Virtual Author Talk with Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

Welcome to our ongoing series of virtual author talks in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium! Each month, enjoy talks and interactive Q&A sessions with bestselling authors streamed live. Recordings will be available for viewing after live events. Join us for an out of this world virtual conversation with New York Times bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith as they dive into their book, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? Click on the link below to register, submit your questions for the author, and receive your unique link to join the discussion: https://libraryc.org/midlibrary/218450 About the Author: Zach Weinersmith is best known as the cartoonist of the comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. He also co wrote the bestselling science books Soonish and A City on Mars with his wife, and worked with the artist Boulet to create a children s retelling of the story of Beowulf called Bea Wolf. Dr. Kelly Weinersmith is an adjunct faculty member at Rice University, and is currently President of the Helminthological Society of Washington and the American Society of Parasitologists. Her research on animal behavior and parasites has been featured in The Atlantic, National Geographic, BBC World, Science, Nature, and more. Kelly co wrote the New York Times bestsellers Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That ll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything and A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?. In 2024, she and her co author/husband Zach received a Hugo Award and the Royal Society Trivedi Book Prize for A City on Mars. Kelly is also co host of the podcast Daniel and Kelly s Extraordinary Universe. Thanks to the Friends of the Middleton Public Library for sponsoring this series. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=26421