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March 27, 2007 Award-Winning Science-Fiction Writer Thomas A. Day Visits Driftwood
On Tuesday, April 17th, at 6:30 p.m., Driftwood Public Library welcomes novelist Thomas A. Day as part of its celebration of National Library Week. Mr. Day’s first novel, A Grey Moon over China, was placed on the Best Books lists of several publications in 2006, including Kirkus Reviews, ForeWord Magazine and USABookNews. In addition, it was awarded the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction. Mr. Day was born in Bremen, Germany and raised on diplomatic posts around the world, including in Berlin, Chile, and the Middle East. Educated in the sciences, technology and business, he has worked as a senior manager in the aerospace industry, a now-and-again nighttime cargo pilot, and a freelance software developer in the artificial intelligence field. He currently works as a forensic software analyst and intellectual property consultant, serving as an expert witness in high-stakes technology litigation. He lives with his wife and two sons in Portland, Oregon, and is currently completing a second novel, Ivory Gull. A Grey Moon Over China is the story of a disillusioned company of Army engineers, languishing in the Pacific during the energy wars between the United States on one side and Japan and California on the other. They steal the plans for an energy device that could have ended the wars and the world’s slide into environmental disaster; but with it, instead, they extort from the world the price of their own freedom from it all: the resurrection of an abandoned space colonization effort that will take them far from the dying planet. Kirkus Reviews called Day’s first novel "Inventive, disturbing, intriguingly populated and utterly fascinating: an altogether remarkable debut" and Midwest Book Review called it "...a compelling chronicle of the dark complexities of human character as surely as it is a star-spanning adventure." Willamette Week said of Day "His time spent pondering the high-tech comes across brilliantly in this portrayal of a scientifically advanced Earth wracked with wars over the control of dwindling oil reserves." Driftwood Public Library is located on the second floor of the Lincoln City Civic Center at 801 SW Highway 101 (next to Price and Pride). Mr. Day will speak in the Distad Reading Room on the North End of the Library. The event is free and open to the public. Any questions should be directed to the Adult Services Coordinator, Ken Hobson. His phone number is 996-1242 or he can be reached by e-mail at khobson@driftwoodlib.org.
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