Please join us Wednesday, February 3rd, as we celebrate Lois McMaster Bujold’s newest novel in the Vorkosigan universe. Set three years after the events in Cryoburn, Vicereine Cordelia Vorkosigan is setting up to make new changes to her life.

We are taking pre-orders for the book, and looking forward to a joyful event.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Please join us Thursday, October 20th, 2016 at 6:30 PM for a reading with Kathe Koja, author of the Bram Stoker and Locus Award-winning first novel The Cypher; the adult novels Bad Brains, Skin, Strange Angels (a Deathrealm Award winner), Kink, the Under the Poppy trilogy (which includes Under the Poppy, The Mercury Waltz, and The Bastards’ Paradise), young adult novels: Straydog, Buddha Boy, The Blue Mirror, Talk, Going Under, Kissing the Bee, and Headlong; the story collection Extremities; and many uncollected stories.

Her novels and stories often concern characters who have been marginalized by society, and the transcendence and/or disintegration that follows their social isolation.

Due to an unexpected development, Rez will be rescheduling his reading for later in November. We will keep you posted when we have more information.

On Wednesday, October 26, JOHN CALVIN REZMERSKI reads his poetry.

Mr. Rezmerski was born in Pennsylvania, and again in Ohio, then again in Kansas, and three times more in Minnesota. By some accounts he has three lives left, but he is not taking any bets because he doesn’t believe in cats. He is a member of Lady Poetesses from Hell by virtue of the fact that he channels Grace Lord Stoke (via email), from whom he has learned a great deal. He has published 20 books, chapbooks, and anthologies, including _The Frederick Manfred Reader_, a screenplay, and three plays. He has performed his work for schools, libraries, bookstores, science fiction conventions, clubs, professional organizations, senior centers, museums, festivals, fairs, coffee houses, bars, and on television, and on radio, including National Public Radio’s Wha’d Ya Know?, and collaborated with painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, dancers, theatrical troupes, and scientists. Over 35 years, he taught creative writing, journalism, linguistics, science fiction, and storytelling at Gustavus Adolphus College. His poetry includes 22 from TOTU and Breaking the Rules: Starting with Ghazals.

He will be reading a single long poem–the complete text of his recently published chapbook, “Cataloging the Flow: Elegy” published by Red Dragonfly Press.

You can learn more about him at his website.

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 25th edition of which will be held July 21-23, 2017, in the Twin Cities, with Guests of Honor ELEANOR ARNASON and  MELISSA SCOTT.