We have extended the submissions deadline for our next anthology, Rochester Rewritten: Alternative Rochesters, to 31 March 2011. More after the break.

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

Jack Garner devotes the first half of his column to us! Click the title for more.

R-SPEC will be on local talk radio on 30 July 2010!

Please join us as we officially launch R-SPEC/R-SPEC Press' first book, 2034: Writing Rochester's Futures.

When & where: 4pm Saturday, 31 July 2010, at Mood Makers Books in Village Gate [map]. Invite anyone who's interested in books, Rochester, or the future!

We're extremely pleased to announce that 2034: Writing Rochester's Futures has been delivered by our printer and is available for immediate purchase. And we're having a book pick-up party this Sunday (1/31/2010) at 4pm, at the home of Janice Carello & Eric Scoles. Anyone who sees this and would like to come is welcome to do so -- we will have plenty of books for sale and can even facilitate credit/debit card purchases via the web, if you so desire.

Per B&N's request, we are not having a meeting tonight.

Our R-SPEC meeting on October 6 at the Pittsford Barnes and Noble went very well. Our guest speaker, Alex White, gave a wonderful talk on the realities of combat, class, and culture in the Middle Ages in Europe. Click the title to read a little more and to access a recording available for those who missed the meeting.

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.

Our next R-SPEC meeting is Tuesday, June 2, at 7pm, at the Pittsford Barnes and Noble. The topic is differences between books and movies based upon them, particularly in the horror genre, but also addressing "weird fiction" and other genre and sub-genre.