Film, Video Dystopian Worlds: National Book Festival 2020
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- Dystopian Worlds: National Book Festival 2020
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- 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.
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- September 26, 2020
- Running Time
- 33 minutes 53 seconds
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- 2020 National Book Festival Highlights: Dystopian Worlds
- 2021 National Book Festival | Events at the Library of Congress
- 2021 National Book Festival | Events at the Library of Congress
- Schedule | 2020 National Book Festival | Events at the Library of Congress
- Schedule | 2020 National Book Festival | Events at the Library of Congress
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