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Seattle, WA: NW MEDIAARTS has invited critically acclaimed writers of fabulist fiction from across the US to showcase cutting edge speculative literature and we're inviting you to join us for the experience! The Salon experience includes a short reading from new work or a work in progress followed by audience conversation with the featured author and a book signing.
Join us for this monthly series beginning January 29, 2007, when Paul Park reads for the first time from his new novel, the third book in The Tourmaline Quartet, The White Tyger.
January 29th Paul Park is known as one of the finest authors on the "humanist" wing of American Science Fiction and Fantasy. His powerful, densely written narratives of religious and existential crisis on worlds at once exotic and familiar have won him critical acclaim. Paul Park has written eleven novels and he launches the newly published novel, The White Tyger, for the first time at this Salon.
7:00 p.m. Richard Hugo House
February 26th Connie Willis has won more awards (17) than any other SF author for her insightful, witty novels and numerous works of short fiction. Celebrated for her wit and comic timing, she also uses her fiction to examine larger questions: the nature of God, the persistence of suffering and loss, and the role of love and redemption.
7:00 p.m. Richard Hugo House
March 26th Terry Bisson is the author of a dozen critically acclaimed novels and several works of non-fiction. He is perhaps best known for his short stories, having swept every honor in the SF field as well as France's Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. "They're Made out of Meat" has been made into a prize-winning film. He is presently working with comics legend Stan Lee on a top secret project that will alter the very structure of the Universe, hopefully for the better.
7:00 p.m. Richard Hugo House
April 30th Peter Beagle's first novel, A Fine and Private Place, brought him immediate critical attention, and with the addition of subsequent classic works such as The Last Unicorn, Tamsin, and The Innkeeper's Song, he is acknowledged as one of America's greatest living fantasy authors whose remarkable abilities with language, characters, and magical storytelling have earned him millions of fans around the world.
7:00 p.m. Richard Hugo House
May 21st Karen Joy Fowler is the author of four novels and two short story collections. An author who traverses genres from SF/fantasy to mainstream fiction, Fowler's work explores the mysteries of history, feminism, love, and friendship. Her first novel, Sarah Canary, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian, her third, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the Pen Faulkner award. She's won the Nebula and World Fantasy Award and her most recent novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, was a New York Times bestseller and is currently being made into a film.
7:00 p.m. Richard Hugo House
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Paul Park is an accomplished prose stylist who is at home with both speculative and mainstream fiction as he explores the most challenging themes of religion, sexuality, and sociology.
"After the publication of his first novel in the mid-1980s, Paul Park swiftly attracted notice as one of the finest authors on the "humanist" wing of American SF. His powerful, densely written narratives of religious and existential crisis on worlds at once exotic and familiar won him comparisons with Gene Wolfe and Brian Aldiss at their best. "
On January 29th, 20070, at Richard Hugo House, Paul Park will launch the third book in his acclaimed Tourmaline Quartet, The White Tyger.
Paul will read from The White Tyger for the first time at the Fantastic Fiction Salon where University Book Store will be the first book store selling it as well. He is available for interviews anytime during the day on Monday the 29th.
The first book in the Tourmaline Quartet, A Princess of Roumania, has been nominated for the Sideways Award, the World Fantasy Award, and is on currently on the preliminary list for the 2007 Nebula Awards.
"Tantalizing, ambiguous and fascinating . . . restrained and elegant . . . an evocative mixture of the familiar and the strange . . . Will remind the demanding reader how satisfying and challenging literary science fiction can be."
— Publishers Weekly
"A Princess of Roumania is at once a vastly ambitious and passionately realized work of art, and immediately appealing in all the ways that the heart-tugging matter of high fantasy ought to be. Park's Miranda is as brave and questing as a heroine of fantasy should be, and his Baroness Ceaucescu is a fascinating portrait of unstoppable evil that is never more or less than appallingly — even appealingly — human. Every page of this book holds something you couldn't have imagined and yet that strikes you as supremely right and satisfying. A huge achievement."
— John Crowley
"Complex, elusive, haunting, written in a transparent prose that slips you from one world to another with... ease"
— Ursula K. Le Guin
"Paul Park's short stories are subtle, blunt, funny, distressing, strange, true — all these qualities, often all at once — they are like those dreams or nightmares that seem to plumb right to the meaning of things. In other words, beautiful fiction."
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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