We loved hearing from local author and innovative literary world-builder Annalee Newitz as they discussed their newest book The Terraformers with fellow local sci-fi author, Mike Chen (Light Years From Home, Vampire Weekend)!

The Terraformers is a sweeping, uplifting and illuminating exploration of the future. Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn’t exist, hidden inside a massive volcano. As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question her life’s mission and must make a choice that will reverberate through Sask-E's future for generations to come.

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and have written for Popular Science, The New Yorker and the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website io9 and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008–2015, and then became Editor-in-Chief at Gizmodo and Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Their book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel, Autonomous, won a Lambda Literary award.