1. John Scalzi reads in the U District tonight. Fuzzy Nation is a very buzzed-about sci-fi novel about a space prospecter who comes across a race of small fuzzy bipedal aliens. Scalzi is an excellent author. Unfortunately, his book covers are always crap.

2. Mary Doria Russell is the author of The Sparrow, which a novel that is loved by sci-fi nerds and mainstream bookclubs alike. She's reading at the downtown branch of the library tonight from her new novel Doc, which is a fictional biography of Doc Holliday.

3. Jim Shepard's You Think That's Bad is a new collection of short stories. It includes an especially good story about the making of Godzilla that was published as a novella a short while ago. He's at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight.

4. For more, check the reading calendar.