I won a book at Vancouver Real Writers’ Series
A silly staged photo taken by Dave Dawson, on request of Susan Main
Last night my son and I went to the Grand Finale night of the Vancouver Real Writers’ Series and I won an advance copy of Darwin’s Bastards Astounding Tales of Tomorrow edited by Zsuzsi Gartner.
It includes 23 stories from different writers – including William Gibson and Timothy Taylor, who last night read an excerpt from a novel he expects to publish in a year. Actually he left us in a very suspenseful moment of the story…
According to the Douglas & McIntyre website, the stories in Darwin’s Bastards “…take us on a twisted, wild ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a dead boy, a one-legged international actuarial forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus engage in their own games of the survival of the fittest.”
Thanks to organizer Sean Cranbury, all the writers, event coordinator Fleurie Hunter, and everyone at W2 for putting on this great series. I felt so happy to see how nice people were to my super-friendly son – the only kid there. (I asked ahead to see if it would be okay, as I always do.) Thankfully he was on his near-best behavior for much of it, though he did get a bit wound up after that great deal on Nanaimo bars…
We plan to go back on Saturday night for the W2 Olympic Wrap-Up Party where Vancouver’s legendary Hard Rock Miners will be playing – and inviting everyone to join in for a sing-a-long. The Hard Rock Miners Sing Along is a monthly event at the Railway Club and I recall hearing it would not be happening during the Olympics month – so it’s at W2 instead.