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.

Acclaimed Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi will be at DreamHaven on Wednesday, October 20th from 6:30 – 8:00pm to promote his new book, The Recognition of H.P. Lovecraft.

S. T. Joshi is a leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, and other writers, mostly in the realms of supernatural and fantasy fiction. He has edited corrected editions of the works of Lovecraft, several annotated editions of Bierce and Mencken, and has written such critical studies as The Weird Tale (1990) and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). His award-winning biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), has already become a collector’s item. An expanded and updated version, I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, was published in two volumes in 2010.

On Thursday, November 18, from 6:30-7:45 p.m.,  TERRY FAUST reads from his work. Terry Faust writes urban fantasy, mainstream young adult novels, and science fiction satire.  Recent work includes Bearer of the Pearls, a 2017 YA urban fantasy novel published by North Star Press, St.Cloud.  He also contributes to short story anthologies with stories such as: “The Secret of Erin Stewart” and “Unpleasantness at 20,000 Feet”. Terry has been an active assistant organizer of the Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers Network since 2005.

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 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.)