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Presented in partnership with Book Warehouse, and with the support of Penguin Random House Canada and SFU.
Tickets for this Special Event go on sale with our October Festival tickets.
VWF Members: September 9 at 10am
General public: September 16 at 10am
Tickets for this event include a copy of Final Orbit (a value of $39).
A veteran of three space flights, capsule communicator for 25 shuttle missions, and former commander of the International Space Station, Chris Hadfield is one of the most seasoned and accomplished astronauts in the world. He’s since turned his talents and experience to writing works of both fiction and nonfiction that bookstores can hardly keep on the shelves. His internationally bestselling books have topped the charts for months in Canada. Hadfield joins us in Vancouver with his new interstellar thriller, Final Orbit, probing China’s secret role in the 1970s Space Race between the US and the USSR.
Full of intrigue and real history, Final Orbit captures with heart-palpitating clarity the beauty and terror of survival 270 miles above Earth. This novel could only be written by one of the most experienced astronauts alive. Don’t miss this chance to hear Hadfield in conversation about his journeys to the stars with moderator André Picard, both on and off the page.