Michigan Science Fiction Writers' Series
Spring 2001

Discussions with and readings by Michigan Science Fiction Writers

Admission is FREE!

Main Library, W449
 
 
 

Friday, February 16, 2001

Sarah Zettel

Join us for an evening of readings and discussion with science fiction writer, Sarah Zettel.

Having sold her first short story at 20 years old in 1986, Ms. Zettel has gone on to sell over a dozen more, primarily in the science fiction genre.

The author’s first science fiction novel, Reclamation, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1997.  Her second book, Fool’s War, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (1998).  Her third novel, Playing God, made the New York Public Libraries list of Best Books for the Teen Age in 1999.

Ms. Zettel’s most recent science fiction novel is The Quiet Invasion on which Gerald Jones of The New York Times commented:
    “Zettel's narrative strategy is to emphasize the parallels: each side has its idealists, its             pragmatists and its self-righteous manipulators of facts and factions…(she) even manages to wring pathos out of the demise of an alien city.”
 

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Join us for an evening of readings and discussion with science fiction writer, Kathe Koja.

Kathe Koja is the best-selling author of The Cipher, Bad Brains, Skin, and Strange Angels. She has won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in First Novel and the Locus Award. Her short stories have appeared in Whisper of Blood, The Best of Pulphouse, and other anthologies, as well as in Asimov's SF and Fantasy & Science Fiction, among other magazines. She is a Detroit native, and lives there with her husband and son.

Ms. Koja began her writing career at MSU’s Clarion Workshop in the mid-1980’s.  Since then she has published a string of novels and a short story collection (Extremities: Stories); her most recent novel is straydog, upcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

"Decay of the mind, decay of the body and soul: Koja's provocative story lines and evocative prose combine reality with invention, the supernatural with the everyday." – Christopher Atamian, The New York Times