  For most events you are welcome to bring as many books as you wish for autographs.  If you are unable to attend the event we will be happy to have a copy of any of the author's available books signed or inscribed for you.  We can then either hold it until you can come in to pick it up or we can ship it to you.  Just give us a call or drop us an email.  If you live out of town, you can also ship us books from your collection to be signed.  Call or email for details.This newsletter is distributed monthly free of charge and may be distributed without charge so long all the following information is included.

Dispatches from the Border
Editor - Jude Feldman
Assistant Editor - Alan Beatts

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