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Outer Sunset: A Novel

Mechanics' Institute


Outer Sunset is a deeply felt story about the intimate place where we revise, or live without, our dreams. Jim Finley—a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco—has been set, unwittingly, on the back porch of life. Trying to harmonize the voices in his head, he sits most days by […]

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Kim Stanley Robinson’s Half Century Love Affair With the Sierra Nevada

Herbst Theater 401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco

Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the world’s greatest living science fiction writers and political novelists. A New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards, he is the author of more than twenty books, including the Mars trilogy and The Ministry for the Future. Robinson, who lives in Davis, spends his summers backpacking in the […]