FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Terry Bisson, who has a new novel, Any Day Now, an alternate history of 1968, just out from Overlook Press.  Publishers Weekly describes it as “epic.” It’s not exactly science fiction, and not exactly not. Terry is one of the founders of the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series. .
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	Blake Charlton, who is author of the epic fantasies Spellwright and Spellbound from Tor Books. Charlton is also a medical student in his last year of medical clerkships and is currently working on Spellbreaker, the final novel in the Spellwright Trilogy.

Wednesday March 21st, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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N. K. Jemisin with AFTER

Livia Llewellyn

On Wednesday we heard Livia Llewellyn read a tale of demon love and N.K. Jemisin read from her new series, The Killing Moon.  Ellen’s fab photos can be seen here.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author whose debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, won the Locus award and was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. Her fourth novel, The Killing Moon, is forthcoming in May from Orbit Books. You can read some of her short fiction and excerpts of each novel at nkjemisin.com.
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	Livia Llewellyn is the author of the short story collection Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, published by Lethe Press. Her fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Subterranean, ChiZine, and Postscripts and will be in The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four. She’s currently working on her first novel.

Wednesday February 15th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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James Patrick Kelly & Kelly Link

On Wednesday we were treated to a raconteur of Kellys, James Patrick Kelly & Kelly Link.  James read from a forthcoming story in Asimov’s  called “The Last Judgment.” And Kelly Link read an excerpt from “Two Houses,” which will be in an anthology of stories inspired by Ray Bradbury.  You can’t go wrong when there are two Kellys in the house, as Ellen’s photos of the evening prove.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	James Patrick Kelly is best known for his short fiction, Including “Think Like A Dinosaur,”  “Ten to the Sixteenth to One” and “Burn.”   His work has been translated into nineteen languages and has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards.  His most recent publishing venture is the ezine James Patrick Kelly’s Strangeways on Kindle and Nook.
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	Kelly Link is the author of three collections of stories and her fiction has won three Nebula Awards, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She recently co-edited Steampunk!: An anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories with her husband Gavin J. Grant

Wednesday January 18th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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Ekaterina Sedia & Gemma Files

A great last night of the year with Gemma Files & Ekaterina Sedia.  Hope you all had a great New Year and see you in 2012!

Ellen’s photos of the evening can be found here.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Gemma Files is an award-winning horror writer with a twenty-year publication history whose short fiction and poetry has been published in magazines, anthologies and collections, as well as being adapted for television. She is also the author of A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns, Volumes One and Two in the Hexslinger Series and is currently finishing off A Tree of Bones, which will be Hexslinger Volume Three.
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	Ekaterina Sedia is the author of The Secret History of Moscow, The Alchemy of Stone, The House of Discarded Dreams, and Heart of Iron. She is also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award winner Paper Cities. Her short stories have appeared in a number of venues.

Wednesday December 21st, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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Jack Womack	Claude Lalumière

On Wednesday we were regaled with the stories of Claude Lalumière, who read the epilogue from his recent collection, and Jack Womack, who read an excerpt from his novel-in-progress.  Ellen’s photos of the evening can be found here.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Jack Womack, the author of seven novels including Random Acts of Senseless Violence, is currently working on his new novel Ashland: A Kentucky Murder Ballad, from which he’ll be reading.
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	Claude Lalumière is the author of the collection Objects of Worship and the recently published novella The Door to Lost Pages, both from CZP. He has edited nine anthologies, including the Aurora Award nominee Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction.

Wednesday November 16th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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Holly Black	Lauren McLaughlin

The KGB Bar overflowed with folks to hear Lauren McLaughlin read from her upcoming novel Scored. And Holly Black read her story, “Everything Amiable and Obliging,” from the anthology Steampunk! Ellen was off sailing down the Danube so I took a few photos, which can be viewed here.