This Saturday, 4 December 2010, the Fairport Public Library will be holding a Festive Book Fair from 2pm-4pm. There will be local authors

US version of Swedish vampire film sill wicked creepy. Director discusses differences between the two.

Infodumps plague writers and readers. Click the title to commiserate.

Max Planck Institute scientists reveal operation of long-mysterious portion of photosynthetic biochemical process. Click the title for more.

Books have arrived! Order 2034: Writing Rochester's Futures from our online store!

We are pleased to announce that the anthology, 2034: Writing Rochester's Futures, is being published under R-SPEC's own new imprint, R-SPEC Press. The cover price for 2034 is $14.95, and it is a 248-page, "perfect" bound, 6"x9" trade paperback with a nice, glossy, color cover rendered by David Pascal. A launch party is being planned and will be announced.

At this time, we offer you the opportunity to pre-order copies of the book, which makes an excellent gift. Please click the title of this post for complete details and ordering information.

Member and Award Winning Author Nancy Kress has another story on EscapePod. Her short story, The Kindness of Strangers, is featured in 217th episode from September. Click the title for the link.

Our next meeting is 7 July 2009 at the usual place, the Pittsford Barnes & Noble Community Room, and we'll be doing our own Hugo vote. Thanks to esteemed VP Craig DeLancey for posting the following to the listserv:

The next meeting of R-Spec will be our annual discussion of Hugo
nominated short stories.

What?  Homework!

No, I tell ye.  Here are ALL the Hugo nominated short stories, with
links to podcasts of them being read.  You can listen to them while
ironing or driving or laying on your back being fed grapes by your
slavebots.  Painless!

For all of the links Craig posted, as well as links related to ALL of the nominated works, click the title.

Member and Award Winning Author Nancy Kress has a story on EscapePod this month. Her short story, Patent Infringement, is featured in the first release of the month as a Flash - a short short. Click the title for the link.

Gizmodo posted information and pics of five different ideas for replacements for the Space Shuttle, et al. While NASA's Orion is among them, there are two Russian ideas and two coroporate ideas, too. The links in the Gizmodo story are worth following.