BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1H REFRESH-INTERVAL:P1H CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:Central Standard Time END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260908T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260908T190000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Daniel Kraus DESCRIPTION:Writing the Nightmare: A Ship Called Sickness and One Unforgettable Space Crew with Daniel Kraus\n2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner and New York Times Bestselling Author of Whalefall and Angel Down\nTuesday\, September 8th 2026 at 6:00 PM CST\nRegister now for your private live link or find the recording after the event here: https://libraryc.org/danvillepubliclibrary/194619 Prepare to launch into the darkest depths of deep space! Join us as we sit down with master storyteller Daniel Kraus\, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, to celebrate the release of his breathtaking new novel\, The Sixth Nik. Deep into space\, far past the triworld outposts\, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet\, soars The Sickness: a ship woven from biomatter and capable of reacting to every need of its human crew. Sisilla\, a nine-year-old cultist with a brain enhanced by arcane tech known as "niks\," has boarded to investigate the enigma of F m a plague-riddled planet that has abruptly gone rogue. The mysterious crew includes a faceless assassin\, a beautiful engineer jigsawed by plastic surgery\, a peyote-addicted medic\, and most lethal of all a rugged\, NonModded captain with a score to settle with Sisilla. Other dangers abound. A hacked robot begins to believe Sisilla is its daughter. The Sickness itself is mutating\, possibly even pregnant. And the secret of F m is more horrific than anyone could have imagined. To survive\, Sisilla will need to forsake her predetermined fate and embrace the unknown. Register now to gain exclusive insight from one of the most visionary voices in modern fiction. About the Author: Daniel Kraus is a Pulitzer Prize-winning\, New York Times bestselling writer of novels\, TV\, and film. His novel Angel Down was the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner\, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2025\, and a national bestseller. His novel Whalefall received a front-cover review in the New York Times Book Review\, won the Alex Award\, was an L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist\, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR\, the New York Times\, Amazon\, Chicago Tribune\, and more. With Guillermo del Toro\, he co-authored The Shape of Water\, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro\, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters\, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. He co-wrote The Living Dead and Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus's The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award\, Scribe Award\, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler)\, and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections\, and more. Kraus's work has been translated into over 25 languages. He lives with his partner in Chicago. Visit him at danielkraus.com. All events are free and open to the public.  For more information or to register for the author talks\, visit https://libraryc.org/danvillepubliclibrary or call 217-477-5220.\nQuestions? Visit the FAQ page here: https://help.libraryc.org/patron-faq/frequently-asked-questions/Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium and a grant from Danville Library Foundation.The Library is committed to making programs accessible to all. If you would like an accommodation\, please email the Community Relations Administrator at btruscelli@danvillepubliclibrary.org or call 217-477-5220 ext. 111. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:


Writing the Nightmare: A Ship Called Sickness and One Unforgettable Space Crew with Daniel Kraus
2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner and New York Times Bestselling Author of Whalefall and Angel Down
Tuesday\, September 8th 2026 at 6:00 PM CST
Register now for your private live link or find the recording after the event here: \;https://libraryc.org/danvillepubliclibrary/194619

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Prepare to launch into the darkest depths of deep space! Join us as we sit down with master storyteller Daniel Kraus\, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, to celebrate the release of his breathtaking new novel\, \;The Sixth Nik.

 \;

Deep into space\, far past the triworld outposts\, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet\, soars \;The Sickness: a ship woven from biomatter and capable of reacting to every need of its human crew. Sisilla\, a nine-year-old cultist with a brain enhanced by arcane tech known as &ldquo\;niks\,&rdquo\; has boarded to investigate the enigma of Fé\;m&mdash\;a plague-riddled planet that has abruptly gone rogue.

 \;

The mysterious crew includes a faceless assassin\, a beautiful engineer jigsawed by plastic surgery\, a peyote-addicted medic\, and&mdash\;most lethal of all&mdash\;a rugged\, NonModded captain with a score to settle with Sisilla. Other dangers abound. A hacked robot begins to believe Sisilla is its daughter. \;The Sickness \;itself is mutating\, possibly even pregnant. And the secret of Fé\;m is more horrific than anyone could have imagined. To survive\, Sisilla will need to forsake her predetermined fate and embrace the unknown.

 \;

Register now to gain exclusive insight from one of the most visionary voices in modern fiction.

 \;

About the Author:

 \;

Daniel Kraus \;is a Pulitzer Prize-winning\, \;New York Times \;bestselling writer of novels\, TV\, and film. His novel \;Angel Down \;was the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner\, a \;New York Times \;Top 10 Book of 2025\, and a national bestseller. His novel \;Whalefall \;received a front-cover review in the \;New York Times Book Review\, won the Alex Award\, was an L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist\, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR\, the \;New York Times\, Amazon\, \;Chicago Tribune\, and more.

 \;

With Guillermo del Toro\, he co-authored \;The Shape of Water\, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro\, Kraus co-authored \;Trollhunters\, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. He co-wrote \;The Living Dead \;and \;Pay the Piper \;with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus&rsquo\;s \;The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch \;was named one of \;Entertainment Weekly&lsquo\;s Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award\, Scribe Award\, two Odyssey Awards (for both \;Rotters \;and \;Scowler)\, and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections\, and more.

 \;

Kraus&rsquo\;s work has been translated into over 25 languages. He lives with his partner in Chicago. Visit him at \;danielkraus.com.

 \;

All events are free and open to the public.  For more information or to register for the author talks\, visit \;https://libraryc.org/danvillepubliclibrary \;or call 217-477-5220.
Questions? Visit the FAQ page here: https://help.libraryc.org/patron-faq/frequently-asked-questions/

Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium and a grant from Danville Library Foundation.

The Library is committed to making programs accessible to all. If you would like an accommodation\, please email the Community Relations Administrator at btruscelli@danvillepubliclibrary.org or call 217-477-5220 ext. 111.

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