Jay Lake

The Gaslight Gathering Steampunk and Victoriana Convention makes its spectacular return on May 3-5, 2013. Offerings at the gala event include the Time Traveller Under the Sea Ball; the Junto Academy, featuring demonstrations and workshops in the arts of Steampunk making and costuming; the Art Salon; the Steampunk High Tea; and the Victorian Fashion Show and Tea. Jay Lake will be the Writer Guest of Honor. Other guests include Todd McCaffrey, Cat Winters, Kaja Foglio, and more!

In honor of Guest of Honor Jay Lake, and sponsored charity Freedom Dogs, Gaslight Gathering is holding a charity auction on Sunday, May 5. Fans of all genres have had a long tradition of giving back to the community that supports them and Gaslight is no exception.

Mysterious Galaxy will be among the merchants gathered in the environs of the Town and Country Hotel. More information is available here.

Location: Street: Town and Country Hotel Additional: 500 Hotel Circle North City: San Diego, Province: California Postal Code: 92108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Jay Lake reads from Escapement.

In his novel Mainspring, Jay Lake created an enormous canvas for storytelling with his hundred-mile-high Equatorial Wall that holds up the great Gears of the Earth. Now, with Escapement (Tor), Lake explores more of that territory in a "lively and thought-provoking sequel" that "effectively anneals steampunk with geo-mechanical magic in an allegorical matrix of empire building and Victorian natural science" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). (oregonobsessionz)… (more)

Jay Lake reads from Escapement.; Brenda Cooper reads from Reading the Wind (The Silver Ship).

Two science fiction events in one night. The territory first explored in Jay Lake's novel Mainspring deserved further exploration. Escapement goes in for another look. In it, a remarkably bright girl who lives on a hundred mile high wall in the middle of the Atlantic ocean decides to leave her home for England, where she assumes she will find a place to learn from her intellectual equals. Brenda Cooper's Reading the Wind explores the way war affects societies and individuals as it follows a brother and sister caught in conflict. (KingRat)… (more)