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SUMMARY:The Hospital At The End of the World: Horror and A.I. in Medicine - A Deep Dive with Justin C. Key and Lakshmi Krishnan
DESCRIPTION:Author Justin C. Key (The Hospital at the End of the World) and Lakshmi Krishnan join Clarion West’s Deep Dives conversation series on Horror and A.I. in Medicine\, discussing data privacy\, innovation in treatments\, and\, the promises and the horrors of unregulated futures in healthcare tech foretold by science-fiction. \n\n\n\nThanks for joining us at SPL on October 15th! Didn’t make it? Check out the recording over on YouTube or start the video above. \n\n\n\n\nWatch the Replay\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKERS\n\n\n\nJustin C. Key is a practicing psychiatrist and a speculative fiction writer. He is the author of the debut novel The Hospital at the End of the World and the story collection The World Wasn’t Ready for You. His stories have appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Strange Horizons\, Escape Pod\, Lightspeed\, and on Tor.com. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLakshmi Krishnan\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, is a physician and literary scholar at Georgetown University\, where she is Founding Director of Medical Humanities. She is a 2026–27 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard\, where she is completing The Doctor and the Detective\, the first book-length history of diagnosis and detective fiction\, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press. A dual-trained clinician-scholar\, she earned her MD from Johns Hopkins and her doctorate in English literature from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar\, with postgraduate training in internal medicine and the history of medicine at Duke and Johns Hopkins. Her work examines diagnosis and clinical reasoning—how doctors know\, and how they think they know—including the diagnostic imagination in the age of artificial intelligence. She is a frequent contributor of cultural criticism and reviews to the leading medical journal The BMJ\, where she writes on fiction\, film\, television\, and the cultural life of medicine\, and she publishes The Workup\, a Substack on medicine and culture. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship\, as well as grants and awards from the Mellon Foundation\, the Association of American Medical Colleges\, and the Academy of Communication in Healthcare.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS\n\n\n\nGeneral Admission: Join us for the conversation starting at 7pm PT and the book signing to follow! \n\n\n\nVirtual: Watch the conversation from anywhere and participate in the Q&A! Registration is required. \n\n\n\n\nGet Tickets Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Deep Dives conversation series is a fundraiser for Clarion West! Your ticket purchases support all of our programming\, helping us continue to reach and serve bright new voices in speculative fiction. \n\n\n\n\nCan’t Attend? Make a Donation in Lieu of Attending!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Deep Dives\n\n\n\nClarion West’s Deep Dives series places an author of speculative fiction in a moderated conversation with a scientist or other expert in subject matter relevant to the author’s work. The goal is to contextualize the fantastic in ways that relate to our shared reality\, and help guide media literacy of speculative literature. The series itself is our fall fundraiser in support of Clarion West’s programming and each event includes a VIP reception\, conversation\, and book signing for the featured authors. The theme for 2026 is “Futures Less Dystopian.” \n\n\n\nThe Deep Dives conversation series is made possible in part by support from:
URL:https://www.clarionwest.org/event/deep-dives-justin-c-key-and-lakshmi-krishnan/
LOCATION:Seattle Public Library – Central Branch\, 1000 4th Avenue\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Deep Dives
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SUMMARY:LGBTQIA+ Speculative Fiction Writers Meetup & Writing Group
DESCRIPTION:Get to know other local LGBTQIA+ speculative writers at this free meetup. Writers of all skill levels and experience are welcome. Bring writing materials—we’ll have a couple of opportunities for generative writing—and your fabulous self. This is an in-person event\, and there are no streaming options. \n\n\n\nThis drop-in group meets quarterly. Attendance at all sessions is not required!  \n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\nWhat to expect:  \n\n\n\nAfter introductions and an ice breaker\, the group will move into 30-ish minutes of generative writing with a brief and optional share back after each. After a short break\, we’ll come together for a final check-in and close with a discussion of what participants might hope to see at future meetups. Bring: \n\n\n\nYour preferred writing tools!  \n\n\n\nAccessibility:  \n\n\n\nThe main floor is wheel chair accessible and has two gender-neutral single stall bathrooms\, one of which is wheel-chair accessible. \n\n\n\nAbout the Host:  \n\n\n\nBeck Wren has recently escaped from the corporate world and is excited to reconnect with readers and writers of all kinds. His poetry and short fiction have appeared at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival and can be found in various nooks and crannies around the web.
URL:https://www.clarionwest.org/event/lgbtqia-speculative-fiction-writers-meetup-writing-group-2/
LOCATION:2601 1st Ave\, Seattle\, WA 98121
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