CALLING ALL SCI-FI READERS! Join us for a multiverse story of love, loss, time travel, and final-stage capitalism from award-winning author of The Rock Eaters, Brenda Peynado.
Tombolo Books welcomes Peynado to celebrate the release her new sci-fi novel Time’s Agent! She will be in conversation with
award-winning, local author Tenea D. Johnson!
Let us know we will see you there! Please RSVP HERE!
“I was astonished by how many huge ideas could fit into this taut, swift novella by Brenda Peynado: it’s all at once a meditation on motherhood, grief, war, environmental collapse, dread, and the nature of memory and time; yet the book is miraculously also buoyant, thrilling, a breathless and headlong read for a breathtaking time on this planet. I ate it up.
—Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author
Brenda Peynado’s genre-bending short story collection, The Rock Eaters—featuring alien arrivals, angels falling from rooftops, virtual reality, and sorrows manifesting as tumorous stones—was named one of NPR, the New York Public Library, and Electric Literature’s best books of the year. Her stories have won an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, and inclusion in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.
Tenea D. Johnson is a multimedia storyteller, musician, editor, poet, and award-winning author of speculative fiction works, including Incandescence, a sci fi/dance short film collaboration, Frequencies, a Fiction Album and Broken Fevers, of which Publisher’s Weekly wrote “the 14 hard-hitting, memorable short stories and prose vignettes in this powerhouse collection … are astounding in their originality” (starred review). Her debut novel Smoketown won the Parallax Award while R/evolution earned an honorable mention that year as well. She’s had the pleasure of presenting her fiction, musical stories, and stories off the page at venues and galleries including NYC’s Public Theater, the Knitting Factory, and the Museum of Fine Arts. Her short work appears in anthologies like Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, Sycorax’s Daughters, and In Trouble. Follow what’s next at her virtual home, teneadjohnson.com .