Podcasts about Borderlands Books

How do we better political conversations? What does it mean to be meaningfully involved in our community? To answer these questions, Manny Yekutiel set out to create a one-of-a-kind events space, cafe, and bookshop in San Francisco's Mission district. The result was Manny's, a central and affordable place to become a better informed and more involved citizen.In this episode, Manny explains how compelling physical spaces are essential to making civic engagement more accessible and why we shouldn't make people choose between having a social life and a political life. He also explains how his work is continuing a long tradition of civic gathering spaces in the US and in San Francisco. Together, we explore the importance of physical events in an age where we increasingly cannot have them, discuss how Manny has had to adapt his business to a socially distanced world and talk about the importance of storytelling in successful political movements If you're a long time activist, new to politics, or just looking for ways that you can get more involved in the issues that you care about, this episode has stories and lessons that you can learn from and put into action in your life. Episode Show Notes:Learn more about Manny's on their website and be sure to follow them on Facebook, Instagram, and TwitterThe food at Manny's is provided by Farming Hope, an organization focused on using food to provide unhouse and formerly incarcerated individuals with job trainingManny's is supported in large part by community sponsors Borderlands Books in San Francisco is an excellent example of another community-supported spaceTo learn more about race in America, Manny recommended the film Just Mercy along with the books White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo and How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi Manny recommended reading Team of Rivals to learn more about Abraham Lincoln Manny is pondering what San Francisco and other major metro areas will look like after COVID-19 and found this New York Times article about the decline in tourism in Venice to be thought-provokingThe Ezra Klein Show is one of Manny's favorite podcasts Manny recommended Swing Left to learn how about supporting Democratic political racesManny's go-to karaoke song is "Vanishing" by Mariah Carey

Neal Stephenson author of Fall, or Dodge in Hell in conversation with Long Now Board Member, Kevin Kelly. Tickets include a signed copy of Fall, or Dodge in Hell. The Interval at Long Now: check-in starts at 12 noon. The talk will begin @ 12:30pm. Neal Stephenson will inscribe books after the event from 1:30 to 2pm. Additional books will be on sale before and after the talk thanks to Borderlands Books. Fall, or Dodge in Hell is pure, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in one grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age. Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work "In the Beginning...Was the Command Line." He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Scifi author, scientist, and entrepreneur Hannu Rajaniemi discusses the real life late Victorian attempts to map the afterlife which inspired Summerland, his latest novel. Rajaniemi introduces us to scientists, inventors, misfits, revolutionaries, plus a tour of obscure ideas and bizarre inventions: spirit-powered sewing machines, aetheric knots, the four-dimensional geometry of Lenin’s tomb... What do these actual Victorian obsessions tell us about today’s fascination with intelligent machines and immortality? He'll sign after the talk, and Borderlands Books will be on hand selling all of his books and he will sign after the talk. Hannu Rajaniemi was born in Finland, obtained his PhD in string theory at the University of Edinburgh and now works as a co-founder and CTO of HelixNano, a synthetic biology startup based in the Bay Area. He is the author of four novels including The Quantum Thief trilogy and Summerland.

Borderlands Books and Borderlands Cafe is a gem in the city: a bookstore and cafe that specializes in new and used science fiction, fantasy, and horror. If you've been around these parts 10 or more years, you might remember their sphinx kitties roaming the store, and a sign that told everyone when the cats were in.  Today's episode is from Borderlands co-founder Alan Beatts. The Borderlands Cafe was a later addition to the bookstore. During the construction of the cafe, Alan found something in the basement that sent the crew running.  The bookstore faced closure a few years ago, and amazingly the staff raised $2M through a grassroots campaign to buy a building on Haight Street where they will be located permanently.

A wide-ranging talk with Borderlands Books' owner and founder Alan Beatts. Matthew and Alan discussed Borderlands' history -- including the controversy that garnered it unexpected national attention in 2015, landing Alan everywhere from the pages of the New Yorker to on camera for Fox and other news outlets. Matthew and Alan also talked about what the climate is like today for indie bookstores, both how they've dealt with Amazon and some of the innovative ways they continue to adapt to the future. Borderlands Books is a new and used bookstore specializing in science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror, located in San Francisco's Mission District. Borderlands is one of the largest stores in their specialty in the world, with nearly 30,000 titles in stock. The store has been mentioned in AAA's travel magazine VIA, Gourmet Magazine, and the Washington Post. Last April, Borderlands made Atlas Obscura’s list of 62 of the World's Best Independent Bookstores.

Interview with Ellen Klages The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 19b A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women. In this episode we talk about The long incubation for the ideas that became Passing Strange Lesbian culture in mid-century San Francisco and the San Francisco World’s Fair on Treasure Island The hidden interconnectedness of Ellen’s novels The love of historic objects and texts Historical fiction as “time travel” for the reader Publications mentioned: Passing Strange (tor.com, for signed copies: Borderlands Books, Amazon) “Caligo Lane” (originally published in Subterranean Online, Winter 2014, available in the collection Wicked Wonders Tachyon Publications, 2017, Amazon) “Hey Presto” (originally published in the anthology Fearsome Magics by Jonathan Strahan, 2014, available in the collection Wicked Wonders Tachyon Publications, 2017, Amazon) The Green Glass Sea (Viking Children’s Books, 2006, Amazon) “Time Gypsy” (originally published in Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (Overlook Press, 1999), also available in the collection Portable Childhoods Tachyon Publications, 2007, Amazon) More info The Lesbian Historic Motif Project lives at: http://alpennia.com/lhmp Website: http://ellenklages.com Twitter: @eklages Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ellen.klages If you have questions or comments about the LHMP or these podcasts, send them to: contact@alpennia.com No transcript is available for this episode.

Seth Harwood reads from his latest novel Everyone Pays at Borderlands Books, San Francisco on July 24, 2016.

Seth Harwood reads from his latest novel Everyone Pays at Borderlands Books, San Francisco on July 24, 2016.

Every three months Locus publishes a long list of forthcoming science fiction, fantasy, and horror books that are being published in the US and the UK. As we have been doing all year, whenever one of these ‘Forthcoming Books' issues hits the newsstands and your email inboxes, we invite Locus Editor-in-Chief Liza Trombi to join us to discuss some of the books we're excited about reading.  This episode is a little different, though. After more than forty years, Locus is moving premises, leaving the home of founder Charles N. Brown in the Oakland hills and moving to bright new digs in San Leandro. Before getting into our discussion of new books, we chat about the herculean task of packing and moving one of the best collections of science fiction books and art in the world, the incredible kindness of Alan Beatts and the Borderlands Books team, and hopes for the future.  As always, our sincere thanks to Liza for taking the time to chat to us. We hope you enjoy the episode and will be back next week with more!

In this week's episode of Listen Local, we welcome guest Alan Beatts, owner of Borderlands Books, to discuss his contentious opinions about the minimum wage increase. Also, we return to the scene of the Mission Fire for our investigative report on its landlord.

An event for Robert Shults's book THE SUPERLATIVE LIGHT at Borderlands Books. I taped Borderlands manager Jude Feldman talking about the history of the store, followed by Robert's rap about his book of photos of the Texas Petawatt Laster Lab, followed---at the 18 minute mark---by my story, "Laser Shades," an animated reading I might say, and then a little more talk about the technology of lasers. Kind of a cinema verite podcast. (57MB, 47 min).

Opening party for my BIG AHA Paintings show at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, the show from Jan 17 - March 15, 2014. Tape includes my description of my novel THE BIG AHA, two short readings, some Q&A, and my "tour" of the paintings on the walls (to SEE the paintings while listening to this part, you might go to http://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings). About 45 mins.

Jan 17, 2014. Opening party for my BIG AHA Paintings show at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, the show from Jan 17 – March 15, 2014. Tape includes my description of my novel THE BIG AHA, two short readings, some Q&A, and my “tour” of the paintings on the walls. To SEE the paintings while […]

Jan 12, 2013. Talking and reading at Borderlands Books in San Francisco the day of my art show opening there. I discuss my novel “Turing & Burroughs,” and then begin reading a section of it. Due to a technical glitch, the tape cuts off after twenty minutes. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

Jan 14, 2012. Reading from NESTED SCROLLS at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, with Q&A. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

July 10, 2011. Reading the first chapter of JIM AND THE FLIMS at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, with Q&A on writing. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

August 14, 2010. I talked a bit about the origins of the “Ware Tetralogy,” read the brain-eating scene from “Software,” a cheeseball vs. moldie scene from “Freeware,” and a juggling moldies scene from “Realware.” And then we had some Q&A. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

Opening the Borderlands Café and the iPad

Dieses Kapitel ist Borderlands Books gewidmet, San Franciscos großartiger unabhängiger Science-Fiction-Buchhandlung. Borderlands liegt ziemlich genau gegenüber der fiktiven Cesar Chavez Highschool, die in „Kleiner Bruder“ beschrieben ist, und ihren Ruf hat sie nicht nur wegen fantastischer Events, Signierstunden, Buchclubs und derlei, sondern auch wegen der erstaunlichen haarlosen ägyptischen Katze namens Ripley, die sich wie ein […]

November 4, 2008 – A Night To Remember

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