Science Fiction @ After Dark

Author Maggie Shen King in Conversation With Patricia Cariño Valdez
7:00 p.m.  |  Kanbar Forum

Join Maggie Shen King in conversation with Patricia Valdez as they discuss Shen King’s career as a writer of imaginative and alarming science fiction. Illuminating a future dystopia where authoritarianism reinvigorates communist ideals and social engineering, Shen King’s debut, An Excess Male, explores the intersection of marriage, family, gender, and state in an all-too-plausible future.

Book Signing: Maggie Shen King
8:00 p.m.  |  Outside the Main Exploratorium Store

Explore an imaginative and alarming future with Maggie Shen King’s debut novel, An Excess Male. Even better? Have your copy signed by the author.

Full-Spectrum Science: Science Fiction Turned Fact With Ron Hipschman
8:30 p.m.  |  Kanbar Forum

Did science fiction promise you a life of wonder and efficiency, free of drudgery, where your house makes your dinner and your daily commute zooms through the wild blue yonder? Modern technology has caught up with some of those dreams but not with others.  If you’ve ever wondered where your flying car or rocket belt is, or why there’s no full-service robot at your beck and call, join Exploratorium scientist Ron Hipschman for Full-Spectrum Science.

Ongoing

Eyebrow Pinball With Elliott Spelman
6:30-9:30 p.m.  |  Osher Gallery 1

Hit the jackpot, but don’t go down the drain, at Eyebrow Pinball the game you play using your facial expressions. Using the same technology that allows people with high-level spinal cord injuries to use computers, try controlling the paddles by raising and lowering your eyebrows and launching the ball by sticking out your tongue you might just become an Eyebrow Pinball wizard.

Alex’s Sci-Fi World With Alex Steven Martin and Matt Schaefer
6:30-9:30 p.m.  |  Osher Gallery 1

Enter the hallucinatory, multiplanetary future known as Alex’s Sci-Fi World an immersive virtual universe illustrated by Alex Steven Martin and hand-drawn virtually by VR designer Matt Schaefer. Packed with peculiar delights follow your curiosity to find them Alex’s Sci-Fi World brings the creators’ vision of an outlandish, futuristic cityscape to life.