Six Bridges Book Festival

Lincoln Michel & Kevin Brockmeier

PRESENTERS: Lincoln Michel & Kevin Brockmeier
BOOKS: Metallic Realms & The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
MODERATOR: Ty Jaeger

About the authors:

Lincoln Michel’s previous books are the story collection Upright Beasts and the novel The Body Scout, which was named one of the 10 Best Science Fiction Books of 2021 by the New York Times and one of the 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time by Esquire. His writing has appeared in the Paris Review, McSweeney’s, the New York Times, the Guardian, and elsewhere. He runs the popular literary newsletter “Counter Craft” and coedited the anthologies Tiny Crimes and Tiny Nightmares. He was born in Virginia and lives in Brooklyn.

Kevin Brockmeier has published nine books of (mostly) fiction, including, most recently, a collection of very short stories called The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories. His work has been translated into eighteen languages and has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, McSweeney's, the Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize Stories anthology. He teaches frequently at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised. Brockmeier will be reading from new work.

About the books:

Metallic Realms is a wildly inventive and entertaining novel about a sci-fi writing group whose fictional universe and personal dramas begin to collide and collapse. Perennially single, socially awkward, and drowning in debt, Michael Lincoln has seen his life turn out nothing like the intergalactic pulp heroes of his youth. But these are pedestrian concerns—he has a greater calling, and that is to preserve for all posterity the greatest series in the history of the written word: The Star Rot Chronicles. Metallic Realms is a genre-breaking ode to golden-age science fiction, friendship, creativity, and the power and perils of storytelling.

The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories is a collection of very short flash fiction pieces addressing themes of souls, haunting, ghostliness, and the afterlife.