Author Talk with Ray Nayler
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Presenter: Ray Nayler
Location: Online
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Join us for a captivating evening with award-winning science fiction author Ray Nayler, as part of our Sci-Fi September series. His breakout novel The Mountain in the Sea was hailed by Esquire as one of the best science fiction books of all time and received widespread critical acclaim. He followed it with The Tusks of Extinction, a 2024 novella nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards, and most recently Where the Axe is Buried, released in April 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Nayler discuss his boundary-pushing work and ask your own questions in this interactive virtual event.
About the Author: Ray Nayler is the author of the Locus Award winning novel The Mountain in the Sea. A finalist for the Nebula Award, Arthur C. Clarke and LA Times Ray Bradbury Award, Mountain was listed by Esquire as one of the best science fiction books of all time. Ray's novella The Tusks of Extinction, published in 2024, is a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. His third book, Where the Axe is Buried, was released in April 2025. Locus magazine called Ray "one of the up-and-coming masters of SF short fiction." His story "Yesterday's Wolf" won the 2022 Clarkesworld Readers' poll, and his novelette "Sarcophagus" was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award. Ray's "Winter Timeshare” was collected by the late Gardner Dozois in The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction.
Born in Quebec and raised in California, Ray lived and worked abroad for two decades in Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Kosovo as a Peace Corps volunteer, an international development worker, and a Foreign Service officer. A Russian speaker, he has also learned Spanish, Turkmen, Albanian, Azerbaijani, and Vietnamese.
Ray most recently served as international advisor to the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and as a visiting scholar at the George Washington University's Institute for International Science and Technology Policy. Ray currently lives in Washington, DC.
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