Author Ian Patterson at West Side Books

Ian Patterson presents his book Fruits of Our Labor at West Side Books & Curios on Sunday, September 6th at 7:15pm
About this Event

Join us at West Side Books as we welcome author Ian Patterson. We'll be discussing his book Fruits of Our Labor on Sunday, September 6th at 7:15pm. He will be in conversation with Dr. Rachael Kuintzle, author of The Ghosts of Gadolin.

A new world is emerging, one parthenogenetic birth at a time.

It's 2049 and American women have legally recognized human asexual reproduction. Samara yearns for freedom from her dying relationship, and a child of her own-fully her own. Yet as parthenogenetic birth takes hold and the role of men in the survival of the species wanes, protest and outcry sweep across the nation.

It's 2062 and Sierra, one of the first "partho princesses", is bullied relentlessly as she grows up and seeks her own place in this new pressure cooker of evolving gender roles and norms.

It's 2085-the aftermath of the "Days of Horror", a period of violent backlash from displaced men-and a professor of history looks back on the rise of PG birth in an attempt to understand, and communicate, the full impact of this era of genetic and political upheaval.

Together, these three converging perspectives tell the story of a profound societal transformation that asks what it means to have autonomy, who reaps the rewards, and who the future is for.

Ian Patterson is an award winning author of science fiction, horror, and poetry. His debut, Transference, won the Colorado Book Award for science fiction in 2025, and is part of a complete series called The Narrator Cycle. His work aims to critique capitalism, inequality, and environmental destruction by centering philosophical discussions in the trappings of fast-paced, genre-bending narratives. He believes all people should have bodily autonomy, equality, freedom, and that a more just future can be built on compassion and empathy. He can usually be found on his bike somewhere in the mountains of Colorado, or spending time with his family and his two cats.

Dr. Rachael Kuintzle is a speculative fiction writer, a labor organizer, and a lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder. While completing her biochemistry PhD at Caltech, she served as editor-in-chief of Caltech’s first sci-fi anthology, Inner Space and Outer Thoughts. Her debut sci-fi novel, The Ghosts of Gadolin, coauthored with Samuel Clamons, is coming in April 2027.