Cole Sarar's SciFi Reading Hour

Name: Cole Sarar's SciFi Reading Hour
Start: 2026-01-04T19:00:00-06:00
Location: Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater

Schedule

Sun, 04 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater | Minneapolis, MN

A live reading series featuring original science fiction from Cole and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Two writers spin original science fiction, and one musician underscores the readings with complementary auditory landscapes. We focus on Science Fiction so that we as a society are consciously building our futures, to see and talk about ourselves and each other in new ways- to see people of color, women, queer folks, and immigrants in the future- to show all of us in positions of power, and to show different ways of leading, etc. Science fiction examines not only the effects of continuing to mistreat the planet, humans, plants, and animals; but also envisions new ways of doing things (and remembers ancient ways of doing and being in the future).
Jan 4, featuring:
Martin Law is a Minneapolis-based musician and scholar. Over the past three decades he has contributed sounds to a variety of projects for film, radio, podcasts, art installations, live performances, psychoacoustic research, and, by the end of the night, for an esteemed local SciFi Reading Hour.
Martin owes his academic career to Yanni (yes, THAT Yanni), to Jodi, and to accidentally insulting his boss's taste in music that one time--- an incident which can be recounted only in the form of a shaggy dog story. He has taught courses on speech, rhetoric, ethics, and cultural studies at colleges and universities across the country. His current scholarship on Blackness and disability highlights the power of fugitive speech to rescue radical futures.
Patrick Harrigan is the author of the novel Lost Clusters (2005), and the short story collections Thin Times and Thin Places (2012), The Lecture Tour (2019) and On Tour Forever (2022). He is the co-editor of several MIT Press books concerning games and new media: Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming (2016), with Matthew Kirschenbaum; and the series First Person, Second Person and Third Person (2004-2009), with Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Other work of his has been published with Camden House, Fantasy Flight Games, Chaosium, Arc Dream Publishing, Gameplaywright, and ETC Press. His series of horror microfictions, “The Sunday Scaries,” appears weekly at Ghoulishdelights.com. He lives in Minneapolis.