Unraveling Reality: Speculative Fiction Pageturners
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Saturday, November 8
Capitol Extension Room: E2.014 (1100 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701)
What happens when reality bends, and the mind becomes the most perilous landscape of all? In Simultaneous, Eric Heisserer — the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Arrival — unleashes a genre-defying thriller where a federal agent and a therapist race across timelines, identities, and consciousness itself to stop an otherworldly killer. In The Strange Case of Jane O., bestselling author Karen Thompson Walker crafts an eerie, intimate portrait of a young mother whose amnesia, visions, and fugue states blur the line between trauma, prophecy, and madness. Prepare for a conversation that explores the boundaries between the known and unknown while questioning the nature of our reality.
- Books: Simultaneous, The Strange Case of Jane O.
- Book Type: Fiction
- Authors: Eric Heisserer, Karen Thompson Walker
- Moderator: Anna Dobben
- Book Signing: 2:15 PM at The Main Book Signing Tent