On Wednesday, December 8, Speculations presents its annual ROUND ROBIN READINGS at 6:30. Readers are encouraged to bring a five-minute piece and a ten-minute piece. We’ll call it quits at 7:45 or after everyone has had the chance to read, whichever comes first.

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, January 20 PHILLIP ANDREW BENNETT LOW reads from his work at 6:30 p.m. phillip andrew bennett low is a Chinese-American playwright and poet, storyteller and mime, theatre critic and libertarian activist. His solo performances have won acclaim from Minneapolis to Atlanta, New York to LA – even as far as  Melbourne, Australia. He was the co-founder of the Rockstar Storytellers (a supergroup of bestselling Twin Cities spoken-word artists), founder and producer of the touring theatre troupe Maximum Verbosity, and founder and host of the country’s only recurring open-mic dedicated to speculative fiction, The Not-So-Silent Planet, and its associated podcast. He has published collections of political humor, comic fantasy, and horror.

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

On Wednesday, February 23rd Rob Callahan will be reading from his work at 6:30 p.m.

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

Wednesday, March 23 at 6:30, SCOTT LOHMAN gives a talk on “Science Fiction: More Than Rockets, Robots and Red Planets.”  Scott is a life long science fiction fan who has chaired Diversicon for over 10 years.

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

No foolin’, April 1st is the 45th anniversary of DreamHaven Books and we’d love to have you join us to celebrate!

We will be having sales as well as beverages and snacks on Friday and Saturday.

Friday from 3-6 pm we will have 20% off on nearly* everything in the store.

*Greg decides. (I would figure that everything in the main part of the store is 20% off, with the exception of consignment comics. Anything behind the counter or in showcases it is up to Greg to make the call.)

On Wednesday, April 13, MICHAEL MERRIAM reads from his work. Michael Merriam is an author, performer, poet, and playwright with ten books and over 100 pieces of short fiction and poetry published. His stories and essays have appeared in magazines such as Uncanny Magazine, Cast of Wonders, and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. His scripts have been produced for stage and radio, and he has appeared in the Minnesota Fringe Festival, StoryFest Minnesota, and over the air on KFAI-FM and Minnesota Public Radio. Like most artists, he has worked a variety of odd jobs over the years, including short order cook, late night radio disc jockey, international freight specialist, and manager of a puppet troupe. He lives in Hopkins, MN with his wife and two exuberant cats.

Speculations is a co-production of DreamHaven and SF MINNESOTA, a multicultural  speculative fiction organization that also sponsors DIVERSICON, a midsummer convention, the 29th edition of which will feature Guest of Honor T. AARON CISCO and Special Guest SYBIL SMITH, July 29-31, 2022.

It’s Independent Bookstore Day, and because we want to celebrate our Independence, we will be celebrating with sales and freebies. (TBD)  Come on by and pick up the new Midwest Indie Bookstore Roadmap!

On Wednesday, May 11, REBECCA MARJESDATTER and ANNA WALTZ read from their works.

Rebecca Marjesdatter is a poet and an a writer of fantasy and nonfiction. She is a member of
the poetry performance group Lady Poetesses from Hell. In 2000, she won the Short Form
Rhysling Award for speculative poetry. She also served as poetry editor for Tales of the
Unanticipated for many years. She is a human resident of the House of Seven Cats.

Anna Waltz was a script writer for Sony Online Entertainment and wrote for the popular
game EverQuest. She writes primarily science fiction and a little fantasy. She also dabbles in
comics and served as an animation artist for the online cartoon Iammatthhewian. Her
favorite authors include Heinlein, Clarke, and Lovecraft. Most folks ’round here know her as
the author of “Swedish Lutheran Vampires of Brainerd.” She lives in South Minnesota in the
House of Seven Cats.

Speculations is a co-production of DreamHaven and SF MINNESOTA, a multicultural  speculative fiction organization that also sponsors DIVERSICON, a midsummer convention, the 29th edition of which will feature Guest of Honor T. AARON CISCO and Special Guest SYBIL SMITH, July 29-31, 2022.

Local author Eric Hanson’s short fiction has been published in McSweeney’s, the New York Tyrant, The Lifted Brow and Torpedo. His articles and satires have been published by The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Mockingbird, Ampersand, The Week, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, National Geographic, Hemispheres, Smithsonian, and others. He’s also the author of A Book Of Ages (Random House, 2008). He’s better known as an illustrator of book covers for Knopf, HarperCollins, NYRB, Farrar Straus, and others, and for magazines and newspapers including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Spy, WigWag, Vanity Fair, The Nation, The Washington Post, The LATimes, The New Republic, Die Zeit, The Spectator, and Rolling Stone. (Tartarus Press)

On May 12th, he will be here to read from his latest book, What I Was Afraid Of (Tartarus Press, 2022), accompanied by local musician Larry McDonough.