Description: SF and fantasy critic
I’m very happy to be back at Readercon (“the conference on imaginative literature”) in Boston the weekend after next – July 12-15. I’ve been away for a few years for life reasons, and am really looking forward to, well, just catching up with people. (If you catch me there, do say hello!). I’m doing a few panels, plus a solo talk at 1pm on Friday. This last – “Whose Story” – contains a bunch of ideas I’ve been mulling for a while about the history of sf, and I hope it’ll be of interest to a few people. Anyho
Friday 13th July
1:00 PM Blue Hills: “Whose Story?” Graham Sleight What’s the dividing line between SF of the “Golden Age” and work being published now? How does science fiction square telling a story and showing you a world? How does the “science” element of science fiction coexist with the unreliability of human perceptions? Graham Sleight has a theory about these questions, taking in works by Octavia Butler, Samuel R Delany, William Gibson, N.K. Jemisin, M. John Harrison, Robert Heinlein, Ursula K. Le Guin, and even som