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Laughing All the Way to the Apocalypse: Satirical Science Fiction from Kurt Vonnegut to Margaret Atwood
January 30 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Wellesley Free Library program featuring Brandeis Professor and author John Plotz on Jan. 30, 7-8pm
Not all science fiction is funny, but the writers who turn to satire have a track record of success that stretches back to Gulliver’s Travels. This talk explores some science fiction from the Atomic Age (e.g. Slaughterhouse Five) and from our current climate catastrophe (e.g. Oryx and Crake). John Plotz hopes to show that laughter is the royal road to Science Fiction’s greatest ability: to reshape the way its readers see the world.
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