How They Did It: Imagining a Future California

Co-presented with LitCamp

In the latest in our quarterly “How They Did It” series of craft-focused conversations, Litquake and LitCamp gaze beyond the horizon, bringing together five talented authors whose fiction imagines a California of the future. Some visions are bleak (a submerged San Francisco, a fascist dystopia) while others are fanciful (a time loop romance, a robot-run restaurant)—all offer the chance to shake free from our current moment and speculate (and hope) about what tomorrow might bring. We’ll get tips on writing and publishing speculative fiction from authors Mike Chen (A Quantum Love Story), Anita Felicelli (How We Know Our Time Travelers), Susanna Kwan (Awake in the Floating City), Sheri T. Joseph (Edge of the Known World) and Annalee Newitz (Automatic Noodle), all joined by moderator Zoe Young. We'll gather at Page Street Co-Working in Berkeley, where in addition to the conversation and Q&A, we'll enjoy time for casual…