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CANCELED: Dialogue: Philip K. Dick in the Bay Area

Wednesday, 3/25/2020
6:00 - 7:30
Koret Auditorium
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

Authors and PKD experts Daryl Gregory, Erik Davis, Jack Skillingstead, Kim Stanley Robinson and Richard Lupoff will discuss Philip K. Dick and his time in the Bay Area and how his experiences here shaped his writings.

Daryl Gregory writes genre-mixing novels, stories and comics. His most recent novel is Spoonbenders, a Nebula, Locus and World Fantasy Award finalist. Other novels include Harrison Squared, Afterparty, Pandemonium, and the World Fantasy Award-winning short novel We Are All Completely Fine. His stories are collected in Unpossible and Other Stories.

Erik Davis grew up in North County in Southern California and spent a decade on the East Coast, where he studied literature and philosophy at Yale and spent six years in the freelance trenches of Brooklyn and Manhattan before moving to San Francisco, where he currently resides. He is the author High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies and hosts the podcast Expanding Mind.

Kim Stanley Robinson is widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction. Robinson began publishing novels in 1984. His work has been described as "humanist science fiction" and "literary science fiction". Robinson himself has been a proud defender and advocate of science fiction as a genre, which he regards as one of the most powerful of all literary forms.

Richard Lupoff is the author of some seventy books ranging from science fiction, fantasy, and mystery novels and short story collections to volumes of cultural history including Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure and The Great American Paperback. He lives with his wife in Berkeley, California.

Jack Skillingstead has published more than forty stories, a short story collection and three novels. His second novel, Life on The Preservation, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and he has also been short-listed for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. He is married to the science fiction writer Nancy Kress and they live in Seattle.

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This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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