Our Contemporary Writers Series resumes with the New York City launching of Robert Scheige’s The Ubiquitous They, a science fiction thriller set simultaneously in modern-day and a post-apocalyptic America. In the world before, Sara Weyer is a mathematician on the verge of a breakthrough—a way to harness the gaping blackness between numbers. But something is hiding in that darkness. Something not meant to be found.
Worlds will meet. The fabric will tear. And only then will the nightmare begin.
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with the author via Zoom, moderated by Alex Idavoy, from our Literature Program.
General Admission: FREE
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This event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in English and will be streamed through our YouTube channel.
The Ubiquitous Ones is Robert Scheige’s third novel, following a very promising literary debut with his novella Benjamin (2015) and with the highly acclaimed The High Ones, published in 2020. In his professional life, Rob designs risk management and insurance programs for spacecraft, rockets, on-orbit robotics and satellite fleets. He is an active member of the space industry, serving as a featured speaker at industry conferences, on the Board of Directors of space industry organizations, and teaching classes at the International Space University (ISU). Rob comes from a Cuban/Jewish background, and his entire maternal family is from Havana. Originally from Belarus and Turkey, they resided in Cuba for multiple generations, until emigrating to the US to escape the Castro regime.
Alex Idavoy is a professor of Spanish and ESL at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, NJ. He holds a Master’s degree in Spanish from Middlebury College in Vermont and a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature, a special major he created combining English, Spanish, and Classics at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, where he’s now pursuing his Doctorate of Letters (D.Litt.) in Writing. He is presently working on his creative dissertation, a collection of short stories and poems focusing on his upbringing as the only US-born child of Cuban political exiles.
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This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
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