David Brin

The San Diego Comic Fest is the new "old-school" comic convention, which aims to capture the camraderie and good feeling of fan gatherings and conventions of yesteryear.

The Guests of Honor are Larry Niven, Richard Kyle, and John and Bjo Trimble. Announced guests include Steven Barnes, Greg Bear, David Brin, Batton Lash, Jackie Estrada, James Morris, Jerry Pournelle, Scott Shaw! and Vernor Vinge.

Mysterious Galaxy will be among the merchants gathered in the environs of the Town and Country Hotel. Learn more about the event at: sdcomicfest.org.

Location: Street: Town and Country Hotel Additional: 500 Hotel Circle North City: San Diego, Province: California Postal Code: 92108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

David Brin and Alan Russell host an Author Talk titled "It's About Crime; It's About Space" at the Carlsbad Library.

Mysterious Galaxy will be selling books at this event.

For additional details, please consult the Library's website.

For a signed copy of David or Alan's books, please call the San Diego store at 858-268-4747.

Alan Russell David Brin

Location: Street: Carlsbad City Library Additional: 1775 Dove Lane City: Carlsbad, Province: California Postal Code: 92011 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore is proud to partner with WriteOutLoud to host a Big Read celebration of the works of Ray Bradbury. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Big Read program seeks to ensure that reading remains at the center of American culture.

Our featured author for this event will be David Brin, the celebrated science fiction writer.

Also participating will be members of WriteOutLoud. WriteOutLoud is a collective of actors, who read and perform literary works in order to inspire in their audience a shared passion for reading. More information about WriteOutLoud may be found here.

This is an off-site event, taking place at the Old Town Theatre in Old Town, San Diego. For directions to the venue, please see here.

Location: Street: 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd Additional: Ste 302 City: San Diego, Province: California Postal Code: 92111-1040 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Writers in progress should join Mysterious Galaxy at the 27th Annual Southern California Writers' Conference at the Crown Plaza Hanalei in Mission Valley from Friday, February 15 to Monday, February 18. This year's featured speakers are David Brin, Andrew Kaufman, Caitlin Rother, and Drusilla Campbell. Instructors include Mark Clements, Laurel Corona, Lisa Kessler, Ken Kuhliken, Reina Menasche, Stacey O'Brien, Matt Pallamary, Darlene Quinn, Frederick Ramsay, Alan Russell, Janice Steinberg, Laura Taylor, Janis Thomas, Linda Thomas-Sundstrom, and Mary Vensel White.

For more information, please visit the SCWC website.

Location: Street: 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd Additional: Ste 302 City: San Diego, Province: California Postal Code: 92111-1040 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the first San Diego Comic-Con to be hosted at the legendary El Cortez Hotel. That con, which was held August 18-21, 1972, set the pattern for a string of memorable Comic-Cons throughout the rest of the ’70s, all of which, with one exception, were at the El Cortez. For many longtime attendees, the El Cortez cons are a fondly-remembered golden age of Comic-Con. To coincide with this year’s El Cortez Comic-Con anniversary, some early Comic-Con co-founders and committee members agreed it would be a fine idea to have a new “old-school” San Diego comic convention and thus was born the San Diego Comic Fest. The Fest intends to bring creators and fans closer together, to create an environment of creative exchange in a fun, inclusive environment, much as the El Cortez-era Comic-Cons did.

The San Diego Comic Fest is the new "old-school" comic convention, which aims to capture the camraderie and good feeling of fan gatherings and conventions of yesteryear.

Announced guests include Tim Powers, Greg Bear, David Brin, and Vernor Vinge.

These and other Guests' titles can be found below ...

Mysterious Galaxy will be among the merchants gathered in the environs of the Town and Country Hotel. Learn more about the event at: sdcomicfest.org.

Location: Street: Town and Country Hotel Additional: 500 Hotel Circle North City: San Diego, Province: California Postal Code: 92108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Bowl of Heaven is the first collaborative work by SF luminaries Gregory Benford and Larry Niven, to be followed by Shipstar. (See Patrick’s review.) In addition to being a Nebula Award-winning author, Greg is a physics professor and a poet. Larry has won multiple awards in the Speculative Fiction Field, including the Hugo and Nebula, and recently collaborated on Known Space / Ringworld novel Fate of Worlds with Edward Lerner. Join us and guest host David Brin to discuss science fact and science fiction with Greg and Larry. Greg and Larry are also signing in Redondo Beach on October 18th.

Location: Street: 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd Additional: Ste 302 City: San Diego, Province: California Postal Code: 92111-1040 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

We invite you for the Octavia Books Science Fiction Book Club discussion of David Brin's Brightness Reef.

Brin's Uplift novels--Sundiver, Hugo award-winner The Uplift War, and Hugo and Nebula-winners Startide Rising--are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction tales ever written. Now, David Brin returns to this future universe for a new Uplift trilogy, packed with adventure, passion and wit.

The planet Jijo is forbidden to settlers, its ecology protected by guardians of the Five Galaxies. But over the centuries it has been resettled, populated by refugees of six intelligent races. Together they have woven a new society in the wilderness, drawn together by their fear of Judgment Day, when the Five Galaxies will discover their illegal colony. Then a strange starship arrives on Jijo. Does it bring the long-dreaded judgment, or worse--a band of criminals willing to destroy the six races of Jijo in order to cover their own crimes?

The Science Fiction Book Club meets on the 2nd Saturday each month and welcomes all interested readers. We welcome you to join us!

Location: Street: 513 Octavia St City: New Orleans, Province: Louisiana Postal Code: 70115-2055 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

San Diego’s Fall Science Fiction convention welcomes author Guest of Honor Patricia Wrede (The Far West, Shadow Magic, Dealing with Dragons, Thirteenth Child, etc.) The convention will take place at the Town and Country Resort Hotel from Friday, October 5 through Sunday, October 7. Mysterious Galaxy will be in our traditional location in the Dealer’s Room. More information on other guests (like David Brin, Nancy Holder, and the Kollin Brothers) and convention specifics at their website.

Note that this year the convention has become Conjecture/ConChord: Conjecture is a literary-oriented sf/fantasy convention and ConChord is a southern California filk convention.

Location: Street: Town and Country Hotel Additional: 500 Hotel Circle North City: San Diego, Province: California Postal Code: 92108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Visit the future with best-selling author and futurist David Brin! From David’s website: “Billions of planets may be ripe for life, even intelligence. So where is Everybody? Do civilizations make the same fatal mistakes, over and over? Might we be the first to cross the mine-field, evading every trap to learn the secret of Existence?” Existence is our June Signed First Edition Pick. Our picks ensure that you are buying a book we think is excellent and may even increase in value over time. See the back page for Patrick’s enthusiastic review and information about the special MG Limited Edition of Existence, and be sure to check out the Existence trailer on-line!

Also signing in San Diego on June 19th.

Location: Street: 2810 Artesia Blvd. City: Redondo Beach, Province: California Postal Code: 90278 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

David Brin

Saturday, June 23, 7:00 p.m.

Existence

Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence.

Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an “alien artifact.”

David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant and world-known author. His novels have been New York Times bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula, and other awards. Brin lives near San Diego.

Members get in FREE! General Admission requires purchase of event book OR a $10 gift card (admits 2).

Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)