On Thursday, September 16, from 6:30-7:45 p.m.,JASON D. WITTMAN reads from his fiction. Jason lives and works in Minneapolis. His story, “Femme Fatale,” was published in the hardcover anthology The Best of Baen Books, and his story “A Game of Knight Court” got an Honorable Mention in the 19th Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. More recently, he has published a story in Stupefying Stories #22.

Speculations is a co-production of DreamHaven and SF MINNESOTA, a multicultural organization that also sponsors a midsummer speculative fiction convention, DIVERSICON, the 29th edition of which will occur July 23-25, 2202 with Guest of Honor T. AARON CISCO.

On Thursday, October 14 from 6:30-7:45 p.m. LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD reads from a new Penric story. The reading includes a free reception and autographing.

Lois McMaster Bujold began writing with the aim of professional publication in 1982 and wrote three novels in three years; in October of 1985, all three sold, launching her popular Vorkosigan Saga science fiction series.  Her fantasy work includes The World of the Five Gods and the Sharing Knife series.  More recently she has been exploring self-e-publishing with the tales of the sorcerer Penric and his demon Desdemona, and other works.

In 2020, Bujold was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.  A complete list of her awards may be found here: http://www.sfadb.com/Lois_McMaster_Bujold  Her books have been translated into over twenty languages.

A reading-order guide to her work is here: https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/293438-the-vorkosigan-saga-reading-order-debate-the-chef-recommends?chapter=2

Bujold blogs on Goodreads at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16094.Lois_McMaster_Bujold/blog

Speculations is a co-production of DreamHaven and SF MINNESOTA, a multicultural, multimedia speculative fiction organization that also sponsors a midsummer convention, DIVERSICON, the 29th edition of which will occur in late July 2022 with Guest of Honor TAYLOR CISCO.

Martha Wells, author of the Raksura, Ile-Rien and the Murderbot Diaries series, is Guest of Honor at Minicon this year.  The day before the convention starts she will join us here at the store for a signing. Bring your own books or pick some up here – we are fully stocked on the Murderbot Diaries.

Come meet Emma Törzs at DreamHaven on Wednesday July 5th! She is a World Fantasy Award winner and will be reading from and signing her new novel, Ink Blood Sister Scribe (see our review at http://dreamhavenbooks.com/ink-blood-sister-scribe-by-emma-torzs/) .

Though probably best known for her Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede has been publishing constantly since 1982. Her latest novel is The Dark Lord’s Daughter, and she will be in the store on October 18th from 6:30-8 pm reading from her work and signing books.

On December 6th, Naomi Kritzer – local author, award-winner, politics blogger and all-around cool person – will be at the store to sign and read from her new book, Liberty’s Daughter. We will have copies of that available, as well as many of her earlier books.

Ursula Vernon is going to be in town as Guest of Honor for Minicon 57 and will be joining us here at the store the night before for a signing. For those who don’t know, Ursula Vernon (author of Hamster Princess, Digger, Dragonbreath, Castle Hangnail) also writes under the nom de plume T. Kingfisher, and as such has a new title out, What Feasts at Night. We’ll have these titles and many more available.

Join us on May 25th to help celebrate the launch of a new title from local author Lyda Morehouse! There will be reading, signing, and snacks.

Here’s the description of the new book, Welcome to Boy.net:

A key player in Solar System politics is the UN’s crack regiment of space marines, the ENForcers. They are as hardcore and testosterone-fuelled as military units come, and proudly all-male. They are cyborgs, all connected through a bioware network known as boy.net. Lucia’s link to that network is one of many things that Del Toro thought she’d put behind her when she got out of the military and changed her life. But, with the security of the Solar System at stake, she will soon have a choice to make.

Here’s what another author you should know has to say about it:  “Welcome to Boy.Net gives the reader a gripping blend of space adventure, a universe with the glitz and grime of a city’s nightlife, and heartbreakingly human characters you will root for. […] ‘The Rule of Cool’ in fiction writing is when if something’s cool, it’s in. Welcome to Boy.Net follows the Rule of Cool, then flips everything over to show you the underside, the complications, and the price. You see the place built with the Rule of Cool two decades later, as the employees try their best to keep the air from leaking out and the cold from leaking in. Lyda’s books start with cool, and then ask, who’s in charge of the repairs on this?” — Naomi Kritzer

On Thursday, June 20 from 6:30-7:45 p.m. ADAM STEMPLE reads from his work.  Adam Stemple is an award-winning author, poet, and musician. Of his first novel, Singer of Souls, SFWA Grandmaster Anne McCaffrey said, “One of the best first novels I have ever read.” Of his later works, Hugo Award-winning author Naomi Kritzer said, “No one writes bastard-son-of-a-bitch characters as brilliantly as Adam Stemple.”

Speculations is a co-production of DreamHaven and SF Minnesota, a multicultural, multimedia organization that also sponsors the midsummer speculative fiction convention, Diversicon.