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DISPATCHES FROM THE BORDER

Events and News from Borderlands Books

September, 2012

Chapter One - Event Information, News, and Special Features

Upcoming Author Events

Richard Kadrey, DEVIL SAID BANG (Harper Voyager, Hardcover, $24.99) Saturday, September 8th at 3:00 pm

Seanan McGuire, ASHES OF HONOR (DAW, Mass Market, $7.99) Saturday, September 8th at 6:00 pm

Brent Weeks, THE BLINDING KNIFE (Orbit, Hardcover, $25.99) Thursday, September 13th at 7:00 pm

SF in SF at The Variety Preview Room in the Hobart Building (582 Market St.) with authors Roz Kaveney, Malinda Lo, and Cindy Pons, Saturday, September 15th at 7:00 pm

Steven Erikson, FORGE OF DARKNESS (Tor, Hardcover, $27.99) Saturday, September 22nd at 3:00 pm

Cory Doctorow, PIRATE CINEMA (Tor, Hardcover, $19.99) Thursday, October 4th at 7:00 pm

SF in SF LitQuake event at The Variety Preview Room in the Hobart Building (582 Market St.): Epic! Legends of Fantasy with Ken Scholes, Andrew Mayer and Tad Williams, Friday, October 12th at 7:00 pm

LitQuake Litcrawl at Borderlands Books and Borderlands Cafe, Saturday, October 13th at 7:15 pm, with authors Cassie Alexander, S.G. Browne, Seth Harwood, and Seanan McGuire in the bookstore and authors Terry Bisson, Claire Light, Madeleine Robins, and Naamen Tilahun in the Cafe.

Gregory Benford and Larry Niven, BOWL OF HEAVEN (Tor, Hardcover, $25.99) Tuesday, October 22nd at 7:00 pm

(for more information check the end of this section)

News

* Borderlands is featured in this article from "The Bold Italic" along with lots of other great independent San Francisco bookstores: http://www.thebolditalic.com/Actavier42/stories/2201-book-ends

* The 2012 World Fantasy Award Nominees have been announced! Congratulations and good luck to all the nominees. http://www.wfc2012.org/pr-wfawards01.html 

* Random House has confirmed that both the trade paperbacks & mass markets of George R.R. Martin's A DANCE WITH DRAGONS come out 3/26/13, rather than 8/28/12 as announced. The reason for the delay is unknown. 

* We extend congratulations to all of the 2012 Hugo Award winners, many of whom we consider our friends, but most notably to our long-time friend and constant supporter of the store, John Picacio, who won the Hugo for Best Professional Artist. Alan met John at the World Fantasy Convention in 1999 when he was just getting started and it is with great pleasure that we congratulate him on this most recent milestone in his career. The Awards were presented at ChiCon September 2nd, 2012. For a complete list of the winners, click here: http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2012-hugo-awards/

* There's a site where you can see a 360 degree panorama from Mars rover Curiosity! http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/curiosity-first-color-360.html

* Library Journal is hosting a webcast panel on forthcoming science fiction titles on Tuesday, September 18, 2012, from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time, featuring Norman L. Rubenstein, Managing Editor, JournalStone Publishing; Jeremy Lassen, Editor in Chief, Night Shade Books; Elizabeth Fabian, Associate director, Random House and Kelly Coyle Crivelli, Library Marketing Manager, Random House. The panel will be moderated by Library Journal's Fiction Editor Wilda Williams. You can sign up here: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=511272&sessionid=1&key=E8880935A9E0654BA78097E95424C027&partnerref=ljemailscifi09182012&sourcepage=register

* We're very sorry to report the death of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, at the age of 82: http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/25/13478643-astronaut-neil-armstrong-first-man-to-walk-on-moon-dies-at-age-82?chromedomain=usnews

From the Office

Just a bit of administrative business this month.  Since 1998 we've been sending out our newsletter as plain text via email.  In the 90s, it was the best (actually, the only) way to do it.  However, now, in the 'teens, it's not so great.  Many times it gets classed as spam and it also lacks timeliness upon occasion (since we don't want to fill your in-box with message after message, we only send mass emails out once per month).

A few months ago we started our blog at http://borderlands-books.blogspot.com/ and it's been quite a success.  In many ways it's much better than our email newsletter -- we can post anytime we like, it's easy to include pictures and assume that people will be able to see them, it lets us track what people are reading and what they're interested in and so on.  Plus, people can sign up to get our posts sent right to their email if they'd like so, if people want, they can still have our news arriving via email. But, since the email is coming from the great and powerful Google, rather than the little and sort-of-insignificant Borderlands, those updates won't get trapped by spam filters.

At some point in the next year or two, we're going to stop sending out our newsletter via email.  The date isn't set yet and I'll make sure that you've got plenty of warning before we stop.  But, why not go over to our blog and check it out?  And, while you're there, sign up to get our updates via email.  The box to do so is right up near the top, right corner of the page.  You'll find that we post stuff at the blog that doesn't get into the newsletter (including some stuff by yours truly) and we also post news as it happens, rather than rounding it all up at the end of the month.

-Alan Beatts

Top Sellers At Borderlands

Hardcovers
1. Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson
2. Zero Point by Neal Asher
3. Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez
4. Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu
5. Eternal Flame by Greg Egan
6. Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
7. Seawitch by Kat Richardson
8. Osiris by E.J. Swift
9. Redshirts by John Scalzi
10. Long Earth by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett

Mass Market Paperbacks
1. Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
2. Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
3. Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
4. Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
5. Greywalker by Kat Richardson
6. Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
7. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
8. Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
9. Nightshifted by Cassie Alexander
10.  Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge

Trade Paperbacks
1. Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
2. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
3. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
4. Makers by Cory Doctorow
5. Empty Space by M. John Harrison

Book Club Info

The QSF&F Book Club will meet on Sunday, September 9th, at 5 pm to discuss CHILDREN OF THE SKY by Vernor Vinge.  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 16th, at 6 pm to discuss ENDER IN EXILE by Orson Scott Card.  Please contact bookclub@borderlands-books.com for more information.

Upcoming Event Details

Richard Kadrey, DEVIL SAID BANG (Harper Voyager, Hardcover, $24.99) Saturday, September 8th at 3:00 pm - Borderlands is pleased to present local sensation Richard Kadrey, returning with the fourth Sandman Slim novel, DEVIL SAID BANG!  From the book jacket: "First he escaped Hell. Then he went back and uncovered the true nature of God. Now, he's the new Lucifer.  What could possibly be next for Sandman Slim?"  Join us to check out Richard's newest stylish noir urban fantasy -- you'll be glad you did.

Seanan McGuire, ASHES OF HONOR (DAW, Mass Market, $7.99) Saturday, September 8th at 6:00 pm - A new October Daye novel is always reason for a celebration, so Borderlands and Hugo Award- winner Seanan McGuire invite you to come on down for more music, magic, silliness and raffle prizes!  An event with Seanan is always an Event, and this time we're happy to welcome musicians Vixy &Tony and Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff  as well as the author (and songstress) herself.  The new novel, ASHES OF HONOR, is my favorite in the series so far.  Music, faeries, cupcakes and Seanan -- what more could you ask for? (Please note that the start time of this event has been CHANGED from 5 pm to 6 pm.)

Brent Weeks, THE BLINDING KNIFE (Orbit, Hardcover, $25.99) Thursday, September 13th at 7:00 pm - The fabulous Brent Weeks is back with the second novel of the Lightbringer Series!  Join us to meet Brent and get your books signed!  And if you want a little tease (the books comes out September 11th) check out an excerpt here: http://www.brentweeks.com/extras/the-blinding-knife-excerpt/ .

SF in SF at The Variety Preview Room in the Hobart Building (582 Market St.) with authors Roz Kaveney, Malinda Lo, and Cindy Pons, Saturday, September 15th 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 (night of event) 415-572-1015.  Questions? Email sfinsfevents@gmail.com.

Steven Erikson, FORGE OF DARKNESS (Tor, Hardcover, $27.99) Saturday, September 22nd at 3:00 pm - We're delighted to welcome Steven Erikson to Borderlands after a 3-year absence!  We've been fans of Steve's since the very beginning, so it's appropriate that we're hosting an event for FORGE OF DARKNESS, the first in a new Malazan trilogy.  Bring your questions and your books to be signed and make sure you don't miss it -- we hope it won't be another three years before Steve returns, but you don't want to take the chance.

Cory Doctorow, PIRATE CINEMA (Tor, Hardcover, $19.99) Thursday, October 4th at 7:00 pm - We're tremendously excited to once again welcome former local author Cory Doctorow!  Cory's new novel is another LITTLE BROTHER-style tale of teenage rebellion.  From the book jacket: "Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net. In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; the punishment for being caught three times is that your entire household’s access to the internet is cut off for a year, with no appeal. Trent's too clever for that too happen. Except it does, and it nearly destroys his family. Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London, where he slowly he learns the ways of staying alive on the streets. This brings him in touch with a demimonde of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity, making felons of millions of British citizens at a stroke. Things look bad. Parliament is in power of a few wealthy media conglomerates. But the powers-that-be haven’t entirely reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change people’s minds . . . ." Now that Cory's moved to the UK, we hardly ever see him, so don't miss this chance!

SF in SF LitQuake event at The Variety Preview Room in the Hobart Building (582 Market St.): Epic! Legends of Fantasy with Ken Scholes, Andrew Mayer and Tad Williams, Friday, October 12th at 7:00 pm - More details to come.

LitQuake Litcrawl at Borderlands Books and Borderlands Cafe, Saturday, October 13th at 7:15 pm, with authors Cassie Alexander, S.G. Browne, Seth Harwood, and Seanan McGuire in the bookstore and authors Terry Bisson, Claire Light, Madeleine Robins, and Naamen Tilahun in the Cafe -- More details to come.

Gregory Benford and Larry Niven, BOWL OF HEAVEN (Tor, Hardcover, $25.99) Tuesday, October 22nd at 7:00 pm - More details to come.

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 the book(s) until you can come in to pick them up or we can ship 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 for a nominal fee.  Call or email for details.

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

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Comments and suggestions should be directed to editor@borderlands-books.com

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