How to watch sci-fi author Annalee Newitz at the L.A. Times Book Club

Sci-fi author and science journalist Annalee Newitz joined the L.A. Times Book Club March 28 to discuss “The Terraformers.” Newitz talked with columnist Carolina A. Miranda about flying moose, sentient technology and growing up in Irvine. The author also answered reader questions about the challenges of creating science fiction worlds, and cited Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Octavia E. Butler’s “Lilith’s Brood” trilogy as inspiration. They also are the author of “Autonomous” and “The Future of Another Timeline,” as well as a 2013 finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science and technology for “Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction.” Annalee Newitz, center, watching Roomba battles at E-Tech. Reviewer Mark Athitakis called the novel “an ingenious, galaxy-brain book.” During April, the book club is reading Gabrielle Zevin’s bestselling novel “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.” On April 22, Zevin joins us for a conversation with Times Assistant Managing Editor Samantha Melbourneweaver at the Festival of Books.