Tim Pratt Reading & Signing

Sat, Jan 7
1:00 pm
Free

Borderlands is happy to welcome Tim Pratt back to the store to
promote THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF RANGERGIRL, his quirky and cool new
novel. Here's how the publisher describes the book:

"In this debut novel, acclaimed short-story author Tim Pratt delivers
an exciting heroine with a hidden talent - and a secret duty. Witty
and suspenseful, here is a contemporary love song to the West that
was won and the myths that shape ushellip.
As night manager of Santa Cruz's quirkiest coffeehouse, Marzi McCarty
makes a mean espresso, but her first love is making comics. Her
claim to fame: The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, a cowpunk neo-
western yarn. Striding through an urban frontier peopled by Marzi's
wild imagination, Rangergirl doles out her own brand of justice. But
lately Marzi's imagination seems to be altering her reality. She's
seeing the world through Rangergirl's eyes - literally - complete
with her deadly nemesis, the Outlaw.
It all started when Marzi opened a hidden door in the coffeehouse
storage room. There, hidden behind the world she knows, she saw the
face of something strangehellip and dangerous. And she unwittingly
became its guard. But some primal darkness must have escaped,
because Marzi hasn't been the same since. And neither have her
customers, who are acting downright apocalyptic.
Now it's up to Marzi to stop this supervillainous force that's
swaggered its way into her world. For Marzi, it's the showdown of her
life. For Rangergirl, it's just another day.... "

And here's what Tim has to say about it: "When people ask me what the
book is about, I usually say something like 'It's about Westerns,
comic books, coffee shops, the folly of anthropomorphizing the
natural world, friendship, loyalty, the responsibility of the artist
in society, gunslingers, madness, and love.' Sometimes I vary the
nouns." Don't miss this very exciting reading!

Venue:

Borderlands Books
866 Valencia Street
San Francisco
415 824-8203
http://www.borderlands-books.com

Borderlands is located on Valencia Street in between 19th and 20th
Streets, next to the Mission Playground and convenient to both the
Mission and 16th & Mission and 24th BART.

Additional Info:
-books.com
415 824-8203
http://www.borderlands-books.com