Browncoat Ball 2010
The 2010 Browncoat Ball, bringing together fans of Firefly and Serenity, will be held from October 22-24 in Charlotte, NC.
For more information… (eventually, the site hasn’t been updated yet).
Golden Gryphon Sale
Golden Gryphon is holding a buy one, get one free sale at their website through the end of the year. Golden Gryphon was founded in 1997 and in 1999, founder Jim Turner won the World Fantasy Award for his work on the press.
WSFA Press Sale
In an attempt to clear inventory and raise funds for future projects, WSFA is holding a sale on four titles: The Edge of Things, by Lewis Shiner, Home by the Sea, by Pat Cadigan, Future Washingtons, edited by Ernest Lilly, and Reincarnations, by Harry Turtledove. They are also offering a special bundle that includes those four volumes plus Mike Resnick’s Through Darkest Resnick with Gun and Camera.
ISFiC Press Sale
ISFiC Press is holding a sale in conjunction with the debut of the television series FlashForward, based on Robert J. Sawyer’s novel. Any multiple book purchase directly from ISFiC Press that includes at least one copy of Sawyer’s first US collection, Relativity, will receive a discount on the entire order between 10-40%, depending on the number of books ordered. The offer runs through November 10 and applies to all currently available titles (ISFiC Press’s newest release, James P. Blaylock’s The Shadow on the Doorstep, is scheduled for a November 13 release and is not included in the sale).
Ticonderoga Sale
Ticonderoga Publications is running a sale on all stock through November 8. All their books are selling between 20-25% off with free shipping in Australia with the purchase of A$100. Ticonderoga is the publisher of Simon Brown’s Troy, Stephen Dedman’s The Lady of Situations, and Fantastic Wonder Stories, edited by Russell B. Farr, among other books.
Indy Comic Book Week
Following the announcement that Diamond Comic Distributors will not be shipping comics teh week of December 30, Indy Comic Week has been established, with a call for independent and small press comic book creators to fill the vacancy and arange to publish new materials and offer them to stores on December 30.
Wagner Dinner in Knoxville
A dinner will be held by fans or Karl Edward Wagner at Patrick Sullivan’s Saloon in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, October 17 at 7:00pm. In part to honor Wagner, the group also seeks to begin hosting an annual festival in honor of Wagner beginning in 2010.
Miéville Speaks at KU
British author China Miéville is scheduled to speak at Kansas Union’s Alderson Auditorium in Lawrence, Kansas as this year’s Richard W. Gunn Memorial Lecturer on September 24 at 7:30. Miéville will be speaking on “Cognition as Ideology: A Dialectic of SF Theory.”
Delany in New York
Samuel Delany will have a conversation with Greil Marcus at the New School at 66 West 12th Street in New York on September 16 at 6:30pm. Admission if $5 for the general public or free for students with a valid ID. This forum is presented by the Riggio Writing and Democracy Initiative.
Jeanne Robinson Ill
Author Jeanne Robinson, wife of Spider Robinson, is scheduled to start a round of chemotherapy for a virulent form of biliary cancer. A benefit concert for Jeanne will be held on Friday, September 18 at 7:30 at Cates Hill Chapel on Bowen Island and an e-bay auction has been set up as well as donations through Paypal to help defray the cost of treatment.