Tucson Festival of Books

No Easy Choices


In this session, our authors will introduce us to characters navigating catastrophic aftermath, where staying alive means crossing lines they never imagined. Join Nghi Vo, Tochi Onyebuchi and Edward Ashton as they discuss how they craft morally complex protagonists and explore the cost of survival.


Panelists
Edward Ashton

Edward Ashton is the author of seven novels, including "Mickey7," now a motion picture directed by Bong Joon-ho, starring Robert Pattinson and Mark Ruffalo, "Antimatter Blues," "The Fourth Consort," and "After the Fall....

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Tochi Onyebuchi

Award-winner, Tochi Onyebuchi, is the author of "Goliath," a Locus Award and Dragon Award finalist, and the young adult novel, "Beasts Made of Night," which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African....

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Nghi Vo

Nghi Vo is the author of "Siren Queen," "The Chosen," "The Beautiful, Don't Sleep with the Dead," and "The City in Glass." Her acclaimed novellas of the "Singing Hills Cycle," begins with "The Empress of Salt and Fortune....

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Books:
After The Fall
Edward Ashton
Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
St. Martin's Publishing Group
February 2026
ISBN 9781250375650
288 pages
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Harmattan Season
A Novel
Tochi Onyebuchi
Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
Tor Publishing Group
January 2026
ISBN 9781250814494
240 pages
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A Mouthful of Dust
Nghi Vo
Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
Tor Publishing Group
October 2025
ISBN 9781250386403
112 pages
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