Braving a squall of thunder, wind, and hail, Ysabeau Wilce and Leah Bobet read to a full house.  Leah read from her new novel Above, and Ysabeau read from an as yet unpublished novelette.  Both were excellent.  Ellen’s photos of the evening can be found here.

Leah Bobet	Ysabeau Wilce

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

	Ysabeau Wilce’s most recent book, Flora’s Fury, is the final volume in the Flora Fyrdraaca trilogy. She has won an Andre Norton Award, been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, been on the James Tiptree short-list, and appeared in various anthologies, most recently Steampunk! edited by Kelly Link & Gavin Grant.
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	Leah Bobet is the author of Above, a modern fantasy novel available from Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she works as an editor, bookseller, and urban agriculture/public space activist. She is currently working on a literary dustbowl fantasy novel, tentatively titledOn Roadstead Farm, and a book of poetry.

Wednesday July 18th, 7pm at

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What a great night we had last Wednesday with Jack O’Connell & E.C. Myers.  Jack began by talking about writers block and then read an opening scene about EMTs from a novel he’s working on.  Then after the break E.C. Myers read a portion of his novel Fair Coin. Ellen’s photos of the evening can be found here.

Jack O’Connell	E.C. Myers

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

	Jack O’Connell‘s first novel, Box Nine, won the Mysterious Press Discovery Award. His second novel, Wireless, was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the top ten crime novels of 1993. O’Connell is also the author of The Skin Palace and Word Made Flesh. His latest novel, The Resurrectionist, was chosen by Amazon.com as one of the top-10 SF novels of 2008. The winner of Le prix Mystère de la critique and Le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire in France, the novel was also nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award..
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	E.C. Myers, whose first novel, Fair Coin, was called “pure awesome crack” by io9.com, is also a recent contributor to the Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2, edited by John Berra and Spec-tacular: Fantasy Favorites from Raven Electrick Ink. He also blogs weekly re-watches of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes with Torie Atkinson at theviewscreen.com. His next novel, Quantum Coin, will be published by Pyr in fall 2012.

Wednesday June 20th, 7pm at

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We had another marvelously entertaining night on Wednesday, with guests Karen Heuler & Victor LaValle.  Victor started off the night with a funny, poignant and wonderfully odd story (as yet unfinished, he tells us) about a man waiting in line at the 180th Street Washington Heights Post Office.  And Karen finished off the night with a deliciously wicked story of a woman who goes to a Gypsy in order to become a man. Ellen’s photos of the night (including, at last, one of her!) can be seen here.

Victor LaValle

Karen Heuler

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

	Karen Heuler, whose stories have been published in over 60 literary and speculative magazines, anthologies and “Year’s Best” collections, including the forthcoming The Year’s Best SF #17. Her most recent novel is The Made-up Man, published by Livingston Press. ChiZine Publications will publish her short story collection, The Inner City, early next year.
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	Victor LaValle, whose novel, Big Machine, won the Shirley Jackson Award, the American Book Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His next novel, The Devil in Silver, will be published in August 2012 by Speigel & Grau.

Wednesday May 16th, 7pm at

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The house was full this past Wednesday for readers Scott Lynch and Elizabeth Bear (who subbed last minute for Caitlín R. Kiernan).  Ellen’s photos of the night can be found here.

Scott Lynch & Elizabeth Bear

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

Because of an illness Caitlin R. Kiernan has had to cancel so the intrepid Elizabeth Bear is stepping up to bat in her stead:

	Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. She is a Hugo and Sturgeon Award winner, and her most recent novel is Range of Ghosts, an epic fantasy inspired by the history and cultures of Central Asia. She lives in a tiny town in Massachusetts with a giant ridiculous dog, but may frequently be found visiting Wisconsin, where she keeps her partner, the other guy reading tonight
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	Scott Lynch, whose current projects are the forthcoming The Republic of Thieves, third novel in the Gentleman Bastard sequence, and the ongoing Queen of the Iron Sands, a serial pulp adventure set on a hidden Mars in the early 1950s.

Wednesday April 18th, 7pm at

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What a wonderful night we had with series co-founder Terry Bisson and fantasist Blake Charlton. To a packed house, both authors had the audience enraptured, as evidenced by these photos.

Alice Turner & Terry Bisson

Blake Charlton

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

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