Ithaca Irrealist Readings
The Ithaca Irrealist Reading Series exists in the hearts of all loyal partisans of the IILF and will soon exist physically. Aspiring to a monthly schedule, its first reading will take place at Liquid State Brewing on May 13, 2025 at 7PM, and it will march on from there.
May 13, 2025
Nebula Award Finalist writer of speculative fiction, appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and The Sunday Morning Transport.
Astronomer and science fiction writer, appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, and others.
Author of Mickey7 (now a film directed by Bong Joon-ho & starring Robert Pattinson) and other novels, with fiction in Analog, Escape Pod, and the newsletter of an Italian sausage company.
The IILF
The Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front is an underground movement of literary anarchists bound by a manifesto as secret as it is perverse. Its only public (and therefore lowest ranking) member is Will McMahon.
What is irrealism?
It isn’t real, but it can hurt you.
Irrealism describes an artistic position that does not privilege the typical human conception of reality.
Is this series for literary fiction or genre fiction?
“Literary” is an adjective describing a relation to literature—the written word. “Genre” is Old French for “gender” and can, eccentrically, refer to which shelf a book is set down on for sale. We insist that any such inquiries be translated, e.g. “What is the gender of this book?”
Those abusing these words will face the revolutionary justice of the IILF.