The Stars Too Fondly: Reading and Discussion with Emily Hamilton

Name: The Stars Too Fondly: Reading and Discussion with Emily Hamilton
Start: 2024-06-20T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 1841-A rue Sainte. Catherine Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3H 1M2

Schedule

Thu Jun 20 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1841-A rue Sainte. Catherine Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3H 1M2 | Montreal, QC

Join us for an evening with author Emily Hamilton, for a reading from her debut novel, The Stars Too Fondly (out June 11th), followed by a moderated discussion and Q&A. This event will take place in store at Argo Bookshop. Masks will be required. The event is free, but space is limited, so please RSVP on TicketSource. We hope to see you there!

ABOUT THE BOOK

So, here’s the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn’t mean to steal this spaceship.

They just wanted to know why, twenty years ago, the entire Providence crew vanished without a trace. But then the stupid dark matter engine started all on its own, and now these four twenty-somethings are en route to Proxima Centauri, unable to turn around, and being harangued by a snarky hologram that has the face and attitude of the ship’s missing captain, Billie.

Cleo has dreamt of being an astronaut all her life, and Earth is kind of a lost cause at this point, so this should be one of those blessings in disguise that people talk about. But as the ship gets deeper into space, the laws of physics start twisting, old mysteries come crawling back to life, and Cleo’s initially combative relationship with Billie turns into something deeper and more desperate than either woman was prepared for.

Lying somewhere in the subspace between science fantasy and sapphic rom-com, The Stars Too Fondly is a soaring near-future adventure about dark matter and alternate dimensions, leaving home and finding family, and the galaxy-saving power of letting yourself love and be loved.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Emily Hamilton is a science fiction author who writes about women kissing in space. Her debut novel, The Stars Too Fondly, is forthcoming from Harper Voyager (US) and Gollancz (UK) in June 2024. She is also an award-winning staff writer at the alt-weekly newspaper Seven Days. She lives in Burlington, Vermont with her wife and their tiny dog Mimi.