Online Author Talk: The Science and Absurdities of Space Settlement with Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

On Tuesday, November 10, 2026, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM, New York Times bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith hold an online conversation via Zoom about their book *A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?* They examine whether space settlement could create new problems for settlers and for the people left on Earth, addressing questions such as reproduction in space, corporate governance, space war, lunar housing on the Peaks of Eternal Light, astronaut diets, and the legal status of space cannibalism. Kelly Weinersmith is an adjunct faculty member at Rice University and co-host of the podcast *Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe*, and Zach Weinersmith is the cartoonist behind *Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal*. The program is hosted by the Bellingham Library in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium and funded by the Friends of the Bellingham Library.

Summary compiled from listings on Bellingham Public Library and Holliston Public Library.