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SUMMARY:Becky Chambers with Caitlin Starling
DESCRIPTION:The exponential advances in technology in the 21st Century ar
 e accompanied by increasingly prescient structural and social ills\, los
 ses of human connection\, and a cripplingly bleak outlook on the future 
 to come. How can we persist in a society which seeks to separate us from
  each other\, forcing us to operate in an environment that is antithetic
 al to empathy\, togetherness\, and true contentment? In her new book\, A
 s You Wake\, Break the Shell\, Hugo Award-winning author\, Becky Chamber
 s\, grapples with these issues. Holding a mirror to our own society\, Ch
 ambers depicts a universe of stubborn survival and found family\, and of
  persistent danger and quiet wonder. As You Wake takes place on the reso
 urce-poor planet of Fortune\, where life is challenging — but for its in
 habitants\, it’s home. Signy is a brilliant but reclusive botanist who b
 io-prints medicine from her small plant shop\, often bending the rules t
 o help those whom the system is designed to leave behind. Cora is a pilo
 t\, one of the few\n\nMore info: https://townhallseattle.org/event/becky
 -chambers/\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/7fe98fea-dc83-4729-bd48-
 96f4f3b83574
LOCATION:Town Hall Seattle\, 1119 8th Ave\, Seattle\, WA 98101
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/7fe98fea-dc83-4729-bd48-96f4f3b8357
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