September 5
Lauren Beukes Discusses Bridge
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About The Event
Via Books on the Rise:
Kicking off our September slate we’re absolutely thrilled to announce that Lauren Beukes will be joining us at the bookshop to discuss her recently released thriller BRIDGE on September 5th, 7pm at Books on the Rise!
About Bridge:
Drawing praise from the likes of George R.R. Martin, Grady Hendrix and Catriona Ward; Beukes has been at the cutting edge of science fiction and speculative fiction writing for the last decade.
Description of Bridge:
Read the mind-bending masterpiece from the multi-award-winning author of Apple TV’s smash hit literary adaptation SHINING GIRLS, starring Elizabeth Moss.
THERE ARE INFINITE REALITIES.
SHE’S LOOKING FOR ONE . . .
Bridge’s maverick scientist mother Jo is dead.
Now she’s examining everything Jo left behind.
Which is when she finds her big secret: the dreamworm.
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 . . .
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.
Praise for Bridge:
‘You can tell Beukes is having an absolute blast putting words on the page. Her fun is evident in the big, bloody action sequences; in the squirmy, almost retro grotesqueness of the dreamworm.’ – The New York Times
‘An addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner. With an original take on the many worlds theory.’ – Guardian
‘Complex, challenging, gripping and thought-provoking. A morally thorny tale without clear-cut heroes or villains. Beukes does a skilful job of balancing desperate but very relatable hope.’ – SFX
About the Speakers & Authors:
Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle, The Shining Girls, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss, and, most recently, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.
Dr. Allen Stroud is a lecturer and researcher at Coventry University. He is the Chair of the British Science Fiction Association. His award-winning research is in the development of macrotext documents for commercial media properties in science fiction, fantasy and horror. He is also an award-winning science fiction writer who has published internationally successful commercial novels, with his principle focus on fiction set in 2118 AD. Stroud has spoken at international conventions, giving a presentation in Helsinki in 2017 at the World Convention of Science Fiction on modern media mythologies. He is an experienced event organiser, panel moderator and contributor.
Stewart Hotston lives in Reading, UK. With a Celtic-Indian mother and a father of North African/Roma descent, Stewart is a somewhat confused second-generation immigrant living in the UK. His writing concerns those whose voices are more than capable but too frequently marginalised and how they build hope, connection and live in the worlds in which they find themselves. His loves big ideas, weird worlds and people who refuse to give up. His novels include the BFS and Subjective Chaos finalist, Entropy of Loss as well as the tech thriller, Tangle’s Game and the science fiction novels based in the Watch Dogs universe – Daybreak Legacy and Stars & Stripes.
Tim Aldiss is the son of Brian Aldiss and working in conjunction with The Aldiss Literary Estate.