LIteRAtURe LAb: Followed by Robert Rankin’s The
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tHe new HeRoIc fAntAsY
Brightonomicon – LIVE
The days of by-the-numbers ‘swords
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and sorcery’ seem to be well behind
sci-fi / comedy drama that relocates
us and modern fantasy writers have
the Necromomicon to modern day
Brighton. We’re proud to present
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brought a new type heroic fantasy
to the masses. Is that a conscious
an on stage live performance of
effort by today’s fantasy writers or
the BBC radio adaptation featuring
just a new sensibility for a modern
Robert Rankin himself, producer Neil
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world? How has the massive rise in
Gardner as the narrator and other
members of the original cast (TBC).
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popularity of fantasy fiction changed
the writers approach? How hard is
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it to maintain a fresh approach to
such a well-defined genre?
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Panel discussion with:
LIteRAtURe LAb:
WHERE’S MY JETPACK?
JOE ABERCROMBIE
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STEPHEN DEAS
Science fiction has promised
us interstellar travel, flying cars,
ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY
hoverboards, teleportation, universal
sUn 3Rd MAY 11.00AM translators, colonies in space and
so much more. So where is it? In
a world where London’s transport
LIteRAtURe LAb: infrastructure can be brought to a
coMedY And sAtIRe In scIence standstill by 6 inches of snow and
fIctIon And fAntAsY end-of-the-world scenarios play out
in fiction, films and TV, is the mobile
What makes the sci-fi/fantasy genre
phone and the Internet really the
different when it comes to writing
best we can do?
comedy? What can you do in
the genre that you cannot do in Panel discussion with:
straightforward fiction? And if we are
DAVID MOODY
doomed, are we likely to go out with
a gag? These uniquely funny writers
OISIN MCGANN
share some insight on the challenges KAREN TRAVISS
of writing comedy in a sci-fi/fantasy
GEORGE UDENKWO
setting.
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Panel discussion with:
ROBERT RANKIN
NICK HARKAWAY
NEIL GARDENER
DIRK MAGGS
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