Game of Thrones creator to speak at UCSD

April 5, 2017 11:32 AM PT

Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin will visit UC San Diego on May 2 to publicly discuss his life and work with acclaimed science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson.

The public talk will occur at 7 p.m. at the Price Center Theater, under the sponsorship of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 7 and will be available online at ucsdboxoffice.com/online. Tickets also are available at the Box Office, which is located at Price Center, or by phone at 858.534.TIXS. General admission tickets are $40; faculty and staff tickets are $20.

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Gary Robbins

Gary Robbins has been a journalist for nearly 50 years and currently covers science and higher education for The San Diego Union-Tribune. He joined the paper in April 2010 after working for 25 years at the Orange County Register, where he was science editor. Robbins was born and raised in Maine and attended Northeastern University in Boston, graduating in 1978. He served as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT during the 2000-01 academic year, and a Science Writer Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts in June 2001.

Game of Thrones creator to speak at UCSD

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