In celebration of Independence Week\, we thank all of you for supporting Mysterious Galaxy\, one of San Diego's independent bookstores.
So... in celebration\, come in any time during the week wearing your MG Eat. Sleep. Read. t-shirt\, or carrying an MG tote bag\, and you will receive 17% off of your entire purchase.
Bring a friend with you\, and they can enjoy your discount\, too.\,
And\, again\, thank you for being our customers for more than 17 years.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T221028Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100708T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100708T040000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/george-r-r-martin-discusses-writing-process URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/george-r-r-martin-discusses-writing-process SUMMARY:Clarion Professor George R R Martin Discusses the Writing Process DESCRIPTION:On the seventh day of the seventh month at 7\:00 PM\, Clarion Professor George R R Martin will discuss the Seven Kingdoms\, their seven gods\, and the rumored seven books in The Song of Ice and Fire\, as well as the writing process and HBO adaptations.. Join us for what is sure to be a fantastic evening on Wednesday\, July 7\, at 7\:00 PM. Following a few words by the author\, Clarion students will get their books signed\, followed by the rest of us in numerical fashion. Numbers for the signing line will be given out the day of the signing on a first-come\, first-served basis in person.
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The Surprising Stories Behind the
Ideas That
Shaped the World .
A selection of awesomeness that goes on sale on Tuesday\, July 13th.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T221028Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100716T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100716T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/don-winslow-signs URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/don-winslow-signs SUMMARY:Don Winslow signs SAVAGES and MG Limited Edition DESCRIPTION:If Terry’s impassioned review of Savages (below) didn’t convince you to attend Don Winslow’s event on Thursday\, July 17\, at 7\:00 PM\, maybe the IndieNext Pick blurb will.
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A July IndieNext Pick!
Former litigator and continuing animal lover Linda O. Johnston returns to Mysterious Galaxy on Saturday\, July 17\, at 2\:00 PM with Feline Fatale\, the ninth in her Kendra Ballantyne Pet-Sitter mystery series. Kendra doesn’t expect to set off a controversy when she visits her friend\, Wanda\, but she sets off a debate over Wanda’s complex’s animal policy. When an anti-animal policy advocate is found dead a week later in Wanda’s apartment\, the former civil litigator has to take investigative matters into her own hands. With Eileen Davidson.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T221028Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100717T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100717T223000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/eileen-davidson-signs URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/eileen-davidson-signs SUMMARY:Eileen Davidson signs DIVA LAS VEGAS DESCRIPTION:Author and actress Eileen Davidson is known to television viewers as Ashley Abbott on the daytime drama “The Young and the Restless.” She is known to amateur sleuth mystery readers as the co-author (with Robert Randisi) of the amateur sleuth series starring soap actress Alexis Peterson. Diva Las Vegas\, the third in the series\, leads Alexis from the Playboy mansion to Sin City. Of the series\, Eileen says\, “Imagine for a minute all the different personalities of the actors and actresses\, the producers\, directors\, hair and makeup people\, the stage crew\, etc.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T221028Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100720T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100721T020000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-tuesday-july-20 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-tuesday-july-20 SUMMARY:New Books On Sale Tuesday July 20 DESCRIPTION:A selection of books that go on sale on Tuesday\, July 20.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T221028Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100721T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100721T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/clarion-event-samuel-r-delany URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/clarion-event-samuel-r-delany SUMMARY:Clarion Event with Samuel R. Delany DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, July 20\, at 7\:00 PM\, Mysterious Galaxy hosts Clarion Instructor Samuel R. Delany\, author of such seminal works as Nova and Dhalgren. He is the winner of four Nebula Awards\, two Hugo Awards\, and the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a Lifetime’s Contribution to Lesbian and Gay writing. In addition to teaching at the Clarion Writers Workshop\, he is being honored as a guest of San Diego Comic-Con International later in the week. Lucky attendees may be privy to a preview of his work in progress\, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T221028Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100722T163000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100726T000000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/comic-con-international-san-diego URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/comic-con-international-san-diego SUMMARY:Comic-Con International San Diego DESCRIPTION:Mysterious Galaxy will be in Exhibitor's Hall Booth #1119.
See the bottom of the page for a pdf of our Booth Signing Schedule.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T221028Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100727T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100727T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/carrie-vaughn-signs URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/carrie-vaughn-signs SUMMARY:Carrie Vaughn signs KITTY GOES TO WAR DESCRIPTION:Carrie Vaughn helps the staff recover from Comic-Con on Monday\, July 26\, at 7\:00 PM\, when she visits with three new releases. Her eighth Kitty Norville novel\, Kitty Goes to War\, finds the DJ and werewolf embattled on two fronts – working to help some veteran werewolves with PTSD\, and battling a Big Box retailer. At least two more novels\, as well as a collection of Kitty and related short stories\, are in the works. Also\, Carrie will discuss this spring’s Voices of Dragons\, described as a “typical ‘girl meets dragon’ story.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T221028Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100727T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100728T020000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-tuesday-july-27 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-tuesday-july-27 SUMMARY:New Books On Sale Tuesday July 27 DESCRIPTION:A bunch of portable word holders for sale on the last Tuesday in July.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T221028Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100729T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100729T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/clarion-event-ann-and-jeff-vandermeer URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/clarion-event-ann-and-jeff-vandermeer SUMMARY:Clarion Event with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer DESCRIPTION:Our series of summer writing discussions with the Clarion Instructors ends on Wednesday\, July 28\, at 7\:00 PM\, with a double-feature of Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer\, fresh off their appearance as Guests of Comic-Con International. Hugo Award -winner Ann has edited bookks like The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals\: The Evil Monkey Dialogues (with Jeff) and is the fiction editor for Weird Tales.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T221028Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100730T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100730T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/lisa-gardner-signs URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/lisa-gardner-signs SUMMARY:Lisa Gardner signs LIVE TO TELL DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, July 29\, at 7\:00 PM\, MG offers some cool thriller chills on a hot summer evening with Lisa Gardner and Live to Tell. The fourth D.D. Warren novel\, after last summer’s The Neighbors\, earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly\, which called it “outstanding\, tight and consistently-engaging.” Boston police detective D.D. Warren investigates when three members of a family are brutally murdered\, and the trail leads to a pediatric psych ward and troubling family ties.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T221028Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100731T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100731T220000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/dorothy-howell-signs URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/dorothy-howell-signs SUMMARY:Dorothy Howell signs SHOULDER BAGS AND SHOOTINGS DESCRIPTION:Our July events wrap up with Dorothy Howell on Saturday\, July 31\, at 2\:00 PM\, with her third Haley Randolph mystery\, Shoulder Bags and Shootings. Haley and her boyfriend\, the owner of the department store she works at\, have just returned from vacation\, and Haley is close to realizing her ambition of scoring the season’s must have handbag when her arch-rival in the purse party business is murdered\, and Haley is a prime suspect.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T221028Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100804T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100804T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/writers-support-group-launch-meeting URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/writers-support-group-launch-meeting SUMMARY:Mysterious Galaxy Amateur Writers Support Group -- Launch Meeting DESCRIPTION:Whether you write science fiction\, speculative fiction\, urban fantasy\,
high fantasy\, noir\, comic books\, mystery\, horror\, teen angst\, tween
angst\, YA\, or even those books starring the sexy vampire who falls in
love with the pretty girl so he feels bad about eating her\, join us on
Tuesday\, August 3\, at 7\:00 PM\, for the Mysterious Galaxy Amateur Writers
Support Group. We’ll be meeting approximately every other week with
authors dropping in every other month. Bring your works in progress and
any questions you might have. Participation in the group does not
Mysterious Galaxy's Book Discussion Group meets on Wednesday nights at
the store. (Tuesdays during part of the summer.) Participation is open to all
readers\; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend.