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Event
Kim Stanley Robinson and Paolo Bacigalupi
Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler's Books
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
7:30pm
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Doors open for seating at 6:30 p.m.
Don't miss your opportunity to see two sci-fi titans talk about two radically different versions of the future when we bring together Kim Stanley Robinson and Paolo Bacigalupi on Wednesday, April 20.
For two writers imagining the future, their visions for the world to come couldnt be more different. Robinsons AURORA bring us to the 21st century as mankind prepares to take its first journey outside of our solar system. Its a hopeful vision of the future where mankind fulfills its intergalactic manifest destiny to live among the stars. But all is not well on the generation ship travelling to colonize Aurora, a planetary moon. The novel mounts in tension as this brilliant author makes the case that not only might intergalactic travel not be a good idea, we may not survive the experience at all.
Things are equally dire in the world of Paolo Bacigalupi back on a ravaged earth as he imagines the vicious conflicts that arise in a world where the water has dried up. His novels explore the effects of bioengineering and a world in which fossil fuels are no longer viable. In Bacigalupis groundbreaking novel THE WINDUP GIRL and its extraordinary follow-up THE WATER KNIFE, bioengineering has ravaged the world with food-borne plagues and a future American Southwest is reduced to a dystopian dust bowl where water is a guarded commodity for wealthy and menacing interests.
Kim Stanley Robinson thinks the glass is half-full in Aurora. In The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi thinks the water has evaporated and the glass is shattered. What version of the future do you believe in? This promises to be a fascinating conversation about the very nature of humanity, our place among the stars and our deep roots in the Earth. We hope youll join us for this spirited dialogue about what our future holds.
Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. He is the author of eleven previous books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Fifty Degrees Below, Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Antarctica--for which he was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers' Program.
Paolo Bacigalupi is a Hugo, Nebula, and Michael L. Printz Award winner, as well as a National Book Award finalist. He is also a winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and a three-time winner of the Locus Award. His short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine, and High Country News. Already at work on a new novel, he is also the author of The Windup Girl, Ship Breaker, The Drowned Cities, and more.
Ticket Information:
Premier Seating- Includes Book $40.00
Admit one. Includes a paperback copy of both Aurora and The Water Knife, Premier seating, and priority in the signing line
General Seating - No Book $20.00
Admit one. General Seating. No paperback copy of either "Aurora" or "The Water Knife". No priority in the signing line.
Student - $10.00
Admit one. Student Seating. No paperback copy of either "Aurora" or "The Water Knife". No priority in signing line. Must show student ID
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LocationKepler's Books (View)
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
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