SF in SF, February 2024

I spent the afternoon and evening up in San Francisco today. First, a much needed beach walk along Ocean Beach, paralleling the closed portion of the Great Highway. (I parked at Sloat and 43rd.) Then I went to this month's SF in SF event. After some remembrances of Terry Bisson from Cliff Winnig, Jacob Weisman, and Rudy Rucker, we heard readings from David M. Sandner's upcoming horror novella His Unburned Heart (featuring Mary Shelley and the, well, unburned heart of Percy Bysshe Shelley) and David D. Levine's science-fiction heist novel The Kuiper Belt Job. Swag acquisition: a cute wind-up Frankenstein's monster.

Humorous snafu of the evening: Sandner's nonfiction book The Afterlife of Frankenstein was held up in the mail, so instead of having the book signed we got nifty special bookplates to get signed instead if we ordered the book. (It'll be delivered Soon.)