Monday, November 2· 7pm
THALIA BOOK CLUB: Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey
In a moment when reality often feels like science fiction, the Thalia Book Club revisits a classic that imagined what artificial intelligence might look like when it appeared. Marie-Helene Bertino (Exit Zero, Beautyland) leads a panel including Rivka Galchen (Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch), Alice Sola Kim (The
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Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy), and Joshua Rothman (The New Yorker) in discussing Clarke's enduring novel about space exploration, the perils of technology, and the limits of human power.