VIRTUAL AUTHOR TALK: Arkady Martine
Thursday, March 257:00—8:00 PMVirtual Event via Zoom
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Intimidated by science fiction? Learn more about this versatile and often misunderstood genre with Hugo Award-winning author Arkady Martine as she discusses her books A Memory Called Empire, and its sequel, A Desolation Called Peace.
Arkady Martine is speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a city planner. She is currently a policy advisor for the New Mexico Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department, where she works on climate change mitigation, energy grid modernization, and resiliency planning. Under both her names she writes about border politics, rhetoric, propaganda, and the edges of the world. Her first novel, A Memory Called Empire, won the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Arkady grew up in New York City and, after some time in Turkey, Canada, Sweden, and Baltimore, lives in Santa Fe with her wife, the author Vivian Shaw. Find her online at arkadymartine.net or on Twitter as @ArkadyMartine.
This program is offered in collaboration with the Reading Public Library.
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