The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings and the South Street Seaport Museum present: Readings from Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

Carol Emshwiller
John Langan
Guest Curator: John Joseph Adams

Tuesday, February 5th — Doors open 6:30 PM
Free Admission — $5 donation if possible
South Street Seaport Museum’s Melville Gallery
213 Water Street

Newton Minnow’s ‘vast wasteland’ has never been a problem within literary science fiction, so don’t let the title of John Joseph Adams’ anthology of post-apocalyptic tales put you off. With 22 writers ranging from Octavia Butler to Cory Doctorow, Wastelands has already earned starred reviews. Two of its finest writers will perform readings for us, introduced by the editor.

Carol Emshwiller is the author of six novels and more than 100 short stories. Her short work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, and has been collected in several volumes, most recently in I Live With You. In her career spanning five decades, she has won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. In 2005, she was presented the World Fantasy Award for Life-Time Achievement. Her most recent novel, The Secret City, was published in 2007.

John Langan has published several stories in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, two of which–"On Skua Island" and "Mr. Gaunt"–were nominated for the International Horror Guild Award. A collection of his short work, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters, is forthcoming from Prime Books. Langan’s reviews and essays have appeared in Dead Reckonings, Erebos, Extrapolation, Fantasy Commentator, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, The Lovecraft Annual, Lovecraft Studies, and Science Fiction Studies. An adjunct instructor at SUNY New Paltz, he is in the process of completing his dissertation on H.P. Lovecraft.

John Joseph Adams was born in 1976. He is the assistant editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and was guest-editor of Shimmer Magazine’s special pirate issue. He is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in: Amazing Stories, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Kirkus Reviews, Locus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Publishers Weekly, SCIFI.com, Strange Horizons, Subterranean Magazine, and Writer’s Digest. He lives in Perth Amboy, NJ and at www.johnjosephadams.com.

Books will be available for sale at the reading.

The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series is in its umpteenth season (we’ll specify after Gordon Van Gelder tells us when it all began) of providing performances from some of the best writers in science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, etc. The series takes place the first Tuesday of every month at the South Street Seaport’s Melville Gallery, 213 Water Street. Admission is free, but $5 donations are encouraged to offset costs and buy dinner for the readers. The producer and executive curator is radio producer and talk show host Jim Freund.

WHEN:
Tuesday, 2/5/08
Doors open at 6:30 — readings begin at 7

WHERE:
The South Street Seaport Museum’s Melville Gallery
213 Water Street (near Beekman)
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=213+Water+Street,+New+York,+NY

LINKS:
http://www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf
http://www.southstseaport.org
http://www.nyrsf.com