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Author: Emily St. John Mandel & Annalee Newitz in Conversation

A partnership with San Mateo County Libraries
Wednesday, 4/27/2022
6:00 - 7:00
Virtual Library

United States

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Award-winning and best-selling author Emily St. John Mandel discusses her latest book with journalist and author Annalee Newitz. Sea of Tranquility, is a novel of art, time, love and plague, taking readers from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later. It is a story of humanity across time and space that precisely captures the reality of our current moment. 

 

St. John Mandel is the author of five novels. Her novel Station Eleven was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award and the Morning News Tournament of Books, and has been translated into 27 languages. A previous novel, The Singer's Gun, was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. Her short fiction and essays have been anthologized in numerous collections, including Best American Mystery Stories 2013. She is a staff writer for The Millions. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. Her next book, Sea of Tranquility, will be released in April 2022.


Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and have written for Popular Science, The New Yorker, and the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website io9 and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008–2015, and then became Editor-in-Chief at Gizmodo and Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Their book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel, Autonomous, won a Lambda award.

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Emily St. John Mandel - Website | Emily St. John Mandel - Twitter | Emily St. John Mandel - Instagram

Annalee Newitz - Website | Annalee Newitz - Twitter | Annalee Newitz - Instagram

 

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