John Shirley will be appearing this Saturday, July 7 at SF in SF (with Richard Kadrey and Terry Bisson) reading and signing Everything Is Broken and A Song Called Youth (and other books) at The Variety Preview Room 582 Market St. @ Montgomery in SAN FRANCISCO (1st floor of The Hobart Bldg.) Doors Open 6:00PM. Event starts: 7:00PM. It’s FREE! http://www.sfinsf.org/

The following Friday and Saturday—July 13 and 14—he will be in San Diego for ComicCon. On Friday, July 13, he’ll be signing books at the Mysterious Galaxy booth at 2 p.m. and will be on an IDW comics panel at 4 p.m. On Saturday, July 14 at noon he’ll be with artist Kevin Colden at the IDW comics booth, signing. There’ll be copies of the first issue of The Crow: Death and Rebirth (written by John Shirley there with art by Kevin Colden).

ISBN: 9781607013150

Kick out the jams with hot licks and fantastic riffs on rock and roll from the only kind of fiction that feeds the soul: science fiction and fantasy. Like rock, speculative fiction is larger than life, there’s no limit on where it can take you. Electrifying stories with the drive, the emotion, the heart of rock. Headliners, award winners, and rising stars take the stage with their greatest fictional hits. Find a place, grab some space…get ready to rock! Includes two original stories.

More information on our official page.

Contents (alphabetical order):

Elizabeth Bear, “Hobnoblin Blues”
Poppy Z. Brite, “Arise”
Edward Bryant “Stone”
Pat Cadigan “Rock On”
Lawrence C. Connolly “Mercenary” (Original)
Bradley Denton “We Love Lydia Love”
Elizabeth Hand “The Erl-King”
Del James “Mourningstar” (Original)
Graham Joyce “Last Rising Son”
Greg Kihn “Then Play On”
Marc Laidlaw “Wunderkindergarten”
Caitlín R. Kiernan “Paedomorphosis”
Charles de Lint “That Was Radio Clash”
Graham Masterton “Voodoo Child”
Alastair Reynolds “At Budokan”
David J. Schow “Odeed”:
Lewis Shiner “Jeff Beck”:
John Shirley “Freezone”
Lucius Shepard “…How My Heart Breaks When I Sing This Song…”
Norman Spinrad “The Big Flash”
Bruce Sterling “We See Things Differently”
Michael Swanwick “The Feast of Saint Janis”
F. Paul Wilson “Bob Dylan, Troy Johnson, and the Speed Queen”
Howard Waldrop “Flying Saucer Rock and Roll”

You can find the announcement here on her blog. We also now have an official page up.

We’ve added new reviews to the WORLDSOUL by Liz Williams, POWERS by James A. Burton, WITCHES: WICKED, WILD & WONDERFUL, and ROBOTS: RECENT AI pages.

Hugo award-winner ROBERT REED‘s Diamond trilogy—SLAYER’S SON, CORONA’S CHILDREN, and GREAT DAY—set in his “Great Ship” universe to Sean Wallace at Prime Books by Merrilee Heifetz of Writers House.

Read Bob’s essay that includes news of the three-book deal in an essay, Bob announces his new 3-book contract with Prime Books — see the full details in his essay, “Generous Possibilities,” on his The Word From Bob page.