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Join Tim Weed for a reading from his new novel The Afterlife Project! “Riveting and wrenching and suffused with beauty.” — Peter Heller, bestselling author of The Dog StarsWith humanity facing imminent extinction, a team of scientists uses technology originally designed for interstellar travel to send a test subject ten millennia into Earth’s future. Marooned in an uninhabited wilderness, microbiologist Nicholas Hindman searches in vain for remnants of the human race. Meanwhile, back in 2068 A.D., the team’s head physicist and its doctor lead a small crew of survivors on a sailing voyage to a small volcanic island north of Sicily on a harrowing quest to save the future. The Afterlife Project is a work of literary speculative fiction that will appeal to readers of Andy Weir, Cormac McCarthy, Emily St John Mandel, and Peter Heller. Featuring a plausible mechanism for one-way time travel, a post-apocalyptic sea voyage on a vintage sailing yacht, lovers separated by 10,000 years of time, mass extinction, geological time, and horrific dangers both physical and psychological, this dark and immersive novel will transport you to a future that is by turns terrifying, wrenching, and hopeful. It was a finalist for the Prism Prize for Climate Literature, a New Scientist Best New Science Fiction Book of the Month, and a Middlebury Magazine Editors’ Pick.Tim Weed is the author of three books of fiction. His work has won or been shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Writer’s Digest Annual Fiction Awards, the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the Fish International Short Story Award, the New Rivers Many Voices Project, and many others. Co-founder of the Cuba Writers Program, Tim is on the core faculty of the Newport MFA at Salve Regina University. His new novel, The Afterlife Project, finalist for the Prism Prize in Climate Fiction, received a starred review from Library Journal and was a Middlebury Magazine editor’s pick and a New Scientist best new science fiction book of the month.
