She is also a singer/songwriter and toured nationally. Her new collection, Lost Places, will be published by Small Beer Press in spring 2023. A Song for a New Day is her first novel.(A special thank you to Sarah Pinsker for allowing us to close the episode with an excerpt from her song Waterwings.) Learn more about your ad choices. Sarah Pinsker is the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K Dick Award-winning author of A Song For A New Day, We Are Satellites, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea and over fifty works of short fiction. She is also a singer-songwriter, which helps explain the vividness of her portrayal of dedicated musicians like Luce.

She would rather perform before a small flesh-and-blood audience (even if it’s illegal) than be turned into a holograph projected into millions of headsets.“Having two characters with vastly different worldviews is a great way to get some interesting conflict,” Pinsker says.A prolific short story writer, Pinsker has won Nebula and Sturgeon awards for novelettes. Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day 1 likes Like We all felt our world slipping away, in cascades and cataracts, the promises of temporary change becoming less and less temporary. In the After, most musicians would be thrilled to have Rosemary offer them an exclusive contract. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at. The two eras come to life through the stories of Pinsker’s main characters: singer-songwriter Luce Cannon, who misses the Before, and Rosemary Laws, who comes of age in the After.The two collide when Rosemary starts recruiting musicians for StageHoloLive, a virtual reality entertainment company. Sarah Pinsker is joining us today to talk about her debut novel, A Song for a New Day.

In the After, curfews and bans on public gatherings give rise to mega-corporations that allow people to work, study, shop, and socialize in virtual reality. In the Before, people brush against each other in crowded cities, gather in stadiums to watch baseball games, and hang out in clubs to watch live music. Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day (Berkley, 2019) explores how society changes following two plausible disasters: a surge in terrorism and a deadly epidemic.

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