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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.
Wed, 06/19/2013 - 6:00pm
Chaperoned by Danny Harris. What's a Book Blind Date you ask? It's a chance to meet new people and win fantastic prizes! Danny will be chaperoning this event as we match up participants in teams based on the books they love for an evening of fun and games. We are sure that hilarity will ensue. The winning team takes home the Grand Prize. And registered contestants get 10% off of your purchases during the event. Please contact the store to sign up or for more information.
There is a $5 fee (Cash Only) for this event.
Thu, 06/20/2013 - 7:00pm
Everyone's excited about the latest from Max Barry, the author of Jennifer Government. Lexicon was one of this summer's "High-Temperature Reading" recommendations by Lev Grossman in Time: "Imagine, if you will, a secret group of people called Poets who have the power to control others simply by speaking to them. Barry has, and the result is an extraordinarily fast, funny, cerebral thriller."
Fri, 06/21/2013 - 7:00pm
San Diego is fortunate to have been home to any number of speculative fiction authors, some of whom still reside here, and we are pleased to add UCSD undergraduate and debut author S.M. Wheeler to those ranks. Sea Change is a dark fairy tale for adults, chronicling the undertakings of a young woman endeavoring to rescue her beloved companion, a talking kraken. (See Maryelizabeth’s review here.)
Fri, 06/21/2013 - 7:30pm
Leigh Bardugo
Robin LaFevers
With a career creating Glamorous Ghouls through make-up and costuming, writing a young adult novel with the darkness of a horror novel but the beauty of a fairy tale seems like a natural next step for Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm, the second book in the Grisha Trilogy, continues the story of Alina, Mal and the Darkling in new and unfamiliar territory. (See Maryelizabeth's review on our website.)
Guest hostess with the mostess Robin LeFevers described her His Fair Assassin series as...
Sat, 06/22/2013 - 2:00pm
Maryelizabeth is a particular fan of the works of LA Noir at the Bar femme fatale author Lisa Brackmann, and was pleased to include Lisa in Akashic’s San Diego Noir anthology. Iraq War vet Ellie McEnroe, introduced in Rock Paper Tiger, returns in Hour of the Rat, as she is entangled in an international conspiracy involving China’s burgeoning modernization and its terrifying possible environmental consequences. Lisa will discuss international intrigue with Richard Lange.
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.
Lexicon (Hardcover)
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9781594205385Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Press HC, The, 6/2013
Received in San Diego & Redondo Beach and on sale June 18th!
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Lexicon (Hardcover)
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9781594205385Availability: On Our Shelves 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
