Reading Tonight!
I'll be reading in the Beeton Auditorium at the Toronto Metro Reference Library tonight. The event takes place between 7:00 and 8:15 p.m. and will include a question-and-answer session after for anyone interested in the writer in residence program, or just curious about writing or science fiction.
I'm going to be reading from the latest book in my Virga series: Ashes of Candesce. This is the fifth book in the series, but I'll introduce everything for those not familiar with the stories. –In fact, why don't I do that here? Virga is an ancient, artificial world in which humans live. It's basically a balloon, five thousand miles in diameter, that orbits a distant star by itself. Since it's hollow and contains little significant mass, its interior is a weightless, shirt-sleeve environment, full of clouds, drifting plants anchored to weightless clods of dirt; balls of water ranging from droplet size to oceanic proportions… and the many cities and habitations of humanity.
The Virga books are essentially nautical adventures in a world without gravity. The ships fly, but they also hover weightlessly firing broadsides and sending boarding parties at one another. Gravity is a municipal utility in Virga, made by the simple expedient of spinning big hoop-shaped "town wheels." The books are full of intrigue, vendettas, lying, back-stabbing, and general fun. In my Ashes reading I will be returning to some characters from previous books, and hinting at what happened after the end of the last book, The Sunless Countries.
So come on out! The event is free for everyone, and we can'talk afterward.
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