Updates!

Hey readers—been powerful quiet on here for a bit, my apologies. Have had a tumultuous year, personally, and have had to scale back some Positron output.

However! Loads and loads of good speculative lit things happening in Chicago. This next stretch of the calendar is particularly jam-packed. Some highlights:

•  The Chicago Public Library system has picked Philip K. Dick's Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep? as its next One Book, One Chicago selection, which means there are a ton of book-clubs reading that over the next couple months. There is also a great slew of science-fictional and adjacent programming hosted through April; I'll put some of those on the Positron calendar, and you can find more at the OBOC official site.

• Tomorrow, 9/25, is the second of Otherworld's Gateways series: writers take a prompt, write a short SF piece, and then actors read it aloud! The first one of these was quite fun.
• Uncharted Books is launching a new talk series: Hooligans, where artists talk about, and read from, the books that inspire them. First one is this Wednesday, 9/26.
• Friday, 10/5, Lydia Craig is giving a very cool-sounding lecture on Mary Shelley at the Edgewater Library.
• The University of Chicago is hosting an Afrofuturism Symposium, Sunday 10/7.
• A bit further down the line, Windycon is November 9-11 in Lombard.

There are so many author events on the radar:

• 9/26 @ 57th St. Books: Epic Reads Meet-Up with Kristen Ciccarelli, Heidi Heilig, and Ibi Zoboi.
• 9/26 @ the Sem. Co-Op: Scott G. Bruce discusses his book The Penguin Book of Hell.
• 9/27 @ Oak Park Library, Maze Branch: Alice Liddell discusses Love of the Sea.
• 10/4 @ Harold Washington Library: David Golemon on "The Future of Science Fiction."
• 10/4 @ Women & Children First: "The Audacity of Diverse, Daring Fiction for Youth" featuring Beth Kander & Lora Hyler.
• 10/6 @ 57th St. Books: A Reading with Liesl Shurtliff and Brianna DuMont.
• 10/11 @ Bucket O'Blood: Book Release Party for John Everson's "House by the Cemetery". 
• 10/22 @ The American Writer's Museum: John Scalzi discusses "The Consuming Fire".
• 11/5 @ North Central College: Joseph Fink reads from "Alice Isn't Dead".
• 11/14 @ Harold Washington Library: N.K. Jemisin & Mikki Kendall!
• 11/15 @ Sulzer Regional Library: Alec Nevala-Lee & Gary K. Wolfe discuss "The Golden Age of Science Fiction".

There are tons of book clubs, lectures and readings, and other SF-related happenings on Positron's Events Page, check it out!