“Mr. Eternity” (Feb. 15)

Novelist Aaron Thier reads from his celebrated climate fiction novel “Mr. Eternity” 

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Mr. Eternity

A reading & conversation with Aaron Thier

7 PM, February 15, 2017

The Chamber, Reitz Student Union

The University of Florida

 

Key West, 2016. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying. In short, everything is going to hell. It is here that two young filmmakers, propelled by drugs and irony, find something to believe in: a five hundred and sixty year old sailor who calls himself Daniel Defoe. In Mr. Eternity, novelist Aaron Thier recounts the ancient mariner’s incredible, eternal life in a genre-bending page-turner that spans one thousand years of high-seas adventure, environmental and cultural catastrophe, and enduring love.

Aaron Thier has been praised as “wickedly smart,” and his 2016 novel as “twisted and wild” and “vividly inventive.” He will read selected passages from Mr. Eternity and discuss the opportunities and responsibilities of writing fiction in an era of climate crisis.

Aaron Thier has been praised as “wickedly smart” and his 2016 novel as “twisted and wild” and “vividly inventive.” He will read selected passages from Mr. Eternity and discuss the opportunities and responsibilities of writing fiction in an era of climate crisis. For more information about Aaron Thier and links to his published fiction and non fiction, see this page.

Thier’s talk will be followed by a response from Jack E. Davis, UF Professor of History and author of The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, and An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century. The evening will conclude with a Q & A session with both speakers.

This event is sponsored by the “Imagining Climate Change” initiative and the Science Fiction Working Group. All ICC events are free and open to the public. No advance registration is required. See this page for more information.