The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings and the South Street Seaport Museum will present a launch party for The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow, on Tuesday, May 13th. Richard Bowes, Carol Emshwiller and Barry N. Malzberg will be the featured readers.

Richard Bowes has published five novels, the most recent of which is From the Files of the Time Rangers. His stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, SCI FICTION and elsewhere. His most recent short fiction collection, Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies, was published by PS Publications in England in 2006.

Carol Emshwiller is the author of six novels and more than 100 short stories. Her short work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, and has been collected in several volumes, most recently in I Live With You.

Barry N. Malzberg has written more than 40 science fiction novels and 250 short stories since his first publication in Galaxy Magazine in l967. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his 1972 novel, Beyond Apollo.

Ellen Datlow was editor of SCI FICTION, the multi award-winning fiction area of SCIFI.COM, for almost six years, the editor of Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror for one and a half years, and fiction editor of OMNI for over seventeen years. Her next original anthology, Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, will be out next January.

Doors open 6:30 PM for the event, which takes place at The South Street Seaport Museum’s Melville Gallery, 213 Water Street, New York. Admission is gree, though a $5 donation will be appreciated if possible.

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Horror Events, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy

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