PREMIER EVENT: KIM STANLEY ROBINSON and PAOLO BACIGALUPI

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PREMIER EVENT: An evening with Kim Stanley Robinson and Paolo Bacigalupi

Wednesday, April 20, 7:30 p.m.

Aurora 

The Water Knife

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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 couldn’t be more different. Robinson’s AURORA bring us to the 21st century as mankind prepares to take its first journey outside of our solar system. It’s 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 Bacigalupi’s 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 you’ll 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 BelowForty Signs of RainThe 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 FictionAsimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, and High Country News. Already at work on a new novel, he is also the author of The Windup GirlShip BreakerThe Drowned Cities, and more. 

   
Event date: 
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 7:30pm
Event address: 
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025-4349
The Years of Rice and Salt: A Novel By Kim Stanley Robinson Cover Image
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy #1) By Kim Stanley Robinson Cover Image
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Green Mars (Mars Trilogy #2) By Kim Stanley Robinson Cover Image
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Forty Signs of Rain (Science in the Capital #1) By Kim Stanley Robinson Cover Image
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Published: Spectra - July 26th, 2005

The Windup Girl By Paolo Bacigalupi Cover Image
$16.99
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Published: Night Shade - May 5th, 2015

Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist) By Paolo Bacigalupi Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9780316056199
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - October 3rd, 2011

The Drowned Cities By Paolo Bacigalupi Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9780316056229
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - May 7th, 2013

Pump Six and Other Stories By Paolo Bacigalupi Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9781597802024
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Published: Night Shade - November 1st, 2010