Now playing · Sat Oct 17 · 4:30pm

Split Selves, Dystopian Futures

Boston Book Festival · Old South Church — Mary Norton Hall · 645 Boylston St · Boston · Back Bay · Boston

Isabel J. Kim, translator Anton Hur and Tomás Q. Morín discuss speculative fiction. In Kim’s Sublimation, immigration splits a person into two “instances,” one of whom plots to steal the other’s life; Hur’s Toward Eternity imagines a robotic cancer cure that makes people immortal; Morín’s Cat Love sees a dystopian future through a cat taken to train “Emotional Support Humans.” Michelle Min Sterling, author of Camp Zero, moderates.