Jlawrence’s Comments (group member since Mar 08, 2010)

Jlawrence’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

Hi Heino, unfortunately there's no S&L meetups scheduled during that time, but Rudy Rucker will be at Borderlands on June 13 and Alex Bledsoe's there on the 14th:
http://www.borderlands-books.com/abou...

Even if you don't make those, drop by Borderlands. I really like Green Apple Books' science fiction/fantasy sections, too.

Andrew, thanks for that - I'll take a look soon.

Anyone taking BART (like me) to the Book Festival today, there's apparently general delays due to the closure on the Oakland line between Fruitvale & Coliseum, so figure in extra time for that.

Hey Koji-San, we're definitely meeting up to see Scalzi and several other authors at the Berkely Book Festival:

RSVP for S&L at Bay Area Book Festival, June 6

And we'll still have our usual Borderlands meetup the last Monday of June to discuss City of Stairs (I'll put that event up once our June 1 meetup is done).

Rob wrote: "Nice pictures. Why not share them with the group at large? I doubt most people outside of the SF area wander into this thread."

Done!

Ian, glad you got a better photo of the puppet show!

Rob suggested sharing these with the group at large instead of just in our Bay Area meetup thread:

Last Thursday several of us (including Supreme Sword Veronica) got to see Marie Brennan and Mary Robinette Kowal at Borderlands Books in San Francisco. In addition to reading excerpts from their upcoming books, Kowal performed a shadow puppet show, and Brennan passed around dragon artifacts of the sort "Lady Trent would bring when giving one of her lectures."

Here's a mighty-grainy photo of Kowal's shadow puppet show (I was in the back and had to use my phone's zoom function, hence graininess):



(Further below is a link to Ian's better photo of the shadow puppet performance.)

Here's one of Lady Trent's dragon artifacts:



Veronica excited about the dragon egg:



And Ian has more photos on Twitter!

From Thursday's author event, here's a mighty-grainy photo of Mary Robinette Kowal doing her shadow puppet show (I was in the back and had to use my phone's zoom function, hence grainyness):



It was delightful. Anyone else get a better pic?

Here's one of Lady Trent's dragon artifacts that got passed around (yes we had to give them back to Marie Brennan):



Veronica excited about the dragon egg:

Annnd you local folks, don't forget to join us this Thur for Marie Brennan & Mary Robinette Kowal at Borderlands, 7pm if you can!

Jasper, thanks for mentioning the Utopian Futures panel, that gives us a chance to see Kim Stanley Robinson, too! I've added it to the S&L event page, and here's the individual registration page ($2.57, like the others) for anyone who wants to guarantee themselves a seat:

Register for Utopian Futures, Science Fiction & Social Justice, 4pm - Karen Joy Fowler, John Shirley, Kim Stanley Robinson, moderated by Terry Bisson

Sound like a plan! I've made an event:

RSVP for Bay Area Book Festival, June 6

Also, the author events are free, but they encourage registering to guarantee your place in case they fill up, and individual event registration *just* opened up today, and it's much cheaper than the $30 early bird, -- just $2.57 each event:

- Register for John Scalzi event, 1pm

- Register for Futurism, Fatalism and Climate Change event, 2pm - Paolo Bacigalupi, Edan Lepucki, John Scalzi and Antti Tuomainen

Great! Should we just try to get people to meet up at the Scalzi talk at 1 p.m. that Sat?

OK, I've just added two Borderlands author events. Veronica thinks she can make both of them. RSVP!

Thur, May 21: Mary Robinette Kowal & Marie Brennan at Borderlands

Sunday, June 7: Paolo Bacigalupi at Borderlands

For the Bay Area Book Festival, maybe we should meet Sat, June 6 since the Bacigalupi Borderlands event is Sun? Sat, Kim Stanley Robinson has panels at 11am and 4pm, and Scalzi at 1pm. So maybe meet a bit before the KSR panel, go to it and then have lunch? Where's a good meeting spot?

Bay Area Book Festival schedule

The last Monday of May happens to be Memorial Day, so for May's book we'll be meeting Monday, June 1 instead.

RSVP here for fun & enlightenment

I am now iffy on whether I'll be at BayCon, but Ian, please add it as an S&L event if you want to try to gather some S&L people there. I'll be adding some Borderlands author events to the S&L event page that Veronica suggested could be good extra S&L meetups.

Wow, Paolo Bacigalupi, John Scalzi, and Kim Stanley Robinson all at the Bay Area Book Festival? We should try for a S&L contingent there.

Ulmer Ian wrote: "Anyways this was a great episode. I'm probably biased since Discworld holds such a special place for me. Many of the threads were great too, I really enjoyed your comments actually Joanna. I was tempted to read one of them outloud at the book club but everyone was itching to go have dinner lol."

Never resist the urge to quote forum comments at the book club meetups! ;)

Yes, unless Borderlands' plans change (very unlikely), that should be our August meetup date.

Just started Acceptance and hoping I like this capstone of the creepy Southern Reach trilogy as much as I liked books one and two. So far it's delivering (view spoiler)[The director just descended into the 'anomaly' knowing its the gaping maw of some beast and sat down next to Saul the lighthouse-keeper. So, aaaaaAAAAAAAA (hide spoiler)]! After I finish that, it's on to Deathless by Cat Valente.

Yay photo! Definitely deciding the fate of certain books, S&L Mafia-meeting-style.

Sky is correct! I think once Borderlands had to move us from our last Monday of the month slot to accommodate another event in their cafe, but that's our usual date. That'd be great if you could join us.

Fresno Bob wrote: "Veronica wrote: ""

[image error] is all I see, anyone else get anything?"

No, that's all I see too. *sad Lem*

Added next meetup, April 27, as an event - RSVP here !

There was a great turnout last night, a fun discussion, and Fresno Bob did indeed convince some of us to convene for cocktails afterwards. Veronica said she took a picture of us all at the table at Borderlands. Where's the photo, V???

Sword & Laser both present?? Woot!!

Most of Catherynne Valente's panels (including that story within a story one) are on Friday, so that's the day I'm making for sure. Hooray for you diving into Orphan's Tale!