Speculative Fiction with Greg Leitich Smith – June 9
May 12, 2012 in Monthly Meeting
“Just Because it Happened Doesn’t Mean it Rings True: a look at the plausible and the possible and the threshold of believability in realistic and speculative fiction.”
Greg Leitich Smith is the award-winning author of the middle-grade novels Ninjas, Piranhas, and Galileo and Tofu and T. Rex, and co-author of the picture book Santa Knows and the YA short story, “The Wrath of Dawn.” His next middle-grade novel, The Chronal Engine, is a mystery-adventure about three teens from present-day Austin who use their reclusive grandfather’s time machine to travel back to the Age of Dinosaurs to rescue their sister and solve a family mystery. It is scheduled for publication in March 2012 from Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He will be speaking on world-building in speculative fiction and the intersection of science fiction and fantasy.



