Goliath | Tochi Onyebuchi in conversation with R.F. Kuang
Wed, Feb 02
|Crowdcast
Loyalty Bookstores, Cafe con Libros, and Sistah Scifi are thrilled to host Tochi Onyebuchi and R. F. Kuang in conversation for Goliath, a sweeping science fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R. Delany and Station Eleven


Time & Location
Feb 02, 2022, 8:00 PM EST
Crowdcast
About the Event
ABOUT THE BOOK
“Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality, and brings a crumbling city and an all too plausible future to vibrant life. Riveting, disturbing, and rendered in masterful detail.”—Leigh Bardugo
In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that they wrecked.
A primal biblical epic flung into the future, Goliath weaves together disparate narratives—a space-dweller looking at New Haven, Connecticut as a chance to reconnect with his spiraling lover; a group of laborers attempting to renew…