In the more than three decades he has been writing\, John Crowley has received multiple awards for his critically acclaimed works\, including Little\, Big\, the Ægypt Cycle\, and Lord Byron’s Novel\: The Evening Land. Four Freedoms\, an allegorical World War II novel\, includes scenes set in a sort of dream version of San Diego – John will read from these sections. With complex allusions to classical mythology and Shakespearean drama\, the American home front during World War II serves as a metaphor for a fallen world seeking renewal.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100109T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100109T233000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/daniel-suarez-signs-freedom-tm URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/daniel-suarez-signs-freedom-tm SUMMARY:Daniel Suarez signs FREEDOM (tm) DESCRIPTION:Daniel Suarez returns on Saturday\, January 9\, at 2\:00 PM to discuss Freedom™\, the sequel to last year’s popular cyberthriller\, Daemon. Daniel will terrify readers by explaining how the technology depicted in Daemon and FreedomTM may seem like science fiction\, but it actually exists. In a new world controlled by the Daemon\, an insidious computer program unleashed by a dying game designer\, civilization is being remade to the Daemon’s plans. But is that any worse than falling victim to the corporate oppressors who oppose the Daemon?
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100110T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100110T233000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/t-jefferson-parker-signs-iron-river URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/t-jefferson-parker-signs-iron-river SUMMARY:T. Jefferson Parker signs IRON RIVER DESCRIPTION:Spend a suspenseful Sunday afternoon with T. Jefferson Parker and Steve Hamilton at 2\:00 on January 10. Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy Charlie Hood returns in Jeff’s Iron River. The Iron River of the title is the flow of illegal guns across the border tied to drug cartels\, one of the pressing issues affecting the lives of everyone living near the U.S. –Mexican border. Charlie joins the Bureau of Alcohol\, Tobacco and Firearms task force Operation Blowdown and is caught in the consequences of a stakeout gone wrong. (See Suzanne’s review below.)
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100110T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100110T233000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/steve-hamilton-signs-lock-artist URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/steve-hamilton-signs-lock-artist SUMMARY:Steve Hamilton signs THE LOCK ARTIST DESCRIPTION:Like T. Jefferson Parker\, Steve Hamilton writes both an acclaimed series – the Alex McKnight mysteries – and standalone thrillers\, including Night Work and The Lock Artist. The title character\, Michael\, survived something horrible when he was a child. Now in his late teens\, he has two talents – drawing and safecracking / lockpicking. The first may help him get the girl of his dreams … if the latter doesn’t get him in trouble with the law or killed\, once the wrong people discover it.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100112T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100113T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-january-12 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-january-12 SUMMARY:New Books On Sale January 12 DESCRIPTION:New books arriving in the Galaxy on January 12th!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100116T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100116T040000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/john-lescroart-signs-treasure-hunt URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/john-lescroart-signs-treasure-hunt SUMMARY:John Lescroart signs TREASURE HUNT DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, January 15\, at 7\:00 PM\, Mysterious Galaxy presents Johnny Capo of Johnny Capo and His Real Good Band! More correctly\, we are pleased to welcome the former Johnny Capo\, now best-selling thriller author John Lescroart\, discussing his latest\, Treasure Hunt. PI Wyatt Hunt and his young assistant\, Mickey Dade\, are not doing much business in the beginning of the third Hunt Club novel.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100116T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100116T233000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/carrie-vaughn-signs-kittys-house-horrors URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/carrie-vaughn-signs-kittys-house-horrors SUMMARY:Carrie Vaughn signs KITTY'S HOUSE OF HORRORS DESCRIPTION:Carrie Vaughn’s web site identifies her as “Author . SF geek . Werewolf psychologist\,” which we find apt for the creator of the Kitty Norville\, werewolf talk radio host\, series\, a favorite among the MG staff. Kitty\, host of The Midnight Hour program in Denver\, is invited to take part in a reality television show about the supernatural in Kitty's House of Horrors.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100119T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100120T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-january-19 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-january-19 SUMMARY:New Books On Sale January 19 DESCRIPTION:New books arriving in the Galaxy on January 19th!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100123T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100123T233000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/charlie-huston-signs-sleepless URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/charlie-huston-signs-sleepless SUMMARY:Charlie Huston signs SLEEPLESS DESCRIPTION:Publishers Weekly describes Charlie Huston’s new novel\, Sleepless\, as an “impressive\, challenging thriller set in postapocalyptic Los Angeles.” It’s the summer of 2010\, and a plague of sleeplessness has struck\; most people either are retreating from their wakefulness into an addictive on-line video game\, or by taking Dreamer\, an illegal drug that is the only temporary relief. An LAPD undercover officer is desperately seeking a solution before the situation consumes his family and himself.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100126T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100127T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-january-26 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-january-26 SUMMARY:New Books On Sale January 26 DESCRIPTION:Lots of new books in many genres arriving in the Galaxy on the last Tuesday of January!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100127T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100127T040000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/bob-morris-signs-baja-florida URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/bob-morris-signs-baja-florida SUMMARY:Bob Morris signs BAJA FLORIDA DESCRIPTION:Former Miami Dolphins quarterback and wrongly accused convict turned occasional sleuth Zack Chasteen is back in a case of fancy yachts\, fast-living scoundrels\, and pirates in the Bahamas. Assisted by his trusted mystical Taino Indian friend Boggy\, and spurred by recent parenthood with by his magazine mogul wife Barbara\, Zack agrees to find a dying old friend’s estranged daughter in Baja Florida. Terry is a huge fan of this action-packed comical mystery series\, and encourages all fans of Robert B.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100130T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100130T233000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/carol-berg-signs-spirit-lens URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/carol-berg-signs-spirit-lens SUMMARY:Carol Berg signs THE SPIRIT LENS DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, January 30\, at 2\:00 PM\, readers are invited to join former mathematics major and computer software engineer Carol Berg at MG. The multiple award-winning mythic fantasy author describes her new novel\, The Spirit Lens\, as a “double-agent murder mystery set in a renaissance-style world where science is marginalizing magic.” Failed magician and scholar Portier de Savin-Duplais tends the library of his kingdom’s last Collegia Magica\, until the king request he look into a murder with disturbing magical overtones\, in this first in a new trilogy.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100202T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100203T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-february-2 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-february-2 SUMMARY:New Books on sale February 2 DESCRIPTION:Lots on exciting new books on sale the first Tuesday of February.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100204T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100204T040000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/connie-willis-signs-blackout URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/connie-willis-signs-blackout SUMMARY:Connie Willis signs BLACKOUT DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T102413Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100206T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100206T233000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/dr-linda-reid-signs-dead-air URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/dr-linda-reid-signs-dead-air SUMMARY:Dr. Linda Reid signs DEAD AIR DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR