Here’s another one of those Science Fiction readings that I won’t be able to make.

John Shirley, one of my favorite writers, will be reading May 1 down in Soho. Unfortunately it is on Tuesday and it starts at 6:30 which makes it nearly impossible for me to get to. Although only about 30 miles away, the whole of NYC lies between the place and me, and it takes hours to get there.

Here is what the announcement says:

John Shirley is some f*cking guy who walked in off the street every day for a
week, smelling of beer and vomit and old cigarettes, and saying that if I didn’t
let him read he was going to pee in the doorway of the venue every night.
Finally he convinced us. He is also known as the winner of the Bram Stoker Award
for his story collection Black Butterflies — which was also chosen as one of
the Best Books of the Year by Publisher’s Weekly — and is the author of the
cyberpunk trilogy A Song Called Youth, recently reissued in an omnibus by Prime
Books. He was one of the original cyberpunk novelists with William Gibson, Bruce
Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Pat Cadigan, and Lew Shiner. (“John Shirley was
cyberpunk's patient zero, first locus of the virus, certifiably virulent. A
Carrier.”­William Gibson)

Where:
The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art
(www.sohodigart.com) is dedicated to re-establishing
SoHo as an international center for the development of new artistic forms,
concepts and ideas. A screens-instead-of-canvases approach allows a wide
selection of art from around the world which would otherwise never make it to
the City. The SGDA is available for private gatherings and events of all kinds.

The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art
138 Sullivan Street (between Houston & Prince St.)