June 19  – 7 pm – Rosalie Lin – Daughter of Calamity– Poisoned Pen – Scottsdale, AZ. June 28 – 7 pm – Sci-Friday Book Discussion Group – The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis – Live and Virtual – The Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ July 9 – 7 pm – Peng Shepherd – All This & More Book Launch Party!  – Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ   July 12 – 7 pm  – Sarah Beth Durst – The Spellshop (with Rebecca Thorne – You Can’t Spell Treason without Tea) – Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ July 12 – 6 pm – Lauren Roberts – Reckless – Changing Hands, Tempe, AZ (ticketed event)     Ju ..read more

Things are getting off to a bit of a slow start but seem to be picking up in February. January 19 – 7 pm – Sci-Friday Book Discussion Group – Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.  Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale (in person and virtual) February 5 – 7 pm – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel – Changing Hands, Phoenix – Registration via Eventbrite.  February 5 – Fourteen Days with Douglas Preston and Diana Gabaldon.  – Poisoned Pen bookstore.  Ticketed event at The Scottsdale United Methodist Church, 4140 North Miller Road, Scottsdale, Ar ..read more

Babylon 5 30th Anniversary Feb 1993  – Babylon 5 Pilot January 1994   Season 1 November 1994 Season 2 November 1995 Season 3 November 1996 Season 4 January 1998 – Season 5 (TNT)   Archive.org of The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5 Google Groups Babylon 5 FAQL circa 1992 Wikipedia Babylon 5 page  Wikipedia Babylon 5 Franchise Page Babylon 5 Music Videos      Marcus Cole: Dead or Frozen? Babylon 5: The Road Home – August 2023     Babylon 5 Bloopers     ..read more

Doctor Who Russell T. Davies returns as showrunner along with most of the people who produced the show with him. Three Anniversary specials will air in November starring David Tennant as the 14th Doctor and Catherin Tate returning as Donna Noble.  Also returning are Bernard Cribbins as Wilfred Mott, Jacqueline King as Sylvia Noble, Karl Collins as Shaun Temple (Donna’s husband), with Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble Special One: The Star Beast – Featuring creatures from a 1980 Doctor Who Weekly comic Special Two: Wild Blue Yonder – Neil Patrick Harris Special Three: The Giggle A Christmas Spec ..read more

SFTV 2020-2023 Spreadsheet Cancelled Scifi website The Futon Critic  SFTV.org (historical data)   Ashoka   Disney Plus – Wednesdays   One Piece – Aug 31 – Netflix Wheel of Time Season Two – Sept 1  – Amazon   Star Trek: Lower Decks  – Sept 7th  – Paramount Plus The Changeling – Sept 8  Apple TV Plus Walking Dead – Daryl Dixon – Sept 10 – AMC Gen V – Sept 29 – Amazon Prime   Quantum Leap Season 2 – Oct 4 – NBC Loki Season 2 –  Oct 6 – Disney Plus     November – Doctor Who – Disney Plus   Percy Jackson and the ..read more

Upcoming Author Events August 2 – 6:30 pm – Adam Rex – A Little Like Waking  in conversation with Sonora Reyes – Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ August 4th – 7 pm –  Jacqueline Carey discusses Cassiel’s Servant in conversation with Diana Gabaldon – Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ.  – Ticketed Event August 15th – 5 pm – Isabel Cañas – The Vampires of El Norte – Virtual event with The Poisoned Pen August 18th – 7 pm –  Sci-Friday Book Discussion Group  – Jodi Taylor’s  Just One Damned Thing After Another  – In Person and virtual, Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale ..read more

Upcoming Author and genre events in Arizona    Feb 25 – 7 pm – Sci-Friday Book Discussion – Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. – Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ (live and virtual) March 8 – 7 pm  – A. G. Riddle – Quantum Radio and Jessa Maxwell – The Golden Spoon  – Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ   March 12 – 2 pm  – Alma Katsu – Red London and Christina Dodd – Forget What You Know  – Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ   Mar 17 – 7 pm – Sci-Friday Book Discussion – Legends & Lattes by Travis  Baldree – Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ (live and vir ..read more

It may finally start cooling down (or maybe not?) but we’ve got a lot of author events coming up in the next month, many in person (with masking). Sept 11 – 4 pm – Weston Ochse and Yvonne Navarro – Aliens vs. Predators: Rift War – Poisoned Pen Virtual Event Sept 12 – 6 pm –  Aiden Thomas: The Sunbearer Trials – Changing Hands, Tempe, AZ Sept 15 – 6 pm – Amy Sarig King: Attack of the Black Rectangles – Changing Hands, Tempe, AZ Sept 16 – 7 pm – Sci-Friday Book Discussion Group – Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone – Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale (In person and virtual) Sept 16 – 6 pm – Stephan ..read more

July 15 – 7 pm – Poisoned Pen Sci-Friday Book Club – The Gate to Women’s Country by Sherri S. Tepper   July 14 – 7 pm – Joanna Ruth Meyer: Wind Daughter in discussion with Hannah Howard – Changing Hands, Tempe, AZ  (Ticketed event) July 17 – 2 pm – Jane Linskold  discusses several new releases: Aurora Borealis Bridge, Library of the Sapphire Wind, and A New Clan (co-written with David Weber)     Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ  (In Person event) July 18 – 7 pm – Joanna Ruth Meyer (Wind Daughter) and Sara Ella (The Wonderland Trials)  Poisoned Pen ..read more

*Summer in AZ is defined as when it starts hitting 100 degrees. May 20 – 7 pm – Christopher Moore – Razzmatazz – Changing Hands, Tempe (in person event, registration required) May 20 – 7 pm – Sci Friday book club at the Poisoned Pen (in person and virtual) – Consider Phlebas by Iain  Banks.  June 7 – 7 pm – Brigid Kemmerer: Forging Silver into Stars (in conversation with Bill Konigsberg – Changing Hands, Tempe – (in person event) June 17 – 7 pm – Sci Friday book club at the Poisoned Pen (in person and virtual)  – The Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark Upcoming Convention New ..read more