Apr
27
Wed
Lyda Morehouse Reading Wed April 27th @ DreamHaven Books
Apr 27 @ 18:30 – 19:45
Lyda Morehouse Reading Wed April 27th @ DreamHaven Books | Minneapolis | Minnesota | United States

Join us Wednesday, April 27th for a Speculation Reading with Lyda Morehouse, author of Messiah Node and Apocalypse Array as well as several paranormal romances under the name Tate Hallaway.

The fun beings at 6:30 pm and wraps up here at the bookstore at 7:45 pm. Cookies and soda pop will be provided. There’s likely to be a group outing to pizza afterward.

Apr
30
Sat
Independent Bookstore Day April 30, 2016 @ DreamHaven Books
Apr 30 all-day
Independent Bookstore Day April 30, 2016 @ DreamHaven Books | Minneapolis | Minnesota | United States

A one-day celebration of independent bookstores, including the exclusively available Neil Gaiman / Chris Riddell Coloring Book ($14.95) and a passport-filling challenge for ten different Minneapolis bookstores.

 

 

May
12
Thu
Nebula Award Weekend, Chicago IL May 12-15, 2016 @ Palmer House Hilton
May 12 – May 15 all-day
Nebula Award Weekend, Chicago IL May 12-15, 2016 @ Palmer House Hilton | Chicago | Illinois | United States

DreamHaven Books will be set up on Friday, May 13th at the Palmer House Hilton with a fine spread of attending author’s titles, new releases, unusual collectible rarities and many of our old favorites.

The conference is $145 for the weekend, but the mass author signing on Friday evening is open to the public. So come on down!

May
25
Wed
Eleanor Arnason Reading on Wed May 25th @ DreamHaven Books
May 25 @ 18:30 – 19:45
Eleanor Arnason Reading on Wed May 25th @ DreamHaven Books | Minneapolis | Minnesota | United States

On Wednesday, May 25, ELEANOR ARNASON reads from her work at 6:30 p.m. Ms. Arnason was born in Manhattan and grew up in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Washington DC, Honolulu, Saint Paul, and Minneapolis. She received a BA in art history from Swarthmore College and did graduate work at the University of Minnesota, before quitting to learn about life outside art museums and institutions of higher learning. She made her first professional sale in 1972 while living in the Detroit inner city. Since then she has published five novels and over 30 novellas, novelettes, short stories, and experimental short forms. Her fourth novel, A Woman of the Iron People (1991), won the James Tiptree Jr Award for gender-bending science fiction and the Mythopoeic Society Award for adult fantasy. Her fifth novel, Ring of Swords (1995), won a Minnesota Book Award. Since 1994 she has devoted herself to short fiction. Her story “Dapple” won the Spectrum Award for GLBT science fiction and was a finalist for the Sturgeon Award. Other stories have been finalists for the World Fantasy, Hugo, and Nebula Awards. She lives in Minnesota, where for several years she made her living as the financial manager for a small arts nonprofit. Aside from accounting and science fiction, her interests include politics, economics, bird-watching, driving down two-lane country highways, and exploring the remains of the Great Lakes industrial belt.

Speculations is a co-production of DreamHaven Books and SF MINNESOTA, a multicultural speculative fiction organization that also hosts a midsummer SF convention, DIVERSICON, the 24th edition of which will be held July 29-31, 2016, at the Best Western Plus—Bandana Square, Saint Paul, with Guest of Honor JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON and Special Guest NAOMI KRITZER.

May
27
Fri
WisCon 40 – May 27-30, 2016 @ The Madison Concourse Hotel
May 27 – May 30 all-day
Jun
22
Wed
Rob Callahan Reading Wed June 22nd @ DreamHaven Books
Jun 22 @ 18:30 – 19:45
Rob Callahan Reading Wed June 22nd @ DreamHaven Books | Minneapolis | Minnesota | United States

Please join us Wednesday evening on June 22nd at 6:30 PM for a reading with Rob Callahan.

Rob Callahan started working as a journalist back in the Twentieth Century. He took a break for a few years to write novels, then came back in 2009 as an arts and culture writer. His work in journalism has garnered a Marconi award, Associated Press awards, and recognition from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Last year, he dialed it back a bit on the journalism to focus on writing fiction again.

His next novel, Duplicity, will tell the story of an underachieving young professional temping for the Devil, who’s accidentally promoted to project manager over the impending apocalypse.

Jun
30
Thu
Convergence – June 30-July 3, 2016 @ DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel
Jun 30 – Jul 3 all-day
Convergence - June 30-July 3, 2016 @ DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel | Minneapolis | Minnesota | United States

Primarily due to Convergence changing the location of the Dealers Room from the Main Hotel in the middle of everything to the basement of the hotel across the street, DreamHaven Books will not be hosting a table at this year’s convention. But we still wish everyone the best of times, and if anyone from the convention comes by the bookstore with their badge on, we would be pleased to offer them a special 20% discount on anything purchased during the show.

Please stop by and say howdy!

Jul
21
Thu
Pulpfest – July 21-24 – Columbus OH @ Hyatt Regency Columbus
Jul 21 – Jul 24 all-day
Pulpfest - July 21-24 - Columbus OH @ Hyatt Regency Columbus | Columbus | Ohio | United States

DreamHaven Books will once again be one of the vendors at the fabulous Pulpfest, with plenty of great pulps, collectable paperbacks, unusual hardcovers and art books the like of which Ohio has seldom seen. If you’re in Columbus that weekend be sure to stop by and say hello.

And if you’re in Minneapolis that weekend, come by the bookstore and shop to your heart’s content: we’re open our regular hours of Tuesday through Saturday, Noon to 6:30 pm.

Jul
28
Thu
Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Naomi Kritzer Reading @ DreamHaven Books
Jul 28 @ 18:30 – 19:45
Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Naomi Kritzer Reading @ DreamHaven Books | Minneapolis | Minnesota | United States

Please join us Thursday, July 28th for a reading with the Guest of Honor and Special Guest of Diversicon!

Jessica Amanda Salmonson is a recipient of the Lambda Award, World Fantasy Award, and ReaderCon Certificate. She is a novelist: Anthony Shriek, The Golden Naginata, The Swordswoman, Tomoe Gozen, etc.; short story writer: The Deep Museum, A Silver Thread of Madness, The Complete Weird Epistles of Penelope Pettiweather, Ghost Hunter; and poet: The Death Sonnets, The Ghost Garden. She has edited a number of horrror and/or fantasy anthologies (Heroic Visions, Tales by Moonlight), and single-author weird fiction collections such as of Marjorie Bowen, Julian Hawthorne, Sarah Orne Jewett, Vincent O’Sullivan, Mary Heaton Vorse, Fitz-James O’Brien, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and others. She lives with her spouse, artist and potter Rhonda Boothe, and their dogs, on a hillside in a Pacific Northwest military town overlooking Puget Sound from her crumbling spooky looking Edwardian manse.

Naomi Kritzer’s short stories have appeared in Asimov’s SF, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Realms of Fantaasy, Strange Horizons, and Tales of the Unanticipated, Her novels Fires of the Faithful, Turning the Storm, Freedom’s Gate, Freedom’s Apprentice and Freedom’s Sisters are available from Bantam. Since her last novel came out, she has written an urban fantasy novel about a Minneapolis woman who unexpectedly inherits the Ark of the Covenant; a children’s science fictional shipwreck novel; a children’s portal fantasy; and a YA novel set on a dystopic seastead. She has two e-book short story collections out: Gift of the Winter King and Other Stories, and Comrade Grandmother and Other Stories. Naomi lives in St. Paul with her husband and two daughters.

Speculations is a co-production of DreamHaven Books and SF MINNESOTA, a multicultural speculative fiction organization that also hosts a midsummer SF convention, DIVERSICON, the 24th edition of which will be held July 29-31, 2016, in the Twin Cities, with Guest of Honor JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON and Special Guest NAOMI.KRITZER.

Jul
29
Fri
Diversicon 24 – July 29-31 – St. Paul MN @ Best Western Plus - Bandana Square
Jul 29 – Jul 31 all-day
Diversicon 24 - July 29-31 - St. Paul MN @ Best Western Plus - Bandana Square | Saint Paul | Minnesota | United States

Diversicon offers a variety of literate and serious programming on speculative fiction, helping you find new options to explore. For those of you who return year after year, we offer the usual mix of returning panels and new things to discuss. Join us and bring your friends.

The graphic heading this event listing was snitched from the website for Diversicon 17, as the current clean, cool, all text layout just doesn’t pop as well on the DreamHaven website.

DreamHaven will be open our usual Noon to 6:30 Tuesday through Saturday, even during Diversicon.

 


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