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Cabaret Room: Ben Francisco’s Interstellar Book Launch! 7:00pm

February 6, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm

Ben Francisco’s Interstellar Book Launch!
The official book launch of VAL VEGA: SECRET AMBASSADOR OF EARTH!

Celebrate the book launch of Ben Francisco’s debut novel, Val Vega: Secret Ambassador of Earth, a Latinx young adult space adventure! A reading and interview with the author, plus a brief game of interstellar trivia with prizes for those whose Galactic knowledge triumphs!

Hosted at Pangea, the East Village bar, restaurant, and alt cabaret & entertainment venue. 178 2nd Ave, NYC, 10003

The room opens at 6pm for service. The event starts at 7pm. Pangea is known for its delicious cuisine. Arrive early and enjoy dinner, an appetizer, or drink. There is a $20 minimum per person minimum (food or beverage).

Space is limited – please RSVP

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Ben Francisco is a queer nonbinary Puerto Rican writer. Their fiction ranges from magic realism to space opera and has been known to feature oversexed ghosts, depressed precognitive psychics, and pantheistic vampire aliens who reproduce like moss. Ben’s short stories have won the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, been featured in year’s best LGBTQ fiction anthologies, and been shortlisted for year’s best science fiction and fantasy lists. Their stories have been published in Strange HorizonsFireside FictionPodCastleLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction. Their first novel, Val Vega: Secret Ambassador of Earth, a young adult Latinx space adventure, debuts February 2024. Ben lives in Brooklyn with their partner and has devoted much of their copious spare time to working for nonprofits advancing LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, and racial and gender justice.

Details

Date:
February 6
Time:
7:00 pm-8:30 pm

Venue

Pangea NYC
178 2nd Ave
New York, NY 10003
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