Short Story Club is like a book club, but for short stories!

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For this, we'll discuss the story "When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis"

Story summary:

Robot, a friendly disease-control drone created by the CDC, has one purpose: to keep the humans of the St. Louis metropolitan area healthy. When the CDC is suddenly defunded it must turn to unlikely allies to complete its mission.

About the author:

Annalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of the book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, and the novels The Future of Another Timeline, and Autonomous, which won the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist, they are a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and have a monthly column in New Scientist. They have published in The Washington Post, Slate, Popular Science, Ars Technica, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among others. They are also the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously, they were the founder of io9, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.

A note on ticket prices: We're offering two types of tickets. At Annalee's suggestion, the $10 ticket will provide a $10 donation to Borderlands bookstore in San Francisco. The FREE ticket is just that, free! Both tickets get you a link to the stories and an invite to attend the live Q&A. We're happy to have you either way.