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Wed is NEW COMICS! Get in and get 'em while they're hot!
05/27/2026

Wed is NEW COMICS! Get in and get 'em while they're hot!

Alright, this is getting silly. We can't even show them all. Make a trip to Stanza today and see them all.
05/26/2026

Alright, this is getting silly. We can't even show them all. Make a trip to Stanza today and see them all.

Even more new books out today!
05/26/2026

Even more new books out today!

New books Tues! A perfectly beautiful day to get in and get some new books!
05/26/2026

New books Tues! A perfectly beautiful day to get in and get some new books!

One of the things I love most in Sci-Fi and Fantasy is the opportunity to completely reimagine how we live. In Kim Stanl...
05/22/2026

One of the things I love most in Sci-Fi and Fantasy is the opportunity to completely reimagine how we live. In Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312, children are raised in community creches. In What We Are Seeking - one of my favorite books of the year - Cameron Reed throws together representatives of almost every kind of relationship, and minutely examines the results.

This salon, we’ll host editor Nan Bauer-Maglin. Nan is professor emerita at the City University of New York and the editor or coeditor of nine previous collections, including Gray Love: Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60. Nan just edited a book of stories about modern love.

In this salon, we’ll explore the many kinds of modern love. From nonmonogamy to platonic marriages, to forming retirement communities with your friends. This is a perfect opportunity to join us in what I’m calling a chill party setting, where we can have a nosh, grab a drink, and chat about a topic that seems more popular than ever.

I’d love you to bring your curiosity, and your own experiences and stories. We’ll create a couple prompts based on topics in the book, to help kick off discussion. I want as many of you to share as Nan does.

This is an event for all of us.

-Mark

GET THE DEETS AND RSVP NOW
https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/a-stanza-salon-loving-arrangements

Coming up next in the sci-fi book club! 2005's HUGO winner, sounds pretty bananas.Come get a copy early next week and jo...
05/22/2026

Coming up next in the sci-fi book club! 2005's HUGO winner, sounds pretty bananas.

Come get a copy early next week and join the coolest star ship crew in the galaxy.

One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his backyard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.

The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk--a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. Not only have the world's artificial satellites fallen out of orbit, their recovered remains are pitted and aged, as though they'd been in space far longer than their known lifespans. As Tyler, Jason, and Diane grow up, space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time is passing faster outside the barrier than inside--more than a hundred million years per day on Earth. At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future.

Jason, now a promising young scientist, devotes his life to working against this slow-moving apocalypse. Diane throws herself into hedonism, marrying a sinister cult leader who's forged a new religion out of the fears of the masses.

Earth sends terraforming machines to Mars to let the onrush of time do its work, turning the planet green. Next they send humans...and immediately get back an emissary with thousands of years of stories to tell about the settling of Mars. Then Earth's probes reveal that an identical barrier has appeared around Mars. Jason, desperate, seeds near space with self-replicating machines that will scatter copies of themselves outward from the sun--and report back on what they find.

Life on Earth is about to get much, much stranger.

https://www.stanzabooks.com/book-clubs

Greek Myths for Character Building was a great session!Kids rolled the DICE OF FATE, and FATE ALONE determined the myth ...
05/21/2026

Greek Myths for Character Building was a great session!

Kids rolled the DICE OF FATE, and FATE ALONE determined the myth they’d get.

Each young storyteller received a research / character sheet to guide their work and take home to show off. And as always happens, the creativity, the humor, and the unexpected flowed freely.

No phones. No screens. Young Storytellers researched in age-appropriate non-fiction books here at Stanza.

A gold-pooping raccoon.

An infinity symbol for a character who never gives up.

A man who uses a hammer for a cane and is obsessed with knocking down every mountain.

Young storytellers researched myths, broke down traits of the myths that spoke to them, then created entirely new characters and stories. They even gave their characters a logo!

We always emphasize, these workshops are about FUN. Take some creative risks. Try new things. If you mess up, that’s GREAT! Messing up c an often lead to great new ideas you never would have thought of!

And always, hang out and make new friends. Get on it, and join the Young Storytellers Guild.

https://www.stanzabooks.com/young-storytellers-guild

Oh, a couple more for you...
05/20/2026

Oh, a couple more for you...

Wed is new comics day!!! Get in here and get some.
05/20/2026

Wed is new comics day!!! Get in here and get some.

Address

508 Main Street
Beacon, NY
12508

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 7pm
Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 7pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
Friday 10am - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 8pm
Sunday 10am - 7pm

Website

https://bookshop.org/shop/stanza, https://libro.fm/stanzabooks

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