Film, Video Dystopian Worlds: National Book Festival 2020

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Title

  • Dystopian Worlds: National Book Festival 2020

Summary

  • Dark Star trilogy novelist Marlon James, "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" (Riverhead), talks with sci-fi/fantasy author Jeff VanderMeer, "A Peculiar Peril" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In the first novel in James's Dark Star trilogy, he explores what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child; VanderMeer's new novel is a head-spinning epic quest revolving around portals to an alternate Earth called Aurora, a surreal world filled with talking animals and vegetables. Moderated by Everdeen Mason of The Washington Post.

Event Date

  • September 26, 2020

Running Time

  • 33 minutes 53 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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