The Future is Wild

Starring Madeline Ashby & Jeff VanderMeer

FRIDAY, OCT 18 @ 5:30PM $25
Memorial Park Library, Festival Hub, 2nd Floor
1221 2 St SW

NEW DATE & TIME!

Attention forward thinkers. Futurists. Imagineers. Re-wilders. This is the show for you! You know Jeff VanderMeer from the Southern Reach Trilogy, which is being reissued just in time to become a quartet with the release of Absolution. You might also know him as the co-editor of the Big Books of Science Fiction, Classic Fantasy, and Modern Fantasy, as well as the co-curator of The Weird and The New Weird (we would have called this show The Future is Weird, except that adjective is being delightfully deployed by the Dems to save, well, democracy right now). Oh, and he is attempting to drag Florida into the ecological future, one saved raccoon, one saved indigenous species at a time.

We’re pretty sure Madeline Ashby is caught up with all things VanderWild as a sought-after futurist in this age of hyper change, crafting science fiction prototypes for Changeist, the Institute for the Future, the Smithsonian Institution, SciFutures, Nesta, The World Health Organization, and the World Bank. Her new novel, Glass Houses, is a gleefully decadent near future whodunit perfect for fans of Severance, The White Lotus, and Black Mirror.

WHAT TO EXPECT

• 60-minute conversation
• Libations Bar, with non-alcoholic options
• Onsite Bookseller: Owl’s Nest Books
• Post-Show signing and author selfies