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Sci-Fi Authorfest 12

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

From Powell's website: A starfleet of science fiction and fantasy authors descends for one galactic booksigning event. Meet Seanan McGuire, Brent Weeks, Daniel H. Wilson, Mike Moscoe/Shepherd, Devon Monk, Spencer Ellsworth, Kat Richardson, Rhiannon Held, Alma Alexander, Fonda Lee, Joseph Brassey, Kevin James Breaux, David Levine, Emily Suvada, Ian Doescher, Lilith Saintcrow, S. D. Perry, Diana Pharoah Francis, Jennifer Brozek, and Dave Bara.

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Seanan McGuire

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

Alex, Nebula, and Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in her new standalone fantasy, Middlegame (Tor.com). Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. Roger and Dodger aren't exactly human, though they don't realize it. They aren't exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.

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Horror Book Club (REMOTE)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We will meet on WEDNESDAY November 24th at 6:30pm and discuss Hark! the Herald Angels Scream: An Anthology by Christopher Golden. ****We meet on Wednesday in November every year due to the 4th Thursday in November being Thanksgiving. About the book: Eighteen stories of Christmas horror from bestselling, acclaimed authors including Scott Smith, Seanan McGuire, Josh Malerman, Michael Koryta, Sarah Pinborough, and many more. That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is filled with scenes that are unsettling. Marley untying the bandage that holds his jaws together. The hideous children--Want and Ignorance--beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The heavy ledgers Marley drags by his chains. In the finest versions of this story, the best…

$16.95

Seanan McGuire in Conversation With Amanda Cherry

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in Lost in the Moment and Found (Tordotcom), a new standalone tale in Seanan McGuire’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series. Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. If you ever lost a sock, you'll find it here. If you ever wondered about your favorite toy from childhood... it's probably sitting on a shelf in the back. And the headphones that you swore this time you'd keep safe? You guessed it… Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He's not in the shop, and she'll never see him again. But when Antsy finds herself lost (literally, this time), she discovers that however many doors open for her, leaving the Shop for good might not…

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