{"id":30503,"date":"2024-04-04T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=30503"},"modified":"2024-03-31T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T19:26:17","slug":"guest-speaker-at-clubs-may-11-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=30503","title":{"rendered":"GUEST SPEAKER AT CLUB&#8217;S MAY 11 MEETING!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>MARK YOUR CALENDARS!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Appearing in Person at MonSFFA\u2019s Saturday, May 11 Meeting: Rich Larson!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RichLarsonBooksPromo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RichLarsonBooksPromo-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RichLarsonBooksPromo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RichLarsonBooksPromo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RichLarsonBooksPromo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RichLarsonBooksPromo-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RichLarsonBooksPromo.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n<h5><strong>This is an early heads-up to announce that SF writer Rich Larson will attend our May 11 meeting as guest speaker! Rich\u2019s books include <em>Annex<\/em>, <em>Ymir<\/em>, and the short story collection <em>Tomorrow Factory<\/em>. He has been praised by Gardner Dozois as \u201cOne of the best new writers to enter science fiction in more than a decade.\u201d Currently based in Montreal, Rich was born in Galmi, Niger, and has lived in Spain and the Czech Republic. His fiction has been translated into over a dozen languages, among them Polish, French, Romanian and Japanese.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Rich will speak on his personal creative process, the mechanics of writing short fiction, the business of selling same, and the transition to novel writing. A Q&amp;A will follow, and Rich will cover, as well, his experience with the Emmy-winning television adaptation of one of his stories for <em>LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS<\/em>!<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">***********************************************************<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>MonSFFA\u2019s May 2024 Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, May 11, 1:00PM-5:00PM<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>at:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Le Nouvel Hotel, 1740 Boul. Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque (corner St-Mathieu), <\/strong><strong>\u201cSalle Maisonneuve\u201d (Conference Floor, South Tower)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LegoManBANNER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LegoManBANNER-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LegoManBANNER-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LegoManBANNER-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LegoManBANNER-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LegoManBANNER.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Rich Larson\u2019s bibliography at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/isfdb.org\/cgi-bin\/ea.cgi?Rich%20Larson\">isfdb.org\/cgi-bin\/ea.cgi?Rich%20Larson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read some of Rich Larson\u2019s fiction online at: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freesfonline.net\/authors\/Rich_Larson.html\">https:\/\/www.freesfonline.net\/authors\/Rich_Larson.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Appearing in Person at MonSFFA\u2019s Saturday, May 11 Meeting: Rich Larson! This is an early heads-up to announce that SF writer Rich Larson will attend our May 11 meeting as guest speaker! Rich\u2019s books include Annex, Ymir, and the short story collection Tomorrow Factory. He has been praised by Gardner Dozois as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=30503\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GUEST SPEAKER AT CLUB&#8217;S MAY 11 MEETING!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30507,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30503\/revisions\/30507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}