Enter the alternate worlds of T.L. Huchu and Charles Stross - life, but not as you know it.

When Ropa Moyo discovered an occult underground library in T.L. Huchu’s The Library of the Dead, she expected great things. She's really into Edinburgh's secret societies - but turns out they are less into her. So instead of getting paid to work magic, she's had to accept a crummy unpaid internship. In Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments she ends up taking a job at a very special hospital where a mysterious new illness is resisting both medical and magical curatives.

In Charlie Stross’s Quantum of Nightmares, it's a brave new Britain under the New Management. The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death, and everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.

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About the event

Running time: 60 minues

Venue: Pleasance Theatre

Price: £10/£8 concession - In Person - or £6/£4 concession - Live Stream - (plus 50p booking fee)

This event takes place in person and is broadcasted via a live stream.

About the authors

Charles Stross, 56, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of six Hugo-nominated novels and winner of the 2005, 2010, and 2014 Hugo awards for best novella, he has won numerous other awards and been translated into at least 12 other languages.

Follow Charles Stross on Twitter @cstross or visit his website.

T. L. Huchu has been published previously (as Tendai Huchu) in the adult market, but the Edinburgh Nights series is his genre fiction debut. His previous books (The Hairdresser of Harare and The Maestro, The Magistrate and the Mathematician) have been translated into multiple languages and his short fiction has won awards. Tendai grew up in Zimbabwe but has lived in Edinburgh for most of his adult life.

Follow T.L. Huchu on Twitter @tendaihuchu.