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Author Talk with Ann Leckie - 11/28/2023, zoom (registration info below)

Enjoy an exclusive conversation with critically acclaimed science fiction author Ann Leckie. Ann will discuss her new novel Translation State and answer questions about her writing process. Attendees will also have a chance to submit questions to the author.

@ann_leckie@mastodon.annleckie.com is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Award winning novel Ancillary Justice. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Date: Thursday, September 28, 2023 Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm (Pacific Time presumed, sponsored by Mountain View, Calif., public library) Register at: mountainview.libcal.com/event/10946845

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@emmadilemma I found a book of celebrity walking tours, and reading the one about midtown Manhattan I was struck by the fact that a walking tour based solely on who lived in a given neighborhood, not when they lived there, is a weird layered form of time travel. After that, yes, a ton of research. Thanks for these lovely observations.

and just like that, it's about new york, grounded in geography and action but – you realize only at the end – unmoored from time. i know more about these faces and places than some of my friends. staying at the algonquin was a bucket-list item i satisfied as covid began to recede. i kept checking my phone as jazz tunes were named. but i'm no historian, and the fluidity of time snuck up on me.

'we now take liberties with the script', @sarahpinsker@wandering.shop wrote at the start, just before putting an f-bomb in george gershwin's mouth. it would take a year of research, the year she probably spent, to determine exactly what those liberties were. it's a lot easier to just let it envelop you, like the tickling of ivories up an air shaft on a hot day.

it is disconcerting how often the author, in 2016, tries to warn us of a hideous future dystopia that has turned out markedly worse than what she must have thought was chicken-little talk. much like walking through tomorrowland today.

i am notoriously slow with fiction right now but had to check in - the first two of these stories are surreal and amazing, sliding you from a world you understand to one that is gradually revealed to twist in upon itself @sarahpinsker@wandering.shop

On the "seminal article in The Atlantic Monthly on so-called broken-windows policing," italicisation on "highly" is the author's.