Booktalk & signing with Cherie Priest; author of Dreadnought and Boneshaker

Thursday, November 30 @ 7 p.m.
Olympic Room, Main Library

Cherie Priest is the author of eight novels, including Boneshaker and the just-published Dreadnought. Boneshaker was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and it won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association's 2010 Book Award. Cherie's other books include Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Fathom, Wings to the Kingdom, and the Endeavour-nominated book Not Flesh Nor Feathers from Tor (Macmillan). Her short novels Dreadful Skin, Clementine and Those Who Went Remain There Still are published by Subterranean Press. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and a fat black cat.
Priest's latest novel, Dreadnought, follows Nurse Mercy Lynch as she set off from Virginian to see her gravely injured. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, she'll catch a train over the Rockies and--if the telegram can be believed--be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle. Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the "Dreadnought."
What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. Mercy will ll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the "Dreadnought "alive.

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