BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Wilbraham Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:Wilbraham Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e284956f-fe44-477e-926f-ca1ad9d8188a SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260809T223120Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T200000 SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: A Ship Called Sickness with Daniel Kraus LOCATION:Wilbraham Public Library\nWilbraham Public Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Wilbraham Public Library;X -APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Wilbraham Public Library:geo:42.1218516,-72.42861 87 GEO:42.1218516;-72.4286187 DESCRIPTION:Join us online as we sit down with master storyteller Daniel K raus\, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, to celebrate the re lease of his breathtaking new novel\, The Sixth Nik.\n\n.\nhttps://wilb raham.libnet.info/event/16886204 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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

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

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The mysterious crew includes a faceless assas sin\, 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&nb sp\;itself is mutating\, possibly even pregnant. And the secret of F&eacut e\;m is more horrific than anyone could have imagined. To survive\, Sisill a will need to forsake her predetermined fate and embrace the unknown.

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

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About the Autho r:

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Daniel Kraus is a Pulitzer Prize-winning\, \;New Y ork Times \;bestselling writer of novels\, TV\, and film. His novel&nb sp\;Angel Down \;was the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winn er\, a \;New York Times \;Top 10 Book of 2025\, and a national bes tseller. His novel \;Whalefall \;received a front-cover r eview in the \;New York Times Book Review\, won the Alex Award\, was a n L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist\, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR\, the \;New York Times\, Amazon\, \;Chicago Tribune\, and more.

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With Guillermo del Toro\, he co-authored \;The Shape of Water< /em>\, 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 \;T he Living Dead \;and \;Pay the Piper \;with lege ndary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus&rsquo\;s \;The Death and L ife of Zebulon Finch \;was named one of \;Entertainment Weekl y&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.

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

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