Passing along ... Michael
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Wallis kf6spf (408) 396-9037 michaelwal...@me.com > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Clayton Moore <c...@keplers.com> > Subject: Cool Sci-Fi Event at Kepler's Books > Date: March 10, 2016 at 12:21:49 PM PST > To: michaelwal...@me.com > > Hi Michael, > > I've been looking into the sci-fi scene here and discovered BASFA online. > We're having a cool event next month I thought your group might like to know > about. We're hosting not one but two great sci-fi writers in Kim Stanley > Robinson and Paolo Bacigalupi on Wednesday, April 20th at 7:30 pm. > > This event seems like it would be of interest to your community, so we hope > you can join us at the event. We'd also love it if you can spread the word > about the event through social media, the list or any other available means. > Our Twitter handle is @keplers and on Facebook, we're Kepler's Books and > Magazines. You can also email or call me with any questions, comments, > follow-up, etc. at c...@keplers.com <mailto:c...@keplers.com>. > > I've included more information about the event below. Thanks! --Clay > > Clayton Moore,Events Manager > Peninsula Arts & Letters > In Partnership with Kepler's Books > 1047 El Camino Real, Suite 201 > Menlo Park, CA 94025 > c...@keplers.com <mailto:c...@keplers.com> /303-827-9491 (cell) > www.keplers.com/PAL <http://www.keplers.com/PAL> / @clayatkeplers > > Peninsula Arts & Letters programs are a project of Silicon Valley Community > Foundation (SVCF). SVCF is a nonprofit charity exempt from federal income > tax under IRS section 501(c)(3). > > PREMIER EVENT: An evening with Kim Stanley Robinson and Paolo Bacigalupi > > Wednesday, April 20, 7:30 p.m. > > Aurora > > The Water Knife > > Tickets are available at Kepler's and online at Brown Paper Tickets > <http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2502126> > Don't miss your opportunity to see two sci-fi luminaries discuss their major > new novels just in time for the paperback release. > > Stan's Aurora tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar > system. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a > writer at the height of his powers. NPR calls it "[A] near-perfect marriage > of the technical and the psychological" and io9 recommends that "If > Interstellar left you wanting more, then this novel might just fill that > longing." > > Paolo's genre-bending novel The Water Knife has been praised by a diversity > of admirers, from John Scalzi who says "Anyone can write about the future. > Paolo Bacigalupi writes about the future that we're making today, if we keep > going the way we are. It makes his writing beautiful . . . and terrifying" to > Kelly Link to Lee Child. It's a water-wars thriller set in the Southwest in > the near future with engagingly unpredictable characters. > > 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, Asimov’s 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. > > Event date: > Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 7:30pm > Event address: > 1010 El Camino Real > Menlo Park, CA 94025-4349
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