In Person
- November 22, 2026 - 6:30 pm
- Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)
$50
In Luke Dumas’ Nothing Tastes as Good: A Novel, a lonely, overweight retail worker enters a weight loss clinical trial and begins experiencing the drug’s unusual side effects. People who were cruel to him have started disappearing, and when the police warn of a cannibalistic killer on the loose, he fears he has become a monster – but how can he give up this miracle drug? In Alma Katsu‘s Incarnate, Dorothy has spent her whole life wanting to be seen, and after failing to make her mark as an influencer, she gets a second chance after joining a company focused on cutting-edge deepfake technology. Meet the beautiful Isabella: she’s Dorothy with millions of followers. Incarnate is a chilly reimagining of The Picture of Dorian Gray for our digital age. And in Paul Tremblay’s Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep: A Novel, Julia is a former semiprofessional gamer hired to chaperone a man in a vegetative state – with proprietary AI implanted in his head. As they travel across the country and he struggles to understand the nightmarish visions in his head trying to tell him who he was and who he must track down and why, their lives intertwine as unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality. Moderating is Tananarive Due, award-winning author of Mazywood.
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