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Welcome!
Welcome to Mysterious Galaxy -- books of Martians, Murder, Magic and Mayhem (with occasional Masks, Matchmaking, and Munchkins). We are physically a specialty genre store in Southern California with a focus on SF, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense, and Horror. Here on the web we offer a whole world of book choices, some physically on our shelves, some immediately available for your ebook reader, and many more available for special order!
Being a part of your literary community means offering more than just great books. Mysterious Galaxy is committed to regular in-store events with authors, book discussion groups, and other special events and celebrations.
Sat, 05/25/2013 - 2:00pm
Author and game designer (Game Design Lead at the Institute of Play’s GlassLab) and insightful industry blogger Erin Hoffman returns to her native San Diego for the third and final volume in the Chaos Knight trilogy. The choices made by Vidarian Rulorat in the two previous volumes, including reawakening wild magic and gods in his world of Andovar, have drawn serious negative attention from the Alorean Import Company. In Shield of Sea and Space, Vidarian and his allies strive to guarantee a future that includes them, as the company seeks to exterminate them.
Sat, 05/25/2013 - 2:30pm
Bring your questions and
your notebooks as Dennis Palumbo answers questions in this informal writer’s
workshop, Taking the Mystery Out of Writing Mysteries. Dennis, a
licensed psychotherapist and former Hollywood screenwriter, will also be
signing and discussing Night Terrors, the third entry into the Daniel
Rinaldi Mystery series.
"Palumbo, an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter turned psychotherapist, uses all his
professional experience to craft short, action- and tension-filled chapters and
insightful sketches of people traumatized by...
Sun, 05/26/2013 - 8:00pm
Seth Harwood
Joe Clifford
Dan O'Shea
Tom Pitts
Join
four extraordinary crime writers from far and wide (well, three
from San Francisco, but still). Featured readings from Seth Harwood
(Jack Wakes Up, Young Junius) Dan O'Shea (his debut novel Penance) Joe
Clifford (Wake the Undertaker, Junkie Love) and Tom Pitts (Piggyback)
Also check the Mandrake website for information.
Mon, 05/27/2013 - 10:00am
Both locations will be open on Memorial Day from 10AM to 5PM.
Thank you to all who serve and have served.
Tue, 05/28/2013 - 10:00am
A selection of books that go on sale this week, most on Tuesday May 28th.
Check with staff if you have questions. You can also purchase many of the below in eBook format. Just click the title to see if an eBook is available for that title. (Thanks to Kobo, most ebooks are now available for pre-sale.)
Happy Reading!
Signed titles may arrive later in the month. Contact the staff to reserve a copy.
Our publishers are kind enough to send us Signed First Editions for non-touring authors' works. To see a complete list of Signed First editions, check the menu for signed first editions by genre.
And the Mountains Echoed: a novel by the bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
$28.95
ISBN-13: 9781594631764Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 5/2013
Received in Redondo Beach 5/21/13
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Check out what we (MG staff and friends) have recently read and enjoyed.
Lexicon (Hardcover)
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9781594205385Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Penguin Press HC, The, 6/2013
From Our June Newsletter:
Speculative Fiction
Max Barry’s Lexicon starts off as a slam-bang action thriller. Wil escapes from and is then recaptured by two mysterious kidnappers, only to find himself and his kidnappers chased in turn by another equally mysterious group. The novel takes a fantastic turn: the pursuers include “poets,” people with the power to use language magically to compel others to do things against their will. As Wil watches in horror, a poet compels one of his kidnappers to blow his own head off. Such a terrible power is redolent with moral complications, which Barry explores to terrific effect. What are we to make of Wil, who, as we learn, may also possess the power to kill at his whim? What are we to make of the organization that trains up poets in their deadly arts? To these questions, Barry resolutely leaves us hanging. Reading the novel, we can never be sure just who the “good guy” is. A tour-de-force, and highly recommended.
– David
