Startling Discoveries at Special Collections

The cool thing about working at ABC Library’s Special Collections is making new discoveries every week. The humbling thing about working at Special Collections is learning how much more there is to learn! Every day, Special Collections grapples with the fact that living in a city isn’t the same as knowing its history.

Here are a few of our startling discoveries, some culled from our speaker series, some from helping customers make their own startling discoveries. These may be old news to you, but they blew us away:

• The rail yard buildings are so huge because building and rebuilding steam locomotives meant hoisting the locomotives into the air.
• The first water treatment plant ran from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily.
• Albuquerque’s first street lights were in series, like old fashioned strings of Christmas lights. If one light went out, the whole string went out.
• Albuquerque was the first community in the United States to hire female streetcar conductors, who were referred to as motorettes.
• Private rooms in tuberculosis sanatoriums were furnished with ash trays.
• The Villa de Alburquerque (Old Town) didn't become part of the City of Albuquerque (New Town) until 1949.
• The planning department changed 300 street names on July 1, 1952.
• Albuquerque banned discrimination in public places in 1952, but didn't pass a fair housing ordinance until 1963.
• For the 1956 celebration of Albuquerque’s 250^th Anniversary, the City Commission ordered the men of Albuquerque to start growing beards and the women to stop wearing cosmetics.

We’re confident that we have much more to learn, and we invite you to join us! Our speaker series continues on Saturday, July 12^th at 10:30 a.m. Come share the startling discoveries as retired Assistant Chief Herman Bishop tells the story of how Albuquerque’s Fire Department moved from the era of the horse drawn fire wagon to age of the hook and ladder.

WWKIP

Knitting?  Don't only grandmothers do that?

Knitting is often thought of as a solitary activity, and can be.  However, just because it isn't visible it doesn't mean the craft has died.  Knitters worldwide have chosen the second Saturday in June to come out of their houses and yarn stores and bring visibility to their hobby.

This year June 14 marks WWKIP- or World Wide Knit In Public Day.  Started in 2005, has grown over the past nine years and this year there are 307 official events in 32 countries, including 113 in the U.S. alone.  Many other groups meet informally, spreading the fiber awareness in bookstores, coffee shops and brew pubs.

If you can't make it but want to learn or join a knit night, nearby yarn stores that have classes are Village Wools and The Yarn Store at Nob Hill.   UNM also offers beginning knitting classes as part of its continuing ed.  If books are more your style, there are 600+ in the catalog, including many good for beginners.  There's an entire YouTube channel devoted to Knitting Help! And, last but not least, don't forget to check our Fiber Arts LibGuide for library drop-in stitching clubs and more.

If you're a pro and can YO, K2Tog, fair-isle, intarsia and steek with the best of them, come and join us at Cherry Hills, Saturday, June 14 from 1 - 3 p.m..  If you're a newbie or just want to try, you're welcome too.  The members of our stitch group will be on hand, demonstrating techniques and offering tips.  We hope you enjoy this day and event.

A Word with Writers

Bookworks and the Albuquerque Public Library Foundation are collaborating on a new lecture series, A Word with Writers, which will feature writers in conversation with one another. The inaugural lecture, featuring sci-fi/fantasy authors George R.R. Martin and Diana Gabaldon, is May 10th at 7pm, at the KiMo Theater. Martin and Gabaldon, in addition to being the the highly successful authors of their own series (Song of Ice and Fire and Outlander), also collaborated on the anthology Dangerous Women, along with other authors such as Melinda Snodgrass, Sherilynn Kenyon, and Joe R. Lansdale.

Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the Albuquerque Public Library Foundation. The Foundation, a 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization, is dedicated to the vitality of the Albuquerque Public Library System by raising funds to enrich programs and services essential to literacy and learning.

To buy tickers for this event, visit the KiMo Theater website.  To read more about the event, check out the event listing on the Bookworks website.

National Library Week: Lives Change @ Your Library

The week of April 13-19 is National Library Week! This year's theme is Lives Change @ Your Library, with honorary chairperson Judy Blume. Today’s libraries can help you and your family discover a new and exciting world. Visit your library for computer resources for teens and adults, help with your job search, access to subscription databases, library-recommended websites and homework help. You also can obtain information about how to become a U.S. citizen, bilingual resources and neutral financial information to help you make important decisions. Libraries are an oasis if you are looking for adult education classes, or for a recommendation on the best books or e-books to expand your horizons.

Want to show support for your library? Tweet about how the library has changed your life using the hashtag #LivesChange and #NLW14. Or, fill out the form on our Library Week LibGuide and let us know how the library has changed your life! Each branch will pick their most inspiring story to be featured on our Facebook page (featured stories will receive a small token of appreciation).

Open the door to change, visit your library! Some library branches will be featuring library-themed programming for National Library Week, so make sure to give our programs & events calendar a look-see.

National Puzzle Day

In honor of National Puzzle Day (January 26), Cherry Hills Library hosted a crossword puzzle tournament on January 14!

Puzzles were taken from the New York Times Archives and the fastest correct completer from each round moved on to the finals.

Congrats to Jennifer and Jason, our stellar final round contestants.  Below you can see them locked in a dead heat for the grand prize:

Both their puzzles were correct, but Jason came in a hair before Jennifer to claim the title.

Here's a close up of the winning puzzle.

Many thanks to all who participated!

The Library has books on puzzles, as well as novels featuring puzzles and movies.
For a fun cinematic look into crossword culture, there's Wordplay.

There are several Crossword Puzzle Dictionaries available for check out, including:
Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
The Everything Large-Print Crossword Dictionary

Nero Blanc and Parnell Hall are two mystery authors who feature crosswords.
The first of Nero Blanc's Belle Graham series is The Crossword Murder.
Parnell Hall's first in the series is A Clue For The Puzzle Lady (also available electronically).

If you're looking for puzzle books, but not necessarily crosswords, we have:
Sudoku Easy To Hard
Sudoku 200 Fun and Challenging Japanese Number Puzzles
The Sudoku Book

Mystery authors who feature Sudoku include Kaye Morgan, Parnell Hall and Shelley Freydont.  Some of their series begin:
Murder By Sudoku
The Sudoku Puzzle Murder (a continuation of her crossword puzzle series)
The Sudoku Murder

The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament is in the beginning of March and information can be found on their website.

¡Globalquerque!

It's September, the chill of autumn has touched us, there's a smell of roasting green chile in the air...of course your mind has turned to global music! Why, you ask?  Because September 20 -21 marks the the 9th annual ¡Globalquerque! celebration of world music and culture at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.

As their promotional material promises, "If this is your first ¡Globalquerque! - you are in for a real treat! At its heart,

¡Globalquerque! is a festival of discovery, with new and unexpected

surprises around every corner." Set on 3 stages, with 19 performances from around the world, this global dance party is guaranteed to have something for everyone - but music is not even all the festival offers! On Saturday the 21st there will be free daytime programming, also at the NHCC.  Want to learn Irish step-dancing? Find out what a kayamb is?  Join a drum circle? Watch a movie or attend a street performance?  The schedule is jam-packed from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.! Additionally, the festival features a global village, with crafts, culture, and cuisine representing far-flung corners of the world, including crafts from Pakistan, Nicaragua, and Uganda; members of local Irish and Scottish cultural groups, folks from Kadampa Meditation Center, and more organizations will be on hand; and for the foodies amongst us, there will be a chance to sample South Indian delicacies, Argentine grill, and Italian-style street pizzas - just for starters.

This year's lineup looks like another great assortment of performers - it'll be hard to decide which to check out!  Local bands Sons of the Rio Grande and Las Flores del Valle will be there; so will T.O. Combo (from the Tohono O'odham of Arizona) playing waila or "chicken scratch"; Argentine singer Sofia Rei "explores connections between the various traditions of South American folklore, jazz, flamenco and electronic sounds";  A Moving Sound are a performance company based in Taipei "that fuses Taiwanese, Chinese and neighboring Asian musical ideas in inspired and engaging modern song compositions"; the Krar Collective from Ethiopia feature a 5 or 6 stringed harp (the "krar" of their name); and we hear DakhaBrakha from the Ukraine is not to be missed. Most bands are scheduled to perform either Friday and Saturday, so for a complete lineup for each night, be sure to check the ¡Globalquerque! schedule page.

¡Globalquerque! is also broadcast live and on the internet on KUNM Saturday from 7 p.m. to midnight if you can't make it in person,  and the ABC Library catalog has a good sampling of current and past ¡Globalquerque! performers' music available for checkout, if you'd like to get a taste of all the great global sounds that founders and producers Tom Frouge (Avokado Artists) and Neal Copperman (AMP Concerts) have traveled the world to find for you.

This year's ¡Globalquerque! performers in the library catalog

The Best of Leon Russell

Ethiopia Super Krar by Krar Collective

A Moving Sound (eponymous)

Reina by Kinky

Shamrock City by Solas

De Tierra y Oro by Sofia Rei

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars [DVD]


Past ¡Globalquerque! performers in the library catalog
 

I've Got My Own Hell to Raise by Bettye LaVette

 

Fire Away by Ozomatli

 

Haïti colibri by Ti-Coca & Wanga-Nègès

 

Un fuego de sangre pura by Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto from Colombia

 

Agadez by Bombino

 

Commercial by Amigos Invisibles

 

Embrace the Spirit by Nawal

Una y otra vez by Sergent Garcia

 

In Frank's Studio by Frank McCulloch y Sus Amigos

 

Dois selos e um carimbo by Deolinda

 

Mariachi Mystery Tour (eponymous)

 

Under the Rose by Rahim AlHaj ... [et al.].

 

 

Links

 

¡Globalquerque!

 

Globalquerque History: Highlights and past performers

Back to School

What is a school supply that everyone needs and is completely free?  

Your Library Card!

Now that the hubbub of the first week of school has died down - school supplies are purchased and routines have been worked out - we can focus on making the school year successful.

With your library card, you have access to a number of online resources, including free online tutoring with a professional tutors.  Tutor.com helps K-12 and college students with homework, studying, projects, essay writing and test prep in English, Math, Science, and Social Studies, including subjects like Chemistry, Algebra, and Calculus.  Adults can get help with resume writing, GED prep, and academic support.  All sessions are online and one-to-one with a live tutor, available every day from 3 to 10 p.m.

ABC Library has other helpful online resources to complement these tutors, with language learning software, research article databases, test preparation software, encyclopedias, biography and literature reference centers, hot-topic event viewpoints, and reading lists for teens and kids.  We have guides to conducting Science Fair projects/experiments and how to use article databases for research.

In addition to our collection of books, audiobooks, music, and movies, we also have downloadables like eBooks and eAudiobooks.  Students can use library public PCs to do research, work on projects, and print, as long as a parent has signed permission on their library card application.  The public PCs have Microsoft Office Suite installed, with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher available.  (Remember to bring a USB drive to save your work.)

We also have programs to help your child get ready for school or participate in activities that will reinforce learning.  Teens are encouraged to get involved in our Teen Advisory programs, a valuable extracurricular to add to a college application.  Stop by your local branch, visit our Programs & Events page to see what's happening, or look at the list below.

• Every Child Ready to Read Storytimes (ongoing)
• Community Science Connections (ongoing)
• Teen Advisory programs (ongoing)
• Invention Club (monthly)
• Family Reads Book Club (monthly)
• College Knowledge: Writing the College Essay (special event)
• Read to the Dogs (ongoing)
• Events for Children
• Events for Teens

Lastly, we have expertise.  If you have questions, difficulties, or want more information, simply ask!  In-person reference assistance is available at all of our branches.

Literary Links: April is...

Each month of the year is dedicated to a variety of monthly observances, local, national, or international, to make you aware of specific causes, health concerns, forms of expression, and the like.  Here are some of April's most notable observances!  Click on the linked word to find items about these topics in the library catalog via a subject search, or click on "lucky dip" below the observance for a random recommendation.

Autism Awareness Month

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International Guitar Month

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Jazz Appreciation Month

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National Humor Month

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National Kite Month

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National Poetry Month

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All ABC Libraries open at 2 pm on Friday, April 12th

Just a reminder that all branches of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System will be closed this morning for staff training.  All branches will reopen at 2 pm this afternoon.  Regularly scheduled hours resume tomorrow, Saturday, April 12th.  For a list of branches and hours, please visit the library homepage.

Thank you for your patience as we strive to serve you better!  ABC Library apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause.

2013 Speakers Program @ Special Collections

To follow up on our 2012 Centennial Speakers Program, the Special Collections Library has assembled a new series of presentations on historic Spanish neighborhoods for 2013. Presentations are scheduled on the second Saturday of the month in Botts Hall, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

We are pleased to partner with Oasis-Albuquerque to bring these events to a wider audience.  We are also indebted to the Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Region, Albuquerque Area Office, for the tremendous maps and graphics. 

 The year-long series describes the settlers, history, culture, and identity of the original Spanish settlements from North to South along the Rio Grande and how those local identities differ from and complement our contemporary notion of “Albuquerque”. Each speaker will offer a brief history of the neighborhood, its geography, genealogy,land grants, and culture. Presenters are familiar with their specific neighborhoods, and some are descendants of Alburquerque founders.

Brian Luna Lucero, the Digital Repository Assistant at the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University, gave the first presentation on January 12th. While he was compiling oral histories, Luna Lucero noticed different ways people from the area now thought of as Albuquerque identified their hometown. His interested culminated in an article, "Old Towns Challenged by the Boom Town: The Villages of the Middle Rio Grande Valley and the Albuquerque Tricentennial,"[ New Mexico Historical Review 82, no.1 (Winter 2007): 37-69].

Luna Lucero’s thesis is that the New Town of Albuquerque that developed as a result of the railroad’s arrival in 1880 is not identical to the Villa de Alburquerque that was founded in 1706. The evidence he finds in baptismal records, census records, post office records, histories, and interviews makes a compelling argument that Albuquerque’s New Town boom initially had little impact on Alburquerque’s Old Town tradition, population, and economy or its linguistic and cultural identity. “Old Town” wasn’t annexed to “New Town” until 1949, arguably the birth of the political and geographic entity celebrated in the 2006 Tricentennial. 

 

Mary Davis continues the series at Special Collections on February 9^th with her presentation on Corrales. Future topics include: Ranchos de Alburquerque; Alburquerque 1540-1846; Barelas; and Los Padillas y Pajarito.  For a complete program listing, visit the schedule guide. A printable version of the schedule is included, as well as some fascinating maps.

You can find more items about Alburquerque in the library catalog. Special Collections also has vertical files about many Albuquerque neighborhoods, such as South Valley, Los Griegos, Martineztown, and Huning Highlands, for use within the library. Vertical files include miscellaneous clippings, photos, and brochures.

Upcoming Events at Special Collections

Special Collections opened again last year after its long closure for renovations, and this branch is ready to start the new year with a bang!

A Pueblo-style building at the northwest corner of Edith Boulevard and Central Avenue, the Special Collections branch is a research library.  Its holdings include books, maps, magazines, newspapers, reports, pamphlets, and archives that illuminate the history and culture of the city of Albuquerque and the state of New Mexico.  It is also home to the Center for the Book,  a hands-on learning center that presents programs on the history of books and printing to area school children and interested groups (pre-arranged tours are available - contact the library for more information).  Although the collections at Special Collections are for in-library use only, it is a holds pickup location, and there are 6 internet computers available for use by the public, with a valid library card.  There are even 3 meeting rooms available for public use, when not in use by the library system.

In addition to these regularly offered services, Special Collections features a number of events!  On January 12th, the monthly 2013 Speakers Program, sponsored by the Special Collections Library, kicks off with Brian Lucero's talk about "From Corrales to Pajarito: The Original Spanish Neighborhoods Along the Rio Grande". Special Collections also hosts our Gizmo Garage program on January 17th, for those needing help checking out, downloading, and transferring to devices eBooks and eAudiobooks from our digital library.

Additionally, Special Collections Library is hosting the last film in ABC Library's Books to the Big Screen filmfest, Vertigo, on January 26th, and on February 5th the library will feature the music of the Portland Cello Project, presented by AMP Concerts.

So why not make a stop at Special Collections soon?  The Genealogy Center has moved to the second floor of Main Library, but there is still plenty to see and do at Special Collections.  For information about collections (including books, archives, maps, and vertical files), Albuquerque Historical Postcards, hours, and much more, visit the branch website!

Books to the Big Screen

Fan of film adaptations of novels?  Just want to see Vertigo on the big screen again? Join ABC Library every weekend in January for a celebration of book to film adaptations, Books to the Big Screen! This series is presented in partnership with the Guild Cinema, KiMo Theatre, and South Broadway Cultural Center.  You can find a list of films and showtimes (and a plot summary for each film) in our Books to the Big Screen LibGuide.  Most movies will be shown free of charge.

On Saturday January 19 @ 4pm, join us for a fundraiser for the Friends for the Public Library! The film Doctor Zhivago will be shown at the KiMo Theatre. Tickets are $7 and available at www.kimotickets.com.

Doomsday Prophecies

Post-apocalyptic is very in right now, as you might imagine from the success of books such as The Hunger Games and The Road, and the accompanying movies (not to mention Mad Max, The Book of Eli, I Am Legend, and more).  The library catalog has 70 items that use the word doomsday in their descriptions, 203 results show up in a keyword search of the word apocalypse, and there are 25 subject headings that include end of the world (with Armageddon, Beast of the Apocalypse, Judgement Day, and Tribulation as secondary suggestions).  We read about it, we write about it, we think about it, and we have December 21, 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar, coming up fast, with the possible end of the world that that implies.

What to think? The SETI Insitute says on their site that there is "widespread and unnecessary fear" about this date and NASA's webpage says "12-21-12 Just Another Day".  If you are fearing for the end of the world, apparently there's a village in France called Bugarach that has been prophesied to be "the only place on earth left standing" after December 21st.  Whatever your beliefs on this topic, there are a lot of items in the library catalog you can study and discuss during the next couple of weeks.  These include:

DVDs

The 2012 Anthology. Disc 1, Doomsday 2012, Mayan Doomsday Prophecy

Nostradamus 2012

2012: Science or Superstition


BOOKS AND eBOOKS

The Order of Days: The Maya World and the Truth about 2012 by David Stuart

The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies & Possibilities

2012: Mayan Year of Destiny by Adrian Gilbert

The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies by David Wilcock

The Real History of the End of the World: Apocalyptic Predictions from Revelation and Nostradamus to Y2K and 2012 by Sharan Newman

A Doomsday Reader: Prophets, Predictors, and Hucksters of Salvation edited by Ted Daniels [eBook]


For more items about doomsday prophecies, you can also search  with the subjects Prophecies, Nostradamus, or Mayas - Prophecies. 

The library catalog also features guides to help you in disaster preparedness, such as Extreme Weather: A Guide to Surviving Flash Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Heat Waves, Snowstorms, Tsunamis, and Other Natural Disasters by Bonnie Schneider, Just in Case: How to Be Self-Sufficient When the Unexpected Happens by Kathy Harrison, and Preparedness Now! An Emergency Survival Guide for Civilians and Their Families by Aton Edwards [eBook]. You can find more by searching subject headings such as Emergency Management.

Balloon Fiesta 2012: Blaze a Trail

This year's Balloon Fiesta started on October 6th and runs through October 14th - so if somehow you forgot about it this year (though that's hard to do with a skyline full of balloons, I25 backed up at the exit for Balloon Fiesta Park, & chase crews darting about the place), there's still time to check out some of the action! & for those of you who are struggling to make it to a Mass Ascension at 7 am, there's always...the library!  Here's a little bit of Balloon Fiesta that you can take home with you to enjoy, at least for a 3 week check-out!

The World Comes to Albuquerque: Celebrating 40 years of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta by Kim Vesely

Albuquerque: Where the World Celebrates Ballooning by Q13-KRQE TV ; in association with Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta

Special Shape Rodeo: Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta by Jean-Michel Bertrand

Looks like Special Collections has Flying Franks, Floating Fish: The Odd October Skies of Albuquerque - A Loving Tribute to Photographing Twenty Years of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Special Shaped Balloons by Kim Alaburda on display, so you'll have to go there to see a copy!

For kids:

The Elephants in the Land of Enchantment by Beverly Eschberger

Pop Flop's Great Balloon Ride by Nancy Abruzzo


For general items about hot air balloons (not just about the Balloon Fiesta!), try a subject search of "Ballooning" or "Hot Air Balloons".


Links:

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta homepage

Daily Event Schedule

Albuquerque Balloon Museum

Bubonicon, and NM Science Fiction & Fantasy

Perhaps it is the altitude. Or the presence of the National Labs. Or the stimulating and evident cultural mix. Or just the grand scale, wide skies and ever-changing beauty of the Land of Enchantment. But for whatever reason, New Mexico is blessed with a particularly high concentration of

Science Fiction and Fantasy authors.

And not just authors, but also fans of the genres. Authors and fans will converge August 24-26 to celebrate their mutual interests when

The 44th Annual Bubonicon

occurs at the Albuquerque Marriott Uptown.







Bubonicon (in classic fan humor fashion, the name a wry nod to the fact that NM is the only state with annual cases of bubonic plague) is one of the largest such conventions in the Southwest, but still noted for having a welcoming atmosphere. The con is also famous for the distinguished group of local authors likely to attend, many of whom have themselves been guests of honor at other conventions worldwide. Look below for a list of New Mexico's science fiction and fantasy authors.

With so many authors in attendance it is not surprising that Bubonicon (or "B-con", to its intimates) also has a reputation as a "readercon", a gathering leaning more to print works than other media. But do not fear a dry professional conference -- while there are discussion panels which may verge on the scholarly, there is always a fun and lively recognition of science fiction and fantasy in movies and television, and the possibilities inherent in the genres. Costumes are always appreciated (this year's theme is "Mayan Apocalypse"), from "hall costumes" up to the often clever and elaborate presentations during Saturday evening's Costume Contest. The con also celebrates New Mexico's own filmmakers, with screenings of locally-produced films.

Other media are represented in the Art Show, where SF/F-themed works are on view and many are for sale. A Dealer's Room offers current and hard-to-find books, SF/F-themed clothing and jewelry, and a wide range of interesting odds and ends to catch the eye of anyone venturing inside.

This year's Guest of Honor is well-known author Brandon Sanderson; kicking things off as Toastmaster is author and screenwriter Michael Cassutt. Guest Artist is book illustrator Ursula Vernon. Many of the authors in attendance will be available for book signings.

While many of the hundreds attending Bubonicon each year are regulars (some sporting T-shirts from B-cons decades passed) new blood is always welcome and visitors are guaranteed a memorable experience. Day passes and weekend passes are available at the door.

Visit the Bubonicon website for the full schedule of events. And continue on below for an overview of New Mexico's science fiction and fantasy authors, many of whom are likely to be in attendance at Bubonicon 44.

Bubonicon website

Brandon Sanderson's website

Michael Cassutt's Wikipedia entry

Ursula Vernon's website

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New Mexico's science fiction and fantasy authors are not just numerous and productive, but also highly talented and respected. In the list below you will find New York Times bestselling authors, Hugo (the highest award presented by the World Science Fiction Society) and Nebula (presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) award winners, and authors whose works have been turned into movies and television series. (And authors who have worked on movies and television series.) Lifelong New Mexican Jack Williamson (1908-2006) was the second author to be named a Grand Master of science fiction, and many of these authors have garnered other awards and recognition.

While distinguishing themselves in SF/F, many of these authors have also written in other genres, including detective/noir, horror, western, historical fiction and romance.

Many of these authors are likely to be in attendance at Bubonicon 44, and available for book signings.

Link to Weekly Alibi article about NM's SF/F authors

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Daniel Abraham

Titles in the Collection       Author's website

        also writes as M.L.N. Hanover

        Titles in the Collection       Author's website

        also writes as James S.A. Corey

        Titles in the Collection       Author's website

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Doug Beason

Titles in the Collection       Author's website

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Suzy McKee Charnas

Titles in the Collection       Author's website

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Stephen R. Donaldson

Titles in the Collection       Author's website

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Steven Gould
Titles in the Collection      Author's website
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Darynda Jones

Titles in the Collection       Author's website

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Jane Lindskold
Titles in the Collection       Author's website
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George R.R. Martin
Titles in the Collection       Author's website
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Victor Milan
Titles in the Collection       Author's website
       also writes as Alex Archer (in the Rogue Angel series)
       also writes as James Axler (in the Deathlands series)
       also writes in the Jake Logan western series
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John Jos. Miller
Titles in the Collection       Author's Wikipedia page
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Laura J. Mixon
Titles in the Collection       Author's website
        also writes as M.J. Locke    
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Pati Nagle
Titles in the Collection       Author's website
        also writes as P.G. Nagle     
        Titles in the Collection     Author's website
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Scott S. Phillips
Titles in the Collection     Author's website
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John Maddox Roberts
Titles in the Collecton      Author's Wikipedia entry
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Melinda Snodgrass
Titles in the Collection       Author's website
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S.M. Stirling
Titles in the Collection       Author's website
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Sheri S. Tepper
Titles in the Collection       Author's website
       also writes as E.E. Horlak
       also writes as B.J. Oliphant (Shirley McLintock series)
       also writes as A.J. Orde (Jason Lynx series)
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Ian Tregillis
Titles in the Collection       Author's website
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Robert E. Vardeman
Titles in the Collection       Author's website
        also writes as Karl Lassiter
        Titles in the Collection     Author's website
        also writes as Jackson Lowry
        Titles in the Collection     Author's website
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Sage Walker
Titles in the Collection      Author's Wikipedia entry
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Walter Jon Williams
Titles in the Collection      Author's website

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Gone But Far From Forgotten

Fred Saberhagen (1930-2007)
Titles in the Collection      Author's website
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Jack Williamson (1908-2006)
Titles in the Collection      Wikipedia entry
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Roger Zelazny (1937-1995)
Titles in the Collection      Author's website
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Link to Weekly Alibi article about Saberhagen, Williamson, and Zelazny