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Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 16, 2026

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Genre: SciFi

The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu

John Chu

Featured Title: The Subtle Art of Folding Space

John Chu is a microprocessor architect by day, a writer by night. His fiction has appeared in venues including Boston Review, Uncanny, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Reactor. His translations have been published at venues including Clarkesworld, The Big Book… Continue Reading

Thomas Elrod

Featured Title: The Franchise

Thomas Elrod lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and daughter. His writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books, Independent Weekly, and elsewhere. “The Franchise” is his first novel. BlueSky Instagram: @tomelrod86