![]() ![]() These realistic details support a brilliantly imagined plot which at the time it was published would have been described as speculative dystopian fantasy, set in the future. The details of life on the road, the descriptions of music and music venues, the view of the Bromo Seltzer tower from a hotel room … all these are vibrantly real. One of the main characters is a touring singer-songwriter, and a post-apocalyptic Baltimore (there are still diners and grungy basement music clubs) is a major setting. ![]() In addition to being a successful author, Pinsker is also a singer/songwriter with three albums and a local darling rock band called the Stalking Horses.īut if you’ve read her first novel, A Song For A New Day, you could have guessed some of this, because Pinsker’s autobiographical details create much of the scaffolding of the book. ![]() An award-winning author of short science fiction and fantasy, Pinsker’s short stories have been translated into many languages and are collected in Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. Back in September 2019, local sci-fi/fantasy author Sarah Pinsker launched her first novel, A Song for a New Day, with an event at the Ivy Bookshop. ![]()
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