Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:00:52 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] China Mieville coming to...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

.. not just DC: Politics & Prose on Tuesday, February 20, at 7 p.m (as
previously posted here back in Oct)) , but also to Richmond!

>From Shelf Awareness:

Congratulations to Fountain Bookstore, Narnia Children's Books and
Creatures 'n Crooks Bookshoppe, three Richmond, Va., bookstores that
have teamed up to host an event that features China Mieville, winner of
two Arthur C. Clarke Awards and the British Fantasy Award--and holder of
a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics.
His works include King Rat, Perdido Street Station and The Scar.

The event takes place Wednesday, February 21, at the Richmond Public
Library's main branch. Tickets are $18.85 each and include a copy of Un
Lun Dun (Del Rey, $17.95, 9780345495167), the author's first YA novel,
which will be published February 13.

A very happy Kelly Justice, Fountain Bookstore's manager, said she had
heard that Mieville, "an anti-Tolkien who has done for fantasy what
William Gibson did for science fiction," would be going to five cities
in the U.S. for Un Lun Dun and made her case for an appearance in
Richmond. "Any one of the three of our stores couldn't do it alone," she
added.

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Of course there's the whole idea of China Mieville doing a YA novel...

mjw