If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area tonight, July 27, join Ars editor Annalee Newitz and writer Tiffany Kelly for the filming of our fourth episode of Ars Technica Live, a monthly interview series with fascinating people who work at the intersection of tech, science, and culture. Our guest next week is science fiction author Hannu Rajaniemi, who will discuss how we imagine the future of technology. Doors open at 7pm, and the discussion starts at 7:30.

Filmed before a live audience at Oakland's legendary Longitude tiki bar, each episode of Ars Live is a speculative, informal conversation between Ars Technica hosts and an invited guest. The audience, drawn from Ars Technica’s readers, is also invited to join the conversation and ask questions. These aren’t soundbyte setups; they are deep cuts from the frontiers of research and creativity.

Doors open at 7pm, and the live filming is from 7:30 to 8:00pm (be sure to get there early if you want a seat). Then you can stick around for informal discussion at the bar, along with delicious tiki drinks and snacks. Can't make it out to Oakland? Never fear! Episodes will be posted to Ars Technica the week after the live events.

Hannu Rajaniemi writes science fiction and fantasy works in both English and his native Finnish. He is also the cofounder and CTO of HelixNano, a biotech startup. His debut novel, The Quantum Thief, was published in 2010 and was nominated for the 2011 Locus Award for Best First Novel. He followed that book up with two sequels, The Fractal Prince and The Causal Angel.

This month, your hosts will be Annalee Newitz and Tiffany Kelly. Newitz is the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. Previously she was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and io9. She is the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday). Her first novel, Autonomous, comes out in 2017 from Tor Books. Kelly is a freelance science and culture journalist based in Oakland. She previously worked as a staff editor at Ars Technica and has written for Wired and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. She has covered a variety of topics, from NASA Mars missions to Stephen Hawking to the X-Files.

Longitude tiki bar is located at 347 14th St., Oakland, California. We also have a Facebook event page.

For those who attended last month, we'll have yet another new speaker setup, so hopefully you will finally be able to hear everything.

Listing image by Detail from the cover of The Causal Angel, by Hannu Rajaniemi