Please join us for an evening of reading and conversation with authors Vylar Kaftan and Megan O’Keefe, in conversation with Bay Area writer, editor, and raconteur Terry Bisson.

Vylar Kaftan writes speculative fiction of all genres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and slipstream. She won a 2013 Nebula Award for her novella “The Weight of the Sunrise”, as well as a 2013 Sidewise Award for Short-Form Alternate History. She was also nominated for a 2010 Nebula Award for her short story “I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno.” Her stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, and Clarkesworld. Her work has been reprinted in Horror: The Best of the Year, honorably mentioned in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and shortlisted for the WSFA Small Press Award. She is the founder of FOGcon, a literary-themed science fiction and fantasy convention in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Megan O’Keefe is the author of Velocity Weapon, just released by Orbit, as well as the Scorched Continent trilogy: Steal the Sky, Break the Chains, and Inherit the Flame. Her debut novel, Steal the Sky, won the Gemmell Morningstar Award, and she was a first-place winner in the Writers of the Future competition, Vol. 30. She has worked in arts management and graphic design, and lives in the Bay Area.

Doors open at 6:00 pm; event begins at 6:30 pm. As always, Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ works for sale.