Bates Area Civic Association

Join Fab Lab DC for a very special evening with well-known author and cyber-culture pioneer Gareth Branwyn. (FREE!  RSVP here.)

For a change of pace, Gareth won’t be reading from his latest book, Borg Like Me, but will instead be telling stories from it and from his very colorful life. He’ll even have a story wheel to spin to decide which stories to tell (and they’ll be a few on there he really doesn’t want to share and a few you may not want to hear).

There will be socializing before the storytelling and Gareth will have copies of his book for sale, along with his chapbooks, his new line of rubber stamps, and other goodies. For this event, he’ll be selling the books for $15 per copy, half off the $30 cover price. He’ll also be issuing Artistic Licenses to everyone who attends.

Here are a few things that readers have said about Gareth Branwyn and/or about Borg Like Me:

Brilliant writing and impressive scholarship.
– Toronto Globe & Mail

One of the greatest writers I know!
– Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing founder

One of my favorite pop-tech thinkers, somewhere between Blake, Philip K. Dick, and The Firesign Theater.
– Mark Dery, cultural critic, author of Escape Velocity and I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts

One of the great tech+art minds in the DC area.
– Philippa Hughes, DC arts impresario, Pink Line Project

Gareth Branwyn is an authentic human being, the kind that inspires people like me to take heart and leap into the void.
– conceptual artist and alt.culture blogger Red Cell

Borg Like Me is fantastic!
– RU Sirius, countercultural iconoclast and Mondo 2000 founder

To meet the true hands-on cyberpunks, the proto-hackers, the true frontiersmen of the tech that transformed the world…read Borg like Me.
– John Shirley, cyberpunk legend, the man that William Gibson called “cyberpunk Patient Zero”