In recent years, there have been many video game remakes and remasters – Crash Bandicoot, Resident Evil II, Tomb Raider – and many much anticipated future titles like Final Fantasy VII, but how do some go so right, and some so far wrong? Fergal Mac Carthaigh (M), Ms Cassie Parkes (Riot Games), Katrina Archer (Little […]
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*** PANEL TIME IS IN NZST (UTC+12) *** Could you live in a self-contained space that must supply food, water, and protection from a hostile environment for days and weeks at a time? Some people have done this on sea, others on land. Can these experiences help us survive in space or on another planet? […]
*** PANEL TIME IS IN NZST (UTC+12) *** What's the relationship between fiction about climate change and real-world actions? Does where authors live and work affect their perspective, as they write about climate? Dr. Octavia Cade (moderator), Katrina Archer, Arkady Martine, Tim Jones, Alex Acks
*** PANEL TIME IS IN NZST (UTC+12) *** There are all kinds of editors: those that edit novels, short fiction, journalism, and so forth. We can't forget acquisitions editors, developmental editors, or the copy editors, of course. How does each kind of editor work with writers? How should you, the writer, best work with them? […]
I and perhaps some special guests will be reading a selection of stories from Little Blue Marble magazine.
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More and more "Cli-Fi" novels are being published as mainstream fiction instead of science fiction, while "solarpunk" and related movements seem to be solidifying new directions within the genre. If SFF doesn't engage with climate change somehow, does that make it feel less plausible? More escapist? Let's talk about how the reality of global warming […]
Speakers: Joshua Bellin, Curtis Chen, Katrina Archer, R.S.A. Garcia, Samantha Mills In an era of mass shootings, violence by law enforcement, rising rates of suicide among young people, and other crises, issues of trauma and PTSD loom large. Time travel, a mainstay of speculative fiction for more than a century, can offer insight into and […]
Speakers: Angela Smith, Katrina Archer, Anna Kashina, Erich Werner Virtual reality is set to explode onto the gaming scene as is the conventional media industry in general. Writing science fiction often entails a vivid mental vision of characters engaged in a moving, very real, all-enveloping environment. So, how will this meeting of the imagination and […]