A Fabulist Science Fiction Performance Series

Lauren Connell Johnson attributes her upbringing in Florida, America’s weirdest state to her interest in the ecological and surreal. Her writing has appeared in the Swamp Ape Review, the Racket Journal, The Critical Flame, Pacifica Literary Review, Museum of Science Fiction, Oracle Fine Arts Review, and others. She earned her MFA in creative writing at American University and lives in San Francisco, where she is a co-host of Babylon Salon, a quarterly Bay Area reading series. @laurencjohnson

Matt Scott Carney is a Latinx writer and musician living in San Francisco. He holds an MA and MFA from San Francisco State University. His fiction and poetry have appeared in A cappella Zoo, Red Light Lit, sPARKLE & bLINK, Entropy, Anti-Heroin Chic, Tilted House, The Racket Journal and in readings at seedy bars across California. His short story “On Becoming” was a finalist in the 2017 Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest, and another science fiction story, “In Fresno, One Last Bath in Dust,” was published in the Baobab Press anthology This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West. Listen to his art rock project N! on Bandcamp and Spotify. @ruddagerrustin

“Sirocco the Raptor!” Illustration by Brian Valeza @invadertots

Born in San Jose and living in San Francisco’s Sunset District, Dev Bhat is a musician, composer, sound designer, and copywriter. He grew up performing in bands that could be characterized as industrial rock, shoegaze, hardcore punk, drone, doom, and ambient. Dev’s solo work features synthetic and organic textures using analog synthesizers, old tape recorders, samplers, drum machines, loopers, and a dense combination of effects processors. He draws inspiration from nature, horror films, classic video games, 90s anime, and all forms of speculative fiction. @shipwreckdetective 

📸@paul_o_let

“Sirocco the Raptor!” Illustration by Brian Valeza @invadertots

Born in San Jose and living in San Francisco’s Sunset District, Dev Bhat is a musician, composer, sound designer, and copywriter. He grew up performing in bands that could be characterized as industrial rock, shoegaze, hardcore punk, drone, doom, and ambient. Dev’s solo work features synthetic and organic textures using analog synthesizers, old tape recorders, samplers, drum machines, loopers, and a dense combination of effects processors. He draws inspiration from nature, horror films, classic video games, 90s anime, and all forms of speculative fiction. @shipwreckdetective

📸@paul_o_let

Our Patrons!

✵ The Club Chicxulub Alumni ✵

The Inaugural Show : 11.17.2021