Wed, Jul 29
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Arkady Martine - A Memory Called Empire and Vivian Shaw - The Greta Helsing Trilogy
An evening of Science Fiction and Fantasy courtesy of Alpha Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Workshop for Young Writers.
Date, Time & Location
Jul 29, 2020, 6:00 PM
Zoom
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A fascinating space opera debut novel, Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is an interstellar mystery adventure. Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident―or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.
In Vivian Shaw's The Greta Helsing Trilogy, Greta Helsing inherited her family's highly specialized and highly peculiar medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although she barely makes ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life Greta's been groomed for since childhood. Until a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead Londoners alike. As terror takes hold of the city, Greta must use her unusual skills to stop the cult if she hopes to save her practice, and her life.