Lauren C. Teffeau in Conversation at Beastly Books in Santa Fe – 1:00 pm Saturday, September 21
Beastly Books in Santa Fe is hosting “Authors in Conversation” with Lauren C. Teffeau and Sarena Ulibarri 1:00 pm Saturday, September 21! After a dialogue on all things writing, both authors will be signing their newest releases – A Hunger With No Name by Lauren C. Teffeau and Another Life by Sarena Ulibarri.
A Hunger With No Name‘s Storyline: “Thurava of Astrava is intended to become a herder, a most honored position for her dwindling community that clings to life on the banks of the Najimov, the river that’s the lifeblood of the high desert. But the Glass City on the horizon threatens the delicate balance the Astravans have managed to hold on to for centuries, polluting the air and water as the city grows bigger and bigger. The Glass City’s clockwork liaisons offer to bring the Astravans into the Glass City’s walls, but they will have to give up their ways and their precious herds to do so. Thurava must decide who she is without her animals, using the stars as her guide, putting herself on a collision course with the secrets the Glass City holds dear.”
Another Life‘s Storyline: “Finding out who you were in a previous life sounds like fun until you’re forced to grapple with the darkness of the past. Galacia Aguirre is Mediator of Otra Vida, a quasi-utopian city on the shores of a human-made lake in Death Valley. She resolves conflicts within their sustainable money-free society, and keeps the outside world from meddling in their affairs. When a scientific method of uncovering past lives emerges, Galacia learns she’s the reincarnation of Thomas Ramsey, leader of the Planet B movement, who eschewed fixing climate change in favor of colonizing another planet. Learning her reincarnation result shakes the foundations of Galacia’s identity and her position as Mediator.”
Teffeau was born and raised on the East Coast, educated in the South, employed in the Midwest, and now lives and dreams in the high desert of New Mexico. When she was younger, she poked around in the back of wardrobes, tried to walk through mirrors, and always kept an eye out for secret passages, fairy rings, and messages from aliens. She was disappointed. Now, she writes to cope with her ordinary existence. Her novel Implanted (2018, Angry Robot), a blend of cyberpunk, solarpunk, adventure, and romance, was shortlisted for the 2019 Compton Crook award for best first SF/F/H novel and named a definitive work of climate fiction by Grist. She’s published over twenty short stories in a variety of speculative fiction magazines and anthologies.
Ulibarri is a speculative fiction author and editor currently living in the American Southwest. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, DreamForge, GigaNotoSaurus, Solarpunk Magazine, and elsewhere, and nonfiction essays have appeared in Strange Horizons and Grist. As an anthologist, she has curated and published several international volumes of optimistic climate fiction, and has also served as one of the story reviewers behind the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest.
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