The SF in SF Podcast

KATE MARUYAMA is the author of Alterations, The Collective, Bleak Houses, and Harrowgate and her novella Family Solstice was named Best Fiction Book of 2021 by Rue Morgue Magazine. Her short work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and she is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the Uncharted Short Story Prize. She served on the working Board for Women Who Submit, and is...

ABOUT THE AUTHORS BRENDA COOPER is a writer, a technology professional, and a futurist. Brenda writes science fiction, fantasy, poetry, and non-fiction. Two of her novels, The Silver Ship and the Sea and Edge of Dark, have won the Endeavour Award for the best science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author. Wilders was also short-listed for the P.K. Dick award. Many of her sh...

Recorded live at The Koret Auditorium in the San Francisco Public Library, October 5th, 2025 This is a special appearance and readings by authors Joe R. Lansdale (Hap and Leonard, Bubba Ho-Tep) and Samantha Mills (The Wings Upon Her Back), courtesy of SF in SF Events, the reading series sponsored by Tachyon Publications.

Recorded live at The Lost Church in San Francisco, July 20th, 2025 ABOUT THE AUTHORS HELENE WECKER is a local Bay Area author, who grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, a small town north of Chicago, and received her Bachelors in English from Carleton College in Minnesota. After graduating, she worked a number of marketing and communications jobs in Minneapolis and Seattle before deciding to return t...

Recorded live at The Lost Church in San Francisco, June 8, 2025 ABOUT THE AUTHORS GAIL CARRIGER writes books that are hugs, mostly comedies of manners mixed with steampunk, urban fantasy, and sci-fi (plus cozy queer joy as G. L. Carriger). These include the Parasol Protectorate, Custard Protocol, Tinkered Stars, and San Andreas Shifter series for adults, and the Finishing School and Tinkered Stars...

Recorded live at The Lost Church in San Francisco, May 4, 2025 ABOUT THE AUTHORS PAT MURPHY is an American science writer and author of science fiction and fantasy novels. She has often used the ideas of the absurdist pseudophilosophy pataphysics in some of her writings. Along with authors Lisa Goldstein and Michaela Roessner, she formed The Brazen Hussies in 2000 to promote their work. Together w...

Recorded live at The Lost Church in San Francisco, April 13th, 2025 ABOUT THE AUTHORS DARYL GREGORY, the multiple award-winning author of critical darling SFF novel Spoonbenders, has a new book out! It’s called When We Were Real (Saga Press, April 1, 2025), set in America seven years after we all learn we are living in a simulation. It’s a madcap adventure following two friends on a cross-country...

Recorded live at The Lost Church in San Francisco, October 27, 2024 ABOUT THE AUTHOR GARTH NIX has been a full-time writer since 2001, but has also worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth’s books include the Old Kingdom fantasy series: Sabriel, Lirael, Abho...

Recorded live at The Lost Church in San Francisco, September 15, 2024 ABOUT THE AUTHORS ANNALEE NEWITZ writes science fiction and nonfiction. Their background includes being a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley, the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, and they have a Ph. D. in English and American Studies from...

This is the first SF in SF to be recorded at our new venue, The Lost Chuch, a nonprofit performance space in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. PAOLO BACIGALUPI is an internationally bestselling author of speculative fiction. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, John W. Campbell and Locus Awards, as well as being a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the Michael L. P...

ROBIN SLOAN was raised and educated in Michigan, and attended Michigan State University, where he co-founded the literary magazine Oats and graduated with an economics degree in 2002. He worked for about a decade at the intersection of media and technology before publishing his first novel. In 2003, he founded the SnarkMarket blog with some friends, and then moved to the SF Bay Area in 2004 to wor...

HANA LEE is a biracial Korean American writer who also builds software for a living. She has an undying love for fantastical stories in all their forms, especially video games, and a habit of writing to moody indie rock playlists. A graduate of Stanford University, she's always loved the dark, the gothic, and the occult, so there's usually a picturesque ruin of some kind lurking in the background...

Gail Carriger writes books that are hugs, mostly comedies of manners mixed with steampunk, urban fantasy, and sci-fi (plus cozy queer joy as G. L. Carriger). These include the Parasol Protectorate, Custard Protocol, Tinkered Stars, the San Andreas Shifter series for adults, and the Finishing School and Tinkered Starsong series for young adults. In addition, she's published the nonfiction book, The...

Please join SF in SF for a fabulous evening of Frankenstein and his Monster, Mary Shelley, an exciting space caper story and science fiction fun with authors David D. Levine and David M. Sandner! ABOUT THE AUTHORS DAVID D. LEVINE is the author of the space-opera caper novel, The Kuiper Belt Job, recently published by Caezi SF & Fantasy. https://www.arcmanorbooks.com/caeziksf. The Kuiper Belt J...

Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by author Cliff Winnig. FRAN WILDE is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and blogger. Her debut novel, Updraft, was a 2016 Nebula Award nominee, and won the 2016 Andre Norton Award and the 2016 Compton Crook Award. Her debut middle grade novel, Riverland, won the 2019 Andre Norton Award,...

Annalee Newitz is a nonfiction and fiction author. The recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, they also hold a Ph. D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley. Previously, they founded the well-known website io9, was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo, a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley. Newitz is curre...

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is an American writer of science fiction. He has published 19 novels and many short stories but is best known for his Mars books. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes running through them and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best...

SF IN SF, in partnership with Tachyon Publications and the American Bookbinders Museum, welcomes the acclaimed Juliette Wade, Mike Chen, and Tiffany Trent. Hosted by Terry Bisson Juliette Wade's first novel, Mazes of Power, is just out from Daw; a work of sociological science fiction, it follows a deadly battle for succession in a world where brother is pitted against brother in a singular chance...

Mia Tsai is a Taiwanese American author of speculative fiction. She lives in Atlanta with her family, and, when not writing, is a hype woman for her orchids and a devoted cat gopher. Her favorite things include music of all kinds (really, truly) and taking long trips with nothing but the open road and a saucy rhythm section. She has been quoted in Glamour magazine once. In her other lives, she is...

CHARLIE JANE ANDERS is currently hard at work on a new adult novel, tentatively called The Prodigal Mother. Most recently, she wrote the young adult Unstoppable trilogy: Victories Greater Than Death, Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, and Promises Stronger Than Darkness. She’s also the author of the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes, and Never Say You Can’t Survive (August 2021), a book abo...

ADAM SAVAGE has worked as a projectionist, animator, graphic designer, carpenter, interior and stage designer, toy designer, welder, and scenic painter, and has built everything from giant Buddhas and futuristic weapons to fine-art sculptures and dancing vegetables. He created special effects for more than 100 television commercials and a dozen feature films, including Star Wars Episode I: The Pha...

Meg Elison and Laura Anne Gilman Laura Anne Gilman's literary achievements include more than twenty novels, such as the Nebula award-nominated The Vineart War trilogy, and the award-winning Devil’s West series with Saga Press/Simon & Schuster. She'll be discussing her forthcoming works, including the Gilded Age historical fantasy, UNCANNY TIMES, coming in October 2022, and a new series of para...

M. A. Carrick is the joint pen name of Marie Brennan (author of the Memoirs of Lady Trent) and Alyc Helms (author of the Adventures of Mr. Mystic). The two met in 2000 on an archaeological dig in Wales and Ireland — including a stint in the town of Carrickmacross — and have built their friendship through two decades of anthropology, writing, and gaming. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bre...

JOHN SCALZI is an American science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Old Man's War series, three novels of which have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and for his blog Whatever, where he has written on a number of topics since 1998. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2008 based predominantly on that blog,...

Recorded live at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco on Sunday, January 15, 2023. There are three author readings followed by a discussion session. Hosted by Terry Bisson. KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is an American writer of science fiction. He has published 19 novels and many short stories but is best known for his Mars books. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his nove...