An Evening with Sabriel's Garth Nix

Join us for an evening with New York Times bestseller and master of speculative fiction, Garth Nix, to celebrate his first foray into the adult sci-fi genre: The Massif. Best known for his globally beloved fantasy works The Old Kingdom and The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, this new venture is unmissable for fans of Andy Weir and Pierce Brown.

RIDE A MASSIF TO THE NEXT STAR SYSTEM. FIGHT THE ENEMY. REPEAT.

It's business as usual for Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the United Earth Government Navy ship Sassafras. For more than two hundred years humans have been hitching rides into space on vast sentient mountain ranges called Massifs in an endless interstellar war between the forces of Earth and Mars.

But the same unanswered questions burn behind every battle, every conquered world, every new colony.

Why do the Massifs carry humans to the stars?
Why do they help us export our wars?
What's in it for them?

Ship crews aren't supposed to ask these questions - and they definitely aren't supposed to speak to the all-powerful avatars piloting the mountains. But when Parnell's deputy, Kaz, is stranded on an enemy planet, he needs the Massif's help to rescue her . . . and that means figuring out how to talk to it.

Garth Nix has been a full-time writer since 2001, but has also worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, and bookseller. More than six million copies of Garth's books have been sold around the world, and his work has been translated into 42 languages.