About this Event
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Dr. jah Elyse Sayers in conversation with author Zee Dempster about her book The Aurora Satellite, a speculative fiction novel that explores what humanity carries forward after the known world disappears.
The Aurora Satellite is a speculative fiction novel that explores what humanity carries forward after the known world disappears.
Set in the near future, our protagonist Rae is living on the USS Doris Miller, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with the last surviving humans on an earth whose surface is fully submerged in water. Rae lives a self-centered existence until an ominous Drone attack almost kills Banks, a father figure to her. While he is in a coma, she discovers his archive containing secrets to the past life of mankind on land. Rising political tensions, pending starvation, the struggle to hold onto intimacy and the realities of a spent nuclear core threaten to destroy their already limited hope for a future. Will Rae be able to overcome her selfish desires long enough to use the past to save herself and mankind?
The event will take place in the William P. Kelly Skylight Room, on the 9th floor at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 5th Avenue, New York, United States
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