WE NEED SPACE!

We’ve been buying way too much stuff recently and we’ve run out of room.  So we’re having a SALE on back BACK ISSUE COMICS!

Saturday March 23

All regular bagged & boarded comics out in the store – 50% OFF

All display comics (on the wall, in showcases, behind-the-counter) – 25% OFF

We’ll even include things like Heavy Metal, MAD, Warrens (Creepy – Eerie- Vampirella) and Famous Monsters.

One Day Only.  Come and stock up between snowstorms.

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.

On Wednesday, April 17th, Terry Faust reads from his work.

Terry Faust writes mainstream young adult novels and humorous science fiction spoofs. The first in his series of young adult urban fantasy novels, Bearer of the Pearls: Episode One of the River Rangers, was released by North Star Press St. Cloud in June of 2017. Z is for Xenophobe, is a sci-fi satire published in 2011 by Sam’s Dot Publshing. And his first young adult novel, To Build a Blackbird, was just added to MN Writes MN Reads biblioboard, making it available for free in digital form from area libraries. His short work has appeared in Stupefying Stories, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Boundaries Without by Calumet Editions. He’s had stories in several Minnesota Speculative Fiction anthologies published by Alban Lake.He has been a member of Minnesota Speculative Fiction since 2005. His Speculations presentation will include his playing of an audio drama.

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

Join us for An Evening with Queen of Swords Press featuring readings by Michael Merriam, Jennie Goloboy and Catherine Lundoff!

Independent Bookstore Day is Saturday, April 27th! Put it on your calendar!

Details TBD, but I expect that there will be sales.

Come out and see Greg (and LOTS of other vendors) in the Progress Center at the MN State Fairgrounds!

Admission is $7, children under 12 free.

We’ll be out at Springcon ’24 with comics for everyone!  Check out the MCBA website for more details.

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