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SUMMARY:Guy Gavriel Kay at Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:This month, Writers With Drinks features a fantasy version
  of Venice, real stories of space, Afro-Futurism, and tons more!  When
 : Saturday May 21 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM What: WR
 ITERS WITH DRINKS! Who: Guy Gavriel Kay, David Lau, Yangsze Choo, Kwan
  Booth and Ariel Waldman! How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit th
 e CSC Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA  Abo
 ut the readers/performers:  Guy Gavriel Kay's latest novel is Children
  of Earth and Sky. His previous novels include River of Stars, Under H
 eaven, Ysabel, The Last Light of the Sun, The Sarantine Mosaic, The Li
 ons of Al-Rassan, A Song for Arbonne, Tigana and The Fionavar Tapestry
 . He has been awarded the International Goliardos Prize for his work i
 n literature of the fantastic and won the World Fantasy Award for Ysab
 el in 2008. In 2014 he was named to the Order of Canada, the countryâ€
 ™s highest civilian honor. His work has been translated into more than
  twenty-five languages.  Ariel Waldman is the author of What’s It Li
 ke in Space?: Stories from Astronauts Who’ve Been There and the co-a
 uthor of a congressionally-requested National Academy of Sciences stud
 y on the future of human spaceflight. She's the founder of Spacehack.o
 rg, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration, and the g
 lobal director of Science Hack Day, a 20-countries-and-growing grassro
 ots endeavor to make things with science. She sits on the council for 
 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that nurtures radi
 cal, sci-fi-esque ideas that could transform future space missions. Sh
 e is also a fellow at Institute for the Future. In 2013, Ariel receive
 d an honor from the White House for being a Champion of Change in citi
 zen science.  Yangsze Choo's debut novel The Ghost Bride is a historic
 al fantasy set in 1890s colonial Malaya and the Chinese world of the d
 ead. It was an Oprah.com Book of the Week, NYTimes bestseller, Carnegi
 e Medal nominee, Indie Next List Pick, Barnes & Noble Fall 2013 Discov
 er Great New Writers selection, Indigo Spotlight Pick, Goodreads Choic
 e Award Finalist for Best Fantasy , Glamour Magazine Beach Read, Good 
 Housekeeping Magazine August Book Pick.  David Lau's first book of poe
 try, Virgil and the Mountain Cat, was described by the Believer as \"s
 imultaneously creative and destructive … grounded in—or rather, tr
 apped by—the present.\" He was chosen as a Poetry Society of America
  New American Poet. Lau is also the author of the chapbook Bad Opposit
 es (2012). With Cal Bedient, he edits the journal Lana Turner.  Kwan B
 ooth is the editor of Black Futurists Speak: an Anthology of New Black
  Writing and producer of the Black Futurists Speaks literary series. \
 n\nFor more information visit http://trueskool.com/events/guy-gavriel-
 kay-at-writers-with-drinks
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CATEGORIES:"san francisco", "bay area", sf, california
LOCATION:The Make Out Room
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CONTACT:415-647-2888
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