About this Event
Don those pressure suits, charge your lasers and prepare for lift-off as we get ready to embark upon an evening of speculation with award-winning science-fiction authors Adrian Tchaikovsky and Lauren Beukes, celebrating their latest publications, Alien Clay and Bridge. Chairing the event will be local sci-fi author Gareth L. Powell, two-time winner of the BSFA Award and Locus Award finalist.
***PLEASE NOTE: Doors open at 6:00 PM and the event will be starting promptly at 6:30 PM, so please arrive with plenty of time to be seated. ***
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . .
On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It's the greatest discovery in humanity's spacefaring history - yet who were its builders and where did they go?
Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to Kiln's extrasolar labour camp. There, he's condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies.
Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising, sometimes shocking ways with the human body, so Arton will risk death on a daily basis. However, the camp's oppressive regime might just K*ll him first. If Arton can somehow escape both fates, the world of Kiln holds a wondrous, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it, and might just set him free.
Bridge by Lauren Beukes
Page-turning and ambitious, Bridge is a dazzlingly inventive speculative thriller with an unforgettable cast of characters, and the work of a novelist at the height of her powers.
Bridge's maverick scientist mother Jo is dead. Now she's examining everything Jo left behind.
Which is when she finds her big secret.
Is it a drug?
A gateway to other worlds?
Jo believed so.
Bridge is desperate to see her mother again. Will do anything, risk anything. Including search for her in those other realities.
What she doesn't know is that others are after Jo's secret. And some believe anyone
it touches must be destroyed.
Bridge? She just wants to find her mom …
About the authors
- ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He's also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and tabletop games. Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. The Children of Time series won the Hugo Award for best series, while Children of Time won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
- LAUREN BEUKES is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Shining Girls, which has been adapted by AppleTV+ starring Elisabeth Moss, as well as Zoo City, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Moxyland, Broken Monsters, and Afterland. Her novels have been published in twenty-four countries, and she's also a screenwriter, comics writer, journalist, and award-winning documentary maker. She lives in London with two trouble cats and her daughter.
- GARETH L. POWELL was born and raised in Bristol, where he still lives, and his early mentors included Diana Wynne Jones and Helen Dunmore. His novels have twice won the BSFA Award, and been finalists for both the Locus Award in the US and the Seiun Award in Japan. He is probably best known for his acclaimed Embers of War space opera series, which includes the novels Embers of War, Fleet of Knives, and Light of Impossible Stars. He is a popular guest and speaker at conventions and literary events, and can often be found on Twitter @garethlpowell giving free advice to aspiring authors.
Event Information
Start Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm. Doors open at 6:00 PM and the event will be starting promptly at 6:30 PM, so please arrive with plenty of time to be seated.
Date: Tuesday 2nd April
Location: St Stephen’s Church, 21 St Stephen's St, Bristol BS1 1EQ
Tickets: £8
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St Stephens Church, 21 Saint Stephen's Street, Bristol, United Kingdom
GBP 8.00